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  1. Hyrax

    Bird call with recording - Scotland

    Starting to think it's not, could be something to do with the camera. I've asked quite a few very knowledgeable colleagues now and no one has any idea. It's from the Loch of the Lowes Osprey webcam by the way and has repeated again today at about 10am apparently. I didn't mention it originally...
  2. Hyrax

    Bird call with recording - Scotland

    Could well be. If it's a call I'm unfamiliar with from a species I am familiar with that has to be the best candidate.
  3. Hyrax

    Bird call with recording - Scotland

    Hi all, This attached was recorded remotely at about 6pm this evening (would still have been light). The device is in a tree in mixed woodland right next to open water and reedbed. I feel like I've heard it before but I'm completely stumped to be honest. To be clear it's the repeated sets of...
  4. Hyrax

    County Galway Birding (local patch)

    Interesting to read this, I've just had a similar experience last week in the Burren, with a peak count of 31 GND from one headland, 26 of which were adults in BP. I'm guessing they will all head for Iceland but it does seem late in the year.
  5. Hyrax

    Crossbill, Aberdeenshire, UK (description only)

    I was out in woods West of Inveurie, mixed mature scots pine and larch, and came across a flock of 14 crossbills, probably common or possibly Scottish. One of the males was very distinctively bright orange (Brambling orange), in contrast to the darker red/orange of the others that I'm used to...
  6. Hyrax

    Scoter, Musselburgh, UK

    We went back to search today, plenty of other birders looking and good conditions but many of the scoter were too distant to identify. Excellent birding otherwise and the morbid spectacle of a dead sperm whale being towed out to sea. If it gets found again I think I'll have to drop everything to...
  7. Hyrax

    Scoter, Musselburgh, UK

    I'm kicking myself for not having payed more attention on the day, probably go back for a vane search tomorrow morning. Not a competitive lister but all the same.....
  8. Hyrax

    Scoter, Musselburgh, UK

    Sorry posting too slowly! If it is one this is my wife's find, unfortunately I can't claim to have even seen the bird, I was too busy chasing the Surf Scoter.
  9. Hyrax

    Scoter, Musselburgh, UK

    Yes just to clarify - definitely not a Surf Scoter, although we did see one about a mile away. This is either an aberrant Velvet Scoter or one of the White-winged Scoter species/subspecies; I'm not sure of their taxanomic status. As far as I'm aware the latter is extremely rare in the UK, so...
  10. Hyrax

    Scoter, Musselburgh, UK

    Hi Stephen, I attached it the same as the other pictures but because it is such a close crop that's as big as it gets. I can see it a bit better zooming in on the original images here. The distance and resolution make the extent and angle of the white tear difficult for me to discern either way.
  11. Hyrax

    Scoter, Musselburgh, UK

    I was going through some photos my wife had taken of Velvet Scoter at Musselburgh on boxing day and noticed the individual on the left has a markedly pinkish bill compared to the others, which I thought suggests one of the White-winged Scoter sub-species, stejnegeri or deglandi. It also appears...
  12. Hyrax

    The Goshawks Are Coming!!!

    Could you expand on this? Do you need a schedule 1 license just to locate the nests? That would be difficult to comply with if you like watching Goshawks. Besides which, it would lead to a paucity of data on breeding distribution. Surely as long as you don't approach the nest or risk disturbance...
  13. Hyrax

    what am I spotted in the U.K.

    They are Yellow Wagtail
  14. Hyrax

    Cirl Buntings any help please

    As far as I'm concerned the presence of Cirl Bunting on Berry Head is open and common knowledge, even the RSPB provide this information.
  15. Hyrax

    Cirl Buntings any help please

    Hi Mike, I'm sure there'll be plenty of other good suggestions but I have never failed to see Cirl Bunting at Berry Head near Paignton. Walking from the carpark on the headland follow the path a short way up the hill and as it flattens out that is where I usually see them, in the scrub but...
  16. Hyrax

    Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery!

    You need to befriend someone with a garden feeder in Quedgley so I hear. I've only seen them twice from numerous trips to the forest and never at close quarters. Both times in the tops of tall trees at RSPB Nags Head.
  17. Hyrax

    Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery!

    That's a stunnig Hawfinch photo, I love the little beads of snow melt in its head. Perfect plane of focus. I thought the temperature difference shooting from a warm house to a cold outdoors would have caused problems, but these look great.
  18. Hyrax

    ID Please.

    Try a google image serach for the Brimstone butterfly
  19. Hyrax

    Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery!

    Now that is skillful! I'm tempted to spend a day with some gulls in training, for the next time a Goshawk does a fly by, so difficult to do!
  20. Hyrax

    Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery!

    Should have mentioned - Nikon D90, Skywatcher 80ED - all ISO200 and 4-500/sec
  21. Hyrax

    Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery!

    Great views of a Bittern yesterday, It was nice not to be the only one limited to manual focus for once! All the reeds made it the only choice.
  22. Hyrax

    Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery!

    They're on my regular lunchtime stroll, 2-3 times a week for the last 3 years, so I even recognise the specific tuft the snipe are sitting on! The Bitterns have a habit of showing well for 'others'. I've only seen them 5 times, which considering the number of visits I make and the frequency...
  23. Hyrax

    Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery!

    The Reed Bunting is great, where abouts was it taken? I'd bet my life savings the others were taken at the Martin Smith and Robbie Garnett hides!
  24. Hyrax

    Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery!

    Hi Lee, the focus is maybe slightly off for the BHG but spot on for the other two, which given how difficult it can be get the focus right is a great start. What ISO are you shooting at? To my eyes these pictures look grainy and the 300S should have better high ISO performance than my D90...
  25. Hyrax

    Good-bye to Lagoa dos Salgados?

    I'm just trying to figure out where this is, I think it's the large area of scrub land between the river estuary to the West and the Salgados lagoon to the East, is that correct? We visited last year and it was full of Iberian Hares, Bee Eaters, Corn Buntings, Hoopoe and Whimbrel, with...
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