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Last set from Essex 😉
 

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Steve, what camera are you using? Like the pictures! :t:
There various over the years with current kit being a 1DX with a Canon 500mm f4 whilst some of the older images (the Honey Buzzard and Whites Thrush) were taken with a 1Dmk3 whilst the Albatross photobombing the Dolphin way back to a 20D with a mk1 Canon 100-400mm.

Switching to a 7Dmk2 with a Canon 100-400mm mk2 for ease of carrying when out general birding but still using have and use the 500mm/1DX when the situation calls for it.

Many thanks all for gracious comments
 
Five more frames from an Essex window...Goldfinch, Alexandrine Parakeet, Yellow-browed Warbler, Tawny Owl and Common Redstart.

Cheers
 

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The three photos per day is so that any one person doesn't hog the gallery; I reckon that's reasonable. Just spread your pics out over a few days. The size restrictions though are more of a nuisance, and very outdated given how cheap bandwidth is now. The max 1024 pixels width or 900 pixels height, and 500 kilobytes, are tiny by modern standards, and very restrictive on showing high resolution detail. Compare this with e.g. Wikimedia Commons, where you can post photos up to 100 megabytes. The one place you can post larger pics on Birdforum is the Opus direct upload where there's no size restriction specified - I've put a few of my photos there and had no problem uploading pics around 5 megabytes in size and 4000 pixels wide, 3000 pixels high.

Nonsense,
I don't post holiday shots here for various reasons, this rule being one. If the forum is set up to show posts in chronolgical order (and it may be, I don't know), people can just scroll back as far as they like so where's this 'hogging', Smacks more of some people wanting max exposure (no pun intended) for their shots?

You could split the forum regionally or according to species status as the site where I post does. If people have shots of World rarities that others would probably love to see, why hold the front page for a Goldfinch, lovely though they are?

Regarding image size, this isn't a photographic forum as such, most sites operate to the same restrictions.
 
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A few photos from last year

These are ones I like from last year not necessarily the best technically but I like them
 

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Five more frames, this time from Europe.

Cheers
 

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These are my faves since I’ve been on BF.
 

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A few of my favorites from Georgia.
 

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My 9 year old took these:
 

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I think mine were with a Canon SX50 and his were with the SX60. Nice to look back so thanks to the OP. Lastly:
 

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You were there and I wasn't but I'd find that Stoat a lot more convincing as a Weasel. It looks too delicate, with a narrow head and large feet for its size. Great photo! :t:

I was thinking it was a nice photo of a Weasel too ... there's also that useful (not) rhyme to distinguish the two ... ;)
 
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