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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3240 on: February 4, 2023, 10:55:13 pm »
Out and about for another walk

Male Cardinal


Carolina Chickadee


Brown-Headed Nuthatch



Red Shouldered Hawk










Downy Woodpecker


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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3241 on: February 5, 2023, 10:18:32 am »
Absolutely superb mate.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3242 on: February 5, 2023, 12:30:59 pm »
Some great shots there especially the hawk
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3243 on: February 5, 2023, 12:34:01 pm »
Thanks! Was waiting 30-40min for the hawk to fly away, arms were dead from holding the lens so long ;D

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3244 on: February 5, 2023, 03:17:36 pm »
lovely photos mate - particularly like the background separation of the chickadee and the rsh is always a joy to see

..an, away from your bird photography for the moment, but thought your big virg gif in andy's 'disappointed' thread was my thoughts exactly (no offence to andy)

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3245 on: February 5, 2023, 03:28:03 pm »
lovely photos mate - particularly like the background separation of the chickadee and the rsh is always a joy to see

..an, away from your bird photography for the moment, but thought your big virg gif in andy's 'disappointed' thread was my thoughts exactly (no offence to andy)



Thanks mate, was really great to see both. The chickadee was flitting around to different trees and finally settled on the leaves which I thought would make a nice photo.

The RSH was a treat, funny enough I was chatting to a lady on the path and we were talking about a hawk that she saw earlier in the week, when the RSH just flew and settled on the tree above us. Stayed there for ages and ages just scanning around for something to eat. My telescopic lens weighs about 2kgs so holding that up for a long time to try get the hawk flying off took it's toll on my arms. Who knew photography can be such a workout ;)

As I was walking back I did see another hawk in a tree, but unfortunately it was right amongst the branches and the sun was setting down behind it so only got a black silhouette of it, I do believe it was another RSH though.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3246 on: February 5, 2023, 03:28:53 pm »
Here's a pic of the other hawk




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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3247 on: February 5, 2023, 03:30:02 pm »
The colour of that sky Chakan you lucky devil. Beautiful photographs once again.
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3248 on: February 5, 2023, 03:36:38 pm »
The colour of that sky Chakan you lucky devil. Beautiful photographs once again.

The weather here is brilliant at times, yesterday particularly was great. Lots of sunshine, bit on the chilly side though. Today is overcast and rainy, luck of the draw :P

I'm very lucky to live near the greenway though, it's literally a 5-10min walk from my house and has such a diverse assortment of creatures to see. I think one day i'll just go out there for a macro session.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3249 on: February 6, 2023, 08:19:46 pm »
Great photos Chakan.  Always interesting to see birds in other countries.  That hawk was a picture!

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3250 on: February 11, 2023, 09:13:39 am »
some from a walk the other day

stonechat (male winter (well duh) plumage) - had to zoom in on this guy but he seemed cool to pose for me



little egret - a distance away but i liked the composition



kestrel - what? another one? (possibly the same female as last time) to me, like the common buzzard, these birds always offer you the chance of an interesting shot - so at first it was hunting then it came down on a post near to me for a rest then flew to another post but this time the sun was behind it but i managed to use that to capture some nice rim lighting and that last photo it seems like the bird is deep in thought (yeh but most probably about where the next vole or mouse is gonna be!) - and did you lot know that they can see ultraviolet light and the urine from voles and mice shows up on that spectrum therefore giving the kestrel the advantage of following the trails and even watching when one has a pee before BAM kestrel supper!

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3251 on: February 12, 2023, 09:16:55 am »
They are amazing liver, crystal clear, absolutely brilliant.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3252 on: February 12, 2023, 09:18:56 am »
She is so beautiful once again fantastic photographs.
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3253 on: February 12, 2023, 09:19:58 am »
Brilliant photos again Liver :thumbup
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3254 on: February 12, 2023, 09:20:51 am »
Brilliant Photos
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3255 on: February 12, 2023, 10:42:59 am »
Jackdaws are cute tell me I'm wrong

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3256 on: February 12, 2023, 12:24:19 pm »
Great photos Liver, would love to photograph a Kestrel sometime, but we don't get many here.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3257 on: February 12, 2023, 12:49:03 pm »
Photos so good you can almost read the numbers on it's leg ring  👏

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3258 on: February 12, 2023, 04:16:50 pm »
he is a cute fella

bet the feathers on the back of his neck is deep and warm if you bury your nose in

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3259 on: February 12, 2023, 05:10:10 pm »
Fabulous pics mate it's such a great time of year for birds in particular.

