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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 14
Image Taken on 02 Apr 2017
at 07:27 Image of day on 20 May 2017
As the pair of Canada Geese flew away their overlapping wings made some
interesting patterns that we have tried to turn into an interesting 'design'.
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Image Taken on 02 Apr 2017
at 07:20 Image of day on 20 May 2017
3 Canada Geese circled past before turning into the wind to land in or by a lake by the brook.
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Image Taken on 02 Apr 2017
at 07:27 Image of day on 20 May 2017
A Pair of Canada Geese make a Flyby before disappearing into the distance.
Accurately spaced at about 7 fps
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Image Taken on 13 Sep 2019
at 06:48 Image of day on 03 Nov 2019
Groups of 10 or 15 Canada Geese, flying over in the early morning, has
progressed to this group of about 60, seen here against the morning sky.
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Ref: 20191103_df3_20190913_0648_125 60 canada geese in flight to south(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 13 Sep 2019
at 06:49 Image of day on 03 Nov 2019
A minute later the Canada Geese have formed into a long skein for their couple of minutes
or so journey west.
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Image Taken on 28 Sep 2014
at 07:05 Image of day on 10 Dec 2014
We could have 'erased' the one bird breaking the symmetry of this
Vegetarian society 'V' shape, but think the shape is lovely
anyway. Birds fly in these formations to use the wake of the bird
in front and to one side to get a 'tow'. At the moment all the
geese fly off to the North East rather than to the local lakes.
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Ref: 20141210_df2_20140928_0705_387 30 canada geese in v-shaped skein at dawn (crop 1)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Sep 2014
at 07:05 Image of day on 10 Dec 2014
When an image is overexposed and 'burnt out' we often make a
negative of it as part of the procedure for correcting the
highlights (which become lowlights where you can use gamma
correction to selectively correct it). But as the negative
appeared on the screen we both went 'oooo' and thought you might
also enjoy the purity.
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Ref: 20141210_df2_20140928_0705_387 30 canada geese in v-shaped skein at dawn (negative crop 2)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Sep 2013
at 06:46 Image of day on 17 Nov 2013
On a quiet morning around dawn we saw about 1000 Canada Geese in
the distance and overhead. Unexpectedly we did not hear their
strident calls in flight - only from the distant fields as they set off.
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Ref: 20131117_df1_20130915_0646_107 canada geese skeins at dawn (crop)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Sep 2013
at 06:47 Image of day on 17 Nov 2013
On a quiet morning around dawn we saw about 1000 Canada Geese in
the distance and overhead. Unexpectedly we did not hear their
strident calls in flight - only from the distant fields as they set off.
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Ref: 20131117_df1_20130915_0647_149 canada geese skeins at dawn (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Sep 2013
at 06:48 Image of day on 16 Nov 2013
On a quiet morning around dawn we saw about 1000 Canada Geese in
the distance and overhead. Unexpectedly we did not hear their
strident calls in flight - only from the distant fields as they set off.
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Ref: 20131116_df1_20130915_0648_197 canada geese skeins at dawn (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Sep 2013
at 06:48 Image of day on 16 Nov 2013
On a quiet morning around dawn we saw about 1000 Canada Geese in
the distance and overhead. Unexpectedly we did not hear their
strident calls in flight - only from the distant fields as they set off.
Although a montage (for a blur on the two left birds) this is
what we saw - the bird feathers luminous in the glow of the
rising sun.
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Ref: 20131116_df1_20130915_0648_200+201 canada geese skeins at dawn with wings catching rising sunlight (montage for focus)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 03 Mar 2020
at 17:37 Image of day on 25 Mar 2020
A Carrion crow touches down with a short but substantial stick.
So there must a be Crow's nest on our patch but we haven't found it yet.
This pair of Crows habitually build in evergreen trees, and it is
hard to spot from the ground with them high in the canopy.
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Ref: 20200325_d01_20200303_1737_095_fb6 carrion crow carrying short thick twig in beak landing on meadow post(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 10 Oct 2009
at 14:57 Image of day on 13 Nov 2009
We like to see buzzards, but the carrion crows are a lot less
keen and mob them, usually without much success beyond a minor
evasion. Although only one bird is in this frame, 4 of them were
wheeling round the action.
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Ref: 20091113_db1_20091010_1457_680 carrion crow harassing buzzard in flight (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Nov 2023
at 13:24 Image of day on 17 Dec 2023
We watched this Carrion Crow for a couple of minutes, first in the distance gradually
moving closer until passing us perhaps 20 metres away. The black bird against blank
clouds both prevent an 'accurate' montage, and make seeing detail in the feathers
seemingly impossible. So here we go the other way as a Silhouette.
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Ref: 20231217_d73_20231101_1324_045-049 carrion crow in flight (close spaced montage 2 as silhouette)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image of day on 22 May 2005
The carrion crows are already feeding their young at
5 a.m. This one must have visited just after the camera
memory card was changed in the hope some food had been
left at the visit.
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Ref: 20050522_d3e_16556 fb1 carrion crow in flight 2005may19_05-33-14(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 18 Feb 2019
at 14:50 Image of day on 19 Mar 2019
A day of heavy rain doesn't put the 'dampers' on the Carrion Crows.
As this Carrion Crow flies in to the post you can see water splashing above
it's head.
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Ref: 20190319_d01_20190218_1450_040+1451_041_fb6 carrion crow landing on meadow post in heavy rain (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 07 Jan 2018
at 15:54 Image of day on 10 Feb 2018
Mrs and Mr Chaffinch just about 3 minutes apart as the sun sets.
Did you know that both sun and Moon move their own similar visual
diameters in close to 2 minutes? Here you can see that the suns
(rather blurred) disc is moving down and to the right shows
about this amount of movement.
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Ref: 20180210_d36_20180107_1554_093+1557_094_fb4 chaffinch female & male landing on tree-stump at sunset 3 minutes apart (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 30 Jul 2012
at 18:47 Image of day on 02 Sep 2012
The female has a deformed or long ago injured right foot. We have
seen this many times in ducks and geese (then usually caused by
limbs being tourniquetted by fishing line) and they seem to
manage 'OK'
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Ref: 20120902_d45_20120730_1847_027_fb1 chaffinch female (right foot deformed) in flight(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 16 Dec 2011
at 14:20 Image of day on 20 Jan 2012
4 Successive frames saw this chaffinch flying fairly close by the
male Great Spotted Woodpecker within just 3 minutes. We are sure
it was trying harass it away.
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Image Taken on 15 Mar 2007
at 16:08 Image of day on 01 Apr 2007
Perhaps this female chaffinch is the object the fight
in yesterdays image (same site and similar time next day).
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Ref: 20070401_d35_20070315_1608_003 fb2 chaffinch female in flight(r+mb id@576).jpg
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