tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338138142024-03-05T05:10:06.541+00:00Wyvern WildlifeFrom the South Wales borders and beyondBrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-49032202655191867382020-11-01T19:02:00.001+00:002020-11-04T11:29:14.414+00:00And then I looked out of the window .......<p> I hadn't been down the track for weeks, but 3 discrete piles of feathers alongside a stretch of hedge told their own story.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXiOxxWSvVE_kQw-2WVnJgSwXt_Bq6odPILKmbtYpHMdppNr-an17ex_M7YfCyjAnVKrAPYGLIgof59-MIFik2n-ntGQlc9OoKs-YhT79vuYgpU2eKCS4FKjeXQscAm4ctRhEdzQ/s1000/20200503-Crick-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXiOxxWSvVE_kQw-2WVnJgSwXt_Bq6odPILKmbtYpHMdppNr-an17ex_M7YfCyjAnVKrAPYGLIgof59-MIFik2n-ntGQlc9OoKs-YhT79vuYgpU2eKCS4FKjeXQscAm4ctRhEdzQ/w400-h225/20200503-Crick-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYlslD2ih_SmbC8LAi2zsrLE3da8e1q_H3wcCXEajBuC6lz1dG74gAqJuZ5Ow18tqLIa9VrUMSRPJWoR8ZmZk1-8n55e1n0McS97ENqwxWfph7_9TW0hiH87u9f2KvImmljPRXQ/s1000/20200503-Crick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYlslD2ih_SmbC8LAi2zsrLE3da8e1q_H3wcCXEajBuC6lz1dG74gAqJuZ5Ow18tqLIa9VrUMSRPJWoR8ZmZk1-8n55e1n0McS97ENqwxWfph7_9TW0hiH87u9f2KvImmljPRXQ/w400-h225/20200503-Crick.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>This is a classic sparrowhawk ambush location - fly low and hard along the arrow-straight hedgeline and grab the birds that get spooked into flying the wrong way. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHt6i5Y6byR00H6X6QkHNZsiFEHFjXvgd8Ng1YulrLR0IFBigCwNimphw4_DJwhvG5y3TNytd5_D8QNa9GTLNiMGMJwAiMWu0GigaghoVSqGvyPVYZLO6jbPMejV6tAX_msGqanQ/s1000/20201022-Crick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHt6i5Y6byR00H6X6QkHNZsiFEHFjXvgd8Ng1YulrLR0IFBigCwNimphw4_DJwhvG5y3TNytd5_D8QNa9GTLNiMGMJwAiMWu0GigaghoVSqGvyPVYZLO6jbPMejV6tAX_msGqanQ/w320-h400/20201022-Crick.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>The track is little used so time to pluck and feast without disturbance. Despite the time I've spent here subsequently though I only ever saw one brief glimpse of a hawk in flight.</p><p>In the summer we could hear the begging calls of young raptors from a treeline, and I'm sure these were sparrowhawks too, but again I only ever once saw an adult powering over the fields. Second year we have heard them. Access to the trees might be possible, at least to look for evidence of a nest, so I'll add chatting to the landowners to the list for this winter, but the chance of getting good shots of the birds is probably very low.</p><p>However one day I was washing the dishes (honest) and saw this beauty sitting in the birch tree outside the window. I know from past experience trying to shoot through glass is pretty useless, and opening a window this close would be likely to spook the bird. Nipped upstairs and grabbed a camera and lens, sneaked out the back door and slowly poked the lens round the corner of the house. 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Last years woodpecker hole, on the route of one of our regular walks, shows no signs of a nuthatch using it yet, despite them having a good look last year after the woodpeckers had moved out.<br />
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When I saw the nest last year (well as usual I heard it first) I had high hopes of some good photo opportunities, but this pair were clearly spooked by my presence despite best efforts, so I rapidly decided to leave them to it.<br />
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As it turned out I did get a chance to snap another nest. Again I found it when I heard the youngsters calling. I'd been heading to see a wood warbler that had belatedly arrived in the 'usual' spot, but decided instead to spend the session with the GSW's. Fortunately this pair were much more accommodating and rapidly settled into a pattern of regular feeding visits to some well developed youngsters, and although the light levels were a bit low and the leaf cover lent a green colour cast to many of the pics I did get some ok shots. If you look at the big versions you might even see some woodpecker spit!<br />
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The tree had 3 or 4 older nest holes (you can see another in these shots), so was clearly seen as a good nest site. I only had the one session before they fledged, but I had hoped to check it again this year. However the Forest of Dean is sadly well beyond reach during lockdown. I have spotted a hole that I think is new and in use near another of our daily walks - now that might be do-able if things relax a little bit, but I have doubts that I will be re-retired in time to take good advantage.<br />
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Stay safe.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-64736797201782473272020-01-27T20:48:00.000+00:002020-01-29T12:16:57.127+00:00Forest of Dean - just a little late!It's been months since I posted here, and I have come the conclusion that I either get back into the Blog now or just drop it altogether, so let's try again. Just forgive me for the untimely posting!<br>
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2019 was a funny year. Having retired I expected to get a lot more snapping done, but life intervened and if anything I was down on opportunities. One principal target for the year was due to be the woodland migrants in the Forest of Dean - wood warbler, pied and spotted flycatcher and redstart. In the end I was probably lucky to get any pics at all. My preferred venue was very slow - none of the usual spotted flycatchers, and although I heard the odd redstart I didn't find a clear territory.<br>
