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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 18
Image Taken on 27 May 2016
at 18:09 Image of day on 10 Jul 2016
A male Chaffinch making a near vertical lift-off.
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Ref: 20160710_df3_20160527_1809_271+272 chaffinch male making near vertical takeoff from meadow post 1+2 of 2 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 12 Oct 2015
at 17:47 Image of day on 06 Dec 2015
A Dunnock with claws ready for action attacks an equally belligerent
but positionally disadvantaged male Chaffinch on the ground.
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Ref: 20151206_e63_20151012_1747_049_fb1 chaffinch male on ground attacked by dunnock in flight (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 11 Jun 2012
at 17:57 Image of day on 16 Jul 2012
No idea what was going on here.
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Ref: 20120716_d5c_20120611_1757_006_fb2 chaffinch male turning in flight over grey squirrel (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Sep 2013
at 18:20 Image of day on 10 Nov 2013
Another image of chaffinches males fighting - here they are
battling away both in flight above a spread of food.
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Ref: 20131110_d36_20130909_1820_016_fb4 2 chaffinch males fighting in flight (crop 2)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 05 Aug 2022
at 09:24 Image of day on 18 Sep 2022
Chaffinches are aggressive birds, the males especially so.
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Ref: 20220918_e63_20220805_0924_142_fb1 2 chaffinch males in flight skirmish(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Sep 2021
at 18:05 Image of day on 04 Nov 2021
A couple of male Chaffinches, neither willing to give up the contest.
He will swerve First!|
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Ref: 20211104_e63_20210920_1805_060_fb1 2 chaffinch males mid-air conflict (crop)t(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 13 Feb 2013
at 15:17 Image of day on 28 Mar 2013
The male Chaffinches continue their battle for access to the
peanut feeder even in the snow. Meanwhile the Great Tit makes a
beeline for the temporarily unguarded peanut feeder!
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Ref: 20130328_d3b_20130213_1517_038_fb3 2 chaffinch males sparring in flight over passing great tit while snowing (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Jun 2009
at 06:49 Image of day on 21 Jul 2009
The male chaffinches are apparently still feeling territorial.
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Ref: 20090721_d36_20090620_0649_077_fb3 2 chaffinch males squabbling in flight(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 24 May 2011
at 18:10 Image of day on 05 Jul 2011
Our first 'Chiffchaff' (confirmed by the call even if it may be a sub-species)
has rather taken our fancy. Here it is a montage of it calling from it's favourite
perch on the mains wire between the house and the first concrete post.
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Ref: 20110705_d01_20110524_1810_090+1811_097 chiffchaff singing on overhead wire (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Nov 2013
at 07:26 Image of day on 29 Dec 2013
6 Gigantic geese made of water mist winging through the dawn sky.
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Ref: 20131229_df1_20131108_0726_009 clouds shaped like skein of geese (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 07 Feb 2013
at 15:48 Image of day on 21 Mar 2013
A flurry of subtle grey feathers as a collared dove flies over the log
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Ref: 20130321_d5c_20130207_1548_029_fb2 collared dove in flight (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 18 May 2015
at 17:47 Image of day on 19 Jul 2015
A selection of 4 images (in the proper order but not consecutive)
of a Collared Dove flying by, arranged for effect.
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Ref: 20150719_df3_20150518_1747_083+086+090+092 collared dove in flight (selected) 1-4 of 4 (impression montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 16 Jun 2015
at 09:19 Image of day on 16 Aug 2015
This year this Collared Dove is making regular visits to the tree stump.
These images were all taken well before midday and montaged for the
pleasure of seeing the bird.
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Ref: 20150816_d36_20150616_0919_049+20150618_0626_109+20150616_0921_050_fb4 collared dove landing on tree-stump (impression montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 10 Mar 2009
at 17:32 Image of day on 30 Mar 2009
This pair of collared doves were 'playing' in the wind at sunset
with the orange sunlight 'playing' over them.
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Ref: 20090330_db1_20090310_1732_015 pair of collared doves in flight in low evening sunlight (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Sep 2023
at 10:38 Image of day on 05 Nov 2023
The Comma Butterfly on the left 'won' the encounter and quickly got back to feeding.
An inadvertent fly didn't disturb the Butterfly.
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Ref: 20231105_df3_20230914_1038_079 comma butterfly feeding on blackberry fruit with incidental insect flyby(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 04 Apr 2009
at 13:41 Image of day on 25 Apr 2009
Took us a while to identify this as a 'bee-fly' - then discovered we first identified one last
year on 15 April 2008, so this sighting is over a week earlier. It is hovering in front of
the blackthorn flower - you can see the wings as smudges left and right of the insect.
Here is the 15 Apr 2008
Bee-fly on Leaf litter (click to view).
 hovering in front of blackthorn flower (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg)
Ref: 20090425_db1_20090404_1341_101 common bee-fly (bombylius major) hovering in front of blackthorn flower (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Aug 2020
at 13:11 Image of day on 27 Sep 2020
One of the fun things about Darter Dragonflies is that they often return to the perch
from which they have just flown, given a chance to photograph a landing as here.
NOT an accurate montage but a decent 'impression'.
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Ref: 20200927_d73_20200820_1311_155+156+158 common darter dragonfly female landing on woodpile twig 2+3+5 of 5 (impression montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 06 Aug 2016
at 14:35 Image of day on 29 Sep 2016
A Common Darter Dragonfly was repeatedly returning to this bent over Hop Sedge
providing the opportunity for an image of the landing.
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Ref: 20160929_df3_20160806_1435_181+182 common darter dragonfly landing on desiccated hop sedge 1+2 of 3 (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Sep 2024
at 15:58 Image of day on 19 Oct 2024
This male Common Darter Dragonfly caught an eye perched on one of the mains cables on
its final span from concrete pole to house. We don't have any reference to a similar sighting.
The Dragonfly was behaving normally for a Darter - sitting quietly before leaping out to grab
some, to us at the distance of perhaps 6 metres, invisible prey item, before returning
to the same perch. When the perch is a stick or similar you can keep the camera firing
images until the hoped for return, but hundreds of twists of copper wire look the same
to both man and beast, and the Dragonfly never landed in the same place twice!
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Ref: 20241019_d72_20240901_1558_089 common darter dragonfly male hunting from overhead mains cable(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Sep 2020
at 17:38 Image of day on 20 Oct 2020
A magical moment at the time, and still is in this photo,
as this Common Darter Dragonfly gently lands next to his shadow.
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Ref: 20201020_d73_20200909_1738_105 common darter dragonfly male landing on corrugated iron with shadow 2 of 3 (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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