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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 23
Image Taken on 01 Jun 2011
at 07:01 Image of day on 09 Jul 2011
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker arrives behind an apparently
oblivious Grey Squirrel. When we first saw this we wished we had
another frame a second or two later.
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Image Taken on 08 Aug 2013
at 17:58 Image of day on 30 Sep 2013
Is this juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker watching the wasp?
Is the bird planning to try and catch it?
We wish we knew!
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Image Taken on 25 Jun 2021
at 18:19 Image of day on 29 Jul 2021
Here are two juvenile Great Spotted Woodpeckers - what is going on we can only guess.
We often see juvenile Woodpeckers mistakenly begging from each other!
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Image Taken on 24 Oct 2022
at 12:32 Image of day on 25 Nov 2022
Talk about Lartigue's 'decisive moment' - this Great tit is perhaps 3mm
from actual landing on the stone!
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Image Taken on 01 Feb 2012
at 15:20 Image of day on 06 Mar 2012
Another squabble over access to the peanut feeder in the freezing
weather. Not that there isn't plenty for them all.
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Image Taken on 19 Dec 2010
at 10:26 Image of day on 15 Feb 2011
An almost surreal mid air squabble.
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Image Taken on 20 Dec 2010
at 15:12 Image of day on 21 Feb 2011
An unusual view in the snow of an otherwise fairly typical
aerial skirmish between a great tit and robin.
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Image Taken on 06 Jul 2013
at 07:46 Image of day on 28 Aug 2013
The original frame included a female chaffinch with back to
camera threatening all and sundry, but the most satisfying crop
shows just this Great Tit about to brave the Chaffinch's ire.
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Image Taken on 28 May 2010
at 13:47 Image of day on 01 Jul 2010
And an opportunity for this nice bird in flight - for once
without a fecal sack as it leaves the box.
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Image Taken on 25 Mar 2007
at 15:45 Image of day on 10 Apr 2007
This great Tit was caught in flight over the site.
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Image Taken on 18 Dec 2014
at 11:38 Image of day on 04 Feb 2015
Enjoy the claws and their shadow on the wings of this Great Tit in flight.
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Image Taken on 21 Oct 2011
at 17:15 Image of day on 07 Dec 2011
Down in the hedge bottom a Great Tit shows off it's wings with
lovely symmetry. The bluetit watches.
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Image Taken on 05 Jan 2013
at 15:34 Image of day on 08 Feb 2013
In a flurry of wings this Great Tit flies off.
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Image Taken on 27 Mar 2007
at 17:46 Image of day on 15 Apr 2007
Unusually clear picture of a Great tit in flight. In it beak is a
wet peanut, and a flake of chopped bark (we have used to stop the
sites becoming mud-wallows) stuck to it's chest.
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Image Taken on 11 Aug 2016
at 16:30 Image of day on 03 Oct 2016
We are always trying to catch Swifts, Swallows and Martins in the act of
catching an insect, but this year there has been a worrying lack of
opportunities. But here the kitchen window camera catches a Robin making such an
attempt. We often see birds make sudden diversions that we assume are to catch
some food item, but have never actually seen the target before.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2006
at 17:22 Image of day on 26 Jul 2006
Very hot and dry, a dish of water at each feeding station
(this one hidden behind the log) has attracted this great-tit.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2010
at 18:15 Image of day on 12 Nov 2010
A fairly typical encounter at the camera sites, this time between
a robin and a great tit. Note the capricious floating seed in
front of the robin's beak.
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Image Taken on 02 Feb 2015
at 12:57 Image of day on 17 Mar 2015
This Great Tit is just landing. The front claws have just touched the
surface, but the back claws have not. The wings are already folded.
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Image Taken on 26 Mar 2013
at 14:25 Image of day on 27 Apr 2013
Robin this time getting some resistance from a Great Tit.
We expect the Robin 'won' anyway
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Image Taken on 16 Dec 2013
at 14:58 Image of day on 01 Feb 2014
The Great Tits had a good breeding season.
(We are sure the Sparrowhawk will be pleased as well)
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