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2012
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Trying to hide
I didn't see it, but heard a 'whooosh' and everything flew up into the bushes, so I presume we had a rare visit from a Sparrowhawk (one hit my window a few years ago, the only one I've seen here). I found this little lady sitting deep into the leaves and was surprised to actually get a picture...- delia todd
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- 2012 accipiter nisus blairgowrie common chaffinch december female chaffinch fringilla ceolebs garden olympus sp55o-uz perthshire scotland tttw
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Happy Christmas everyone
While window-watching the other day (well searching for waxwings of course) I saw a Collared Dove sitting on top of a nearby tree - I don't see these very often round the houses, though one woke me up at 3am once! I took one picture, then in the next the House Sparrow was there and I rather...- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie collared dove december garden house sparrow olympus sp-550uz passer domesticus perthshire scotland streptopelia decaocto tttw
- Comments: 27
- Category: Britain & Europe
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I'll get there one day!
FOS Well having chased around Perthshire and Angus looking for these blighters a flock turned up in the next street and I could see them from the lounge window. So off I set to get a bit closer and a couple flew down to a hedge, but with the poor light the first pic was out of focus, the...- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie bohemian waxwing bombycilla garrulus december olympus sp-55ouz perthshire scotland waxwing
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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... then there were lots.....
.... and they flew. As we sat and watched the tree with the Fieldfares, more and more came in and settled, then suddenly they decided to go. I was actually quite pleased at how this one turned out but wish I was as good a story teller as DocDuck.- delia todd
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- 2012 angus fieldfare lintrathen november olympus sp-550uz scotland turdus pilaris
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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First there were two....
We dropped down the hill to run (noooo.... not run.... I mean drive.... before anyone makes silly comments about an old lady with two replaced hips:eek!:;) ) along the top side of Lintrathen, and I stopped to see what the two blobs at the top of the tree were, by the time I got the camera out...- delia todd
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- 2012 angus fieldfare lintrathen november olympus sp-550uz scotland turdus pilaris
- Comments: 20
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Rocks and Tides
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- 2012 autumn coastal irish sea landscape november sea seascape
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- Category: Landscapes
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Starlings
A bit of a twiddly road travelling at 5 miles an hour to see what's moving and I saw a Buzzard sitting on top of an electricity pole but it flew before I could take any action! The next thing, I could see a group of short tails sitting in a tree, hoping for Waxwings but presuming they were...- delia todd
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- 2012 angus kingoldrum november olympus sp55o-uz scotland starlings sturnus vulgaris
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Kinnordy in November
So Sunday... beautiful clear blue skies and frosty, saw us heading off to Kinnordy reserve. Er... what are all these cars doing here? I don't think I've ever seen so many. Gullery hide was full and we were greeted by Darell (Kinnordyvolunteer). Apparently a Bittern had been reported on Friday -...- delia todd
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- 2012 angus kinnordy rspb reserve november olympus sp-550uz scotland
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- Category: Landscapes
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Carrion Crow
I'm really rather amazed at how much detail this wee camera can pick up at - this crow must be at least 100 yards away. Taken from my kitchen window on a sunny Sunday morning (quite a rarity LOL) before I set off on my waxwing hunt.- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie carrior crow corvus corone garden november olympus sp55o-uz perthshire scotland
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Leitfie
This was my run out on Sunday along Strathmore (the big glen). An attempt to find Waxwings reported from the next village of Alyth. Absolutely zilch sign of them. So continued on round to two of the golf courses and sat in a car park for lunch but nothing moved at all. Investigated the second...- delia todd
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- 2012 alyth leitfie standing water november olympus sp55-ouz perthshire scotland
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Ericht sunset
It appears rather darker than it was in reality, I suppose because I was under the trees. I loved the pink sky and the silvery water in the river (actually it's the River Tay that has the epithet of "Silvery", but our little river eventually runs into the Tay... well via the River...- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie november olympus sp55o-uz perthshire river ericht scotland sunset
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- Category: Landscapes
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How do I get at it?
The wee birds are playing hard to get just now, this picture from a couple of days ago. Pray for some nice weather over the weekend, I'm hoping to go on a Waxwing hunt! Its a couple of years since I've seen any.- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie blue tits cyanistes caeruleus november olympus sp55o-uz perthshire scotland window feeder
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Warton Crag
Sooo the end of my holiday, and a picture of the quarry at Warton Crag. I nearly always head for this place when I'm travelling the M6, as it's about lunch time. Earlier in the summer there's Peregrines usually rearing a couple of youngsters and I was unlucky enough to miss a Little Owl by a...- delia todd
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- 2012 carnforth leighton moss olympus sp550-uz september warton crag
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Kestrel
Half way home now. Generally I call in at Warton Crag near Leighton Moss, as there's a cheapish filling station at Carnforth. Soooo a late lunch and see what's about. Not nearly so busy as a few months earlier would have been with the Peregrine's and Jackdaws nesting, but a nice stop...- delia todd
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- 2012 carnforth england falco tinnunculus kestrel lancashire olympus sp-550uz september warton crag
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I know it's there!
