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few random wildlife shots A9ii 200-600

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Tweaker
Blue Tit

_DSC0469_DxO by leon kirkbride, on Flickr

Goldcrest

_DSC6190 by leon kirkbride, on Flickr

Dunnock

_DSC6408 by leon kirkbride, on Flickr

Was out for one of my walks and noticed this tiny guy in the leaves, horrible lighting so tried 1/160 at 600mm , ISO6400

_DSC4195_DxO by leon kirkbride, on Flickr

Was hoping to see the Deer rutting but this big male decided to have a play in the mud , underneath trees with backlit so had to crank up the exposure

_DSC2304 by leon kirkbride, on Flickr

Fallow

_DSC2764 by leon kirkbride, on Flickr
 
Short-tailed vole by the looks?

Goldcrests are in the garden/conifers here year round and are always pretty much oblivious to humans. This year, one found its reflection in my car wing mirror and side lights. It must have spent HOURS on my car judged from the layer of droppings that accumulated - what first alerted me. I stood maybe two feet from it as it went nuts on a few occasions.

A few years back one pair nested about 8-10 feet up in the conifer next to the drive (as they probably did this year) - you could stand at the base of the tree, the adults would fly in next to you with beakfuls of insects and make their way up the tree on the inside. Every so easy to imitate and get them to come and take a look at the intruder - tsee-tseee-tse-tse
 
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Vinny said:
Short-tailed vole by the looks?

Goldcrests are in the garden/conifers here year round and are always pretty much oblivious to humans. This year, one found its reflection in my car wing mirror and side lights. It must have spent HOURS on my car judged from the layer of droppings that accumulated - what first alerted me. I stood maybe two feet from it as it went nuts on a few occasions.

A few years back one pair nested about 8-10 feet up in the conifer next to the drive (as they probably did this year) - you could stand at the base of the tree, the adults would fly in next to you with beakfuls of insects and make their way up the tree on the inside. Every so easy to imitate and get them to come and take a look at the intruder - tsee-tseee-tse-tse
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Think your right regarding the Vole , he didn't hold still long at all.

I always hear the little Goldcrests way before seeing them, I normally stand around then trying to spot it , I'll have to try whistling next time :)
 
Love the turnstone.

A friend is a (retired) specialist avian vet and made various jaunts as part of work, writing various papers, attending conferences etc.. One trip to NA included a trip to a very large local bid garden/zoo that included a huge enclosure housing waders, the very great majority unreleasable rescued birds. They referred to their turnstones as the birth control in the aviary - their compulsion to turn over anything and everything made sure that no nest ever made it anywhere near close to hatching (for the uninitiated, the vast majority of waders are ground-nesters (though not all), and eggs are usually cryptically, aka stone, coloured/patterned).
 
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Love the turnstone.

A friend is a (retired) specialist avian vet and made various jaunts as part of work, writing various papers, attending conferences etc.. One trip to NA included a trip to a very large local bid garden/zoo that included a huge enclosure housing waders, the very great majority unreleasable rescued birds. They referred to their turnstones as the birth control in the aviary - their compulsion to turn over anything and everything made sure that no nest ever made it anywhere near close to hatching (for the uninitiated, the vast majority of waders are ground-nesters (though not all), and eggs are usually cryptically, aka stone, coloured/patterned).
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I never knew that thank you , me and the other half always find info on the wildlife we watch interesting . We are currently at Whitby and I've been walking down to the pier watching the Turnstones at low tide , this little guy looks to have lost a foot , he was hobbling about but was still managing turning over stones looking for food

_DSC0569 by leon kirkbride, on Flickr
 
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this little guy looks to have lost a foot , he was hobbling about but was still managing turning over stones looking for food
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I haven't checked the books, but I am pretty sure that that isn't first winter plumage, if so, it will be doing OK. Makes you curious about how it lost it, given their habitat all year ought to be free of most hazards barring entirely natural ones, that would generally mean curtains, and even disease to very large degree. (Feral pigeons frequently have deformed/missing feet due to avian TB and/or frost-bite, for instance.)
 
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I haven't checked the books, but I am pretty sure that that isn't first winter plumage, if so, it will be doing OK. Makes you curious about how it lost it, given their habitat all year ought to be free of most hazards barring entirely natural ones, that would generally mean curtains, and even disease to very large degree. (Feral pigeons frequently have deformed/missing feet due to avian TB and/or frost-bite, for instance.)
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I was talking to one of the locals , an elderly lady that likes to watch the Turnstones , she said there was one last year that had fishing line wrapped around its leg. They was concerned it wouldn't survive, maybe the one with the foot missing is that
 
Just noticed the new pic's. Very good, as ever.

Was the common crossbill a happy accident, or at lest part planned?
 
Vinny said:
Just noticed the new pic's. Very good, as ever.

Was the common crossbill a happy accident, or at lest part planned?
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Sorry for late response , I noticed a few twitchers whilst out having a walk around Budby next to Sherwood Forest , they told me about them so decided to hang around a while
 
These are all really beautiful wildlife shots I find the stag shot especially powerful - might look really good in BW as well.
 
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