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Mars attacks

Fulmars that is... (digiscope)

Smell City part 3b: More Flight

Razorbill


Gannets

Kittiwake

DSLR. Click them NOW!!!

Smell City part 3a: Flight

Gannets

Fulmar

Gannet over colony

Kittiwake

Queuing for landing

All DSLR. Click 'em for biggies. You know you want to. Do it.

Smell City part 2

Razorbill

Guillemot

Two Gannets, two ages

Gannet on the nest

Cute Kittiwake baby

Jackdaw

Gannets canoodling

Baby Guillemot contemplating the drop

Yawning Puffin

More digiscoped antics from RSPB Bempton Cliffs (21.6.07). There will be more appearing in the August issue of Bird Watching Magazine. And remember, I have put a few more on the Bird Watching Blog
Click each pic for big versions, as usual.

Pond visitors

Magpie (DSLR)


Juvenile Blackbird (DSLR)

I hide in the shed, the birds come and bathe.

Images from Titchwell, 24.6.07

Hanging Rainbow, at the end of which was a rich multitude of Swifts and a single, glorious Alpine Swift


Juvenile Bearded Tits

A curious Weasel on the path

Alpine Swift

Alpine Swift, Titchwell, Norfolk, 24.6.07, c9.17pm (DSLR). Nice finding, Will!

Killer on the loose

Pond skater, our pond, Peterborough, 23.6.07 (DSLR). Click 'em for the full horror.

Smell city

Puffin – this is what they come to see.

Action among the Gannets

Kittiwake

Puffin noting that its shadow has a Puffin's face pattern...

Guillemot

Two Gannets greet each other

I went to RSPB Bempton Cliffs yesterday (21.6.07) with Will Bowell. Work, you understand... I went with the express purpose of digiscoping seabirds, so I could write about it in the August issue of Bird Watching Magazine. For the full story, you will have to wait until that mag comes out. But, considering rain and cloud were forecast, so we were rather pressed for time, the trip was a roaring success. As it happens, it was sunny nearly all the time we were there...
Bempton is fantastic, with much bigger cliffs, much more plentiful seabirds and much better views than I expected. I even developed rather a liking for the fishy guano stench. Mmmmmmmm!
Enjoy these digiscoped shots. And I've bunged a few more on the Bird Watching Blog
Click the pics for big versions, as usual.

If only...

...the Whiskered Tern had been there when we were in place with the light this good. Still, mustn't grumble. See below (scroll down) for Whiskered shots


Common Tern, Eyebrook Reservoir, 18.6.07. Click it!

Macrobiotic lunch

I took my trusty old Nikon Coolpix 4500 out for a walk near our Bretton (Peterborough) office, this lunchtime (19.6.07). Though I haven't used it for digiscoping for years, its macro is superb and it can get much closer than any of my other cameras. This is what it came up with...
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Herb Robert

Speckled Wood


Bee Orchid


White Bryony

A few more whisks