The 'share your photos' thread (not model flying)

[Ultymate]

More birds I'm afraid

[Ultymate]

A couple of squiggles

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Ultymate, all your pictures are superb. Make my wildlife efforts look fuzzy. I have no patience.

However I do not like grey squirrels, but I did see a black squirrel once.

[David Ashby - Moderator]

Great photos as always Ulty

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[Danny Fenton]

Lovely shots Ulty, you certainly have found the sweet spot of that camera and lens combo. Keep em coming

Cheers

Danny

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One of my favourites, taken in Greece many years ago on an Olympus Trip 35mm camera.

[Ultymate]

A Very Grey Squirrel

[avtur]

That's a stunning grey squigle

Edited By avtur on 17/02/2013 17:37:32

[Bill Brown 3]

 

some really great shots on here, i, like Ulty am not a twitcher but love the challenge of getting good wildlife shots, especialy birds. (the feathered kind of course)

 

Edited By Pete B - Moderator on 22/02/2013 00:13:14

[Ultymate]

A rare visitor to my place a Goldfinch

[Bill Brown 3]

I`m lucky on that one Ulty, i get loads of goldfinches in the summer allthough it was not the case a few years back, not seen one in the winter though as they are a bird that does not allways migrate.

[Mike Etheridge 1]

I have had up to five Gold finches in the garden recently and one arrived also with a Siskin recently on the bird feeder. Most of the common finches have also shown up this year plus male and female Black Caps. If only I had a decent camera to record the action!

MJE

[Dave Bran]

Yes, good picture!

Have lived where I am in Hayes, close to Bromley, Kent since 1979, this house since 1981. Until last spring the only finch type to visit despite trying to attract birds were Greenfinches, from maybe mid 80's to late 80's, at that time in numbers on feeders, then almost overnight nothing other than a rare sighting.

During 2010 they started coming back, sometimes 8 or 9 at once, but that ended in the early autumn of 2011. Now only at mots two or three, and that inconstant.

During Winter 2011/2 we suddenly got Redpolls visiting in numbers on the Niger feeders, had to look them up to know, never seen any before at all! They left in early Spring 2012 and have not so far returned.

From late Spring 2012 we have had increasingly large numbers of Goldfinches on the Sunflower heart feeders, a specis never seen before here at all though around in small numbers in the locality. Can get to 15 or thereabouts at once on four feeders, more waiting in the trees. A couple of months into this Chaffinches started turning up, to feed on the ground under the feeders, they do not attempt to use them.

This in a garden where until this population explosion of finches green parakeets are/were the most numerous bird to be seen, with pigeons learning to adopt the policy of following underneath them to feed on the food they drop. The finches are not at all fazed by the parakeets and while they fight amongst themselves for rights to the feeders, they seem so surprised the Goldfinches ignore their size and loud calls that they leave them alone.

I expected the Finch presence, at least in such numbers, to cease as winter came, it hasn't. Now we too are getting Siskins in small numbers mixed up with them, and also on the feeders. (Another specis not previously known here).

Looks to me like the Finches had an exceptionally good year, probably trading on the absence of the sparrows.

On a different note:-

[Dave Bran]

[cymaz]

A clubmates 1930's Lagonda...and I've had a drive in it

[LMA Dave]

On Sunday 17th February was a big day for us all at Woodford, the new owners have been planning to move XM603 from where we move her a couple of month ago to her final resting place across the other side of the airfield next to the fire station, now before we get the safety police, it was all done above board, she had sat there all these months why she was checked for stress and the like to the undercarriage and wheels, but she was in good shape so it was decided to move her for the last time, and we were tasked with the job, to say we were ecstatic was an understatement. Here is a couple of pictures I took of the big event.

 

Edited By LMA Dave on 22/02/2013 10:36:38

[Mike Etheridge 1]

Foxy, a patient hungry Vixen with very good manners waiting for some food this morning.

[Mike Etheridge 1]

Sammy the cat is not impressed with Foxy!

[cymaz]

After an accident that wrote off my old Zafira. Got another, well you've got to really

[Bill Brown 3]

Hi Dave Bran, am a bit jealous of the wild bird variety that you enjoy, surprised that the goldfinches prefer the sunflower hearts though as nijer are their favourite normaly, enjoy!!!

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Another photo from the past, taken at Old Warden. Canon AE 1 with a mirror lens. About 1986.

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Another sunset, this time from my garden a few years ago, not perfect, but I just like the colours.

 

Edited By Chris P. Bacon on 13/03/2013 19:21:46

Edited By Chris Bott - Moderator on 16/03/2013 21:03:33

[Bill Brown 3]

I love sunsets Chris, no two are ever the same, here is a couple i took from the tent while camping on the north west coast of Scotland.

[David Ashby - Moderator]

Off topic posts deleted. Folks, this thread is for photos you've taken yourself, please put your round-robin email pics elsewhere, thanks, 

 

 

 

Edited By David Ashby - RCME on 14/03/2013 21:44:58

[Ultymate]

Couple of Goldcrest shots, been after this little so and so all winter