Re: Wildlife November 2009

[Maggi Young]

great puffin photo, Mark. Thanks for the link.

[Ragged Robin]

77 different creatures to download, print and assemble to make a 3-D paper 'sculpture' ......

That should keep even the 'big children' happy over Christmas - great link full of ideas Maggi - origami design is really amazing!

[Paul T]

Excellent links, both of you!  Thanks.

[Paddy Tobin]

"How much did you say the lens cost?
http://www.paulhillion.com/photo3131046.html

A friend in the local camera club recently got a 150 - 500mm lens, tried it out over the last few days and his bird shots are fabulous.

Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

The puffin pics are delightful. Such a wonderful bird, I'd love to see the real things. But a seabird on a lens reminds me painfully of week before last at my Market, I doing my job and for a moment thought someone had thrown an egg at me. It was the dropped product from a seagull and it landed splat on the left lens of my glasses, would have gone into my eye if I hadn't been wearing the specs. The rest of my face was splattered as were my jersey and jacket, with some in my hair as well. As it happened I was holding both a bottle of water and a roll of paper towels from wiping where coffee had been spilled on a table. I was able to clean up the worst quickly then the rest with the help of a vendor who wiped the places I missed. Fortunately it was right at the end when we'd been packing up and I didn't have to wait too long to throw my clothes in the washing machine.

I'd decided not to tell anyone about this, it was so bl...y embarrasing, but it seemed to fit here somehow and you may as well have a good laugh.

[mark smyth]

It's a good luck message

[Ragged Robin]

Depends on your point of view!  It happened to me once on holiday  - the kids thought it was because my hair looked like a birds nest - it's amazing really that it doesn't happen more often given how we are right in the flight path most of the time 

[johnw]

Lesley

re: seabird

"What a critic!"

(In the words of Sir Thomas Beecham after a similar incident involving an onstage elephant during a performance of Aida.)

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

It's a good luck message

So I was told but it's luck I can live without.

[Lesley Cox]

Lesley

re: seabird

"What a critic!"

(In the words of Sir Thomas Beecham after a similar incident involving an onstage elephant during a performance of Aida.)

johnw

Bet he didn't get it in his hair.

[Anthony Darby]

I love Beecham quotes!

[johnw]

I love Beecham quotes!

Some of the best we can't share on this very civilized forum.

johnw

[johnw]

Bet he didn't get it in his hair.
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Probably not and I suspect it was not a good day to be in the French horn or tuba sections.

johnw

[Gwenblack]

Just when I was reporting that the Sorbus trees had such a plethora of berries even the birds couldn't make any impression on them  then along came flocks of Redwings,  hundreds of them,  and stripped all the red berries in the garden within 24 hours. Wonder if the yellow berries taste less pleasing or just don't attract as strongly. Now the Fieldfares are started in on the fallen apples . Hedgehogs are sprinting for the deep hedgebottoms    I guess Winter is nigh.

[annew]

Hedgehogs are sprinting for the deep hedgebottoms   

What a mental picture that brings!