Durham Birding (1 Viewer)

[Stewart J.]

hi some pics from yesterday my first outing with dslr camera
i hope i manage to get them on the post... apologys if they dont new to this

Nice but a bit small seggs, try resizing to 800 x 600 pixels. If you have Adobe Elements 3 or later a quick method is to open up your pic in elements, go to file then save for web, it will give you 2 pics side by side, at right hand side is a column with pixels sizes. Change width (height if vertical) to 800 and press apply. Hit ok and save wherever with a new file name.

Hope of some help

Stewart

 

[IanF]

well managed to get them on but will not open up?!!!! :storm: help!!

You're half way there!

I'd guess you've resized them too small. 800x800 pixels can be attached as long as the file size is under 200kb.

I find it's easiest to resize in pixels and then use the 'save as' function to increase jpeg compression until the file size is under 200kb. There are other ways to reduce file size, but using 'save as' or 'save for web' are easiest.

 

[seggs]

thanks ian and stewart...as always very helpful...back to messing with modern technology....trying to use a download called easy thumbnails i found on the bf site..

 

[JBee]

Sunday - brief visit to the feeding station by one of the many chiffchaff in the Bogs area.

 

[Cyclops]

Sunday - brief visit to the feeding station by one of the many chiffchaff in the Bogs area.

Superb pics, the colours on the second one are fantastic!

 

[ted hilland]

Sunday - brief visit to the feeding station by one of the many chiffchaff in the Bogs area.

lovely pics John, out of curiosity how far where you from the chiff-chaffs?

 

[JBee]

lovely pics John, out of curiosity how far where you from the chiff-chaffs?

10 yards (ish)

 

[Cyclops]

10 yards (ish)

cool,thats about the length of our back garden!
Bird feeder territory!

 

[Mark Newsome]

...noticed yesterday that the main cormorant breeding ground is now the stack off lizard point.this used to be only herring gull ground.. no cormorants at all on marsden yesterday..

I have noticed this too on my last couple of visits. Rather worrying as the only stack that Cormorants appear to be nest building on is the one off Lizard Point car park. This can obviously only support a small proportion of the normal colony numbers, so we could be in for a big Cormorant crash locally.

I had a run up the Tyne valley today. Clara Vale was very nice, with no other visitors - surprising for a bank holiday Monday. A Kingfisher was present all the time, changing perch every 10-15 mins and having a pretty good success rate at fishing. Also here were 2+ Blackcaps, 3 Red Kites and the first Moorhen chicks I've seen this spring, plus the usual feeding station stuff.
Shibdon Pond was good in the late afternoon. At least 50 Sand Martins were hawking over the lake, also 1 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 1+ Chiffchaff, 9 Goldeneyes, 25 L B-b Gulls and 27 Cormorants. Several of the Cormorants were breeding plumage adults; strange that they should want to hang around on an inland lakeinstead of near the colony.

The morning seawatch at Whitburn was OK, though things are still a little slow. A Great Northern Diver and 4 Sandwich Terns were the highlights.

 

[StevieEvans]

Sherburn House

an hour with the little 'un this AM.

2 bright & busy Willow Warblers & 2 cock Blackcaps all 4 in full song. ( 8 singing Chiffchaff + 1 other non singer ) Same 4 Sand Martins today.
28 or so Redwing remain, joined by 4 Fieldfare
( heard Redwings going over east after dark on 3 dates last week )
Only visible migrants were a few Meadow Pipits over, but 4 Siskin & a Lesser Redpoll may well have been on the move too ?


2 pair of Jay, including one carrying either a frog or a toad.
Nuthatches very noisy & seemingly trying to attract as much attention to the nest tree as possible, with a M GSW & Treecreeper in same tree. Single pair only of Willow Tit, M singing briefly.

2pr of Grey Wagtail & a Kingfisher, but drawing a blank on the previously nailed on Dipper ( previously the only regularly breeding pair East of Durham City )


Another 2 Willow Warblers singing from Birch & Gorse scrubland during a visit to the Tanfield Railway this PM.

9th of April - doesnt seem like theres too many summer around ? :hi:

Steve

 

[Mark Newsome]

...9th of April - doesnt seem like theres too many summer around ? :hi: Steve

Even though it's been nice and sunny here for the last few days, there's been low pressure over Spain/western Med, so maybe that's been holding many birds up. The weather charts show it giving way to high pressure from yesterday/today, so that's probably why Portland Bill had an arrival of 500+ Willow Warblers today! I'd expect there to be quite a change in birds during the next few days, with many migrants arriving in our area in numbers. Hopefully! :h?:

 

[Cyclops]

Sherburn House

Why does that name ring a bell I wonder....

 

[JBee]

Normally dont have much luck with kestrels hovering (normally head away from me once they see camera getting mounted onto tripod) but got lucky with this one

 

[Cyclops]

Normally dont have much luck with kestrels hovering (normally head away from me once they see camera getting mounted onto tripod) but got lucky with this one

wow those kestrel shots are wicked! And look at that blue sky!
Is this weather mental or what!

 

[Dab-chick]

Summer Migrants

9th of April - doesnt seem like theres too many summer around ?

Hi Steve,

Had a nice male Wheatear off the A68 at Stuartfield Lodge near Salters Gate about lunch time. :t:

 

[Stewart J.]

Superb Kestrel shots JBee, 4 & 5 are exceptional

Stewart

 

[StevieEvans]

mad mig

Even though it's been nice and sunny here for the last few days, there's been low pressure over Spain/western Med, so maybe that's been holding many birds up. The weather charts show it giving way to high pressure from yesterday/today, so that's probably why Portland Bill had an arrival of 500+ Willow Warblers today! I'd expect there to be quite a change in birds during the next few days, with many migrants arriving in our area in numbers. Hopefully! :h?:

Thanks Mark
seemed like we were gonna be in for a real early year too....

( i generally think of 10th/11th as arrival date for next wave of stuff like Yellow Wags, House Martin, Tree Pipit & the first few Redstarts -
Seems like we have yet to get our full contingent of "early stuff " like Ring Ouzels & Wheatears & Blackcaps.......maybe everthing will all pour in together..? )
Cheers Ste

 

[allan rowell]

Practice makes perfect.

Practice makes perfect.

 

[StevieEvans]

migrants

Summer Migrants





Hi Steve,

Had a nice male Wheatear off the A68 at Stuartfield Lodge near Salters Gate about lunch time. :t:

Hi Dab-chick
Ah see!
They've all heard Whitburnmarks recent weather forecast & theyre starting to pile in already..........

Was that Great Grey Shrike still up there ?
SE

 

[allan rowell]

Yabadabadoo

Thank you Stewart J I,ve been trying to upload a picture for two days altogether.
Allan