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| Posted: Fri Oct 13th, 2023 10:55 |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:Nice shots Eric. A bird I haven’t managed to get a good shot of yet. Thx. They are routine (not regular) visitors to us probably the ant infested lawn. Lol Strangely they often arrive at this time of year and invariably a great spotted woodpecker usually comes within 24 hours. It’s almost as one acts as a scouting party. The green goes straight to the same location on the lawn. I KNOW there are ants in that area…how do they know? They go straight to that part of the lawn. I can’t believe they can actually see the ants moving about from on high ….but maybe from above the earth disturbances shows a telltale patch? Very clever birds always land in the exact same location. The GSW goes for the feeders or our two knarled, half dead apple and cherry trees. Just looked at exif of a previous visit and it was 11 days later back in 2020..  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13th, 2023 13:44 |
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Iain
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I guess their eyesight is very good either that or there is a smell the ants give off that they smell.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13th, 2023 14:42 |
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chrisbet
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Don't ants give off formic acid?
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13th, 2023 20:03 |
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Iain
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Yes they do Chis and this maybe what the woodpecker locks on to.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14th, 2023 08:56 |
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Eric
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Clever little beauties. ….I meant the birds, not you two.  Hang on …I thought birds had no sense of smell??? It’s recommend to spray sunflower seed with cayenne pepper to stop squirrels feeding on them. Apparently squirrels can smell the pepper but birds cannot. I did this one year and the birds never stopped feeding but it deterred the fury beasties ….only for 24 hours, presumably till the smell dissipated. The only significant deterrent was for me due to my eyes running and coughing like a maniac. Didn’t repeat the exercise as it also wet the seeds and coated the feeders.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14th, 2023 14:14 |
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chrisbet
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I think they do have some sense of smell but their hearing is good so perhaps they listen for the ants scurrying about?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14th, 2023 22:27 |
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Iain
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A couple of Kes shots from Friday. _A010027-Edit by Iain Clyne, on Flickr  _A019981A-Edit by Iain Clyne, on Flickr
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15th, 2023 09:17 |
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Eric
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Superb! 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16th, 2023 20:08 |
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Iain
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Eric wrote:Superb! Thanks. A lot of it goes down to the super fast and accurate focusing of the A1 and 200-600.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17th, 2023 22:26 |
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Graham Whistler
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Super shots Ian well taken!
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