What's Buzzing or Flying near You Today..?? Mark 2..!!

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  1. Kandy

    Kandy Will be glad to see the sun again soon.....

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    Brilliant photos Shiney :thumbsup: I can see why you have so many to go through,mind you we can take nearly two thousand each with just going away for two weeks as we tend to take photos of everything and anything especially now my memory is getting so poor as it is a reminder to me of where we have been :D
     
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    :thumbsup: Great photos shiney, the flutterbies are always hard to get a good photo of, not so sure about your creepy crawlies though... Looks like you had a great time & saw just about everything there was to see... :D:thumbsup:
     
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    Fantastic pics Shiney:dbgrtmb:, the Tarantula is similar to the ones I used to keep, like Scorpions, they smaller they are the more dangerous they are.
     
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    A wonderful travel log. thanks for posting Shiney.
    Has that tarantula got ten legs..?
     
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    Here are some more - I think they are the last of them unless I find some more amongst the thousands of photos.

    Don't know what this is and sorry it is a bit blurred but it was hiding in the trees and following us.

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    This wasn't so shy and came to have a look at us.

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    This pelican was hunting and diving into the water. All the shots I took of it diving were either just blurs of speed or splashes in the water.

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    I caught this one enjoying the sun. He didn't bother to move even when I was creeping round him.

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    When I was about to take this close up of him he suddenly looked at me.

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    I saw this one from the other side of the lake so took the photo and then went round hoping he would still be there.

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    He was so interested in the fish that he didn't bother with me.

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    Great shots again Shiney, I like the sun on the Darter (Snakebird) .:dbgrtmb:

    Robert, the front two 'legs' are pedipalps, sort of arms attached to the head rather than to the thorax as the legs are, so they do only have eight.:)
     
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    Thanks strongy. :thumbsup:

    Which ones the Darter? :scratch: :)
     
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    After the Pelican and before the Heron.:)
     
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    Thanks strongy. :dbgrtmb:

    This is something where names give different impressions. I would think that something called a Darter would be small and move around quickly. This Darter was bigger than the Heron and looked as though it would take a kick to get it to move quickly. :heehee:
     
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    Female Blackcap in front garden this afternoon, stayed for a couple of hours stuffing herself on the fat balls.
    Pic are a bit hazy through DG.

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    Nice one Strongy, is that a Tamarisk or a Sea Buckthorn behind ?
     
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    Kandy Will be glad to see the sun again soon.....

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    Looked What Came For Breakfast This Morning {Take Two}I was standing at the sink again this morning when I looked up and saw this little beauty sitting in my birch trees.I thought it was a starling as it had it's back to me but when it turned saw it was a Waxwing instead :D
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    I took quiet a few of it but didn't want to put too many of it up as it might ruin the thread with too many piccys of the same subject...:D
     
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    It's been cold and damp here in Cheshire so there's been little in the insect world buzzing around. The normal species of birds are lining up at the feeders, Tits of various kinds, Jays, Ravens, Robin redbreast telling my cats off, Blackbirds, Thrushes but no Chaffinches! I saw a flock of several hundred large unidentified birds circling in the sky about a mile away but, frustratingly, couldn't identify them. They weren't Crows, Seagulls, Starlings [too small], but they way they circled they reminded me of birds of prey - but I never seen those in a great flock like that.
     
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    I had a flock at the back of the house feeding on rose hips last year , then one person turned up then the follwing day at least 50 people running around taking photos , binoculars and scared them all awy never to return:mad:

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    Hi Spruce,glad to hear that you had a nice flock feeding of them in your garden but sorry that you had so many twitchers decend so to speak to photograph them.When we saw our first ones before xmas {Christmas Eve} the car park of our local Sainsburys was packed out with people with rather large cameras and even larger lens but at least it was only the car park that got disturbed and not people in their homes,although we were a bit fed up of shoppers expecting us to move out of the way because they wanted to park their cars in the parking space we had taken up residence in :loll:

    Thanks for sharing your experience with us though :thumb:
     
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