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The old hawthorn didn't have any nests but another old favourite nest hole was occupied by a nuthatch family this year, just frustratingly high up.<br>
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It was satisfying a few weeks later to see a couple of the youngsters still in the vicinity, their heads more rounded than that of the adults, but otherwise the classic nuthatch poses were all there.<br>
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A couple of friends were passing through and I feared I would have nothing to show them, but in the end we stumbled across a pair of pied flycatchers establishing a territory,<br>
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and had a visit from a handsome male redstart snapped handheld through a hide window.<br>
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In the field I was pleased to see bluebells around when we were snapping the pied flycatchers, but whilst I like the flower stems with enough shape to show as bluebells I'm not sure if the blue blobs in the background detract rather than add value.<br>
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I did find one other male pied flycatcher trying to attract a female to a nest hole, but it was right at a busy public car park, and in the end I didn't get to revisit.<br>
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As for the wood warblers, again my 'traditional' sites seemed to be vacant, but more of that next time …...Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-83598984693393284162019-06-04T00:38:00.000+01:002019-06-04T00:38:16.570+01:00A Hammer Made of Feathers"Och, It's easy up here. If you see a chiffchaff it's a willow warbler." It's funny how things stick in your memory. I was in my teens, we were on a guided walk at Insh Marshes reserve in the Highlands and the RSPB warden was explaining to another visitor that he had never seen a chiffchaff in the Highlands, so there was no need to worry about telling them from willow warblers. Even though we do hear them in South Wales, to this day the sound of a willow warbler triggers memories of our annual trip to Aviemore.<br />
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So that's why a trip up to see Kay's parents got me thinking about Scotland. I've written before about the wildlife that has inhabited the old coalmine tip site, I always grab the chance to go up there with the camera' and this year the first song I heard was the falling ripple of a willow warbler.<br />
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But much as I was pleased to hear it, my real target took a little more finding. J<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ust as indelibly t</span>he song associated in my mind with this old coal tip in Yorkshire is that of the <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">yellowhammer. That </span></span>first afternoon all I heard were contact calls of birds flitting between the bushes. Getting up early on a misty morning the next day though the bread and cheese song reassured me the yellowhammers were still around and soon I found some singing and feeding. I would have loved a better sky though.<br />
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They weren't quite so consistent in the song perches they used as I recalled so I spent a fair bit of time standing around pointing my lens at birdless branches, being barked at by various dogs (dogs don't like tripods do they?), assuring passers-by that the canary on my camera screen was a resident British bird and not a freshly arrived migrant from Africa and being repeatedly stared at by a whitethroat who obviously did have a programmed song perch route I was standing too near.<br />
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In summer I live a 10 minute walk away from a field.<br />
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And twice a year as one shifts into the other I live a 10 minute walk away from a marsh. <br />
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The marsh time is my favourite, and the horses, which always have the choice of dry land, often favour the marsh as well.<br />
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I've taken some snaps of the wildlife of the lake/field/marsh over the years, perhaps most surprisingly the kingfishers which appeared for a week or two in two of those years, but it was only recently I thought about making more of a project out of it, now I have more time. So here is instalment 1, spring marsh.<br />
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As you look out over the grass small <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(mostly) </span>mounds stand out. At first they are bare, a result of my appearance, but wait a minute and the occupants sneak back. <br />
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It's nice to see coots at peace for a change, but as always they can manufacture a squabble anywhere.<br />
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Interestingly when a horse walks up - much nearer than I ever am - the birds remain glued to their nests.<br />
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Other occupants of the marsh also ignore the horses.<br />
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The egrets are a bit skittish, but come in if you are still and quiet, breeding colours evident on some.<br />
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<br />Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-89768093539252871082019-04-25T22:14:00.000+01:002019-04-25T22:14:48.343+01:00Top dogsNo wolves on this trip, but again some great times with canids,<br />
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The best of the encounters were with coyotes, but we had one day when foxes seemed to be all around - maybe not as close as this one in 2018 ………<br />
