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Re: Recent birds
By: Elizabeth Davidson Date: March 11, 2011, 9:40 am
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lovely pictures george ;)
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Re: Recent birds
By: George Date: March 11, 2011, 10:07 am
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Thanks Liz .. Should be a lot better once I get my new lens its
faster..
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Re: Recent birds.. Saturday 12/03/011
By: George Date: March 12, 2011, 3:11 pm
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The Rough Legged Buzzard is still at Toft ..
I spent four hours watching for it, after two hours I was joined
by John [ he owns the drive that I use] after having a good yarn
and lots o funny stories, John left .. so I picked up my
binoculars and scanned the ridge and low and behold, it was
there, sitting on top of a power pole, it kept being pestered by
Hoodie crows..
So, this is the images I took today, as is usual, they were
taken a long way away.. [ before I post the images ] I hope Hugh
got his pics of the pod o killer whales heading south past
Boddom ..
And, on the way home, I passed a female Merlin in flight..
R.L.Buzzard ..
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george ..
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Re: Recent birds.. Monday 14/03/011
By: George Date: March 14, 2011, 4:07 pm
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The Rough Legged Buzzard is still at Toft..
I met up with Roger, he was 15 minutes earlier than me, just a
few minutes after 10am this morning, he had the scope on it, it
was on the ground, then it started to hunt, I contacted Hugh by
mobile, half an hour later he arrived, followed by another
birder a wee while later ..
Hugh got an amazing pic of it, he will sent me an email with the
picture, so i'll add that on later..
In the meantime I spoke with the local postman, he said that I
would get my new lens tomorrow, unless I went to Lerwick now, so
I did..
I was back on the R.L.Buzzard site at 1600 hours and spotted the
R.L.Buzzard right away, it was north of me, then it landed on a
post between me and the radar mast ..
First pic is Hughs pic. its stunnng..
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And mine, it just landed on a fence post between me and the
radar mast at 1615 hours..
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My pics are on manual focus..
I'll be on site tomorrow morning about 10 am..
george ..
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Re: Recent birds.. Tuesday 15/03/011
By: George Date: March 15, 2011, 1:32 pm
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No sightings of the Rough Legged Buzzard today..
Its possible that the two cars going up to the radar mast [may]
have disturbed the Buzzard, I was at my normal sighting spot for
three hours ..
I also watched five Mountain hares in the hill at Laxobiggin ..
george ..
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Re: Recent birds.. Wednesday 16/03/011
By: George Date: March 16, 2011, 2:59 pm
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No sightings of the Rough Legged Buzzard today
Myself and Andrew watched out for it for over two hours.
The weather.. it was blowing a gale, but dry ..
Its been around now for 69 days, i've seen it most days, but its
unusual for it to be missing for two days, unless its gone home
.. but I will check on it tomorrow
I left to go to Laxobiggin to see if the Arctic Hares were any
closer, but no, they were still near the top of the hill, just
below them was two Grouse after taking a few pics I went back to
the R.L.Buzzard site but it was'nt to be seen ..
I then went home and saw two Red Breasted Mergansers and two
Common Gulls
Grouse at a distance.
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Common gull
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Arctic hare at a distance
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And last, a lonely fence post lol ..
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george..
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Re: Recent birds.. Thursday 17/03/011
By: George Date: March 17, 2011, 4:00 pm
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No sightings of the R.L.Buzzard
So I phoned a contact to find out where the Snow Goose was..
He told me it was at Braewick near Strand loch, but it was old
news, he seen it three days ago .. So I searched the area, but
it was nowhere to find..
But I did get a few other birds..
Goosander.
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Goosanders & Oystercatcher..
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Curlew..
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Lapwing..
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Greylag..
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Oystercatcher..
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george ..
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Re: Recent birds.. Friday 18/03/011
By: George Date: March 18, 2011, 3:01 pm
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I checked out the R.L.Buzzard site this morning, but no
sightings..
Then I made my way to Bixter Voe, hopefully to see the Killer
whale, but it was gone ..
I met with Hugh Harrop [Link]
HTML http://hughharropwildlifephotography.blogspot.com/
and asked him if he knew where the Snow Goose was, Hugh told me
the area it was, so I made my way there..
Unfortunately it was being elusive again, but I did take these.
Redshank.
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Curlew.
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Greylag.
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george ..
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Re: Recent birds.. Saturday 19/03/011
By: George Date: March 19, 2011, 12:30 pm
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I got a phone call this morning, to say that the Rough Legged
Buzzard is still at Toft
It was seen at 7am yesterday at the rear of Johns house.. So
today I made my way to his house, and waited about 2 hours with
no sightings of it..
Then at 1400 hours I got another call, John said it was at the
rear of his house again, it was feeding on a dead rabbit, so I
went back but it had left again..
Then I got another call, it was back, first it was sitting on
the old ruin, then it flew to the power post behind Johns
house..
John said he would put a couple of rabbits beyond the old farm
implement later, so I'll be going early tomorrow morning,
probably around 7.30am. i've checked the weather forecast for
tomorrow, its to be fine in the morning, but windy..
So, i'm looking forward to being there early, and hopefully if
its there, i'll get some nice pictures..
george ..
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Re: Recent birds.. update..
By: George Date: March 19, 2011, 2:23 pm
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I had another phone call this evening from John ..
He has put 3 rabbits in the field, to the left of the farm
implement with wheels, he put them when darkness fell, in case
the Ravens took them..
So, for the people that know where i'm talking about.. I'll show
a picture of it for those that don't..
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george ..
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