Martyn Pitt
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I know about as much as you Steve ... but I see where you are coming from it does look like one, the juveniles can be tricky.
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Steve .... loving the shot of the bittern, ours seems happy playing hide and seek.
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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.
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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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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
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It looks like a female Siskin to me as well Dave, especially with what it is feeding on
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An outdoor pool in Nottingham ... might get a bit nippy
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Bill nice to know the images are appreciated, that is actually the corner post of a Tern raft that has been pushed in close to the shore in front of one of the hides by strong winds, one for us to tidy up and tow back out into the reservoir in the spring. One of the waxwing visiting my house was ringed, have been informed it was ringed at Westhill Aberdeenshire on the 4th December 2016.
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I have a couple of migrating Jays visiting the garden at the moment, easily spooked, love peanuts.
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Looks like a cross between a magpie and a starling
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Hi Dave, not aware of any Nutcrackers in this part of the world
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A couple of shots of Waxwing, a scarce visitor to our shores from northern Europe and Scandinavia, some years we get good numbers other years they are few and far between, this year has been quite good for them. Birdwatchers travel miles to see them ... I took these shots from my bedroom window , saved going out in the rain and sleet.
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You should get lucky Steve, they appear to be moving south ... I had 30 of them on my roof a few years back, unfortunately the tree they were feeding on does not have many berries on this year, still stick at it Steve it will be well worth it when you get them, especially if you have some decent light. I managed to get a nemesis of mine yesterday, they seem to have a sixth sense that I am trying to get an image of them, he was too occupied in stripping the seeds off this stem to worry about me.
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Russell ... London have been on the phone ... what are you doing on the 31st December this year Anyway my first effort for 2017 a Pied Wagtail
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Thought I would say farewell to 2016 with an unassuming Robin ... hope you all have a happy new year
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We had a rare visitor today, this little beauty should be mid Atlantic off the coast of Africa, it is a Grey Phalarope and was as close to tame as I have seen a wild bird at Belvide, it would happily swim within a few metres of us on the shore, at one point it was swimming under the Pike anglers rods. First one for three years, so it drew a good crowd
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Cheers Pete, our garden is one massive ant nest and Green Woodpeckers love ants and their eggs, we often get them in the garden, however they are extremely skittish and easily spooked so I have to be careful when I try to photograph them.
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A regular visitor to my garden to fill it's belly ... a Green Woodpecker
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A Grey Wagtail in the gloom of the reed bed
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That would be me he is referring to Dave, not cruel at all, but certainly funny and close to the truth Anyway also clocked this record breaker as well yesterday, it is a Common Sandpiper and it should be back in sunny Africa now, this is the latest recorded date for the species on the reservoir ... it obviously likes the cold
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A Black Headed Gull reflecting
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Been a while since I posted anything on here, anyway a couple of Pied Wagtails, an adult and a juvenile
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Knowing Steve, the pink ones with the fluffy bow
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Hi Ted, hope everything went well and that you are up and about soon All the best Martyn & Carol xxx
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Poor Jess that's an awful thing to happen, I hope she gets better soon Steve
