Wildlife February 2010

[Gunilla]

Bramblings and greenfinches are common here every winter. Yesterday we had as many as 30 bramblings under the bird feeder at the same time.  The hawfinch and the little robin are also regular visitors.

1-2 Bramblings
3 Hawfinch
4 Robin
5 Blue tit

 

[Rafa]

Bird were my first passion and take pictures, but as usually I am very bussy and I can't dedeicate much time. Last Christmas I went with my friend to take pictures. We love to take pictures of big bird!!.

[annew]

That last picture really shows how big the raptor is.

[Rafa]

oh  sorry! the names are: Aegypius monachus, Milvus Milvus and Aquila adalberti (two years old), his mother is 34!!!! years!! old!! minimum!!!

[Ragged Robin]

Bramblings and greenfinches are common here every winter. Yesterday we had as many as 30 bramblings under the bird feeder at the same time.  The hawfinch and the little robin are also regular visitors.

1-2 Bramblings
3 Hawfinch
4 Robin
5 Blue tit

 

Quite a crowd, Gunilla, and your Hawfinch photo was a lucky shot or are they less shy with you?  I saw a female for the first time here in the fir tree looking for food in the snowy weather

[Ragged Robin]

Bird were my first passion and take pictures, but as usually I am very bussy and I can't dedeicate much time. Last Christmas I went with my friend to take pictures. We love to take pictures of big bird!!.

Magnificent studies of big birds, Rafa, what camera do you use?

[Maggi Young]

To remind those of you who may not have seen them, there are more super raptor pix from Rafa in the Old Forum:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/1078/39986.html

http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/1078/23345.html

[Gunilla]

Quite a crowd, Gunilla, and your Hawfinch photo was a lucky shot or are they less shy with you?  I saw a female for the first time here in the fir tree looking for food in the snowy weather

Indeed a lucky shot, Robin, usually they don't stay long enough for me to find my camera  .

Beautiful big birds, Rafa and your pics are fabulous  .

[Ragged Robin]

Maggi, thanks for the old Forum links (post 286) showing outstanding shots of wildlife, it really is wonderful to preserve such archives from the time the SRGC Forum began - a real gold mine of information and talent 

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Robin, it's good to still have the Old Forum archived there..... it ran from 2003 to November 2006 when we had a catastrophic breakdown.... though Fast Fred had this new version up and running in a very short time indeed....which was just as well because all over the world folks were suffering withdrawl symptons of serious proportions, even in those short hours!

The Old Forum had a different page set up, which lead to some pages being very long and taking rather a long time to load,  and I think it is a blessing that we have this current version.
I was just looking to see what sort of traffic there was on the original version.... approx 19260 posts in 1390 topics over the period of that forum.... things are much busier here with 129379 Posts in 4046 Topics to date from late November 2006!

[Arykana]

Maggie, what was the bacon? Do the birds eat it? At me only the long-tailed tits

[mark smyth]

Bacon/bacon fat is not good for birds because of the salt

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely to have you back with us Rafa and to see again the shots on the old Forum. That makes me realize that a number of old Forumists are no longer with us here. I wonder where they are and how they are?

[Maggi Young]

Maggie, what was the bacon? Do the birds eat it? At me only the long-tailed tits

I always soak the fat first to get the salt out.... the blackbirds love it, and the Robin and the Blue, Coal and Great Tits.... some years they haven't b seemd interested but in this weather all contributions are received gratefully.

[Maggi Young]

Lovely to have you back with us Rafa and to see again the shots on the old Forum. That makes me realize that a number of old Forumists are no longer with us here. I wonder where they are and how they are?

Always great to have Rafa's photos on any sunbject, isn't it?


I know what you mean Lesley... there are some "missing" chums... some still in touch but just not posting.