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RSPB Middleton Lakes (1 Viewer)

Sedgley Birder

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.... B
If you go to Google Earth and check out the north pit you can see the letters RSPB made out of some islands, I was told about this by a volunteer today.
Cool.
Geoff

Had a look at Google Earth and can't pick anything out? Can u Google it, save and post image? I do not think my eyesight is that bad at the moment!

ATB Geoff.

Gavin
 

geoffw1946

Well-known member
Had a look at Google Earth and can't pick anything out? Can u Google it, save and post image? I do not think my eyesight is that bad at the moment!

ATB Geoff.

Gavin

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<StyleMap id="m_ylw-pushpin">
<Pair>
<key>normal</key>
<styleUrl>#s_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
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<Pair>
<key>highlight</key>
<styleUrl>#s_ylw-pushpin_hl</styleUrl>
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</StyleMap>
<Placemark>
<name>RSPB Midd Lakes</name>
<LookAt>
<longitude>-1.70359716930579</longitude>
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<altitude>0</altitude>
<heading>0.02877820008860327</heading>
<tilt>30.46015256519004</tilt>
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<gx:altitudeMode>relativeToSeaFloor</gx:altitudeMode>
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<styleUrl>#m_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
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Does this mean anything to you?
Geoff
 

Piccalilli

Steve Pick
Had a look at Google Earth and can't pick anything out? Can u Google it, save and post image? I do not think my eyesight is that bad at the moment!

ATB Geoff.

Gavin

Gavin

I dont know what Geoff has sent you but it has blown my mind. Anyway attached is a bit of North Pit from Google Earth

Steve
 

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rollingthunder

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Cheers P, that's all it needed - a photo. Luks like Geoff is back on the 'weed';)

I must admit i also looked hard and found nothing but that also applies to my local birding as well!

Altho, in my defence, i was looking for the initials actually as part of the vegetation and not stand-alone.

Laurie:t:
 

Sedgley Birder

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.... B
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<Document>
<name>KmlFile</name>
<Style id="s_ylw-pushpin_hl">
<IconStyle>
<scale>1.3</scale>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/ylw-pushpin.png</href>
</Icon>
<hotSpot x="20" y="2" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
</IconStyle>
</Style>
<Style id="s_ylw-pushpin">
<IconStyle>
<scale>1.1</scale>
<Icon>
<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/ylw-pushpin.png</href>
</Icon>
<hotSpot x="20" y="2" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
</IconStyle>
</Style>
<StyleMap id="m_ylw-pushpin">
<Pair>
<key>normal</key>
<styleUrl>#s_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
</Pair>
<Pair>
<key>highlight</key>
<styleUrl>#s_ylw-pushpin_hl</styleUrl>
</Pair>
</StyleMap>
<Placemark>
<name>RSPB Midd Lakes</name>
<LookAt>
<longitude>-1.70359716930579</longitude>
<latitude>52.59797231355725</latitude>
<altitude>0</altitude>
<heading>0.02877820008860327</heading>
<tilt>30.46015256519004</tilt>
<range>213.1586373099514</range>
<gx:altitudeMode>relativeToSeaFloor</gx:altitudeMode>
</LookAt>
<styleUrl>#m_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
<Point>
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<coordinates>-1.703597169305791,52.59797231355725,0</coordinates>
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Does this mean anything to you?
Geoff

Geoff
What are like at giving directions?3:)
 

Piccalilli

Steve Pick
Starlings

Starling count at Fishers Mill tonight was 2925 this being up by 2000 birds on last nights count. Why such an increase in just one day?
 

SteveAtkinson

Well-known member
Did a late afternoon visit today, first time for quite a while. Black-tailed Godwit, Cettis calling near the west screen, 3 Dunlin, 8 Little Egret going to roost. The were a large number of Starlings doing their thing - I'm not experienced enough to do an accurate count but I estimated between 1000 and 2000. A few Teal and plenty of Widgeon.
Cheers, Steve
 

Piccalilli

Steve Pick
- I'm not experienced enough to do an accurate count but I estimated between 1000 and 2000. A few Teal and plenty of Widgeon.
Cheers, Steve

Steve

If you're a sad character like me and have nothing better to do with your Saturday night then you can count them off a photo - see below. I was surprised there were so many tonight.

Steve
 

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rollingthunder

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A quick bit of research led me to this http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/download.html there is both 64 and 32 bit versions on the Windows download. According to the instructions and the feedback it works well with minimum tweaking of photos and is FREE - a nice start to a Sunday morning.....

For those that are unsure which version of Windows you are operating on just right-click My Computer and click Properties and it will be there under System - most of us will be on 32-bit.

Laurie:t:
 
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rollingthunder

Well-known member
Here's a link to the webpage with the instructions etc.

http://alpenglow.info/2012/08/07/how-to-count-the-birds-in-a-photo-of-a-flock-automatically/

The one in the above post is the software download site sorry for any confusion.

I installed the 32-bit version, followed the instructions and tested it 3 times on a nice, easy, flock of Knot with no background to work on and each time it gave me 255 birds. If you are used to programmes like Photoshop it is straight-forward - just have a play and test the results several times or try it on a flock that you can count and see if it matches. There were probably more birds in the flock as there are birds bunching up so 255 represents a minimum and i would estimate a margin of 5% more birds are actually in the picture.

Laurie:t:

Below - the image used.
 

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SteveAtkinson

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Steve

If you're a sad character like me and have nothing better to do with your Saturday night then you can count them off a photo - see below. I was surprised there were so many tonight.

Steve

I'm impressed Steve but maybe you are a little bit sad! Actually come to think of it maybe I'm to be pitied, my skyward gazing last night was restricted to fireworks with the family!
 

rollingthunder

Well-known member
Furthermore.....

I quite often estimate birds so now i will still estimate and when i get a corresponding picture just see how close i am to the real number - an example are the Black-Headed Gulls locally. I will try it later on today at some stage.

Laurie:t:
 

Sedgley Birder

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.... B
Laurie

Thanks for this I'll give it ago later and see how close it gets to a physical count. I was just using paint and manically putting dots down on each bird.

Steve

Just out of interest, how long did it take u to do that using paint?!

Gavin:eek!:
 

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