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One even crept into my long lens flora shot. (What do you mean mis-focus).<br />
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The coyotes though supplied the closest and longest encounters - some of them are just so accommodating. <br />
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One was exploring a small island near the road, but I felt didn't make the most of the chance. I hadn't realised how close it was when I got out of the Bombardier and in hindsight I wish I'd grabbed the 100-400 to allow a bit more space. Still you can feel the apprehension before it walked the log.<br />
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My favourite was the one we watched hunting in a meadow. Being in one of the more thermal areas there were patches of vegetation peeking through the snow which added a bit of colour, and I just loved the way it systematically worked the area, listening, sniffing, poking it's nose into gaps and even catching a few rodents.<br />
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Then to top it all it came and had a closer look at us. Just brilliant.<br />
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If you want to get a feel for what the Yellowstone experience is like check out this video by Steve Mattheis - https://youtu.be/56t6TKzqm_k He is based one of the Parks making up the Greater Yellowstone area.<br />
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If you like this one look also at his bison in the snowstorm video - again may help you understand why this place has really captured me. https://youtu.be/0vM7MHqQh50<br />
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<br />Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-15034575046529434982019-04-07T11:32:00.000+01:002019-04-07T11:32:57.512+01:00Red kites, Black Mountains and a Mandarin streamI've been starting to explore some new sites for photography, including a red kite feeding centre in the Black Mountains. In the past I've been to Gigrin Farm which offers excellent opportunities to watch and snap the kites, but I'd seen a couple of photos from Llanddeusant and was quite keen to try and get some more environmental shots which I never felt Gigrin really offered. The day was a bit bright and contrasty which wasn't ideal, and with wildlife you can't just put the subject where you want it but in the end I made a start on achieving what I was looking for.<br />
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Red kites are beautiful birds, but in flight the best view in my opinion is of the 'back' which obviously isn't ideal when you are looking up at them! At Gigrin the raised hides can help, but even there the opportunity comes as they bank to change direction or dive down for food. The classic shot is at the 'decisive moment' at which the birds starts to dive, but that is tricky to catch and I haven't really got a picture I'm happy with yet even from Gigrin.<br />
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Here are a few <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">standard </span>flight shots from Llanddeusant, which probably reinforce my comments about the best 'side' for kites.<br />
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In terms of the environmental shot I can see the potential and will go back to try again. I liked the view with the mountain dipping down but it was frustrating trying to get a kite banking at just the right distance and position. I'm sure it's just a matter of time, and I did find an angle with an even better background to try next time.<br />
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A couple of trips to try and snap dippers in the Forest of Dean proved unsuccessful, once because I managed to drown my camera (RIP) and then because the birds wouldn't land on the chosen rock - I know they use it from the amount of droppings so I will try again but need a cloudy day for the background. I did get to snap an FOD special, although not a native species. Get out your sunglasses!<br />
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All these pics look better at larger size, so click on a picture get a better view.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-39687950598716760692019-04-01T00:13:00.000+01:002019-04-01T00:13:58.491+01:00Urgings by RavensThe raven has to be in my top 5 birds. I remember 20 years ago how amazed I was to find that they regularly flew over our new house in South Wales; the day at Gigrin Farm when I first realised just how massive they are as one hopped past a smaller buzzard; the amazing range of calls we heard sitting overnight in a Finnish swamp waiting for bears - <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">33 vocalisations according to one set of researchers - </span>bell-like or knocks so far removed from the standard in-flight 'cronk'; my sheer frustration at how the one visiting one of our feeding sites always knew that my camera and I were there despite all my subterfuge and patience - crows and jays down and relaxed for ages, the raven flying in but just sitting in the tree watching.<br />
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On my first trip to Yellowstone I was sad not to get a good view or shot of one. On the trip this year they were queueing up to be snapped, and Cooke City 'Steve' sat on a car outside the diner and just shouted in my face as I tried to get back <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">far </span>and low enough to focus.<br />
