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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 24
Image Taken on 23 Jun 2023
at 18:35 Image of day on 22 Aug 2023
We have both male and female Green Woodpeckers visiting the Meadow Post.
This is the female with a black stripe under her eye.
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Image Taken on 17 Jun 2024
at 06:49 Image of day on 16 Jul 2024
Next morning the mile of new railings installed by the Farm provides a
perch for this Green Woodpecker.
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Image Taken on 18 Feb 2021
at 15:39 Image of day on 20 Mar 2021
A Green Woodpecker stops for a moment on the meadow post.
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Image Taken on 11 Jun 2019
at 06:49 Image of day on 20 Jul 2019
A really soggy adult Green Woodpecker starts a rainy day.
Here begins 4 days of almost continuous rain and drizzle, during which
over 90mm of rain (3.5 inches) was accompanied by endless overcast
skies.
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Image Taken on 04 Sep 2021
at 17:47 Image of day on 15 Oct 2021
This more advanced juvenile male Green Woodpecker lands on the Meadow post.
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Image Taken on 21 Aug 2021
at 16:25 Image of day on 29 Sep 2021
The juvenile male Green Woodpecker makes a flamboyant landing.
We has obviously been probing the ground and bought some of it back with him.
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Image Taken on 25 May 2023
at 12:09 Image of day on 19 Jul 2023
Green Woodpeckers are back to frequenting the Meadow Post.
This beautiful male lands on the side - tail acting as a third landing 'leg'.
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Image Taken on 11 Jun 2020
at 13:11 Image of day on 10 Jul 2020
A male Green Woodpecker checking over the Meadow post.
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Image Taken on 11 Jul 2023
at 10:46 Image of day on 04 Sep 2023
It is clear that we have regular visits from a family of Green Woodpeckers - Mum, Dad
and now at least one sprog.
Here is the male landing in an extremely poor state - probably still wet from a bath.
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Image Taken on 29 Aug 2021
at 11:14 Image of day on 12 Oct 2021
An adult male Green Woodpecker graces the meadow Post for a few minutes.
Read this right to left - a heavy landing, a scramble for secure footing, and then
a few minutes watching the world go by.
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Image Taken on 03 Aug 2019
at 09:14 Image of day on 23 Sep 2019
The flowering Mint has run riot this year after the warm spell gave it an early start,
and is attracting masses of insects.
Here a Greenbottle and a Long Hover-fly share adjacent flower spikes.
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Ref: 20190923_df3_20190803_0914_004 greenbottle (lucilia caesar) + long hover-fly (sphaerophoria scripta) on mint flowers(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Nov 2015
at 12:35 Image of day on 21 Dec 2015
A Greenfinch flying in to the peanut feeder has just spotted a rival
already in 'possession'.
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Image Taken on 10 Sep 2015
at 13:12 Image of day on 11 Nov 2015
The Greenfinches have suddenly returned after the summer, this
one making a not very accurate landing on the perch (dropping a
bit short)
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Image Taken on 28 Jan 2020
at 14:15 Image of day on 18 Feb 2020
When we have put out this type of large un-caged Peanut feeder Grey Squirrels
often work their way around the bottom, scraping out fragments of
peanut. This series over a couple of minutes.
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Image Taken on 07 Nov 2021
at 14:05 Image of day on 15 Dec 2021
This abstract pattern is the tail tip of a Grey Squirrel.
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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2017
at 17:14 Image of day on 16 Nov 2017
A silly montage of most likely the same Squirrel in action (right image came
first) and a quarter of an our later nibbling what is left of the food. We like
the latest 'layering effect' of the fur.
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Image Taken on 21 May 2014
at 19:06 Image of day on 29 Jul 2014
"Look Mum - No Paws. Ouch!"
We don't even know whether this was the same squirrel, but you get the idea.
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Image Taken on 21 Jan 2017
at 10:26 Image of day on 01 Mar 2017
It is easy to miss Greylag Geese flying overhead because they are almost silent.
Canada Geese calls can be heard before they come into sight, and swans powerful
wings whistle if they get close. So spotting these before they got to us from
behind allowed this nearly vertical above image. We particularly like the 4
birds at the bottom of the image managing to overlap but not hide any heads.
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Image Taken on 25 Nov 2023
at 11:05 Image of day on 04 Jan 2024
We are fairly useless at IDs for Gulls, but the mottled plumage tells
us that this is a juvenile.
Our best guess is a Juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gull.
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Image Taken on 08 Feb 2025
at 12:58 Image of day on 16 Mar 2025
The sodden fields around us attract gulls to eat invertebrates (probably mostly worms)
brought to the surface to avoid drowning. The new wooden railings let us get
rather closer than in previous years.
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