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| Posted: Mon Apr 3rd, 2023 14:12 |
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Iain
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Nice shot Graham. I like a shot with a clear background.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 3rd, 2023 22:37 |
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Graham Whistler
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Chaffinch more fron the A1 Sony and 600-200mmlens with x1.4 Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 7th, 2023 17:09 |
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Eric
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Well it’s Easter again! 20+years ago we had Mallards nesting in the garden. I had to place out bowls and containers with water on the lawn to give swimming lessons to the ducklings…and entertain us! But what a mess! We stopped having them nest here in 2010. But every year since then one or two adult ducks come here for short visits around Easter. It cannot be the original ‘parents’ they will be long gone ……so it must be successive offspring handing down the imprinted location of their birth???? They don’t wander around the garden aimlessly like the wood pigeons, they come directly to the patio and wait by the window, sometimes even tapping the glass with their beaks. It’s quite staggering to think a simple duck can remember where to come to get safe haven…and some corn! Anyway two just landed while we were scarifying the lawns. They ambled past the scarifier and onto the patio for ….porridge. Yes we have found every bird seems to like porridge rooks, crow, jackdaws, magpies, blackbirds, doves, pigeons, robins, great tits, dunnocks …even squirrels. We buy a bag of cheap stuck and spread a few handfuls each day on the lawn ….because it’s so fragmented …it lasts for ages because they have to work for it. So I commend you to porridge to attract the bigger birds…..no milk or sugar required.  Not having a camera to hand I am belatedly posting some shots of maybe their grandmother/ grandfather ducks?   
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| Posted: Fri Apr 7th, 2023 18:28 |
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Eric
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Found ye olde video (BHD) of the duck pond nursery and them learning to dabble in mud tray. Note their stamping feet despite being outside the tray on grass. Fortunately I was partially cropped from the frame to hide my belly and love handles…..now significantly reduced (thank God). Sitting at a computer for hours on end does nothing for the figure. 
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| Posted: Sun Apr 9th, 2023 07:47 |
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Graham Whistler
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All good fun and Happy Easter to all!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12th, 2023 15:02 |
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Iain
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A Mandarin Duck on a local pond. A7402371-Edit by Iain Clyne, on Flickr
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12th, 2023 15:06 |
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Iain
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A Chiffchaff. A7402013-Edit by Iain Clyne, on Flickr
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14th, 2023 17:24 |
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Eric
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We bought one of those special feeders that have depressible perches. When heavy birds attempt to land the perch drops and their access to the food is blocked. Works fine for squirrels but the Jay developed a ‘fly at bang into it’ approach very early on…scattering peanuts to the ground for him to retrieve. But now the ‘ground crew’ are sitting waiting to grab his spoils, he has refined and perfected his approach. He hovers to take the nut and only touches the perch lightly with one foot to push himself away. (Sequential frames) Notice the feeder has barely swung …relative to the tree markings behind. I say ‘he’ but it could be a ‘her’…or these days even a ‘they’.   Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14th, 2023 17:45 |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:A Chiffchaff. We had a chiffchaff in the garden calling earlier this week…got lovely sighting but no camera to hand. And a blackcap was singing this morning when I was out there. Annoyingly he sings on the other side of the hedges to my place so the neighbour would get the sighting….but he isnt bothered. He has just gained planning permission to build 2 houses in his garden. I managed to get the original plan for 3 houses reduced and moved away from my boundary by 30feet by claiming my deeds stated this was a stipulation. When asked to produce evidence I said I would gladly get the deeds out of storage ….once they had built the houses too close. But sadly despite protests from all surrounding neighbours and even the Town Civic Society, who put up a stirling protest about loss of green spaces, the plans were approved. I fear my Tawny won’t be spending the day in our boundary trees any more. When we came here 50 years ago we had spotted flycatcher, linnets, redpolls nesting in the garden: nightingales in audible distance and house martins, swifts and swallows cutting a cross the lawn. All gone, as has the glorious cacophony of a dawn chorus…now just blackbirds and collared doves halfhearted attempts.  Sorry for thread drift.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17th, 2023 13:56 |
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Iain
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You’re not on your own with the bird numbers going down, it’s the same here. I wonder if bird flu has affected the small bird population as well but just not been noticed. Who knows. 
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