Canary's in the grass
April 18, 2012
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17th April 2012
Last night Kay went out, so after work, I took my battered equipment out too Draycote Water, before I send it off to be checked by Canon.
My eye was immediately caught by a flock of Yellow Wagtails, the light was very poor, the birds small, and skittish.
Using the ridges to approach the birds, I managed to get within eleven metre...
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Napton Grebes , and Sonic Booms !!!
April 13, 2012
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12th April 2012
Decided after work to call in at Napton, on a lovely evening.
The local Great Crested Grebe pairs were very active with a lot of agressive posturing between the pairs in the middle of the resevoir, then and, most frustratingly one of the pairs put on a full display over the opposite side of the resevoir from me, out of range of my...
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An hour at Draycote
April 13, 2012
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Tuesday 10th April
A very short visit after work to Draycote produced the usual suspects.
Great Crested Grebe, Buzzard, Little Grebe, Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Dunnock,Reed Bunting and the usual assortment of Gull, and Ducks.
The most interesting thing was the behaviour of the local Rooks which feeding on on the flys that wer...
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Kites, and Flickr friends
April 02, 2012
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Thursday 29th March
Thursday saw us starting at 8.00am for a trip to Knighton to visits our friends Judy, and David, followed by a trip from Knighton to Rhayader, too photograph the Red Kites at the Gigrin Farm feeding station, and meet up with another Flickr friend, Izzy.
Two short delays on the Motorways meant we arrived at Knighton at 10.20a...
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Great Crested Grebe's
March 27, 2012
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I have been visiting a local small reservoir over the last week, as there are a pair of Great Crested Grebe, unfortuately I have seen little in the way of display behaviour. But they do appear to be a well establised pair.
Below some images I have managed so far.
Late evening seems to be the best for light, but may be not for display behaviour,...
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