What did you see in your binoculars today? (7 Viewers)

[Bentley03]

Genius

Both.

It is a ploy I am about to enact with my beloved. Delete Alpha.....Insert Hunting.

Simples.

Genius!!! 😂

May need to repurpose one of the spare bedrooms as storage space for this project...🤔

 

[Maljunulo]

Would watching this interaction ideally require a birding or hunting binocular, Richard? 🤪

Yes.

 

[PatR]

Genius

Genius!!! 😂

May need to repurpose one of the spare bedrooms as storage space for this project...🤔

Don't repurpose your bedrooms James. I am more than happy to store any project items totally FOC in my coachouse.

No need to thank me or shower me with gratitude, it is as much a chap can do for a fellow sufferer of acute GAS, a debilating disease for which there is no known cure.

I have consulted the finest medical brains, even my Welsh Kidney consultant Dr Dia Llysis, and all agree that there is absolutely no chance of a swift end to what is a very painful, and costly, illness.

Just send them direct from shop to me and (I know this will touch you deeply), I will unpack and test them over a prolonged period and submit a detailed report.

Seamless, and you can still offer a safe bed to all who know you for the generous benefactor you are.

 

[PatR]

This greedy but beautiful Great Spotted Woodpecker is a PIA, lovely though he is. He dominates the sunflower seeds on the wall and can be quite intimidating to the smaller Tits, Sparrows and Nuthatches. He is however very conscious of movement and a fast, well sedate actually, Rottie soon has him flying off to the Horse Chestnut tree in the field below our house.

Watched through the Pure 14x52's, photo taken with an OM Systems OM1 Mk2 and the 100-400mm lens. Slowly getting to grips with the Micro Four Thirds system and so far am mighty impressed.

 

[Bentley03]

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This greedy but beautiful Great Spotted Woodpecker is a PIA, lovely though he is. He dominates the sunflower seeds on the wall and can be quite intimidating to the smaller Tits, Sparrows and Nuthatches. He is however very conscious of movement and a fast, well sedate actually, Rottie soon has him flying off to the Horse Chestnut tree in the field below our house.

Watched through the Pure 14x52's, photo taken with an OM Systems OM1 Mk2 and the 100-400mm lens. Slowly getting to grips with the Micro Four Thirds system and so far am mighty impressed.

In suburban London, it's the gangs of ring-necked parakeets which are the scourge of any bird feeding stations (formal or informal). Woodpeckers do dominate the smaller birds too (have greens and greats), but those noisy bullying parakeets, wow!

Probably best not to mention the pigeons...

And then there's my friend Robert, whose extensive earthworks are evident in every flower and vegetable bed in the garden.

(Apologies for poor quality screenshots from a video taken using phone)

 

[PatR]

In suburban London, it's the gangs of ring-necked parakeets which are the scourge of any bird feeding stations (formal or informal). Woodpeckers do dominate the smaller birds too (have greens and greats), but those noisy bullying parakeets, wow!

Probably best not to mention the pigeons...

And then there's my friend Robert, whose extensive earthworks are evident in every flower and vegetable bed in the garden.

(Apologies for poor quality screenshots from a video taken using phone)

By jingo Robert Fox, defence correspondent par excellence, has certainly fallen on hard times and only ventures out incognito!

 

[PatR]

Just sitting out front listening and watching a Robin singing its heart out when it flew over to the wall and posed for me. I love the beautiful Robin.

Watching through the gorgeous Leica Trinovid Retrovid 8x40's and photo taken with an OM Systems OM1 Mk2 and the 40-150mm lens.

Truly blessed with these wonderful and melodic little birds.

 

[jafritten]

I spent some time at my local in-town refuge, an abandoned graveyard which is where I volunteer as sort of a warden who locks the gates at dusk and opens them in the mornings. That is why I am usually the first one to meet the birds. I saw a goshawk a couple of times recently and last month I heard a tawny owl a couple of times when I locked the gates. Today I watched a male and a female blackcap, a male green woodpecker, a couple of squirrels, a jay and a robin. Back home I sat down to a cup of coffee and then I saw a baby blackbird and its parents that fed the juvenile. I took a photo when it was perched in the hedgerow.

I have been looking for a barn owl for a while. With little success so far, but every time I frequent the barn I see this fellow:

 

[Thotmosis]

In suburban London, it's the gangs of ring-necked parakeets which are the scourge of any bird feeding stations (formal or informal). Woodpeckers do dominate the smaller birds too (have greens and greats), but those noisy bullying parakeets, wow!

Probably best not to mention the pigeons...

And then there's my friend Robert, whose extensive earthworks are evident in every flower and vegetable bed in the garden.

(Apologies for poor quality screenshots from a video taken using phone)

Really fascinating animal

Red Fox Diet - What Foxes Eat | Wildlife Online

The types of prey that Red foxes consume.

www.wildlifeonline.me.uk

 

[GrampaTom]

 

[GrampaTom]

 

[GrampaTom]

 

[kkokkolis]

This

 

[Maljunulo]

Neat.

I have a hunch they were looking at you looking at them.

 

[kkokkolis]

Oh, yes indeed!
Look at the balcony above R91!

 

[tenex]

"R91" is the Charles de Galle, carrying Rafale fighter jets etc. A quite recent ship, and nuclear-powered despite its (to an American eye) small size.

 

[GrampaTom]

From today at Valle Vista, Resevoir Moraga, CA. Double teaming w birding pal Lew who only birds with camera:

 

[PeterPS]

"R91" is the Charles de Galle, carrying Rafale fighter jets etc. A quite recent ship, and nuclear-powered despite its (to an American eye) small size.

de Galle?

 

[PeterPS]

Bird: grackle
Bino: Zeiss Victory SF 10x42

 

[PeterPS]

A pair of white-tailed kites.
Bino: Zeiss SF 10x42