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Back home a trip to another red kite feeding station at the weekend didn't lead to any pictures of note, but again those lovely resonant bell calls.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Merriweather","Georgia",serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril.” James D. Doss</i></span><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-33141581974498046532019-03-16T16:23:00.000+00:002019-03-16T16:23:01.998+00:00Yellowstone 2019 - Part 2More whitewalkers …..<br />
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On my first trip to Yellowstone last year one of the disappointments was the lack of really cold weather. We had bison in snow, but not in the hoar frost. 3 days into this years trip we headed down the Lamar Valley at dawn, and the <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">dashboard </span>temperature reading just kept falling. By the time we stopped to snap this inversion we had hit -32 Celsius.<br />
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Further down the road we found the old bull again, and I pointed a lens at my first 'proper' heavily frosted bison. He was lying down at first. a warm brown eye contrasting with the white crusted face (the version here is too small to see - trying clicking the image for a larger view).<br />
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He got to his feet allowing a range of shots although in hindsight I didn't really get the best angle, not low enough - sloping land, deep snow and the need to keep out of other snappers sight lines were part of the explanation, but I think I missed a trick. Not sure if I prefer the colour version or the black and white view. Again the detail is best seen on larger views.<br />
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We never otherwise quite reached the dizzying depths of that morning, but there were a couple of other chances to get shots of frosted bison in the Lamar Valley. These were all single animals, and the biggest frustration tended to be the habit of a feeding bison to keep it's nose pretty firmly nailed to the floor - not unlike badgers; you just have to wait until you can grab a snatched shot.<br />
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When we were in the interior the temperatures had picked up a bit again, but we did get one session with some bison in a thermal area, the mist condensing and freezing providing that sugar coating again. The downside was the relative lack of snow on the warm ground ……..<br />
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but by lying down (and a small amount of cloning) I got what I actually think is my favourite frosty bison shot to date. Most of the time I like the views that emphasise the power of these animals, but this view is a much more peaceful perspective with a bit more of a story.<br />
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<br />Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-70352333281342373472019-03-14T21:11:00.000+00:002019-03-16T14:42:07.062+00:00YELLOWSTONE 2019 part 1<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The snow fell harder and <span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the old bison looked worn out. His huge head contrasted with a body that had lost the bulk it must have once had; still an impressive beast, but past his prime.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The snow squall intensified, blurring the scene, but I could see that even the occasional movements of his head had stopped altogether ………….</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Fearing the worst I asked Stan Tekiela*, one of our guides on the trip, if the bull was dying or maybe even gone.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Smiling he replied "No. he's been doing that all week". </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0Yellowstone National Park, United States44.427963 -110.5884550000000118.905928499999998 -151.897049 69.9499975 -69.279861000000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-54694267793037984892019-01-07T21:04:00.002+00:002019-01-07T21:04:36.633+00:00Yellowstone - glancing back, looking forwardI'm not great at picking pictures to post, tending to post too many rather than choosing a few good ones. Maybe difficulty sorting the chaff from the chaff?!<br />
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Anyway I quite liked the concept of the little video I made for the last blog so I decided to have another go using the pics and some video from last years Yellowstone trip - a bit of nostalgia and increasing my anticipation of another trip back in a few weeks. I eventually found that the best way to present the video was to load it to Vimeo first, allowing decent quality playback.<br />
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<script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script><br /><a href="https://vimeo.com/309962555">Yellowstone 2018</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user56160995">Brian Williams</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<br />Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-90555696413376832732019-01-05T14:26:00.000+00:002019-01-06T14:12:27.250+00:00Naples 2018A consistently favourite part of our annual trip to Florida is being on the beach as the sun comes up, fishing rod and camera in hand. Fish a bit, snap through the golden hour then fish again. <br />
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This year Kay came down with me on the first day and we went to have a look at the osprey nest.in one of the beachside trees. Last year thy were in the process of rebuilding the nest after the hurricane, and on processing the pics I was taken aback at how much taller it was now - as you can see from the changed height of the main tree limb below - the osprey,s feet in 2018 are higher than it's head was in 2017.<br />