We have song thrush here that are a joy to listen to singing away every morning.  The woodpeckers have been busy drilling in the woods and the buzzards calling and gliding effortlessly up high.

We've had a kestrel hunting around the fields pretty much everyday but also sitting in the tree surveying her patch.

We had our first red kite fly over today too.

Just need the blue tits to start checking out the nest boxes and I'll know spring is here.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3260 on: February 12, 2023, 05:11:44 pm »
Jackdaws are cute tell me I'm wrong

You're not wrong mate, we have a fabulous clattering of them in the next field.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3261 on: February 12, 2023, 05:42:16 pm »
You're not wrong mate, we have a fabulous clattering of them in the next field.

they're bouncy with attitude

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3262 on: February 12, 2023, 05:52:07 pm »
they're bouncy with attitude

love them bois

Clever little buggers too.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3263 on: February 12, 2023, 06:24:35 pm »
Clever little buggers too.

Crows also

birds are so fascinating

As I'll soon live on the edge of both Greenbank and Sefton Parks I look forward to the bird action

Especially as I'll throw seed about

I even like magpies though they're my least favourite being destructive wee bastards

Woodpigeons are shy and cute. In my current place I have FOUR that clamour in the garden and they fight lmao

woodpigeon fights are so charming and beautiful the fat waddling fluffy things

One died last year in my garden (I was sad but there's a strange comfort in choosing my place) and I carried him to the local woods. His partner - they mate for life - flew from house to house watching me bury her partner

It was most humbling and caring.

Very sad looking up at a roof and seeing a lonely woodpigeon gazing down at this quizzical human

But it enriched my heart to be SEED KING and throw out lots and he still visits

I'm sad to leave behind my woodpigeon friends

But I'm excited about the sheer amount of BIRDS I will now get to see and I adore them and have no limit in my heart for how I'd help birds (as ever for a human some of this involves leaving em alone)

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3264 on: February 12, 2023, 06:31:01 pm »
coaltits are great
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3265 on: February 12, 2023, 09:41:36 pm »
coaltits are great
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Long tailed tits visiting my garden every day now. Love the little guys.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3266 on: February 13, 2023, 10:02:19 am »
Directly opposite my house is a wooded area with a natural pond.  I could spend all day looking out of my window at the antics currently going on with about 5 male mallards and one female.  The fights are epic.  There are also a pair of moorhens which just look on totally bemused by it all. 

There are also loads of other birds - blackbirds, wood pigeons, blue tits, to name but a few.  There is also a heron that puts in an appearance once in while.  I suspect it will make more appearances when the chicks of the above mentioned ducks and moorhens appear  :(
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3267 on: February 13, 2023, 12:34:48 pm »
just catching up with this thread and would like to say cheers for all the kind comments y'all  :wave

but you know when i next get out with the camera that i'm going to have to bore you lot some more with friggin bird photos don't yers  ;D
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3268 on: February 13, 2023, 01:32:00 pm »
coaltits are great
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I love Coal Tits as well, something about the way they nip on and off the feeder is pretty cute.

Long tailed tits visiting my garden every day now. Love the little guys.

My absolute favourite small bird and the nests they build are exquisite.
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3269 on: February 13, 2023, 02:53:41 pm »
Directly opposite my house is a wooded area with a natural pond.  I could spend all day looking out of my window at the antics currently going on with about 5 male mallards and one female.  The fights are epic.  There are also a pair of moorhens which just look on totally bemused by it all. 

There are also loads of other birds - blackbirds, wood pigeons, blue tits, to name but a few.  There is also a heron that puts in an appearance once in while.  I suspect it will make more appearances when the chicks of the above mentioned ducks and moorhens appear  :(

Male mallards are total thugs.  They gang rape the females then fuck of and leave them to cope with a dozen or so babies all on their own.

There's no polite wooing, or the females choosing their partner, or proving how good a parent they'll be.  Nope, you'll have us all and deal with the aftermath!!

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3270 on: February 13, 2023, 03:00:08 pm »
Male mallards are total thugs.  They gang rape the females then fuck of and leave them to cope with a dozen or so babies all on their own.

There's no polite wooing, or the females choosing their partner, or proving how good a parent they'll be.  Nope, you'll have us all and deal with the aftermath!!

Yep - they are just fighting each other at the moment.  The moorhens are just so different.  Quietly getting on with their nest building and getting slightly miffed at the ducks.
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3271 on: February 13, 2023, 03:15:36 pm »
Yep - they are just fighting each other at the moment.  The moorhens are just so different.  Quietly getting on with their nest building and getting slightly miffed at the ducks.

