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ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Recent content by Topaz

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    Zeiss Christmas Wish Competition 2016

    Well done! They're fantastic bins. I'm happy they've gone to a new birder too! Enjoy. :-)
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    Zeiss Christmas Wish Competition 2016

    So who won these?! Lucky buggers!
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    Falcon silhouettes

    Thanks all. Don't think I can offer any more helpful additional photos, but appreciate the advice! I'm sad not to have to had a hobby, but interesting to see a kestrel behave this way. Have seen then bombing down upland ravines and being similarly swift, but never like this. Many thanks!
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    Falcon silhouettes

    Thanks all, will check photos again when at home in case there's anything else useful, particularly wing/tail ratio. If it's a kestrel it wasnt behaving like any other I've ever seen. It was a relatively still day, so why it wouldn't have been hovering is odd, particularly when it was employing...
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    Falcon silhouettes

    Hi all, Would be grateful for some help with these poor quality photos taken today - I'm pretty sure it's either a juv. Peregrine or a Hobby (it would be my first hobby!). Location: Marazion Marsh (Coastal reedbed), Cornwall Description: Heavily mottled underparts (giving the impression of...
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    LBJ song.

    Thanks! Had seen plenty of dunnocks around, must have just caught this one at an odd angle!
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    LBJ song.

    Bird heard and seen singing from a bush on a railway siding at Leighton Moss, near the feeders on the way to the shore hides, on Saturday. Partner had the camera and didn't take a picture, but was an LBJ, pink legs, unmarked buff grey breast. Will give more (less certain) visual clues if...
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    Drive-by birding

    Today on a commute from Manchester to Cardiff for a work meeting I had quite a decent morning of birding, when glancing up from my paperwork to look out on the sunny snow capped hills. Highlights included a red kite in the Shropshire Hills, a dipper (which I was chuffed with) on the River Onny...
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    Simple silhouette.... Help me learn to ID!

    Thanks for the comments and ID tips all. Greenfinch it is. It's a learning process...
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    Simple silhouette.... Help me learn to ID!

    You guys are very good, and kind folk. Dealing with people who can't tell a crow from a kestrel from dawn til dusk.... *sigh* But for learners like me, it's most valuable to get some community help to confirm or otherwise educate my naive IDs... So, with that in mind, see below silhouette...
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    Dorset birding

    Evening all, I have a work trip to Dorset in mid-March. Working the weekend just by Hambledon Hill NNR by Dorchester and hopefully will take a few days off and stay a couple of nights down at Portland Bill. Any tips for where to visit? Or should I just stay where I happen to be Hambledon Hill...
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    Hide clamp or table tripod?

    Thanks both. Decent advice on the shaking desk. And for £29 a hide clamp doesn't seem too much to spend. Sucks to have stuff taken from a hide. I've seen people leave backpacks full of gear in hides and them stay there for hours. We're usually a pretty trustworthy lot... I'll probably be...
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    Hide clamp or table tripod?

    Hi all, I just bought my first scope the other day and am now considering all the peripherals I want or need. However, since this is a business where very few can afford everything at once, I wanted to take some considered advice on where I should go first for equipment. Firstly, the scope is...
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    UK Osprey sighting in November?

    Great advice guys and thanks. I said the same about the size.... Buzzards are bigger than you might expect up close! I trust these guys enough to believe them when they say it was definitely whiter than a buzzard. Especially at a distance of about 20 metres! Many thanks!
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    UK Osprey sighting in November?

    Hi all, Had a query from a friend this morning with a sighting of a large BoP in Devon, near to the River Avon Estuary, in a small patch of woodland. Here was the description: "Mum and I saw a huge, beautiful bird of prey in fairly remote woodland, near the estuary and I can't identify it. We...
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