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OK I'm rubbish at photography, I don't even have any proper equipment but wanted to share these because I don't usually get this close to Buzzards, taken on mobile phone, no bait, no zoom lens, rubbish quality therefore, more of interest with it letting me get so close.

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Guest BabyBoyAndMyLass
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Reptiles are pretty alert too, one from my YT channel, not a photo but a video so apologies, again rubbish gear, good fieldcraft.

That's all from me but great work from the regulars here, a must read thread for me this! Best wishes all!

 

Posted
1 hour ago, BabyBoyAndMyLass said:

OK I'm rubbish at photography, I don't even have any proper equipment but wanted to share these because I don't usually get this close to Buzzards, taken on mobile phone, no bait, no zoom lens, rubbish quality therefore, more of interest with it letting me get so close.

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Looks more like a honey buzzard than your everyday, common buzzard – unless it's one of the pale-plummaged variety. What do others think?

Posted
1 hour ago, Russell Gilbert said:

Looks more like a honey buzzard than your everyday, common buzzard – unless it's one of the pale-plummaged variety. What do others think?

You could be right Russell, it looks too grey to be Buteo buteo.

Posted
9 hours ago, TattooDave said:

Is it beyond everyone's capabilities to photoshop a cape and mask on this dog, and have him flying through the air, as I'd really like to see it:yes:

Nooooo! If anybody does can I sue em for copyright??

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The current cold spell here in the Netherlands has hung around long enough for the ice to set to a sufficient thickness so that the Dutch can take up their favourite winter activity - ice skating. These pics were taken in the Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam woods) a handful of years ago, but I know from friends here that the Bosbaan - the 2,200 metre x 180 metre international rowing lake (top pic) – was being skated on today.

The 2nd pic shows a youngster skating against the imposing backdrop of St Urbanuskerk (St Urbanus church), which can be found at the other end of the Amsterdam woods.

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Posted
4 hours ago, Russell Gilbert said:

Looks more like a honey buzzard than your everyday, common buzzard – unless it's one of the pale-plummaged variety. What do others think?

It looks like a  ( Pale Variant ) common Buzzard to me. Honey Buzzards are rare summer visitors to the UK between April / October.

Steve

Posted
2 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

It looks like a  ( Pale Variant ) common Buzzard to me. Honey Buzzards are rare summer visitors to the UK between April / October.

Steve

Difficult to say for sure. Even this thread has numerous pics and comments about people chasing rare and unexpected species. More pics would help, of course...

Posted
9 hours ago, Russell Gilbert said:

Difficult to say for sure. Even this thread has numerous pics and comments about people chasing rare and unexpected species. More pics would help, of course...

I must say the picture looks too grey in the head and shoulders to convince me, I have never flown a honey buzzard to the fist or been that close to one, but as a youngster I had a buzzard that I used to fly and there was no grey in his colouring at all.  Cornwall and the Scilly's are renowned for having birds that get blown off course, so it could be an unexpected species as both you and I think.

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Common Buzzards are a wide variety of colours and shades in the UK, it can be difficult to ID a rare one

Had a Water Rail on show right in front of the hide, even swimming around, which was nice :thumbsup:

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Posted
54 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

Quite a few possibilities, one of the larger corvids maybe, like a raven or chough. It's beak looks too straight to be a raptor.

With you on that Dave. Looks like a Raven But hard to scale given the landscape.

Steve

Posted
1 hour ago, martyn pitt said:

Common Buzzards are a wide variety of colours and shades in the UK, it can be difficult to ID a rare one

Had a Water Rail on show right in front of the hide, even swimming around, which was nice :thumbsup:

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Martyn. Fabulous pictures as always mate.

Question for you. Could you please send some midlands sunshine up to Manchester and the North West.

Steve

Posted
25 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Question for you. Could you please send some midlands sunshine up to Manchester and the North West.

Steve

It was grey and wet this morning Steve, the Water Rail was doing a song and dance in front of the hide, but the light was pants. I got lucky around mid day with a break in the weather for a short spell, and I managed to get these shots, but it soon resorted to grey and pants.

