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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 5
Image of day on 07 Feb 2005
Hen Blackbird just taken off from the log feeding area.
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Image of day on 08 Jan 2006
By chance the next batch of photos caught the (probably the same)
Female Blackbird landing at the same site (4 days and 142 frames
later in real time - hurray for digital cameras rather than a
roll of film a day).
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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2015
at 19:23 Image of day on 13 Oct 2015
A female Blackbird not appreciating the arrival of a Dunnock.
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Image Taken on 10 Dec 2007
at 13:46 Image of day on 07 Jan 2008
While trying to photograph Fieldfares flying out of a hedge top
this Blackbird carrying a Sloe in its beak came out instead.
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Ref: 20080107_d01_20071210_1346_043 blackbird in flight with blackthorn berry in beak (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Jan 2024
at 10:31 Image of day on 09 Feb 2024
The last week of freeze-up has seen a huge increase in the number of Blackbirds
seen over the site.
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Image Taken on 29 Jan 2020
at 12:33 Image of day on 17 Feb 2020
This male Blackbird lands elegantly on the stone.
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Image Taken on 15 May 2014
at 05:27 Image of day on 06 Jul 2014
If you watch a Blackbird land on the solid surface, over the
next few of seconds the bird raise it's tail almost vertical
and then lowers it. The whole procedure seems too slow to be
for regaining balance.
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Image Taken on 26 Jul 2017
at 08:41 Image of day on 10 Sep 2017
Why is this male Blackbird loading his beak with wiggly worms?
He must be feeding a second brood somewhere on our patch.
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Ref: 20170910_d36_20170726_0841_080_fb4 blackbird male with worm(s) in beak landing on tree-stump(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 26 Nov 2017
at 14:39 Image of day on 06 Jan 2018
Tail still spread from aerobraking, this Blue Tit almost glows on the ground.
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Image Taken on 13 Feb 2024
at 07:52 Image of day on 08 Mar 2024
A glowing Blue Tit lands on the kitchen perch
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Image Taken on 14 Jan 2015
at 15:22 Image of day on 23 Feb 2015
We think this Bluetit and Robin are both landing from different directions.
(There is usually very little wind in this sheltered hedge bottom so the
routine 'landing into the wind' rule doesn't apply).
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Ref: 20150223_e63_20150114_1522_152_fb1 bluetit and robin landing at either end of stone simultaneously(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Oct 2011
at 17:10 Image of day on 04 Dec 2011
A nice show of feathers from this Bluetit fluttering through the hedge bottom.
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Image Taken on 25 Apr 2015
at 12:35 Image of day on 15 Jun 2015
We can only guess why this Blue tit spent several minutes
fluttering it's wings in the hedge outside the living room
window. We couldn't hear any calling (although through double
glazing) or see any other bird. At one point the bird landed on
the Windowsill and pecked the glass, so perhaps it was displaying
to it's reflection.
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Ref: 20150615_df3_20150425_1235_517 bluetit fluttering wings in hedge outside living room window for several minutes 1 of 5 (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 25 Apr 2015
at 12:35 Image of day on 15 Jun 2015
4 more images from the Bluetit's excited behaviour outside our
living room window.
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Ref: 20150615_df3_20150425_1235_520-1238_581 bluetit fluttering wings in hedge outside living room window for several minutes 2-5 of 5 (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Jul 2010
at 10:32 Image of day on 28 Aug 2010
Apparently Great tits and Bluetits occasionally produce a second
brood.. Maybe all the peanut feeders & other food offerings we
provide speed up raising the first brood, because we are seeing
multiple batches of new young tits at the kitchen window feeders,
and here 50m away at the tree stump they photograph themselves.
This is a montage of a young Bluetit and young Great Tit
photographed about an hour apart but in their actual positions.
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Ref: 20100828_d35_20100724_1032_042+1139_047_fb4 young bluetit landing + young great tit standing on tree stump (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Jun 2016
at 18:01 Image of day on 22 Jul 2016
Bluetits from the nearest nest box make a visit every minute or
two until the peanut butter (saltless variety) has gone.
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Ref: 20160722_df3_20160609_1801_051+052+054 bluetit landing on meadow post 1+2+4 of 5 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Jul 2010
at 10:02 Image of day on 04 Sep 2010
Genuine single frame (the bluetit at the left selectively
sharpened) of a couple of the new inhabitants of our patch. Tits
sometimes produce second or late broods - this year both Bluetits
and Great tit have done just that.
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Ref: 20100904_d35_20100728_1002_040_fb4 young bluetit landing on tree stump with young great tit already standing on it (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 21 Dec 2009
at 09:07 Image of day on 23 Jan 2010
The tree trunk top camera got a lot of snow related portraits of
which this Bluetit is a sample.
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Ref: 20100123_d35_20091221_0907_002_fb4 bluetit landing on trunk top(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Jan 2014
at 15:21 Image of day on 27 Feb 2014
Gangway!
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Ref: 20140227_d50_20140109_1521_031_fb1 bluetit twisting in flight (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Dec 2014
at 09:52 Image of day on 04 Feb 2015
Morning and afternoon moments of a Bluetit in flight, montaged
to make a little composition of unusually sharp images in flight.
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