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ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

My 2013 Review (1 Viewer)

August proper and still a desperate race to photograph things before the weather breaks or they leave for the south. By now there was an additional self-imposed pressure as I had decided to push for a British Isles Mammal Year-list of over 60 species.
 

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September and the last of the air shows, more mammals including several bat trips with Surrey Bat Group, and the weather helpfully continuing fair.
 

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Still September:
 

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And so to October and rarities - even the Green Woodpecker and Magpie were taken while I was looking for a Yellow-browed Warbler:
 

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More October and more mammals - the Field Vole on the seed head is as seen on the BBC website, I was pleased when they picked it up:
 

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Novermber opened quietly but by its end had been one of the great months of the whole year:
 

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And the piece de resistance:
 

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December so far including the Grim Nativity and of course you have to finish with a sunset (its the law):
 

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