28-03-2015, 05:21 AM
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Todays photo was inspired from a walk at the coast yesterday. Skylarks were singing their hearts out.Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Shelley.
First recorded in Anglo Saxon Times, fossil eveidence from 125,000 yeras ago. Now a Red Data bird in the UK due to plunging breeding populations
28-03-2015, 05:43 AM
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Update to the list in post #461.123 Egyptian Goose
124 Reed Bunting
125 Stonechat
126 Whooping Crane
127 Sandmartin
128 Sandwich Tern
129 Wheatear.
130 Little Owl
131 Wren
132 Red backed Shrike
133 Isabelline Shrike
134 Lesser grey Shrike
135 White Ibis
136 Belted Kingfisher
137 Desert Wheatear
138 Brambling
139 Ring billed gull
140 Turkey Buzzard
141 Tricoloured Heron
142 Lapland bunting
143 Water pipit
144 Night heron
145 Skylark.
29-03-2015, 06:32 AM
238
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Hooded Crow on Mull. Closely related to our Carrion Crow. A bird Of North West Scotland with a few turning up over the border. They are black and grey so the pinkish hue is probably due to a combo of reflection and the cheap camera i used.
"Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and - above all - envious."
Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, a good read and comic introduction into the wonderful world of birders.
29-03-2015, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by AlbertaS
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There are some brilliant bird photos on here. This fellow is seen every year on a fishing pond near my home. People with fish ponds in their gardens have to net them as he feeds on their fish. A very handsome heron, if sometimes a nuisance.
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