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  1. ColinD

    Wheatear, Great Orme, North Wales 22/10/2023

    I'd be interested in any thoughts on this wheatear I photographed on the Great Orme yesterday. Before I begin though, apologies for the blue tint, my camera was playing up with the white balance. I'm not sure if I can fix it now. The bird was on the limestone pavement at the northern tip of the...
  2. ColinD

    Digital zoom v optical zoom and crop

    Excellent, thank you for the reply
  3. ColinD

    Digital zoom v optical zoom and crop

    I've often heard people say that using digital zoom in the field is the same as using optical zoom and then cropping the image when I get it on my laptop. Is this really the case? Are there any advantages, however slight, to either option? I wonder if the digital zoom option might be marginally...
  4. ColinD

    Great Android smartphone for digiscoping?

    Thanks, I'm disappointed to hear that. I'm close to buying a Google pixel 7 Pro, based on the fact that the camera is often reviewed as being one of the best there is on an android. Not sure what to do now.
  5. ColinD

    How is the Google Pixel7 Pro for digiscoping?

    Hi, I'm on the verge of getting a Google Pixel 7 Pro. How is it for digiscoping? I've read some mixed reviews. I currently use a Samsung A52 with a Phoneskope lollipop adapter. Thanks for any help
  6. ColinD

    Great Android smartphone for digiscoping?

    Can I ask, in what way was the Google Pixel 7 pro horrible for digiscoping?
  7. ColinD

    How to see Leach's Petrel

    35 Leach's and a possible Wilson's from Hilbre today, also a cracking pale adult pom, with complete and intact spoons.
  8. ColinD

    How to see Leach's Petrel

    What do you make of the forecast for tomorrow? Overnight we seem to have WSW force 5, then for the rest of the day WNW force 8. Obviously there are Leach's out there because some are being reported. I'm wondering if Crosby might be better than North Wirral? I'm thinking of giving the greater...
  9. ColinD

    Viking gull? Ullapool, Scotland

    In July I saw this gull several times in Ullapool harbour in the North West Highlands. I've been calling it a 2nd summer glaucous gull but I've had a few nagging doubts since the first day I saw it. I'm wondering if it's actually a Viking gull? The first three photos below are all from July...
  10. ColinD

    House martins landing in a bush to feed

    Yes the house martins were landing in the tree and picking the insects off the branches and leaves, as you can see in the original photos and in this one. Out of interest, the "Handbook to the swallows and martins of the world" (Turner/ Rose), Poyser 1989 states that "Exceptionally, they [house...
  11. ColinD

    House martins landing in a bush to feed

    I'm affraid I couldn't tell, but nothing very big from a scan over with the binoculars. Aphid types perhaps. Interestingly, the birds only landed in the one bush, I didn't see them land in any other bush.
  12. ColinD

    House martins landing in a bush to feed

    Anybody seen anything like this before, a flock of 200+ hirundines, mainly house martins but also a few swallows, perching on wires and then dropping into a bush to feed on insects. I watched them doing this for about 30 minutes at Nata, Cyprus today.
  13. ColinD

    Gulls, Akrotiri, Cyprus 18/08/17

    Thanks
  14. ColinD

    Gulls, Akrotiri, Cyprus 18/08/17

    These juvenile gulls were at Akrotiri, Cyprus today, with about 40 YLGs. They seem a bit small to be juv YLG to me, with long wings and shortish bill. I wondered if they might be Baltic gulls, which are now starting to pass through Cyprus. They looked dark enough on the upper wing when they...
  15. ColinD

    Wader, Akrotiri, Cyprus 08/08/2017

    Can somebody please put me out of my misery and tell me what this wader is from Akrotiri today. It seemed larger than a little stint, more like dunlin size, but the bill and plumage seem wrong for what would surely be a juvenile if it was a dunlin. To me it looks more like an adult something. I...
  16. ColinD

    Heuglin's gull? Lady's Mile, Cyprus

    I posted photos of a couple of gulls from Lady's Mile, Cyprus on the Facebook group "Western Palearctic Gulls" yesterday. I realise that some folk on here are also on that FB group, but I thought it might be worth posting the photos here as well for those who aren't. Apologies if you've seen...
  17. ColinD

    Lark for ID, Mandria, Cyprus

    It was the only one in a flock of 100 birds that looked like that, so hardly perfectly normal. I agree it's probably a Skylark though.
  18. ColinD

    Lark for ID, Mandria, Cyprus

    Seems big though?
  19. ColinD

    Lark for ID, Mandria, Cyprus

    I'm having trouble identifying the lark with the white underparts in the attached photos. Can anybody suggest what it might be? It really stood out in the flock of mainly skylarks and seemed bigger than the rest, but I can't get it to anything other than skylark. At lark corner, Madria, Cyprus.
  20. ColinD

    Rough-legged buzzard? Lancs, UK

    I'd be interested in opinions about this bird which I photographed as it was being mobbed by crows. The carpal patch and pale head look good for adult (female?) rough-legged buzzard to me, but I see relatively few rough-legs and most of those I do see are juveniles. What do you think?
  21. ColinD

    Ageing of desert wheatear, Lytham, Lancashire

    Thanks
  22. ColinD

    Ageing of desert wheatear, Lytham, Lancashire

    Does anybody know how to age desert wheatears? I've had a quick look but I can't find anything which conclusively seperates adult male from 1st winter males. I've admitedly not got a great amount of experience with the species, just the occasional vagrant in the UK, but I wondered if the bird...
  23. ColinD

    Rough-legged buzzard, Donna Nook

    I've seen loads of RLB's, it's even on my "west coast self-found list", I was just wondering what people thought of this. Fair enough though, it's just one that got away :t:
  24. ColinD

    Rough-legged buzzard, Donna Nook

    My gut feeling was RLB at the time, and I'm trying to make the photos fit. The pale head and long wings look good to me, but yes, one that got away I guess. Thanks
  25. ColinD

    Rough-legged buzzard, Donna Nook

    I was at Donna Nook today, hoping to see the rough-legged buzzard which has been present for a couple of days. The only sighting I had was a long distance view of a bird on the opposite side of the re-alignment scheme, viewed through 7x binoculars. At first I thought that the bird was a marsh...
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