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I still haven't got the picture I want of the black skimmers, but I feel I am gradually creeping nearer the shot I have visualised. If only I could control the wind direction!<br />
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Rather than a long blog of multiple photos from the trip I have put them together into a short (45 seconds) video - I have been playing with the quick video tool in Msoft photo. If they look soft it's Blogger or YouTube!<br />
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<script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script><br /><a href="https://vimeo.com/309727518">Naples 18</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user56160995">Brian Williams</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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As usual the first few birds are a little wary resulting in the ground level equivalent of bird on a stick shots,<br />
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If we do get snow this year I'm going to try scattering some apples in our community field where the extra space means it should be possible to get a bit more background blur.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-66033130953551756722018-10-21T17:16:00.000+01:002018-10-22T20:39:21.028+01:00Hope on the Horizon?If you have followed this blog for a while you will know that we tend to have a trip to Florida each winter. This year it has been in doubt but maybe just maybe we might make it again .....<br />
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Anyway given my usual backlog of doing something with my pictures it's time to catch up with 2017's trip to Naples. We arrived a few weeks after Hurricane Irma to find most of the city OK but the hotel lake had some of the surrounding trees in it,<br />
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the pier was mostly closed and there was no direct access to our favourite beach. Some harder to access beaches had more birds than people.<br />
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Still they say it's an ill wind that blows no good, and seeking another way to reach the beach I stumbled across a beachside osprey nest which the pair were doing their best to restore, with some BIG twigs as well as lashings of seaweed.<br />
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With the pier out of the equation dawn each day found me looking for birds in the blue and golden hour, then having an hour or 2 fishing from the beach before breakfast. <br />
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Doesn't get much better.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-63840112402973254942018-08-31T21:40:00.000+01:002018-08-31T21:40:05.796+01:00Goldilocks photographySo why would anyone take 3 (or more) photographs of their alarm clock 15 minutes before midnight? <br />
One too dark, one too bright and one 'just right'.<br />
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At one level the answer is Paul Hobson and his excellent book Wildlife Photography Field Skills and Techniques. At another the answer is this …….<br />
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Have you got it? The phone picture is a glow worm larva, which I saw crossing one of the local roads back in May. Scroll forward to July and on our usual late evening (post sunset) dog walk on a different track we saw a glow worm, and then a couple of nights later 4 glow worms, frustratingly all tucked well into clumps of grass, and not snappable without more environmental tinkering than I could justify for the sake of a picture.<br />
Then I remembered the glow worm larva and nipped down to that site, to find another 4 shining away, 2 of which were in more open but less photogenic spots. It was late and I had work the next day, but I headed home to grab the camera. But how to snap them? That's where Paul's book came in as I remembered a section on glow worms in that. Bit of a practise on the alarm clock and down to the worms, where I again ended up doing the Goldilocks too dark, too bright and just right exposures. <br />
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Over the next week I tried a few more times - still not great backgrounds and once the glow just wasn't working so well. It was only later I realised that was because the females both had males attached! These are long exposures (4-8 seconds) so a bit of blur on the male. Over exposed to show the males.<br />
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Finally back on the original track I got a chance to try snaps with some more exposed worms on 'better' backgrounds. The first shows how they hold their tails to shine the light skywards<br />
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and this last has had more post processing done, but gives an idea of just what the beetles look like.<br />
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All too soon the season was over, but next year I will have retired so no concern about work. Mind you I wouldn't want to spend too long on any one individual - after all they are trying to mate.<br />
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And what's the recommended technique …………………. I suggest you buy Paul's book! Available on Amazon or direct from Paul <a href="http://www.paulhobson.co.uk/pages/wildlife-photography-book.php" target="_blank">here</a>.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-27273306876403197932018-07-10T21:11:00.000+01:002018-07-10T21:11:22.472+01:00Yellowstone 4 - the cool onesIt's a bit cooler today, but I feel in need of a bit of visual chilling, so time for another Yellowstone post. In terms of the photo opportunities there's no doubt the stars of the trip were the coyotes, which were seen everywhere, usually in pairs, although it was the Lamar Valley area that provided the best experiences with some very confiding animals. The 100-400 lens gave some extra freedom to go in tight or come out. Even so it was hard to believe at times just how tolerant they could be as you slowly inched nearer.<br />
