Stunning view of a Little Owl this morning.
Rich
Thanks, if you've ever tried to handlheld a smartphone against a binocular eyepiece you know how lousy that usually is... that says a lot about the particular ambient light in the Asphodelus field (well, and probably also about the glass on the 7x42 FL :-O)Yarrellii,
Your picture has a nice feel to it, I like it.
Thanks, if you've ever tried to handlheld a smartphone against a binocular eyepiece you know how lousy that usually is... that says a lot about the particular ambient light in the Asphodelus field (well, and probably also about the glass on the 7x42 FL :-O)
Sounds great, I've been keen to do some owl searching (Ninox).
Had to look that one up quickly (Little Owl). An introduced species in your parts and also in NZ a short swim from me.
Mind you it's the rabbits that you've really got to look out for.
Cracking birds F88. Lucky enough to see 3 in the last week. Those White-bellied Sea Eagles you saw take me right back to our trip to WA. A superb place.
Rich
I think my brother has seen then in his Melbourne garden. :t:Sounds fantastic. No owls for me currently but I spotted the same Tawny Frogmouth perched in the same place last nice.
Beautiful eagles indeed and a pair no less. Apparently their nest was reasonably close to the area I was viewing them in thick coastline forest with steep hills and cliffs. It was commented that this nest is the size of a car although I haven't yet sighted it as it was getting later on and the partially vague directions I was given to access a reasonable view were beyond me for the afternoon.
Finally here: the swifts. I think swifts have to be my favourite bird (ok, maybe together with the artic tern). They don't fly in the air; I think they are the air
Just three weeks ago we got the first swallow, a couple of days ago I saw the first house martin, and today we finally have the swifts.
Walking back home I looked up and thought... "well, now that's a lot of swallows"... only they were not. A swift look (pun intended) through the E2's and I took this picture (with some stray light coming from the back... which actually I kind of like in the image).
Any other swift fans around?
Yeeeehaw!! That moment of the year I think it is because of these moments that we watch birds.First UK Swallow of the year over the oak trees at the bottom of our back garden! YAY!
Yeeeehaw!! That moment of the year I think it is because of these moments that we watch birds.
Over here I've been intrigued by an unknown (to me :-O) little passerine that "has been appearing" on my binoculars for the last few days, it is a tiny bird that makes a little tweet each time it flaps its wings on its undulating flight, and today I solved the mystery: a Zitting cisticola! Happy as a hippo