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2018
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Peacefully passing by
Completely ignoring all the hirundines buzzing around (it really was busy with them that day!); this Moorhen just seemed to amble past unhurriedly!- delia todd
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- 2018 angus fuji finepix hs50 gallinula chloropus kinnordy may moorhen scotland
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Boxing Day visitors
A late Christmas present, but very welcome all the same. A small flock of Waxwings arrived. The skies were awful grey (as usual when they come!!) so this isn't the best of pictures. They made several visits over the next month, so I may have got some nicer ones than this, here seen with a...- delia todd
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- 2018 blairgowrie bohemian waxwing bombycilla garrulus december fuji finepix hs50 garden house sparrow passer domesticus perthshire scotland tttw waxwing
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Nooo - move it the other way
Remember those days when Dad had to go up and shift the tv aerial about to get the signal. Otherwise you had to pay for someone to do it. It seemed to happen quite a lot when I was a kid. Satellite dishes don't seem to move, do they. Another memory from those days was the interference from...- delia todd
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- 2018 blairgowrie december fuji finepix hs50 garden herring gull larus argentatus perthshire saturday fun scotland tttw
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Can you let me have a blanket
Chaffinch on a rather chilly December day.- delia todd
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- 2018 blairgowrie chaffinch december fringilla coelebs fuji finepix hs50 garden perthshire scotland tttw
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Wait for me!
Guess he was a bit tired after his long journey from the north! Though actually it was more a case of me pleading for them to let me catch up... my attempts to follow them ended with the birds half-hidden top, bottom and both sides LOL!! This was the best of the set!- delia todd
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- 2018 angus cygnus cygnus flight fuji finepix hs50 kinnordy autumn november scotland whooper swan
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Skater
Oh my what a job he had walking down the shed roof... just wasn't quick enough with the camera to catch that action, only the obvious results. Snow and frost on that roof catches the birds out every time LOL I can't get to grips with why they insist on walking down that roof and don't just...- delia todd
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- 2018 blairgowrie december fuji finepix hs50 garden herring gull larus argentatus perthshire saturday fun scotland tttw
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Numbers building
Well into November now and the winter visitor numbers are fairly building up. A lovely group of Whoopers had made themselves at home on the loch.- delia todd
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- 2018 angus autumn cygnus cygnus fuji finepix hs50 kinnordy november scotland whooper swan
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Delicate picker
I generally associate these guys with messing about with b****dy offal LOL, not these wee nibbles. He handled it (or billed it LOL) very well really didn't he. Sorry I didn't get him all in the frame, I'd actually been zoomed in to photograph a sparrow, but he landed almost on top of him!! TTTW- delia todd
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- 2018 blairgowrie fuji finepix hs50 garden herring gull larus argentatus october perthshire scotland tttw winter plumage
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Escorts
This time we had Tufted Ducks escorting the Whooper Swans. A very distant view so quite a big crop. Why do they all hug the far side of the loch eh?- delia todd
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- 2018 angus aythya fuligula cygnus cygnus fuji finepix hs50 kinnordy october scotland tufted duck whooper swan
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Spot 'em if you can
So that was me in the hide now and.... .... well, hard to see but there are an assortment of ducks on and beside that bog bean island (one of the further away ones too of course LOL) I can make out Wigeon and Teal, but who knows what else is lurking there- delia todd
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- 2018 anas crecca angus fuji finepix hs50 kinnordy mareca penelope october scotland teal wigeon
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Grazers
On the opposite side of the road and into the next field were what appeared to be a family group of Whooper Swans possibly more new arrivals last autumn. Always a joy to see these lovely swans.- delia todd
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- 2018 angus cygnus cygnus fuji finepix hs50 kinnordy autumn october scotland whooper swan
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Where's it gone
After the Den of Airlie stop, you then drive along the crest of a hillside called Kaims of Airlie. You get views looking down into Strathmore and also towards the Cairngorms. Jammed on the brakes and jumped out of the car when I saw a Red Kite drift over.... still not a common sight here, only...- delia todd
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- 2018 fuji finepix hs50 kaims of airlie october
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- Category: Landscapes
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They were arriving
I just love the Whooper Swans and it's always a thrill when you seem them coming back for the winter months. This group did a fly past across the loch for my FOS view.- delia todd
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- 2018 angus cygnus cygnus fuji finepix hs50 kinnordy autumn october scotland whooper swan
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Not a tractor in sight
.... but still the gulls seem to have found plenty to feed them. This is one of the fields that back on to the reserve on the other side of the loch.- delia todd
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- 2018 angus common gull fuji finepix hs50 kinnordy loch larus canus october scotland
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Did he catch it...
