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Ros Green - Gingernut Birder: Queensland, Australia
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Ros Green - Gingernut Birder. My adventures into the ornithological / zoological world and more. Wednesday, 4 February 2015. The last month in Australia has been phenomenal! The ecology, flora and fauna are all entirely new to me, and I'm endlessly learning new things on my travels. Since then I've been to Fraser Island, Kingaroy and the Bunya mountains with Mum and Wayne (her friend). The Bunya's were my first taste of a rainforest and quite incredible. Since then I've been working my way north, travell...
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Joe Wynn Photography: December 2012
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Monday, 31 December 2012. 2012The Year That Was. So I thought, what with this being the eve of 2013 and the Fiscal Cliff (scary eh? I better get on with it and write it down, like an egalitarian online version of Samuel Peeps. Minus the massive wig, obviously. So without further ado, get yourself an eggnog (or a glass of water. Or nothing. I'm not forcing you.) and let me regale with tales of bygone days spent out in the field. April came just 31 days after March, and with it a trip to meet world-famous ...
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Joe Wynn Photography: July 2013
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Friday, 19 July 2013. My blog, my blog, why have you forsaken me? Of late i've been something of a vagrant, i've wandered over Manchestor and the UK generally in search of, well, nothing really. But spent a belting three days up in Scotland, the details of which I will regail the discerning reader with in due time, but for now some pure, unadulterated action from my most favourite inshore small island in Sutherland: Handa! So imagine a really sunnny coupl'a days (hard isn't it? But what Handa is renowned...
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Joe Wynn Photography: February 2013
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Monday, 4 February 2013. Down and Out in Manchester and Rhyl. That low, early morning winter sun really helps here. But its not all Buntings on the seeded patch, this Meadow Pipit has grown bold with the extensive disturbance and as a result has become quite tame. Even down to eye-level. And that bit of luck required to get something more special. But soon the bunts were back and my attention drawn away from this unobtrusive LBJ. A stunning male struts his stuff. This one appears to be trying to hide!
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Joe Wynn Photography: September 2014
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014. Further off, but with better light. And a few Snipe. On the tip off of a local, I decided to catch Joe Pender's Sapphire Pelagic out that evening, even though it'd be very late in the season for anything and there was rain forecast. Good call as it turned out. I stopped on Hugh Town beach for some Turnstones. Looking at the people on the quayside above. And this surprisingly pale Gannet. As dark drew near we saw more stormies and shearwaters, and Joe caught 3 blue sharks. ...
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Joe Wynn Photography: April 2013
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013. The Mountains Afar', Mull 2013- Part I. Lord Byron once wrote of Scotland that. England thy beauties are tame and domestic. To one who has roved on the mountains afar'. But in the evenings I noticed some behaviour i'd never seen before in Divers, rafting. This is when many birds gather together in a huddle on the sea. But Divers are nearly always singletons, or at best are found in small groups. Therefore the sight of 27 one evening was something of a surprise. But then you're off...
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Joe Wynn Photography: September 2013
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Thursday, 26 September 2013. Transportation (Or 'Nice Pecs'). One of the things I find odd (and I suspect everyone else finds acutely annoying) about photography is the way I can completely ignore the passage of time. Lunchtime? Time to catch the train home? No idea. It all passes me by. Which is fantastic in a way, I can think of very few things that can so totally absorb you as photography. Picking towards me indirectly, you could acutally see its footprints in the soft mud. Sunday, 1 September 2013.
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WelshLassy - Birding Blog: April 2014
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WelshLassy - Birding Blog. Follow my progress as a Trainee Bird Ringer, based in North Wales. Thursday, 24 April 2014. Easter bunny has been busy. Last year I monitored Pied Flycatchers at Aber. This species is very helpful by using nestboxes, which have kindly been provided for them for many years by Geoff Gibbs. Compared with our previous visit at the start of April, where we did some repairs to the boxes and checked them all for any early nest building, the woods were a lot quieter. The relative l...
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WelshLassy - Birding Blog: AFON & BTO Young Birders Workshop
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WelshLassy - Birding Blog. Follow my progress as a Trainee Bird Ringer, based in North Wales. Sunday, 20 April 2014. AFON and BTO Young Birders Workshop. When I heard about the Young Birders Workshop, I knew I had to attend! It was held at the BTO head office in Thetford, which is a LONG way from Bangor! I hate Sat Nav, so was quite happy to be playing navigator. We arrived about 9am, which gave us some time to network before the event started. I was busy chatting to Peter about AFON when I got sligh...
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