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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #30 on: September 15, 2012, 05:08:16 pm »
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You jammy barstewards, Paul!! I've been trying to spot and photograph Dragonflies all year. Do you want me to ID them for you or do you already know their species?

Plenty of Damselflies around my pond though. For that I'm gonna post one of my Damselfly pics in your thread!  :P



^ Large Red Damselfly egg-laying in my pond.
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #31 on: September 15, 2012, 05:12:23 pm »
Ha!  Sorry if I've upset you Robin!

I think they might be a Southern Hawker and a Brown Hawker?
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #32 on: September 15, 2012, 05:26:03 pm »
Quote from: PND on September 15, 2012, 05:12:23 pm

I think they might be a Southern Hawker and a Brown Hawker?


....Yep, methinks that the first pic is of a male Southern Hawker - Most common south of a line between the Humber and Ribble river estuaries but now spreading northwards.

Other two pics are definitely a female Brown Hawker and photographed while egg-laying. If it's in your pond, be prepared for the annihalation of many other forms of water life! The larvae are very predatory and very effective ambushers. I have found the exuvia (moulted skin) of a Hawker larvae in my pond. I have spent literally hours photographing the stages of emergence of several Damselflies and it is my hope to do the same with a Dragonfly. But I won't hijack your thread with pics.

The ancestors of Dragonflies are one of the most ancient species on Planet Earth and fossils show that some had wingspans of several feet!
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #33 on: September 15, 2012, 05:31:02 pm »
Not my pond but one of about 8 dragonfly ponds at my local Nature Reserve!  So, I can't really claim that I did well to find them!
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #34 on: September 15, 2012, 05:40:52 pm »
Quote from: PND on September 15, 2012, 05:31:02 pm

Not my pond but one of about 8 dragonfly ponds at my local Nature Reserve!  So, I can't really claim that I did well to find them!


....I still think you are a jammy barstewards!................ For having a Nature Reserve locally.
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #35 on: September 15, 2012, 06:06:08 pm »
Quote from: RedRobin on September 15, 2012, 05:40:52 pm
Quote from: PND on September 15, 2012, 05:31:02 pm

Not my pond but one of about 8 dragonfly ponds at my local Nature Reserve!  So, I can't really claim that I did well to find them!


....I still think you are a jammy barstewards!................ For having a Nature Reserve locally.

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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #36 on: September 22, 2012, 08:35:53 pm »
Latest photos, again taken at my local Nature Reserve this morning.. Hope you like!












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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #37 on: September 22, 2012, 09:53:54 pm »
^^^^
I particularly love the single swan shot - Looks just like an aeroplane!  :happy2:
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #38 on: September 22, 2012, 10:00:34 pm »
Quote from: RedRobin on September 22, 2012, 09:53:54 pm
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I particularly love the single swan shot - Looks just like an aeroplane!  :happy2:

Bit annoyed I didn't get the bottom of the swan's wing tip in shot... first time I've tried taking 'flying' shots!  Here are the others from today..






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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #39 on: September 22, 2012, 10:21:58 pm »
Quote from: PND on September 22, 2012, 10:00:34 pm

Bit annoyed I didn't get the bottom of the swan's wing tip in shot... first time I've tried taking 'flying' shots!  Here are the others from today..






....Yeah, I noticed that but it's still a great shot.

These latest 2 are again, so very 'aeroplane'.

I saw a Dragonfly in flight today at the hillclimb but couldn't photograph it. I photographed the cars instead.
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #40 on: September 24, 2012, 01:17:26 pm »
Quote from: PND on September 22, 2012, 10:00:34 pm

Bit annoyed I didn't get the bottom of the swan's wing tip in shot... first time I've tried taking 'flying' shots!  Here are the others from today..


Not perfect, but you get the idea...

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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #41 on: September 24, 2012, 05:53:58 pm »
Thanks for that.  I'd forgotten just how symmetrical swan's wings were..  :wink: 

Good old Photoshop to the rescue.  :pomppomp:
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #42 on: September 30, 2012, 12:33:31 pm »
Word has got around..  Hmmm, sunflower kernels.. nom, nom, nom..

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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #43 on: September 30, 2012, 12:41:32 pm »
Nice one PND.

Im sat at my parents and there is no less that 12 goldfinches on the trees/feeders!  :smiley:
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Re: Bird photography
« Reply #44 on: September 30, 2012, 12:42:11 pm »
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Feisty characters aren't they!

Nyger seeds are what attracts my Goldfinches, even the youngsters. You need a special Nyger feeder though.

I got loads of sunflower seeds in a few weeks!:



^ Not great photographically but it does capture a moment.



^ Came in through my kitchen window - The Nyger feeder must have needed a refill!



^ I'm used to handling birds. There was no flapping and everyone is calm.



^ Just before release.

I hope you don't mind me posting some bird pics in your thread  :smiley:
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