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I never imagined being able to take a full frame shot like this,<br />
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although for some reason this view really appeals. Maybe it's because it is just completely ignoring the row of photographers pointing glass at it.<br />
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<br />Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-23329429177260599962018-06-09T13:13:00.003+01:002018-06-09T13:13:56.737+01:00Yellowstone 3 - Head SticksI was going to have a title about horns, but a quick bit of education has enables me to understand the animals featured this time mostly don't. Have horns that is.<br />
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Still let's start with one that does. In my pre-reading for the trip I saw pics of bighorn sheep, and they didn't really grab me. I mean at the end of the day they are sheep, and just because I live in Wales I'm not welsh so there is no cultural attachment.<br />
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However when we found some bighorn rams I was quite impressed, and ended up taking more shots than I would ever have expected. I think the excitement of having to scale a cliff face and balance precariously to get the shots added to the fun.<br />
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Well OK I exaggerated a little.<br />
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We only saw a couple of distant females - little big horns maybe?<br />
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On the last evening we went searching for pronghorn, the worlds second fastest land animal, but didn't find any. We did see a few more bighorn sheep though in the blue light<br />
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and also a small group of mule deer. My wariness of bumping up the ISO on my 7DII meant I messed up most of those shots though.<br />
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Now mule deer and elk (wapiti) have antlers, not horns. I was beginning to think I wasn't going to get an elk shot of any note - a few uninspiring snaps of cows and a bull down in a river, <br />
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but again on the last evening we got the chance to snap a bull against the hills. These are red deer on steroids, with bulls weighing up to 330kg. They were long thought a sub-species of red deer, but in fact they are a separate species.<br />
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In Europe when we talk about elk we don't mean wapiti, we mean moose, and we had a few views of these impressive beasts as well.<br />
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Other than the tame elk camping on a hotel lawn the first wildlife we had a chance to snap were a Yellowstone specialty - it's said it's the only place in the United states where bison have lived continuously from prehistoric times (which is a bit shocking really). Our first look was a herd moving down a valley and we hoped they might keep coming to the cameras, but they had obviously seen us and held back.</div>
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One of the iconic shots to aim for is the 'herd walking through snow straight at you', and that's what we had hoped for. We had one other chance but short of lying on top of a well known wildlife photographer and guide I wasn't going to get the low angle needed! The other classic bison shot is a 'hoar frost' shot, but sadly we never got the temperature low enough for that. We did have low enough temperatures for the ice supply at the petrol station to provoke a smile <u>though</u>, </div>
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and we did have a pretty covering of snow</div>
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so it was the snow we relied on to add some drama, and one day we had enough falling for me to realise I had no experience of trying to work effectively in a snow shower. I got some good snaps of flakes, but I did manage some pictures of the bison as well.</div>
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and when a few go through they leave obvious signs they were there - here a fox stops for a look at a bison trail.</div>
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Although they have a bulky appearance - a male can weigh 2000lbs - I was taken by their skinny ankles.</div>
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In fact they are surprisingly nimble - when I saw this one about to climb out the stream I expected it to haul it's way up, but in fact it just trotted up with what seemed minimal effort </div>
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Like our red deer, the magpies used them as a feeding station.</div>
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From there a drive up to Gardiner and our hotel for the next few nights. Pulling into Gardiner we were welcomed by a couple of elk snappable with my pocket camera<br />
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although the hotel lawn they occupied didn't exactly look authentically wild.<br />
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The river behind our own hotel looked interesting <br />
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Each day we were up and off early, getting into the Park proper for first light, heading for the Lamar Valley, one of the iconic Yellowstone wildlife watching sites. This being a wildlife photography trip there didn't prove to be much opportunity for proper landscape shots but I did take some snaps which I will slot into this series of blogs to give a flavour of the place. <br />
