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Alice's Bird Photos
Topic Started: Jul 14 2012, 08:46 AM (4,683 Views)
Night Owl
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:wow1: Stunning photos Alice and a brilliant experience for you :cool2:
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Jberman
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Incredible pictures, what camera are you using ?

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Alice
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Sorry John, I didn't realise that you had asked about the camera. Its my new camera Canon 7d, I had to buy a new one as the 50d has a shutter problem, its keeps jamming as I take photos so I had to get a new one. The lens I used is the Canon 400mm f5,6l and with the Sedge Warbler I managed to get within 10 feet of it, I was so lucky.
I also am lucky in finding a friend who is as mad on birds as I am but the knowledge he has is fantastic, he listens for the bird call and knows immediately which bird it is and I am slowly learning to recognize the different calls.
That is how I've manage the harder birds in the challenge, he has taken me to places where I would never have gone on my own. Small country lanes in the heart of Snowdonia. TheRedstart had made a nesting place in a hole in a telegraph pole which we think was made by a woodpecker and on Tuesday when we went the juvenile had fledged but I just couldn't focus on the little bird and went onto manual and made a real mess of the Redstart.
The Spotted Flycatcher and the juvenile Blackcap were my findings yesterday in a little village called Sarn where just inside a field on a dead tree branch I found the two species. So very lucky.
There used to be about 20miles from here an explosive factory where they would mix highly flammable something to make explosives and sadly one day something went badly wrong and some men were killed and really that was the end of the factory and it closed down.
The area it was situated on has been given by the ICI to the North Wales Wildlife Trust and it consists of 81 acres, it was there that I found the Pied Flycatcher last Tuesday. It is an area of old Oak trees, dry stone walls, grassy areas where sheep graze, all sort of trees, undergrowth some has been cleared, there are streams which are a bit rusty looking I don't know if it was the factory or some other reason, it looked a bit coppery.
There are little paths that lead to small brick building some of which had apparently floating roofs so when the bangs went off the roof went up and came back down again. The poor men who worked there must have had no hearing left at all if they manage to keep alive to retirement age.
Anyway, this place is a new nature reserve with great potential. Really interesting and now peaceful.
Photobucket has gone on strike so I'll post before I loose the lot.

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Alice
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The birds that I found in the factory that is known as the Gwaith Powder translated to English as Powder Works are the Pied Flycatcher and the Wood Warbler.
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The Redstart was sighted in Trawsfynedd
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The Swallow, the Spotted Flycatcher and the juvenile Blackcaps were found in Sarn. (Llyen Peninsula)
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I just love your bird photos Alice :encore: and you have so many I don't get to see over here in the East

I love the Flycatcher with the fly and I'm so envious of your Wood Warbler, did you hear it call :thinking: such a great sound :cool:
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celticsparrow-Jan
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Brilliant photos Alice :clap2: a really interesting selection of birds there.
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Alice
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My friend described the sound of the Wood Warbler as if you had a coin and twisted it round and round on a table a sort of twirrling noise.
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raptorwatcher
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Wow, stunning shots Alice.Especially of the sedge warbler, redstart & pied flycatcher:)
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happyhare
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:wow: Alice you do see such a lot of fantastic birds :greatpics:
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:greatpic: Alice, I love the action shot. :cool:
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Alice
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I don't know why I bother with going on different web sites when I come on here and receive the most kindness comments ever. I post on a site far far from this site and I have never had one compliment for months.
I spent an hour going through my little hay field and Meadow Brown butterflies have suddenly all come alive together and it gave me great pleasure knowing I could share my photos with people that appreciate the time it takes. So, a very big thank you to you all for your very kind comments. :thankyou: I had a sort of an off day to-day we all have them.
The photos are on the memory card, I'm really off to bed with a good book. :offtobed:
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Davebutterflyman
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Great set of photos, Alice :clap3:

All great birds and captures, especially that of the Wood warbler which can be very tricky to spot. You are spot on when you describe it's call as well.

Sad to hear that you don't receive the comments you deserve on the other site, but you will always get them on here.

Actually, the Wood warbler could go on the screening challenge :cool2:
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Alice
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Thanks for that and if another better photo comes then I don't mind if its replaced.
The quality of these photos is poor and I couldn't understand it really and then it dawned on me that my window were in need of cleaning.
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:greatpics: Alice i love the Flycatcher hes gorgeous. :woo:
You are so lucky having such a lovely variety of birds :wonderful:
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feedyourhedgehog
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:aww: Great action shots Alice....... so lovely to see it in photos as it happens so quickly for real......you did well to capture all the action :encore:
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happyhare
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What a great sequence! Brilliant! :encore:
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celticsparrow-Jan
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:aww: Lovely photos of the bluetits Alice,you have done very well there,I tried for ages to get a photo of fledglings being fed but I haven't managed it yet .
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Birdwatchandy
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Stunning Photo's Alice
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Davebutterflyman
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Thanks Alice and great photos as well. :clap3:
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Alice
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Seen one or two nice birds on my travels around the Lleyn Peninsula, a beautiful Little Owl perched on a rafter in an old barn and yesterday the brightest yellow of a Willow Warbler and also yesterday was my first Med Gull in Porthmadog.
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