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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 7
Image Taken on 03 Aug 2011
at 04:58 Image of day on 17 Sep 2011
This is a Brown Long-eared bat zooming past an upper floor
window leaving his shadow on the wall.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2010
at 05:59 Image of day on 06 Nov 2010
The upright posture of the bat at the top looks like something
out of a Dracula story.
People frightened of bats getting tangled in hair etc. should know that
we have spent hours with them flying around our heads and Marie
has long fine hair, and although we sometimes feel the breeze of
them passing none has ever touched us or our equipment. They seem
to 'see in the dark' (echolocate) better than see in the day.
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Image Taken on 05 Sep 2010
at 05:46 Image of day on 28 Oct 2010
And our favourite single frame with all that wonderful texture in
the stretched wing membranes.
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Image Taken on 12 Sep 2007
at 05:56 Image of day on 26 Sep 2007
Bats are suddenly in evidence. They are difficult to identify even in
photos, but we think we are seeing Pipistrelles in the evenings
& these brown long-eared some mornings.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2010
at 05:54 Image of day on 06 Nov 2010
A morning session photographing bats flying round before entering
their roost in our loft is portrayed as this montage over about 5 minutes.
Positions are adjusted to avoid overlaps. The house wall is accurately
positioned for the bat closest to it (i.e. from the same frame).
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Image Taken on 19 Sep 2009
at 19:50 Image of day on 26 Oct 2009
Next day viewed from the other side of the exit hole using
multi-exposure flash we caught these 3 moments of a bats flight
here accurately montaged back together. A fixed camera setup
with 20m cable release so we could react in time watching from the
other side.
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Image Taken on 04 Dec 2017
at 12:03 Image of day on 07 Jan 2018
For several minutes the female Bullfinch pecked off dry Blackberry fruit by
hovering for a few seconds in front of the bunch. Here you see moments from two
separate flights to pick fruit from the bunch, each time returning to an
obscured twig above to consume her prize.
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Image Taken on 19 May 2024
at 09:24 Image of day on 15 Jun 2024
This 1.5m tall Foxglove is growing up the metalwork of the
conservatory security gate, and is a favourite with the local bees.
This appears to be one of our regular Bumble Bees species - a Buff-tailed.
We had no idea that Bumble Bees could fold back their proboscis in this manner.
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Image Taken on 15 Jun 2013
at 12:35 Image of day on 29 Jul 2013
Green Alkanet is very attractive to many insects.
This is an atypically small species of Bumble-bee without a
common name, here caught hovering at a flower.
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Ref: 20130729_df1_20130615_1235_047 bumble-bee (bombus pratorum (q)) hovering at green alkanet flower (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 06 Jan 2021
at 15:22 Image of day on 05 Feb 2021
As the sun lowers in the sky (not that it ever gets to any great
height at the moment) this Buzzard makes a landing on the Meadow
post, but doesn't stay. These two moments are less than half a
second apart.
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Image Taken on 21 Jul 2017
at 16:32 Image of day on 06 Sep 2017
This buzzard is a treat - calling our attention with the characteristic plaintive cries.
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Image Taken on 14 Aug 2008
at 10:01 Image of day on 26 Aug 2008
A buzzard appeared from nowhere, made a few loud calls that got
Roy stampeding out with the camera, and then did a couple of
circles at about 15m high before disappearing out of sight.
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Image Taken on 30 Sep 2017
at 12:36 Image of day on 09 Nov 2017
This Buzzard flew by, shrieking his head off, but soon vanished.
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Image Taken on 24 Jul 2016
at 08:15 Image of day on 11 Sep 2016
The bird decided to join his family in the air and we caught this moment
in flight still calling in flight.
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Image Taken on 22 Sep 2016
at 13:26 Image of day on 10 Nov 2016
The 'noisy' (forever calling) Buzzard being - err - noisy.
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Image Taken on 11 Aug 2010
at 15:34 Image of day on 19 Sep 2010
One buzzard (particularly given to calling repeatedly in flight) started
frequenting fields to our north giving us some photo
opportunities. This sequence is of it flying against a cut crop
field 'underneath' local landmark Hanslope Church
1 montage shown in ever increasing detail of the bird as it started to call.
Camera frame rate about 7 fps
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Image Taken on 11 Aug 2010
at 15:34 Image of day on 19 Sep 2010
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Image Taken on 11 Aug 2010
at 15:34 Image of day on 19 Sep 2010
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Image Taken on 29 Jun 2024
at 08:22 Image of day on 07 Aug 2024
A more detailed pic of the buzzard just before the top of the montage.
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Image Taken on 21 Jul 2020
at 10:47 Image of day on 25 Aug 2020
The same bird then started serious circling in a Thermal, though obviously not a very strong one.
From 64 continuous frames of one complete circle we offer the montage of 'highlights'
Our paint package just can't handle image big enough to cover the whole event in one go.
If any of you want a lengthy distraction and have a paint package to match, please
let us know and we will 'zip' up the 64 pics and put them on the web site for you to collect.
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