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| 20251126 Otter 'The cat's whiskers' top shot of all time... |
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| 20251126 Goosander Lone male coming out of eclipse plumage. In some shots fishing line can be seen around the birds bill. |
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| 20251125 Ruff 22 birds roosting by Iron Rd along with 10 Lapwing and 5 E Curlew. |
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| 20251126 Goosander |
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| 20251126 Otter Family group of 4. No sign of Pike parts. |
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| 20251121 Yellow-browed Warbler This bird called and showed well at the excellent Bluetail Trial. |
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| 20251121 Yellow-browed Warbler 2 Yellbrow in area. Calls of Hume's appeared to come form North of the track, where many Coal Tit then appeared... |
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| 20251121 Yellow-browed Warbler Yellow and Olive tones therefore not Hume's Leaf Warbler... By late morning claims of 2 Hume's in the area where put out... |
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| 20251121 Egyptian Shelduck Several pairs showing signs of territorial behaviour, Holkham Pines. The area is overrun by this feral species. |
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| 20251121 Golden Plover Flock of 100 with Pink-Foot, Burnham Overy. |
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| 20251116 Goldcrest Shot to demonstrate Depth Blur in background but also foreground. Isolates the target very well. A quality bokeh achieved from a 'small sensor' jpeg. |
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| 20251116 Goldcrest Study of the wing at F5.9, head and tail out of focus. The Big Black is a bright lens fully open, and performs well in the darkness of the pine belt. |
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| 20251118 Chiffchaff F7.1, only closed 1/3 of a stop, is the sweet spot of The Big Black. Should have been a Pallas's on a very dull grey morn at Titch... Again a bright pleasing image obtained though. |
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| 20251118 Hume's Leaf Warbler On arrival the bird popped up... but sunk back into veg never to show again?? Excellent background and close on path, initially all look well set. Weak yell-brow type call infrequently heard all day... Ticker's tweet of the day: 'you got a caterpillar in the sea-buckthorn'... Being an exponent of extremely long range bird photography, this recalls the most famous comment on the first flyby Glossy shot off Norfolk back in the day... 'you got a lobster pot'... credits to follow. Note the white chin and throat, without yellow tones. 20111202 qv. |
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| 20251106 Long-tailed Duck North Lagoon Snettisham. 2 juveniles here, as the 2 that shot past Cley on 28th Oct... qv below. |
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| 20251106 Long-necked Duck |
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| 20251106 American Golden Plover Titchwell Freshmarsh. Lesser bulk than the Eurasian Golden Plover. Obvious primary extension showed at range. |
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| 20251106 American Golden Plover Darker spangling on upper-parts and blackish cap above solid supercilium. |
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| 20251106 A Golden Plover Bird flew below the main E Golden flock. Showed as slighter and darker overall. |
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| 20251106 A Golden Plover Dark grey under-wing coverts were easily seen at range. |
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| 20251106 Firecrest Low in veg by pools. Yellow-browed Warbler also in area. |
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| 20251105 C Crossbill Adult Female drinking from puddle. Small flocks also seen along the Suffolk coast suggests a good winter for this irruptive species. |
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| 20251105 Pied Wagtail 1st winter. |
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| 20251105 Pied Wagtail |
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| 20251105 C Crossbill Male and female. |
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| 20251105 C Crossbill 3 males 1 female. |
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| 20251109 C Crossbill Mid morning shots in direct sun. Heat haze from the flat ground caused most shots to be binned. |
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| 20251109 C Crossbill |
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| 20251109 C Crossbill |
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| 20251109 C Crossbill Male bathing. |
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| 20251109 C Crossbill |
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| 20251101 Brown Shrike Bird very happy within MOD base and therefore completely undisturbed. Posed on the perimeter fences frequently. |
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| 20251101 Brown Shrike Very small amount of Depth Blur applied still isolates the target well. Note slight loss of fine feather detail on the outer edge of bird. |
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