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Recent content by tonyath

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    Vulture in Gambia

    Thanks, Can I ask, what is it about the second pictures that confirms to you EGV.
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    Vulture in Gambia

    My bird ID skills are not up to much as it is, even less so with Vultures as I have no experience of them. This bird stood out amongst the kites and Hooded Vultures so I got a couple of pics, checked my field guide, couldn't decide between EGV or WBV and maybe talked myself into EGV :-O. Here's...
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    Vulture in Gambia

    Thanks, I also considered White-backed Vulture but was hoping for Griffon Vulture ;) Looking at the field guide again, is the tail too long for Griffon Vulture.
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    Vulture in Gambia

    I saw this vulture being mobbed by a couple of Black Kites, I think it's a European Griffon Vulture but as my field guide says they are uncommon I would like conformation. Picture was taken in Kololi, Gambia on 06/12/11
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    How to improve this photo ?

    I like the photo, but my eyes are drawn to the large patch of bare soil in the right fore ground. I think desaturating the grass a bit would improve it for me.
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    Experienced but lapsed & rather rusty!

    Not too far for you to travel for the Lesser spotted woodpecker. http://www.wrg.co.uk/moore_sightings.php Although it's managed to avoid me. ;)
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    Alaskan duck shooting video

    Your old avatar maybe. :-O
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    Strangest ways you have had a lifer

    The strangest way I’ve had a lifer and how I became interested in birds is the same story. A few years ago I got the chance of a very cheap holiday to Orlando. We had been before with the kids, but this was just for my wife and me. A couple of weeks before we were due to go I started to...
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    Nut Raider Mystery!

    They have no problem removing and dragging the feeders around my garden.
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    Nut Raider Mystery!

    ;)
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    ID this Flower

    It looks like Ribwort Plantain to me.
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    Pic for Review

    Try winding the zoom in a bit to 400mm. I've never used the lens you have but I did once have a Sigma 170-500 and that was much better at 400 than 500. Set your camera on a tripod and take some photos of something like a breakfast cereal box at 400mm, f8 and check those for sharpness. Some...
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    Pic for Review

    I would set your camera to Aperture Priority (AE), then as Cristian suggested select f8 & iso400, the camera will now select the correct shutter speed. You can then raise the iso until you have a fast enough ss (as Jaff suggested 1000) Don't worry too much about high iso numbers as grain is...
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    Greenfinches - where have they all gone?

    I've also had far fewer chaffinches and greenfinches in my garden this year, although the goldfinch numbers are about the same as usual. I was hoping the cold weather would bring in something less common, but nothing until the snow melted when 3 fieldfares spend two days clearing my pyracantha...
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    Help with I.Ds from Goa

    Any help confirming or correcting my I.Ds would be appreciated, all photos taken in Goa Nov - Dec. In pic 1, The Black-headed Ibis is for size comparison it's the cormorant I'm unsure of.
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