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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 21
Image Taken on 01 Dec 2015
at 12:46 Image of day on 11 Jan 2016
A small group of Fieldfares flew by and while concentrating on
keeping the bird starting at middle left in focus and in frame 2
other birds crossed it's path. Spacing is possibly half the true
spacings but there is nothing to align for accuracy.
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Ref: 20160111_df3_20151201_1246_073-079 fieldfare in flight with 2 others 1-7 of 7 (close spaced montage 1)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image of day on 21 Jan 2005
Night Photo Kit 1: Fieldfare turning in flight taken 19 Jan 2005 16-45
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Image Taken on 08 Dec 2010
at 12:16 Image of day on 02 Feb 2011
Next day about half the local flock of Fieldfares (plus a few
interlopers) perched in one of our 20yr old black poplars just
long enough to get this picture - they are very skittish birds
and don't allow humans to get anywhere near.
 in black poplar (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20110202_df1_20101208_1216_002 100 fieldfares (of about 200 flock) in black poplar (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Dec 2015
at 12:42 Image of day on 12 Jan 2016
Fieldfares are nervous birds and tend to depart when we appear,
but often inexplicably flying over us as they go. In this photo
we count 3 Fieldfares with a berry in the beak, but there may be more.
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Ref: 20160112_df3_20151201_1242_042 50 fieldfares in flight 3 with berries in beak (crop)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Oct 2021
at 20:16 Image of day on 30 Nov 2021
A chance moment of 2 Fieldmice (Wood Mice), one making a very awkward looking landing
from which they undoubtedly 'bounced' unharmed, along with 3 leopard
slugs in the surrounding leaf litter.
Where are the slugs - under the horizontal mouse, another in front of the
horizontal mouse, and another just 'above' that one, half buried in the leaf litter.
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Ref: 20211130_e64_20211020_2016_249_fb2 2 fieldmice (wood mice) (one landing head first) + 3 leopard slugs(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 16 Oct 2017
at 05:08 Image of day on 24 Nov 2017
A couple of Fieldmice (Wood Mice) in the hours before dawn, practising spectacular leaps.
Such ability might be very useful in escaping from the local Cat.
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Ref: 20171124_e62_20171016_0508_315_fb5 2 fieldmice (wood mice) tumbling in mid-air (crop 1)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image of day on 14 Mar 2005
We have no idea what startled these two fieldmice (wood mice).
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Ref: 20050314_d3e_12188 fb1 2 fieldmice (wood mice) with one in mid-air 2005mar07_22-36-40(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Jan 2009
at 20:52 Image of day on 06 Feb 2009
This mouse isn't movement blurred enough to have fallen the 2
meters from the conifer overhead, so is presumably at the top of
it's leap. Hope it made a better landing than looks likely.
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Ref: 20090206_d3a_20090117_2052_033 fb2 fieldmouse (wood mouse) in mid-air head down (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 07 Sep 2008
at 22:23 Image of day on 24 Sep 2008
The fieldmice (wood mice) population has exploded over the summer, and the
energetic and incautious youngsters are doing their customary
acrobatics.
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Ref: 20080924_d3b_20080907_2223_061 fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) landing from leap(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Oct 2006
at 19:13 Image of day on 21 Oct 2006
This vertically landing fieldmouse (wood mouse) is a puzzle as there is
nothing closer than about 1m from which it could have jumped.
Their gymnastics constantly amaze us.
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Ref: 20061021_d3e_20061009_1913_008 fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) landing vertically(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 06 Sep 2007
at 21:50 Image of day on 08 Oct 2007
We often see mice in positions we can't see they can land
properly from, and now we see that sometimes they don't.
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Ref: 20071008_d36_20070906_2150_175 fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) making heavy landing(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 06 Jul 2020
at 10:51 Image of day on 13 Aug 2020
We do enjoy these 'Fox & Cubs' flowers self-set around the house and providing
flashes of brilliant orange. The insects like them too.
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Ref: 20200813_d73_20200706_1051_019 fox & cubs flowers with 2 marmalade hover-flies(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Nov 2022
at 05:16 Image of day on 02 Dec 2022
Most creatures enter at the south straight down into the ditch.
For some reason this Fox slinks behind the tree to cross the ditch a few
metres to the right.
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Ref: 20221202_bu7_20221101_0516_061+0517_062+063 fox enters at south hedge & circles behind tree before crossing ditch (adjusted montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image of day on 18 Mar 2005
First 'sighting' of a frog here this year would be this fun if
rather inelegant image.
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Ref: 20050318_d3e_12760 fb1 frog landing with rear legs in the air 2005mar17_01-33-30(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Jul 2011
at 13:40 Image of day on 05 Sep 2011
This pair didn't have it all their own way - another individual
(probably a male) fluttered around them but they ignored him.
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Ref: 20110905_df1_20110727_1340_106 gatekeeper butterflies mating on thistle down with another fluttering round the pair(r+mb id@432).jpg
Image Taken on 25 Mar 2016
at 12:31 Image of day on 27 Apr 2016
A few hours after the Buzzards found a nearby thermal, this glider spirals up in a thermal
on the sun-facing slope to our south.
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Ref: 20160427_df3_20160325_1231_340-354 glider g-chpx 693 circling through clouds 07-19+21 of 23 (impression montage at about 1 fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Jun 2015
at 12:39 Image of day on 27 Aug 2015
This glider appeared in a Thermal. Taking a frame about every 2 seconds we hoped
to produce an accurate montage. But it would have been as wide as a desk so we have
contracted the gaps and simply softened the cloud discontinuities.
The Green arrow is the first exposure, moving counter clockwise.
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Ref: 20150827_df3_20150624_1239_264-277 glider g-ckdo circling in thermal about 2 second intervals 01-13 of 14 (tight impression montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image of day on 24 Sep 2005
Gliders are among the more welcome aerial visitors being
quiet and graceful, unlike helicopters on their way to
Silverstone Racetrack and the military Chinooks which
shake the whole house. On 8 August we saw a series of
about 40 gliders gaining height in a local thermal.
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Ref: 20050924_d60_03794 gliders circling se thermal (crop & proc) 2005aug08_16-33-38(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 29 Oct 2017
at 11:07 Image of day on 07 Dec 2017
A few fleeting glimpses of Goldfinches is augmented by this self portrait as one
comes in to land.
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Ref: 20171207_e62_20171029_1107_003_fb5 goldfinch landing(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 May 2018
at 14:53 Image of day on 28 Jun 2018
Goldfinches have done well this year, through we haven't spotted any of
the nests. The fluffy down in the beak was put down on the branch and
left there as the bird flew off.
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Ref: 20180628_df3_20180514_1453_229 goldfinch landing on conifer with beakful of plant down put down before flying off 1 of 2 (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
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