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Unlike the UK traffic wasn't held up too much by the snow, <br />
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I took a lot of pictures! My plan with the blog is mostly to go through species by species, but there will be other subjects for a couple of the posts. To finish this first a few pics to hint at what will follow.<br />
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<br />Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-73688371659990876462018-01-22T21:34:00.000+00:002018-01-22T21:34:41.034+00:00Urban peregrines 4 - reaching for the heavensWhatever your views on religion you can't deny that some of the best buildings in our cities are places of worship. After snapping the peregrines in town I spent a few more early weekend mornings a bit further out of the centre gazing up at the architecture of a church. <br />
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I had high hopes, some nice ornamentation (ok I'm no architectural photographer)<br />
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and although the stone changed colour quite dramatically depending on the light<br />
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It was frustrating though that the target of my visits avoided the gargoyles and more ornate carvings, choosing the very top of the spire. It felt more like an astrophotography set up, <br />
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but I had a few visits and one or two were in the light. Given the distance to the birds I suppose they aren't too bad, but they came in fast and I never caught a landing shot. No feeding here either.<br />
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The last was another play with silver efex pro - with a featureless grey sky it made sense to try black and white. Looks a bit better in a bigger size.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-82066650608971467952018-01-15T23:05:00.000+00:002018-01-15T23:05:17.701+00:00Urban peregrines 3In all I made about half a dozen trips to see these peregrines, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. By 9 a.m. the light was bright and contrasty so the time frame for snapping was limited to the first couple of hours after dawn, and of course there is no means to put the birds where you want them. Bird seed of no help here.<br />
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Ideally it would show a bit of behaviour - post-preen shake; flying with prey; landing with prey, already into a mantling posture; wiping the beak clean, a regular event after a feed; setting off on a hunt .......<br />
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This was maybe my favourite of the bird on a stick shots, even if it does resemble a raptor on a toilet cistern. I just like the urban decay element and the dappled light. Looks better in a bigger size.<br />
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For flight shots I really wanted to show the urban environment, but the birds rarely came low so chances were few and I didn't really like any of the ones I got with buildings in the background. The best were this couple with the cranes, although both needed cropping to cut out intrusive elements.<br />
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So, good fun, but no prize-winners. However that wasn't the end of my urban peregrine 'project' for the summer, even if there still weren't any prize-winners to come!Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-26387123725470534072018-01-10T21:45:00.000+00:002018-01-27T23:47:56.911+00:00Urban peregrines 2 - feed me!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Like any other raptor a well fed peregrine is happy to take it easy. Why waste energy if you don't have to? This means most of the year photography opportunities can be limited. However when there are youngsters around the extra mouths to feed creates the chances to snap a bit more action.</div>
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I really hoped to get a chance to snap a food pass from adult to juvenile, but I saw only two. One I picked up too late to get a focus, the other too far away really, but you get the idea from these highly cropped images</div>
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Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-89793756709601296562017-12-22T00:52:00.001+00:002017-12-24T22:52:25.459+00:00Urban Peregrines 1It's not often I get out of the office but one day last summer I was wandering back there from a meeting when I saw a sign for a building development. The name I recognised from the Avon Birding website, so I went for a look. The street ran down to a bridge over the river and from there looking back at the old brick building I was blown away by what I saw. It's what I expected to see, but I hadn't really believed I would.<br />
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That sighting led to a series of weekend early morning trips to try and capture some usable shots of my first urban peregrines. That first day there was an adult on the drainpipe and a juvenile running along the ledge at the top of the building. 3 days later when I returned with a camera there wasn't a bird in sight - I had timed my 'discovery' perfectly with the date of fledging!<br />
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I was standing there on the bridge scanning the building when it began to snow - feathers. <br />
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Looking up at the crane arm more or less directly overhead I realised there was a peregrine plucking a meal. Amazing.<br />