.... or drop it? Actually I can't tell you, as that was the last image in the set LOL A Herring Gull just developing his winter plumage spots. TTTW- delia todd
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- 2018 blairgowrie fuji finepix hs50 garden herring gull larus argentatus october perthshire scotland tttw
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Losing his finery
Not the best of pictures, sorry, but I don't get to photograph these grebes too often. So I was quite pleased to see one fairly close in to shore for once. The only other bird I managed to get at Clunie Loch, no doubt there were some Mallards hiding under the many bushes overhanging the water's...- delia todd
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- 2018 blairgowrie clunie loch fuji finepix hs50 great crested grebe perthshire podiceps cristatus scotland september
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Winding up...
.... in preparation for take off. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn't it. If I'd known he was about to go, I could have quickly zoomed out, but was too late! The next 3 images, the first his wings were mostly out of the frame, the next I only had his tail, and the last just the tip of his...- delia todd
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- 2018 blairgowrie fuji finepix hs50 garden herring gull larus argentatus perthshire scotland september tttw
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Nearly the last
We finally got back to Ann's cabin, without another sighting of the Divers sadly, I found the Willow Tit still feeding. As I don't see these at home, thought I'd put another into my Gallery for you to see. Nice birds, aren't they. I've just a couple more pictures from this, my final day in...- delia todd
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- 2018 august cabin fuji finepix hs50 hell norway poecile montanus trondheim willow tit
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Another Hellish first
This time my very first picture of a Chiffchaff believe it or not!!! I've heard them for years, of course, but never managed to find one in the open in order to get a picture. Even this one wasn't too easy and I had to get confirmation in the ID forum. What made it harder, was that there was...- delia todd
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- 2018 august chiffchaff fuji finepix hs50 hell norway phylloscopus collybita trondheim
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Another of my lovely Willow Tit
Before I take you on the walk round the lake, here's a quite different pose of this gorgeous wee tit, showing his diagnostic pale wing panel and the pale spot on the bill. Actually there were so many flitting about there, I don't know if this was the same one, or a different guy. What I've...- delia todd
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- 2018 august cabin fuji finepix hs50 hell norway poecile montanus trondheim willow tit
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A first of sorts
... it's the first Willow Tit for my Gallery here. I've seen them before but not for some time sadly. We don't get them up here. We'd arrived in Hell, where Ann's husband used to live. They have a cabin up in the mountains, with regularly filled feeders and this was the first bird to show...- delia todd
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- 2018 august cabin fuji finepix hs50 hell norway poecile montanus trondheim willow tit
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Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas to all my friends on the forum. I hope you all have a wonderful time over the holidays. Many thanks for taking the time to look at my pictures and for showing us some of your own beautiful images too. This was taken after the first heavy frost of the winter, earlier this month...- delia todd
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- 2018 christmas card garden herring gull
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Wall Creeper
.... I wish LOL Another bird we saw in this area where we had our coffee break, was a Magpie, only the second one I'd seen that trip I think. I very, very rarely see them here at home so always a bit of a treat for me to come across one.- delia todd
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- 2018 august fuji finepix hs50 exr magpie norway pica pica smola vestsideveeien
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Hoodie on the beach
I've no no idea where we'd got to, I was just enjoying the leisurely drive round Smola's west coast road.. At one of our short stops, I saw this Hooded Crow foraging on a beach.- delia todd
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- 2018 august corvus cornix fuji finepix hs50 exr hooded crow hoodie norway smola
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Breakfast
Breakfast the next morning was a rather lengthy, interrupted affair! I'd decided, to take my camera down with me. Sitting there munching away I noted something land in the water on the far side of the bay and alerted Ann. I thought it had looked a bit 'aukish' which would have been a first for...- delia todd
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- 2018 august fuji finepix hs50 exr great black-backed gull hopen juvenile/immature larus marinus norway smola
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