I think I would be too 😂

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3272 on: February 14, 2023, 05:44:02 pm »
In my element here, there's a pair of Kestrels nesting near the hotel and they've been up hunting all day, riding the thermals
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3273 on: February 14, 2023, 05:59:15 pm »
Anyone been following the story of Flaco the Eurasian Eagle Owl in New York? Vandals damaged his cage at Central Park zoo, and he flew away. But he’s been hanging around in various locations of Central Park, so not too far from the zoo. Wardens from the zoo have been trying to lure and capture him. Their concern was that as he’d been in captivity for 10 years since young, he wouldn’t know how to hunt. But it’s been discovered that he is eating and has been hunting, so now the wardens have stepped back their efforts and are just observing him to see how he’s getting on.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3274 on: February 14, 2023, 06:03:03 pm »
Anyone been following the story of Flaco the Eurasian Eagle Owl in New York? Vandals damaged his cage at Central Park zoo, and he flew away. But he’s been hanging around in various locations of Central Park, so not too far from the zoo. Wardens from the zoo have been trying to lure and capture him. Their concern was that as he’d been in captivity for 10 years since young, he wouldn’t know how to hunt. But it’s been discovered that he is eating and has been hunting, so now the wardens have stepped back their efforts and are just observing him to see how he’s getting on.

Here’s a photo of Flaco (not mine), what an amazing bird



Gorgeous bird. Makes you wonder though do the keepers actually know anything about the birds? I guarantee he's been taking rats and mice that have wandered into his enclosure since he was young.
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3275 on: February 15, 2023, 08:16:03 am »
cracking bird that - fucking vandals shouldn't be allowed to breed some people

he'll be lonely that fella

surely he should be easy enough to catch though with the right bait and snare? i'm surprised they've had no luck so far

birds in cages though  :(

i know we need to keep some species in captivity to save them from persecution and gradual extinction - but we also need to have greater laws in place with more forcible punishment for those that kill or destroy natural habitat
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3276 on: February 15, 2023, 08:58:25 am »
cracking bird that - fucking vandals shouldn't be allowed to breed some people

he'll be lonely that fella

surely he should be easy enough to catch though with the right bait and snare? i'm surprised they've had no luck so far

birds in cages though  :(

i know we need to keep some species in captivity to save them from persecution and gradual extinction - but we also need to have greater laws in place with more forcible punishment for those that kill or destroy natural habitat

The problem is that if he's feeding himself then he won't be interested in any food they try and lure him with.

I did a bird of prey experience and before we were due to fly one of the owls, they weighed it and realised that it had eaten a rat that morning and said that they couldn't fly it now as it would not be interested in the food.
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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3277 on: February 15, 2023, 09:33:27 am »
The problem is that if he's feeding himself then he won't be interested in any food they try and lure him with.

I did a bird of prey experience and before we were due to fly one of the owls, they weighed it and realised that it had eaten a rat that morning and said that they couldn't fly it now as it would not be interested in the food.

good point that man

on my recent birding walks around the local woods i came across this fella flying his hawk (juvenile female harris hawk) and he said basically the same

he also mentioned that it would still totally rely on him though and if he called it it would come - it was great to be so close to this bird and i don't think many people realise that when you are so close to a bird like this its animal instincts are just on another plain incredible



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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3278 on: February 15, 2023, 04:54:32 pm »
good point that man

on my recent birding walks around the local woods i came across this fella flying his hawk (juvenile female harris hawk) and he said basically the same

he also mentioned that it would still totally rely on him though and if he called it it would come - it was great to be so close to this bird and i don't think many people realise that when you are so close to a bird like this its animal instincts are just on another plain incredible





I fisted ! (Not sure that’s the right terminology) a Harris hawk on a falconry day I did in Sussex a few years back. Amazing bird. Also did black kites, a short eared owl which would fly off have a bit of a flight and come back and land on your head shoulder or fist and a vulture (heavy) while walking through the woods and fields. Amazing day that was. Will deffo go again.

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Re: Bird watch
« Reply #3279 on: February 15, 2023, 04:58:00 pm »
I fisted ! (Not sure that’s the right terminology) a Harris hawk on a falconry day I did in Sussex a few years back. Amazing bird. Also did black kites, a short eared owl which would fly off have a bit of a flight and come back and land on your head shoulder or fist and a vulture (heavy) while walking through the woods and fields. Amazing day that was. Will deffo go again.

fisting ha ha - but that sounds great mate as long as i don't have to fist anything  :wave

but i am gonna have to do that and visit a falconry one day soon
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