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Those first trips the youngsters mainly stuck to the cranes, perhaps easier to land on, and the adults brought in feeds. Once there was food around it wasn't hard to find the birds - juvenile peregrines must be amongst the most noisy youngsters with that piercing call.<br />
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Week on week I saw the birds become more confident and mobile, meaning that adults and youngsters might be found on the cranes or on the building - sometimes almost overlooked amongst the pigeons.<br />
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The building was the old generator building for the Bristol trams, and it has been used by the birds for a few years now. However the whole area is being renewed and the building is included in the plans for the new development so I do wonder if the birds will stay around - hope so but doubt it - certainly no bushes to hide the food cache behind.</div>
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Leaving Skomer (yes, this post is that far behind) the weather looked set fair for a couple of days so I decided to stay at the campsite at Marloes and have two more days in Pembrokeshire. <br />
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The original thinking had been to day trip back to Skomer (so close to the mainland that with a big lens you could clearly see the farmhouse we had stayed in the last 2 nights), <br />
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but it had been apparent the puffins were very much evening targets. Instead I decided to spend the time looking for a range of coastal birds at the Marloes Deer Park, named for a failed attempt to establish one. What it did have was a plentiful supply of gorse and the sort of rabbit nibbled turf that the reputed choughs would be seeking.<br />
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So there followed 2 days of walking, watching, walking and snapping ..... and walking.<br />
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Not having many shots of linnet, stonechat and wheatear it was good to see they were around, and I was pleased but surprised to hear there was a flock of up to 17 chough - thought to be youngsters not yet paired up. I hadn't expected to see so many whitethroat, but their more territorial nature helped plan shots more easily.<br />
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The odd chough could be heard but then a flock of 15 did appear. This was great in terms of potential, but they were a bit wary and their gregarious nature meant it was actually quite hard to isolate one or two to get a picture. In the end I could have done better, but was still fairly happy with a few of the pics.<br />
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If you watch Springwatch the door with a hole cut in it may jog a memory? <br />
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A small building on the path down to the boats is home to nesting swallows (I hope the person who sent in the shot of the nest doesn't mind this snap from my tv being used here but I'm afraid I didn't note her name). Anyway the nestbuilding swallows were collecting their mud from the bank of a small stream. I got a few shots - and some pretty wet clothes. <br />
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So it had been a good end to the trip. At sunrise on the final day, and awkwardly into the sun, I had a pretty close and best ever view of a bird that unbeknownst to me would consume the bulk of my snapping the through the rest of the summer.<br />
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<br />Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03505265318764819564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813814.post-16564159420379264332017-08-16T22:10:00.000+01:002017-08-16T22:10:13.742+01:00Skomer II - the other sideYes Skomer is mostly about the puffins, but when you have time to explore there is much more to see.<br />
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At the time we visited the bluebells were in full swing, punctuated by campion of the pink kind - not the small white ones seen with the puffins. So pretty even I focused the camera a couple of times in a bid to remind myself that flower snapping isn't my thing.<br />
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The other key birds for me were the owls - the glorious piercing-eyed short-eared and the 'can you see me pretending to be a rock' little ones. <br />
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In the warm light of early morning the island was lovely - puffins and seals down at the beach, oystercatchers, raven and the SEO.<br />
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On our last morning for a brief minute I thought I'd get an SEO over the bluebell field, but packing up time pulled me away and this was my nearest effort. The main bluebells are just over the ridge.<br />
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As you wandered around the paths you kept stumbling across 'angel wings' - actually much more grisly than the name suggests these are what are left when the shearwaters which flood onto the island at night get caught outside their burrows. Look below the gull nest and you can see who some of the culprits are.<br />
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Plenty else to see - more frustrating chough, stonechat, rock and meadow pipit, bunnies - and Kim's favourite, the wren.<br />
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- but at the end of the day Skomer is about the puffins, and I just hope before too long I'll stay there again for another go.<br />
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