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Animal Kingdom / Re: Avian Pox and other Illnesses
« on: April 28, 2013, 09:39:15 AM »
And another Great tit with Avian Pox. Apparently 90% of all Avian Pox affected birds in Germany are great tits.
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Your best animal shots!
« on: April 27, 2013, 05:04:58 AM »Apparently its the Winter fell/coat. They'll be gone after the next moult.--8<--Snipp!--8<--So whats with the ear tufts? Ours have them too now. Mating plumage?
Great shot of a red squirrel,
Nice to see some shots of squirrels where they are not being torn apart by some bird.
It was a bad month for squirrels on CR in March
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Thanks Sporgon! I tend to shoot live birds and animals. Prefer to have them alive before, during and after my photo sessions.
Yeah Brian, I noticed those tufts too, and can't remember seeing such big ones before on any Red squirrel. I'm just guessing, but it could perhaps be a leftover from the rather long and cold, icy, winter we've had here.
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Avian Pox and other Illnesses
« on: April 27, 2013, 03:16:27 AM »
Here's a greenfinch thats not doing too well, probably got Trichomonosis
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Your best animal shots!
« on: April 26, 2013, 03:42:51 PM »So whats with the ear tufts? Ours have them too now. Mating plumage?One of my best shots. At least for yesterday..
I managed to annoy a Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) by not moving out of its way and insisting to stick around and photograph him/her.
Great shot of a red squirrel,
Nice to see some shots of squirrels where they are not being torn apart by some bird.
It was a bad month for squirrels on CR in March
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits
« on: April 26, 2013, 03:40:41 PM »Hmmm, so what would be the correct shutter timing required to capture that?I call this bub "Fat Boy".Hopefully he will not explode
Questions, questions, questions.......
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits
« on: April 26, 2013, 07:21:57 AM »Yellow Rumped Warbler~Fabulous shots Ken, all of them.
Where were they taken? There's certainly a great diversity there, must be a lot of food available.
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits
« on: April 25, 2013, 11:58:41 AM »Its really hard to tell, maybe a crab or crawfish? Maybe a closeup at full resolution would tell?A few more from a recent trip.
Is that a giant tadpole the GBH has? It doesn't look like a fish...
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits
« on: April 25, 2013, 11:56:54 AM »Ooops, it was meant as a joke, due to the mouthfull of dog hair that it has in its beak........Blue Tit, Bearded Tit, ZZ-Tit or just a very orthodox one?
It just looks like its molting. Every bird has two primary molts a year...one for breeding plumage, and one for winter plumage. When they are in the middle of a molt, or just about to molt, they can look a bit raddy and their colors/patterns aren't quite standard. This looks like a Blue Tit to me. Definitely not a Bearded.
When we brush our dog, in the springtime the hairs go into the feeder shown so birds can take them as nesting material.
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits
« on: April 22, 2013, 04:23:46 PM »
And an elegant Greenfinch landing.
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits
« on: April 22, 2013, 04:18:07 PM »Hey thanks for the kind words, and thanks to the others that commented too.Great Tit.Man! You are SO COOL!
And we have another bird whisperer!
You're very kind.
Here's a Greenfich squabble.
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits
« on: April 21, 2013, 12:20:20 PM »
Blue Tit, Bearded Tit, ZZ-Tit or just a very orthodox one?
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Animal Kingdom / Re: Avian Pox
« on: April 14, 2013, 12:23:52 PM »
And lastly, Gammy, from a few years ago.