I had been in the hide for around an hour, I was beginning to think that the little devil would not show it's face again, when out it came for a swim

I am also thinking that is a corvid in that shot, but unsure as to which.

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Having spent Christmas in Australia I thought I would be posting a photo of something in brilliant sunshine. I even took my SLR with me, but the photo I was the most pleased with was taken on my mobile.

It was taken in Melbourne under a bridge, where we had to take shelter from a thunderstorm.

 

Kev

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Posted
23 hours ago, Steve S 60 said:

Can any of you twitchers identify the bird in this shot?  It was taken by my lad near Skiddaw about four years ago.

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easy its a lb jay

better know as a little black jobbie 

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Again, some great photo's on here :thumbsup:

Just had a great 5 days in the ski capitol, Meribel, France. Not skiing, just visiting our lad who is working out there. Blue skies and sunshine for 5 days and fantastic scenery. Up and down a lot of the ski lifts just lazing about taking it all in, awesome stuff :-)

First picture looking down on an inversion over the village of Les Allues with Mont Blanc over to the right

Second picture on one of the many ski lifts dotted about the area

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On 1/28/2017 at 16:20, martyn pitt said:

Common Buzzards are a wide variety of colours and shades in the UK, it can be difficult to ID a rare one

Had a Water Rail on show right in front of the hide, even swimming around, which was nice :thumbsup:

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Great shot martin of a timid bird.Hardly see one these days.

Posted
2 hours ago, NCFC said:

Great shot martin of a timid bird.Hardly see one these days.

Cheers Chris, we have a good number of them at Belvide, as you say a timid bird that you usually only catch a fleeting glimpse of as it dashes from one piece of cover to another.

Posted
14 hours ago, NCFC said:

Great shot martin of a timid bird.Hardly see one these days.

Chris. You need to get over to Pennington flash. I've seen up to three together at once. Don't think I've visited without seeing them.

Had one run across the board walk in front of me last week at Leighton Moss. 

Steve

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I was lucky enough to see one of Britain's rarest and shyest birds yesterday and even more so to get the picture of this Bittern . Taken at dusk

Steve

Forgot I had his other picture

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Posted
22 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

Stunning Steve, your investment in your new lens is paying dividends.

Thanks Dave.

I,m can understand  why they cost so much money. The distance and the low light that you can take a still acceptable photograph from is unbelievable

Steve

Posted
11 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Thanks Dave.

I,m can understand  why they cost so much money. The distance and the low light that you can take a still acceptable photograph from is unbelievable

Steve

What are using out of interest Steve?

 

Kev

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1 hour ago, stateside said:

What are using out of interest Steve?

 

Kev

Kev

I'm using a Canon 500mm L IS USM mk2 on a 7Dmk2 body . I decided after thinking long and hard to spend some of the kids inheritance money

Steve

Posted
1 hour ago, martyn pitt said:

Steve .... loving the shot of the bittern, ours seems happy playing hide and seek. 😀

Thanks Martyn :thumbup:

For the people on here who don't know about Bitterns and there habitat here's a couple of pictures to illustrate the playing hide and seek that Martyn is talking about the first picture shows how well camouflaged they are against the reed beds which was taken with a 1000 mm lens . The second one is heavily cropped so as you can see the bird blending in to the reeds

Steve

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Posted
1 hour ago, Winsford Soul said:

Kev

I'm using a Canon 500mm L IS USM mk2 on a 7Dmk2 body . I decided after thinking long and hard to spend some of the kids inheritance money

Steve

Steve,

I keep thinking about something like that, I'm using a Nikon D7100 with a135 F2 AF DC prime lens and and an 18-200 F3.5 zoom, but I'm mainly taking landscapes and my daughters horse riding. It's not a full frame sensor so it's 1.5 times the focal length.

 

Kev

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Was having a search of the loft yesterday morning when I heard the postman delivering our Mail. When I came down our dog had disappeared from his usual spot on the rug in the lounge, and in his place was this......

