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Post by quaysider on Mar 2, 2018 9:03:02 GMT
No not THAT kind.... ornithological Andy was playing around with his new 63x optical zoomy camera thingy yesterday and took this photo . It's a bit grainy as it's "through" the fly screen (boat was too hot )... WE thought it was a wood-pecker but are not so sure now. Any ideas good people?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 9:06:51 GMT
Great spotted woodpecker.
Terrific aren't they.
Rog
ETA The great spotted has red under the tail.
The lesser spotted is smaller and doesn't have red under the tail.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 9:07:21 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Mar 2, 2018 9:08:56 GMT
I like bird spotting. Great sport.
However we did enjoy watching the kingfishers on the k&a
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 9:16:04 GMT
Yet to see a kingfisher, alive at least, seen one floating.
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Post by kris on Mar 2, 2018 9:19:19 GMT
Yet to see a kingfisher, alive at least, seen one floating. Really? They are very majestic, but usually just a torquise streak. You are very lucky to see one still.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 9:19:25 GMT
We have a bird feeder we put up wherever we moor. We spend ages watching the birds. We were out one day, and on our return a lady off a neighbouring boat collared us to say how wonderful the bird feeders were and she'd enjoyed watching all the different birds. She told us we'd even had a kingfisher! Quite an achievement feeding sunflower hearts, peanuts and fatballs ! We realised later, that she'd mistaken nuthatch for kingfisher Rog
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 2, 2018 9:32:58 GMT
I saw my first ever kingfisher a few weeks ago, on the L&L. It sat on a fence post and watched us dawdle past.
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Post by kris on Mar 2, 2018 9:36:11 GMT
I saw my first ever kingfisher a few weeks ago, on the L&L. It sat on a fence post and watched us dawdle past. yes I saw a lot on the L&L.
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Post by quaysider on Mar 2, 2018 9:47:10 GMT
we see a lot of kingfishers on the river calder here.. (either that or the same one) but never for long enough to get a photo... we DID see on perched on a scaffold pole as we came into Leeeds the other month on the Aire - no one had a camera on them and by the time Sally got her's out, it'd of course flown off.
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Post by Telemachus on Mar 2, 2018 9:50:42 GMT
Kingfishers seem to be quite variable year on year. A couple of years ago we hardly saw any, but last year we saw loads. You now get them on the BCN, with the water being very clear in places and loads of little fishes. There’s progress!
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Post by kris on Mar 2, 2018 9:53:44 GMT
You now get them on the BCN, with the water being very clear in places and loads of little fishes. There’s progress! you can't help your self can you Nick? Give it a rest.
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Post by Telemachus on Mar 2, 2018 9:55:08 GMT
You now get them on the BCN, with the water being very clear in places and loads of little fishes. There’s progress! you can't help your self can you Nick? Give it a rest. Why do you have to be so nasty at everything I post? You are a truly horrible person.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 9:58:06 GMT
In fairness Nick is right.
Kingfishers are much more widely spread as water quality has improved in the 'post industrial' age.
Many canals support them and we see them regularly virtually everywhere we go (much to my brother's annoyance as he's never seen one)
Rog
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Post by kris on Mar 2, 2018 10:06:11 GMT
In fairness Nick is right. Kingfishers are much more widely spread as water quality has improved in the 'post industrial' age. Many canals support them and we see them regularly virtually everywhere we go (much to my brother's annoyance as he's never seen one) Rog I'm not questioning that, but why the need for the little dig at the end?
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