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Birds - Herons, Egret & Snipe Page 9
Image Taken on 24 May 2015
at 13:16 Image of day on 27 Jul 2015
While walking down the road verge this Little Egret made a
delightful flight along the 11kV power line. This is an accurate
montage at 7fps from which we extracted 3 images for the closer
look adjacent.
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Ref: 20150727_df3_20150524_1316_474-479 little egret in flight against trees 1-6 of 7 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 24 May 2015
at 13:16 Image of day on 27 Jul 2015
A Little Egret flying along the line of the 11kV power lines gave us
this opportunity for a flight study. These 3 consecutive frames
at 7fps are at about half the true spacing in order to enjoy some
detail on the bird. The original montage is adjacent.
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Ref: 20150727_df3_20150524_1316_475-477 little egret in flight against trees 2-4 of 7 (horizontally contracted montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 10 Feb 2018
at 07:31 Image of day on 18 Mar 2018
Facing away from a lurid dawn, this Little Egret flew by us, lit by
the pink of the sky.
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Ref: 20180318_df3_20180210_0731_075-079 little egret in flight lit by sunrise 4-8 of 8 (approx montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 06 Apr 2017
at 10:41 Image of day on 28 May 2017
The Little Egret finally departed and was lost from view.
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Ref: 20170528_df3_20170406_1041_065-069 little egret in flight near brook 1-5 of 5 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Apr 2016
at 10:16 Image of day on 06 May 2016
Very few views of the Little Egret this year. We enjoyed this one flying
over the Rookery. Note that the Rooks do not consider the Egret a threat -
if this was a Buzzard they would rise en-masse to mob it!
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Ref: 20160506_df3_20160401_1016_014-020 little egret in flight over rookery 1-7 of 7 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 11 Jun 2020
at 13:27 Image of day on 15 Jul 2020
We see a Little Egret perhaps once a week. This one was flying about near the
Brook, landed out of sight for a while before re-appearing to provide this view
flying into the gusty east (from the right) wind.
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Ref: 20200715_d73_20200611_1327_061-065 little egret in flight over trees at brook 1-5 of 5 (accurate montage @10fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Apr 2022
at 17:45 Image of day on 08 May 2022
Successive frames, lower then upper.
Natural spacing with no cloud detail would be guesswork, so we had
a little 'artistic' moment.
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Ref: 20220508_df3_20220408_1745_158+157 little egret in flight passing white cloud 2+1 of 5 (montage for detail)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Apr 2022
at 17:45 Image of day on 08 May 2022
These 3 pics are at 7 frames per second - this is a big bird to be flying
with this much separation between frames.
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Ref: 20220508_df3_20220408_1745_163-165 little egret in flight passing white cloud 3--5 of 5 (montage impression @7fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Dec 2016
at 09:28 Image of day on 19 Jan 2017
Our first good sighting of a Little Egret for months was in and
around trees at the brook to the north.
Here is an elegant landing.
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Ref: 20170119_df3_20161214_0928_079+086 little egret landing on branch 1+8 of 8 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Dec 2016
at 09:36 Image of day on 19 Jan 2017
Long legs used to provide 'spring' for the Little Egret lift-off.
Very close to accurately montaged.
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Ref: 20170119_df3_20161214_0936_114-120 little egret launching into flight from tree branch 01-07 of 12 (approx montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Dec 2016
at 09:32 Image of day on 19 Jan 2017
We didn't hear any call so possible disposing of a Little Egret pellet, similar
to Owl Pellets but with different content. Or maybe just a morning yawn!
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Ref: 20170119_df3_20161214_0932_109 little egret perched in tree with beak open (crop)(r+mb id@432).jpg
Image Taken on 12 Mar 2011
at 10:56 Image of day on 12 Apr 2011
Little Egrets are one of those birds we just never saw 20 years
ago. Here one has landed across the local brook and we managed
to get this image through trees branches without scaring the bird away.
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Ref: 20110412_df1_20110312_1056_099 little egret standing in meadow north of brook (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Jan 2012
at 09:58 Image of day on 09 Feb 2012
High in the distant trees our first sighting
this year of a Little Egret, and what looks like a 'pair' at that.
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Image Taken on 11 Feb 2012
at 13:33 Image of day on 08 Mar 2012
This pair of egrets landed in a distant snowy field and
'vanished' against the snow. A walk down the road got us nearer
for this white on white study
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Ref: 20120308_df1_20120211_1333_351 2 little egrets standing in snow covered field to north (adjusted crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 11 Feb 2009
at 15:51 Image of day on 07 Mar 2009
Our first ever photo of a Snipe. The area round this automatic
camera was saturated with running melt water - just right to
attract this mud probing bird and provide this most unexpected event.
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Image Taken on 16 Mar 2012
at 09:54 Image of day on 18 Apr 2012
Worms are definitely on the menu! This is 3 successive frames as
it manoeuvred a worm down its long beak
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Image Taken on 16 Mar 2012
at 10:04 Image of day on 18 Apr 2012
Surprise of the week was this Snipe making a perhaps 30 minute visit
to the grass around. and banks of, the main pond.
How do you preen with a beak half of your body length?
Very nicely apparently.
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Image Taken on 16 Mar 2012
at 09:58 Image of day on 17 Apr 2012
Surprise of the week was this Snipe making a perhaps 30 minute visit
to the grass around. and banks of, the main pond.
Here is a selection of images, all through window glass for fear of
disturbing the visitor.
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Ref: 20120417_dc1_20120316_0958_124 snipe probing grass by edge of main pond (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 16 Mar 2012
at 09:59 Image of day on 17 Apr 2012
This pair of montaged images shows that the bird uses all of the
beak when it needs to.
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Ref: 20120417_dc1_20120316_0959_160+167 snipe probing soil at edge of main pond 3+4 of 8 (montage at same position)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
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