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Ok. it doesn't really Take Sherlock Holmes to work out the culprit  but just in case there was any doubt, this is what came running in when I shouted him :lol:

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Posted
9 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

I was lucky enough to see one of Britain's rarest and shyest birds yesterday and even more so to get the picture of this Bittern . Taken at dusk

Steve

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Love it! :-)

 

Posted
4 hours ago, stateside said:

Steve,

I keep thinking about something like that, I'm using a Nikon D7100 with a135 F2 AF DC prime lens and and an 18-200 F3.5 zoom, but I'm mainly taking landscapes and my daughters horse riding. It's not a full frame sensor so it's 1.5 times the focal length.

 

Kev

Kev.

Honestly. If your mainly taking landscape and horse portraits it may not be worth the huge investment but if you want to get into wildlife pictures its well worth the money. You wont lose on these top lenses they hold the prices remarkably well even 2nd hand like mine as Martyn told me.

I couldn't justify £5500 on a full frame body with the frame rate ( 14 per second ) I need for bird photography that's why I choose the 7D mk2  ( 10 per second )

Like yours its a crop sensor of 1.6 so in effect my 500mm becomes 800mm when you add on the X 2 convertor ( if needed ) I'm shooting at virtually telescope lengths

Steve

Posted
1 hour ago, Winsford Soul said:

Kev.

Honestly. If your mainly taking landscape and horse portraits it may not be worth the huge investment but if you want to get into wildlife pictures its well worth the money. You wont lose on these top lenses they hold the prices remarkably well even 2nd hand like mine as Martyn told me.

I couldn't justify £5500 on a full frame body with the frame rate ( 14 per second ) I need for bird photography that's why I choose the 7D mk2  ( 10 per second )

Like yours its a crop sensor of 1.6 so in effect my 500mm becomes 800mm when you add on the X 2 convertor ( if needed ) I'm shooting at virtually telescope lengths

Steve

Blimey, i held me breath forking out £250 for me Lumix TZ70!! I did get a bit knocked off for a price match though :yes:

Great bird photo's :thumbsup:

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Went to Brugge last weekend for a bit of a touristy trip and a visit to a popcorn/soul event. No matter the weather (it was cold when we were there - you can just make out ice on the water), I think it's just about impossible to take a bad photo of the town. I took this panorama with my iPhone.

 

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Posted
12 minutes ago, Russell Gilbert said:

Went to Brugge last weekend for a bit of a touristy trip and a visit to a popcorn/soul event. No matter the weather (it was cold when we were there - you can just make out ice on the water), I think it's just about impossible to take a bad photo of the town. I took this panorama with my iPhone.

 

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Beautiful city, was there a few years ago when it snowed.

I took this and the rather disturbing second image whilst there.

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Posted
8 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

Beautiful city, was there a few years ago when it snowed.

I took this and the rather disturbing second image whilst there.

Lovely pic. I see what you mean about the second image, although if your partner is also your soul mate, then go for it. :D

A wonderfully picturesque place is Brugge, that's for sure. We first visited about three years back and had a great time then as well. Nice to visit again and take in a soul/popcorn event at the same time. 

Posted
50 minutes ago, Russell Gilbert said:

Lovely pic. I see what you mean about the second image, although if your partner is also your soul mate, then go for it. :D

A wonderfully picturesque place is Brugge, that's for sure. We first visited about three years back and had a great time then as well. Nice to visit again and take in a soul/popcorn event at the same time. 

There's a small café near one of the perimeter windmills that is run by a couple of Belgian soulies, lots of memorabilia and scooter stuff in the café, and the food wasn't bad either.  I first visited Bruges when a teenager, looking for Tintin stuff and Belgian beer after forging the paymaster's signature on a border pass from Germany, I used to sell them for 10 marks each, made a small fortune:thumbup:

Posted
1 minute ago, TattooDave said:

There's a small café near one of the perimeter windmills that is run by a couple of Belgian soulies, lots of memorabilia and scooter stuff in the café, and the food wasn't bad either. 

Pro Deo - run by Kristof Vermeulen and his wife. The soul/popcorn event was just a couple of doors down from their restaurant and Kristof was one of the organisers. :thumbsup:

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