This guy fairly gave me the run-around in the car park at Big Pit. It was almost impossible to get a good view of him.... he was either in the road, half hidden by the kerb, or in the long grass. About 6 shots and this was the best I got! LOL Amazing how unconcerned by the traffic and people he...- delia todd
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- 2012 abergavenny big pit blaenavon corvus monedula jackdaw olympus sp55-ouz september south wales
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Dipper
This weeks walk along the river (the last day of the current spell of good weather unfortunately). There's still a good covering of leaves on the trees, and although I could hear little things calling, nothing came into view for identity. No Dippers at spot 1, so walked down to spot 2, then 2...- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie cinclus cinclus dipper october olympus sp-55ouz perthshire river ericht scotland white-throated dipper
- Comments: 24
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Chinspot batis (Batis molitor)
Chinspot batis (Batis molitor) Tomjachu Bush Lodge, South Africa 2012- General Melchett
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- 2012 africa batis batis molitor chinspot batis kruger kruger national park south africa tomjachu tomjachu bush lodge
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- Category: Africa
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Llanfihangel Gobion
I've previously shown you pictures of the River Usk at Llanfihangel Gobion, but this is looking the other way. Imagine the river is over to the right, it bends it's way round so it's then in front under the trees ahead. But 20 or so years ago it took a different course and would have been behind...- delia todd
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- 2012 abergavenny august llangihangel gobion olympus sp55o-uz wales
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Stock Dove.
After Llangorse, we moved down to Llanfihangel Gobion outside Abergavenny. I've taken you there before, as it's a great place to visit on the banks of the river Usk and Jos Stratford's patch when he lived in the area. No sign of Cormorant on the power lines this time. Now all these year's of...- delia todd
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- 2012 abergavenny august columba oenas llanfihangel gobion olympus sp55-ouz stock dove wales
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Llangorse Lake
Out for the day with Andy Rowlands ummm... raptor hunting. I did see a Stonechat and Wheatear on my way to pick him up. But before doing anything we had to go to Cwmbran for him to buy a camera. No, no, no... please don't make me go there ever again!!! Last year I showed you a picture of...- delia todd
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- 2012 august llangorse lake olympus sp55o-uz south wales
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- Category: Landscapes
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Nagshead Reserve path
Yaaay... my external drive is recoverable. Well at least the pictures are OK, but it needs a new caddy. I got the computer guy to download my holiday pictures to a flash drive, so I can finish off the holiday pictures and give you a rest from Dipper pics ;) I stopped off in the Forest of Dean...- delia todd
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- 2012 august forest of dean gloucestershire nagshead rspb reserve olympus sp55o-uz
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- Category: Landscapes
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Second of the pair
This was the partner, in the same area of rocks, but a few yards upstream from the earlier picture. A closer crop, but I do like the water and the moss covered rock in this shot, though the background isn't quite so dramatic.- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie cinclus cinclus dipper olympus sp-55ouz perthshire river ericht scotland september white-throated dipper
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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One of a pair
I had to walk down to favoured spot number 2 to find the Dippers this day and there were two of them sitting in the middle of the river. So... the light wasn't too awful, but they're quite distant for a small camera. I couldn't get both in the same shot though. I could have cropped this some...- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie cinclus cinclus dipper olympus sp-55ouz perthshire river ericht scotland september white-throated dipper
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Dipper
A good walk along the river yesterday with sightings of no less than 4 individual Dippers. I found the light extremely difficult though, as it was quite cloudy and they mostly kept under the overhanging branches on the opposite bank. I got lucky though, when one of them settled right in the...- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie cinclus cinclus dipper olympus sp-55ouz perthshire river ericht scotland september white-throated dipper
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Great Tit
Sorry the quality of this one isn't great, and it looks like I needed to have cleaned the window too. Great Tits are very occasional visitors to my window feeder, once, maybe twice a year, so I was really quite lucky to grab anything at all. Record shot. TTTW- delia todd
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- 2012 blairgowrie great tit olympus sp-550uz parus major perthshire scotland september window feeder
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