KJ wrote: » Some Guillemots in Gyles Quay.
Bsal wrote: » Female Blackbird sunbathing in the garden yesterday
keps wrote: » Out walking along the dodder today and spotted a kingfisher zipping into a totally shadowed area of branch overhang about 60 feet away on the far side.Could not see a thing in that shadowed cluster with 'the naked eye'- but just zapped the ISO on the camera up to 1600 and fired off a few shots in the general direction. Not, by any means, the best shot you'll see - but interesting how good cameras are at 'processing' images BTW this pic is much brighter than in reality
keps wrote: » I have now done what I should have done earlier and googled ' idenfiying juvenile kingfisher'. There are apparently 2 tell tale signs (1) Feet are darker than the bright orange of an adult -and from above pic section - that is the casefeet (2) There is a pale tip on a juvenile's beak( said to be there to help parents identify location of beak in the dark burrow) - this fades in time.tip Again this is the case PS : Really great news to have two juveniles in the area!
keps wrote: I have now done what I should have done earlier and googled ' idenfiying juvenile kingfisher'.
keps wrote: » A group(family?) of five of these ducks has recently set up temporary home nearby on a section of dry land on the riverbank. Just wondering what breed they are.. heard someone mention hybrids being in the area?
OpenYourEyes wrote: » Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre, as it known as in North America) (all pictures taken under NPWS license)Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre) by Brian, on Flickr on Flickr
Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: » long time since I saw just a sizeable group without any bridled guillemots amongst them.
OpenYourEyes wrote: » Just doing some reading around that topic and one paper suggested that bridled guillemots tend to be common at the sub-colony level rather than the colony-level. Over the course of the day I saw quite a lot of bridled birds, and in some sub-colonies kept seeing more and more in one area the longer I stayed looking! But equally you could be looking at a large number of guillemots a few metres away in the next cove and see none at all! (pics of bridled birds to follow in the next couple of days...)
