Re: Bugboys mission
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:44 pm
Hi Buggy, lovely to see you today. Glad you saw a helice and thanks for the plant ids. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Ha I was struggling through the living hell that is the London rush hour by then! Yes huge thanks to your Matt. Great to catch up with you again and glad you had a good few hours with that gorgeous birdbadgerbob wrote:Hi Paul. That was a heck of a find. I was still there at 5pm filling my boots with pictures of this fabulous bird. Glad Matt turned up and was able to let you use his lens. It was too good a chance to let go. Needless to say the LTBs were keeping their heads down with this bird around!!
bugboy wrote:One last thing, if any birders are able to ID this flock of Geese that flew over I'd be very grateful, I'm not to good on my geese and I don't know if there's enough detail in my picture?
I agree with Richard. I think there's just enough detail in the image including, as Wurzel says, the time of year, to make this a skein of Greylag Geese.Wurzel wrote:The geese are difficult but judging by the time of year I'd go for Greylags.
Thanks both, I did have them down tentatively as Greylags but wasn't 100% sure.Mark Colvin wrote:Hi Paul.
bugboy wrote:One last thing, if any birders are able to ID this flock of Geese that flew over I'd be very grateful, I'm not to good on my geese and I don't know if there's enough detail in my picture?I agree with Richard. I think there's just enough detail in the image including, as Wurzel says, the time of year, to make this a skein of Greylag Geese.Wurzel wrote:The geese are difficult but judging by the time of year I'd go for Greylags.
Nice work with the Shrike ...
Good hunting.
Kind regards. Mark
Hahaha, that's brilliant. Good to know so many people are enjoy Sid the Shrike, yes I've named it nowbadgerbob wrote:You might, and should be interested in the attached Paul!!
http://www.birdguides.com/webzine/article.asp?a=5943
Thanks Hoggers, yes it's great to see how their population has exploded these past few months after the best part of two years in the doldrumsHoggers wrote:Great Coppers, Buggy! I especially like the one perched on a blade of grass- lovely photo.
It's interesting how after a very quiet ( or non-existent ) start to the Copper season for many, the Coppers have surged forward!
Best wishes
Hoggers