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Just been down the road and spotted "our" dipper. Made me think Scotty must have some serious lens to have got his dipper picture I can never get nearer than about 25m away.
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Well actually I do. I have a shite camera that I bought from the states a few months ago, a Nikon P1000, around $1200 IIRC. It's got a terrible sensor, not much better than a mobile phone, but it's got a fixed 24-3000mm lens! It's more or less a spotter scope with a camera attached. The 4k video on it is good, the zoom is exceptional, but the camera overall is terrible. I should have read more reviews before I bought it but it was a spontaneous purchase.The Continental Op wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:08 pm Made me think Scotty must have some serious lens to have got his dipper picture I can never get nearer than about 25m away.
Meta on the dipper photo...
ƒ/8 1/50 539 mm ISO800
I'm still learning the camera and as it happens, I took some video of the dipper specifically to see what the zoom was like. Bear in mind this was handheld, no tripod.
This short clip was 510mb in 4k before I cut it down to this size.
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Still no Jay. Didn't even hear any of them today. It might have had something to do with two Sparrowhawks I saw patrolling the area. Saw Buzzards, Goldcrests, Long Tail Tits, Blue and Great Tits, lots of Wrens, a couple of Dunnocks, one Little Grebe, one Egret and one Cormorant (Grrrrrr...) Also a Robin, as seen below. I love the way that in the really cold weather they puff themselves up trapping as much warm air to their skin as they can.
Also got a photo from my house of what looks to be a very battered Buzzard. It didn't seem to have any problems flying though.
Also got a photo from my house of what looks to be a very battered Buzzard. It didn't seem to have any problems flying though.
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I've a blackbird going around the place that can't close it's beak. Must have flew into something.
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We just saw this little thing by an old ruin. It looked healthy, fur-wise, but it was also stumbling and falling and did not run away. Looked bloated up too. Poor thing, looked like a neurological thing. Hope it was not the next variant evolving in a little shrew!!
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Sound like pesticide or poison.isha wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:03 pm 20220113_150025.jpg
We just saw this little thing by an old ruin. It looked healthy, fur-wise, but it was also stumbling and falling and did not run away. Looked bloated up too. Poor thing, looked like a neurological thing. Hope it was not the next variant evolving in a little shrew!!
Looks like a Field Mouse, as opposed to a House Mouse or Shrew.
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Yes we thought and called him a field mouse and its probably what he is. He was just such a round ball that at the end we thought maybe he is a shrew. But I think thats not right, it was the swelling. He was tumbling around. It was strange as otherwise he looked lovely and in great condition. Poor thing.
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That's a baby rat Ishaisha wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:27 pm Yes we thought and called him a field mouse and its probably what he is. He was just such a round ball that at the end we thought maybe he is a shrew. But I think thats not right, it was the swelling. He was tumbling around. It was strange as otherwise he looked lovely and in great condition. Poor thing.
./joke
I love mice.
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It was a little beauty. Big eyes. I have been looking at pics of things like bank voles. Definitely not a shrew with its nose. And I think the tail was too long to be a vole. But either way I fear it will not live long.
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I found a dead badger in one of my neighbour's fields there 2 days ago. Just facing into the hedge with no obvious marks on him. There are a crowd of thugs that go around twice a year at night time with dogs, dig them out and let the dogs at them. Absolute scumbags, a land owner up the road came across them and one of them pulled a knife out of his pocket and threatened him.
They smashed up two large wooden farm gates that have been on my neighbours farm since I was a child. I was able to repair one of them for him but the other they completely destroyed.
Lads going around getting satisfaction out of hearing a badger squeal is just sick.
Anyway had to get that out of my system.
The blackbird I took a photo of is nowhere to be seen today. I think he's dead as it could not pick up any food with his beak. I left out a dish of water with some bread in it but probably didn't make any difference l.
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I was thinking about the blackbird, alright...how could it eat
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A couple of pals today
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Because the Plant Kingdom doesn't get much of a look-in here, a few vegetation pics to redress the balance!
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Love frosty photos
I caught the moon first, then the jay today.
Screenshotting and resizing really does them no good
I caught the moon first, then the jay today.
Screenshotting and resizing really does them no good
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Early frogspawn, and a full moon in a clear Kerry sky:
Definite stretch in the evenings. Was out planting trees, this was about 5.30pm.
Definite stretch in the evenings. Was out planting trees, this was about 5.30pm.
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Yes. I beg my husband not to he scattering little scraps of stuff on the yard for fear of rats but he tells me the birds love it. And after 35 years of doing nothing I ask him, it seems the rice or bread crumbs etc will go on.
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Today I see its a dish of cheese ends
Anyway a zoomed in screenshotted resized ! poor shot of a pair of swans that were honking so much on a lake beside us that I had to go down to see if they were okay. Probably just the coming of Spring and the Spring longings upon them.
Anyway a zoomed in screenshotted resized ! poor shot of a pair of swans that were honking so much on a lake beside us that I had to go down to see if they were okay. Probably just the coming of Spring and the Spring longings upon them.
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If it attacks you and you can pin blame on someone then it could be in WTF moment of the dayCelticRambler wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:56 pm Does this count as "nature" - or should it be in "farming" ?
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Could only get him from inside the kitchen window. Everytime I sneak out he spots me and flies off.
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More photos of the buzzard. Again taken from behind the kitchen window. Although he's starting to get used to use and doesn't fly off as quick when I'm out around the house.