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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    After lunch we started walking around the village, which was typical rural Belarus, wooden single storey dwellings with large gardens growing flowers and vegetables, but also some empty half ruined houses with gardens going back to the wild making interesting habitat. We encountered a nice male...
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    Microscopes

    Thanks Brian, I contributed to the section on photography through the microscope!
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    Canon SX50 Specs

    Cracking picture. Don't think I've seen a better with the SX50. :t:
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    Microscopes

    Lots of helpful information for you here http://www.quekett.org/ The section on photography through the microscope under 'Resources' should help you and there is a facility to ask questions. The first question you will get asked is "what type of microscope do you have?" as this makes a big...
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    Lesser spotted eagle

    Lesser spotted eagle Belavizaja National Park, Belarus May 2013. Canon SX50
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  6. Azure tit Belarus May 2013

    Azure tit Belarus May 2013

    Azure tit near Turov, Belarus May 2013. Canon SX50
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  7. Azure tit Belarus May 2013

    Azure tit Belarus May 2013

    Azure tit at nesting site near Turov, Belarus May 2013
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    We then we started the last full day of birding, and an eventful day it was too with three really good bird sightings in the course of it. We drove to a small rural village some kilometres from Turov away from the immediate flood plain called Becsanskaya Buda. The village had cultivated land...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    Thanks Mick.Later on that day we visited another fish farm which apparently had been really good the year before with masses of good waders on the exposed mud of the drained ponds. However we found the same issue as at the other ponds we had visited. Either ponds were completely full or empty...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    I should mention we had a pre-breakfast walk in Turov which was pretty productive. We found a Syrian woodpecker in riverside trees, a species that has only recently colonised the area, which gave us a full set of European woodpeckers for the trip. The interesting back gardens were great habitat...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    The next day our priority was to get views of azure tit for which Turov is the classic location. We were told about 50 pairs breed in the area in habitat which ranges from riverside trees to back gardens close to the river. Like blue tit and great tit, azure tit uses any available holes as nest...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    As we neared Turov the extent of the flood this year was very obvious. Fortunately the town is approached by a long bridge which is more like a sort of causeway, so there was no problem in accessing it. Just beyond the main flooded area was a partially flooded meadow/ploughed area which had been...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    I forgot to mention a nice yellowhammer picking seeds from some horse dung at this location. I know it's a common bird here too, but my local birds won't pose like this!
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    Thanks Bhoggy. The next day we started a longish drive to our final Hotel in Turov on the Pripyat river. We had a lunch stop at some fish ponds at Beloe. Unfortunately the ponds were either full or completely dried out with little mud to attract waders. Nonetheless the large flooded ponds held...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    In the early evening we returned to the lek site with the local guide. It was a good job he was with us, as we nearly bogged the van down in what had looked like a puddle, but turned out to be more of a pond! He also lead us across a very boggy meadow to the right place to view the Great Snipe...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    Thanks Mike. After the Great Grey Owl we had some time to kill before trying for lekking Great Snipe in the evening. We had been warned that the usual lek at Turov was flooded, which was a shame, as apparently it can give good views. However our Great Grey Owl ranger knew a local snipe lek...
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    Belarus May 2013

    I've got a thread going in the Canon forum on this site about a recent trip to Belarus. This was supposed to be about the Canon SX50 I took with me, but it's rapidly turning into more of a trip report. If you are interested in the delights of Belarus; European bison, all the European...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    The Great Grey Owl's nest involved a walk down a well rutted forest track into fairly dense conifer woodland, spruce I think. The nest was quite viewable from the path with the female sitting tight on a youngster. Better still the male was on guard duty in a nearby tree, though to be honest he...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    After our adventure on the rickety board walk we made our way to another fairly nearby site within the national park where aquatic warbler breed. This is a good site for viewing this rare breeder in that it is possible to view from a minor road which is slightly above the area where the birds...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    After our first 3 nights at the Belowezhskaya Puscha, we moved on to the rather more urban setting of the Hotel Energia in Beloozersk. All our hotels in Belarus were of very good standard, clean and with good bathrooms, though hotel food was rather basic and not very appetizing. This base gave...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    Thanks Clark. The settings I used are based on those suggested by Crazyfingers in RoyC's long and very useful thread on the SX50. I have got a lot of useful tips from that thread.
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    Best photographable raptor here was this fine lesser spotted eagle. The SX50 does a good job of ignoring the clutter and lighting is good.
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    Though we had good views of all the woodpeckers in this area, grey headed and middle spot being particularly common, photography in woodland with the SX50 was not easy with the combination of shade and against the light views, so I mainly confined myself to enjoying the birds through binoculars...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    The azure tit sightings came towards the end of the week when we were based in Turovand birding the (very well flooded!) flood plain of the Pripyat River. I should perhaps go back to earlier in the week when we were in the beautiful woodland of the Belowezhskaya Puscha National Park. We saw all...
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    An SX50 goes to Belarus 2013!

    Had a week in Belarus 4-11th May 2013 with Bird Holidays. An excellent week of warm sunshine and good birds, though with very high water levels, especially around Turov, finding some of the special birds and getting good views was as I understand, perhaps more difficult than usual. As leader...
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