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Bienvenue 'chez Nick' (2 Viewers)
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ARTHUR BISHOP
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love the blue period
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
Bacl to France for a little while, though there are still plenty of paintings from holidays that I want to do. Here we have my lifer Corncrake bombing past me , I spent a wonderful afternoon listening to them (and glimpsing this one) at a secret site in my region - sadly, we don't have many left at all - just two sites this year in a region 4/5 the size of Wales. Black Kite being inspected by a crow and then some paintings from my weekend in the uplands of Franche Comté with Mr Jonathan Williams where we had a lifer each - I finally saw Quail, he ticked Lesser Spotted Eagle (with at least 13 Hobby) and we both enjoyed some very showy Marsh Warblers.
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solitaryVSong
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I go for the Marsh Warbler as well but I don't think anything ever tops your version of lifers, like the Corn Crake. It's hard to imagine anything more exciting. And I think your being able to accomplish this, even in a fleeting view like this, is a wonderful example to us all to never give up on field sketching, even in the most difficult circumstances!
Crow and Kite bloody marvellous pic Nick....very striking indeed....B 
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ARTHUR BISHOP
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Lovely to see you letting it flow nick
Jonathan Williams
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I just love the eagle cruising through the crowd of hobbies. A special memory.
colonelboris
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Lovely work as ever, Nick.
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
where does the time fly? I think it's the first time I've had to retrieve the thread from the bottom of page three - great to see so much activity here while I've not been around much. Sorry it'll take me ages to catch up, sorry for me more than for you all! The autumn is being quite nice to me so far, despite missing a pectoral sandpiper on one of my patches. We've had lots of penduline tits, and at last found me something quite rare in the form of a juvenile white-winged tern.
