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  • 19-02-2011 5:52pm
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    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭


    Look at this little beauty that I nabbed today! :D

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    #2
    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    Jaysus, there savage photos! What species of bat is it?
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    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    You lucky thing!!!! :D

    I'm not great on bats. What type is it?


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    #4
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    No idea guys, was hoping someone here would be able to tell me.

    Absolutely tiny little thing though.


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    trebor28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    why you little.........:mad:


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    #6
    Cardynal
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭Cardynal


    Excellent shots , well done


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    Half-cocked
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    What gear did you use? I can never get AF quick enough for bats. Super shots!


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    #8
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Manual focus on a newly purchased Canon 100-400. :)


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    #9
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    icon_eek.gif Oh dear god!!! And I was expecting to see a bat in ye hand. Like one had crawled out of somewhere .....

    That is some absolutely stunning photography! eusa_clap.gif


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    Half-cocked
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    whyulittle wrote: »
    Manual focus on a newly purchased Canon 100-400. :)

    Cool. You obviously have good eyesight!


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    #11
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,187 ✭✭✭emo72


    i was watching a pair of bats in binoculars last summer. they were very hard to track.
    i would describe their flying style as "flittery feckers":D fair play for snapping those shots.


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    artieanna
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    Well captured, great detail:eek:, I'm glad he took a daytime flyabout...


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    #13
    mecksimay
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭mecksimay


    Great photographs, perhaps a Leisler's as look quite big but hard to tell really!?


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    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    What size was it compared to a Swallow or some other bird you know?


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    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Hard to say exactly. I considered it quite small.

    Here is the uncropped and cropped versions of the first shot above. It was shot at 400mm, and I'd say was never more than 10-15 yards away.

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    Rainbowsend
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Wonderful shots, and well done for getting them! Maybe a Pipistrelle? They are very small but are a more tan than brown.


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    #17
    sables2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭sables2


    AH Your the man WUL.... What fantastic photo's you produced!!


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