Pete W
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We have quite a few Ospreys around but I've not seen one this year they often feed on the resevoirs above the village and also come down to the shore. I had a Peregrine come in low and fast yesterday over the dunes into the marsh only just managed to snap it
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I have two standard user settings programmed, 1/000th at f8 Aperture priority, with a limit of 1600 iso and 2000th at f8 Manual with no limit. Depending on subject and conditions they are the starting point and I'll change ev and shutter speed or aperture as I think fit. The pics were all on the first setting with ev +2ish I think for the ones against the sky and the merganser was 0. iso 720 for the warbler, 500 for the sitting Skylark, 1250 for the flyer, and 320 for the Merganser.
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There's been a few shots of that bird and I think someone has managed to get the details from the leg ring, but I can't find the tweet at the moment. Lets hope there are two around and we could have new breeding pair
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Some pics from yesterdays wander on the Estuary, A Willow Warbler belting it out, a couple of Skylark shots and a Red Breasted Merganser
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It's a decent camera but I was saving up for a full frame D850 until all this covid business kicked off, so that's on hold now. Lumix always get good reviews but I've never used one. There are other pics from the same session on my Twitter feed https://twitter.com/BSgroggins/status/1250149366742073354 Well better get back to shifting a big lump of Ash up a 30 degree slope!
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I am lucky to live on the Estuary and work in the woods, so surrounded by wildlife. This Whooper flew straight toward me exactly five minutes after the Cuckoo flyby.
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That was with a Nikon D7500 + Sigma 150-600mm lens which makes it effectively 900mm because of sensor size. Here's the uncropped image. It was a fair distance away
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Just lucky that I noticed it and managed a quick shot
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Had my first Cuckoo sighting of the year on Saturday, flying low up the Estuary
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Saw my first swift yesterday in the village, that means all four are back now (Sand Martins, House Martins, Swallows and Swifts) thank you hirundines
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Here'a clip of one of our Nuthatch nests nuthatch_short.mp4
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Often see (or have a heart attack as) a Woodcock erupts from in just front in front of me as I'm walking through the woods in winter. This one was feeding in the meadow this morning.
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I have a couple of feeding stations at work, one is on a wall top where I park the van. If I'm a bit slow getting out, the chaffinches, blackbirds and robins will be queuing up waiting for their grub. I have a triple container feeder that hangs outside my workshop that attracts all sorts, but on that it's the Marsh Tits that are the most brazen. If I go out of the door everything else disappears but they just give a look and carry on stuffing themselves
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Wherever I go at work I always have Robins following me, I have to chase them out of the workshop because of the mouse traps, but working in the woods I'll turn round and there will be at least one Robin either poking around or sat on a stump waiting for me to do something. Often wonder if they are following me or they are resident in that bit of wood. Talking 250/300 acre
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Not Posted for a while, but here's one of Curlews feeding on the Estuary and breeding on the Moors
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I have both the 9010 and the 79xx both on D009 mounts the 79 has the wizz the 90 has the grunt, it's a bit "horses for courses", if the 90 comes out with the 36" bar they know I mean to do some damage!
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I used to have one of those, while the Land rover would be belly down in the mud that thing would just drive over the top of it. Fantastic vehicle. Apart from the body rotting away.?
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Just to show what good they do, here's a photo of one that got a bluebottle in the back of my van. It struggled to fly with it, there can't be much difference in weight between the two of them.
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In fact Sometimes when they are posing, it doesn't quite work!!!
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You did well to get those David, they don't tend to pose for you. Pete
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Locally we have all four, Swifts, Swallows, House Martins and Sand Martins. Although at work (In the Lakes) we only have House Martins the Swallows were a no show, well I saw one but that was never going to stay. The bad weather in early May didn't help.
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Here's an update to our Sand Martins. Although there have been several collapses of the sand 'cliff' the fledglings are doing well.
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Hi AB. This is not from my font of knowledge ('cause I ain't got one). But according to those in the know. "Puffins have two specializations that allow it to hold onto so many fish: the upper palate of their beaks, and the tip of their tongues. Their upper palates contain many small spines which hold onto the fish. The end of its tongue is rough and coarse, which it uses grab onto slippery fish, and once caught, to push its prey onto the spines above." Everyday's a learning day! Pete
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Here's another one, on holiday in the Northeast and it's Puffin time.
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If anyone's feeling really bored here's a vid of a Grey Wagtail with its beak full of wasps and other bugs.
