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  1. nirofo

    Dove Identification.

    Possible Rufous/Oriental Turtle Dove or Turtle Dove, seems to have many of the credentials for Rufous/Oriental. photographed today in north Scotland next to bird feeders. Opinions please.
  2. Robins Seasons Greetings

    Robins Seasons Greetings

    Robin perched on pine cones.
    • nirofo
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    • Category: Art & Graphics
  3. nirofo

    Gull Identity.

    Anybody any ideas as to the identity of this gull, my impression is that it's a Glaucous/Herring Gull hybrid, opinions welcomed please. nirofo.
  4. nirofo

    This years bowland

    I am a member of one of the Raptor Study Groups and an independant raptor worker and to my knowledge there was no voting on whether to kick out as you put it the NWRPG, if there was it was kept a secret from the majority of members which wouldn't be very democratic would it ? As far as I am...
  5. nirofo

    This years bowland

    TOTAL CRAP, get your facts right. nirofo.
  6. nirofo

    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Pacific Walrus'

    Excellent shot, well done. nirofo.
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  7. nirofo

    1/4" - 3/8" Thread

    The original camera, lens, and tripod standard threads are 1/4" x 20 and 3/8" x 16 Whitworth, although the equivalent UNC threads in the short sections needed for tripods etc will fit just as well and don't lock up, I've used both with no problems. If you have access to a lathe they are easy to...
  8. nirofo

    Turquoise colour cast??

    If you are saving your images for the web they need to be converted to srgb, if you don't the web page will convert them itself, this will in most cases give you a colour shift you didn't expect. If you are using Photoshop and Adobe RGB as your colour profile and saving your image as a jpg, then...
  9. nirofo

    What Goes On In Scotlands Estates

    Lets get something straight here, Hen Harriers very rarely if ever take eggs from a nest, it's not what they do, it would also be extremely rare if they ever took Red Grouse chicks directly from a nest because the young are nidifugous and leave the nest within hours of hatching. There's no...
  10. Redshank and reflection.

    Redshank and reflection.

    Redhank feeding in flood water lit by late afternoon Winter sun.
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    • redshank reflection.
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    • Category: Britain & Europe
  11. nirofo

    Nikon 500mm and purple fringing

    Here's a link to a few shots I've put together in a slide show, there's alsorts in there, some going back many years. http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/nirofo/Birds/?albumview=slideshow Various lenses have been used including a Russian Tair 300mm manual preset, Tokina 150-500 ATX manual...
  12. nirofo

    Nikon 500mm and purple fringing

    It's the camera that's producing the effect not the lens, the image is soft due to movement and is out of focus. The Nikon 500 f4 AF-S is one of the best lenses around and is more than capable of producing top notch results when used correctly, having said that it's not really the best lens to...
  13. nirofo

    Nikon MF 500mm lens support?

    Hi Elena Check out this web link for a good quality low price gimbal head, gets good reviews. http://www.lensmaster.co.uk/ nirofo.
  14. nirofo

    Tawny owls and fish

    It may be worth your while to contact Derek Whiteley at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, he was the guy who originally disected the pellets and identified the remains for us. Here's his email address: [email protected] nirofo.
  15. nirofo

    Tawny owls and fish

    I remember years ago sending several Tawny Owl pellets to Sheffield Museum, they contained the bones and scales from Brown Trout and Dace. I think the owls will take any prey that presents them with an opportunity. nirofo.
  16. nirofo

    More Sea Eagle protection in Scotland

    This is just another way of appeasing the crofters, the sheep subsidies are crap these days, offer them a few incentives not to kill the Sea Eagles and the Golden Eagles and hopefully they'll not poison, trap, shoot, destroy nests, burn the habitat, remove the eggs, remove the chicks, etc, some...
  17. nirofo

    RSPB study decline of waders

    If Raptors are to breed successfully, by that I mean raise a reasonable sized brood, then they need enough prey items to ensure the young are fed sufficiently well for them to reach flying stage. Prey switching is not a problem for most Raptors and they will readily take any species or carrion...
  18. nirofo

    RSPB study decline of waders

    You did mention avian predators which I assumed included Raptors, certainly in my neck of the woods it does, the corvids having been drastically reduced in numbers as I stated in my original post. The far north of Scotland is predominantly hill, flow bog and moorland with sparsely wooded...
  19. nirofo

    RSPB study decline of waders

    I don't doubt that in areas where wader and other upland/moorland birds are reduced in numbers and the Raptor numbers remain the same, (for a while), then predation will reduce them even further. Fortunately in real life nature doesn't work like that, at least not for long anyway. If the...
  20. nirofo

    RSPB study decline of waders

    It seems to have taken a long time for the RSPB to wake up to the fact that there’s a serious decline in our wader populations, we’ve been saying it for nearly 30 years. Rapid decline started in the north of Scotland when there was whole scale forestation of the flows and bogs coupled with the...
  21. nirofo

    9th Sea Eagle to be poisoned in Co. Kerry, Ireland!

    I appreciate what you're saying, people should be able to follow the way of life that is traditional, even if it was forced upon them in the first place. Unfortunately in the far north of Scotland and elsewhere I don't doubt, the ground has become so depleted and bespoiled by sheep that it...
  22. nirofo

    9th Sea Eagle to be poisoned in Co. Kerry, Ireland!

    Not much hope there then !!! What I can't understand is why they can't go on the dole like everbody else who doesn't have a job, if you or I don't have any work we either sign on the dole or starve. Many of the crofters openly admit crofting is more a way of life and following in their...
  23. nirofo

    Another magnificent Sea Eagle poisoned in Kerry!

    In a word, "NO". What's more, I doubt there ever will be !!! nirofo.
  24. nirofo

    9th Sea Eagle to be poisoned in Co. Kerry, Ireland!

    It's just the same in parts of Scotland, especially in the far north, most of the croft ground is very low grade, that's why the landowners such as the Sutherland Estate let them use it, it's not fit for much else but subsidised sheep, even then it's been so overgrazed and fouled by 200 years of...
  25. nirofo

    Another magnificent Sea Eagle poisoned in Kerry!

    If they are clever enough to knowingly use banned poison baits indiscrimiately, having first obtained them illegally, then they are clever enough to know that what they are doing is illegal. Unfortunately, as in Scotland and England, the police couldn't care less, or what's even worse, the...
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