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Gulls at the pond

Friday, 12. December 2008, 00:03:06

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I took these during a severely truncated lunchbreak today. The pond is a small ornamental feature a few yards from my office, and occasionally the gulls make use of it.






Meanwhile, this jackdaw just sat and watched.


As for the foxes, nicked-ear showed up briefly tonight, proving that she's still queen of the garden.

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Camera note: the gulls were photographed with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. I used the EF70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM for the vixen.

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The strangest gulls...

Monday, 8. December 2008, 00:15:50

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We went over to Wakehurst Place today. Beautiful sunshine again, but it was cold.
Black headed gull on frozen pond

The gulls were the dominant bird of the day, indeed the weekend. These black-headed gulls were skating around on the pond, and flocking for the few scraps thrown by visitors.
Flocking gulls

Normal gull behaviour, but entertaining to watch. The strangest thing though was that as well as all the usual gull antics, they also did this:
Gulls in the treetop

I've never seen a gull perch like that before. A quick web search revealed that Bonaparte's gull (a similar - identical? - north American species) does the same trick. I've not come across any other references of gulls perching in trees.
More of the gulls are over here. But there were other sights at Wakehurst, a number of which are in my December Birds album. Including this seasonal robin.
Robin

And this crazed duck!


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Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, except the flocking gulls which were caught with the much shorter EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM lens.

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Rottingdean re-visited

Tuesday, 2. September 2008, 00:12:56

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I've added some more shots from today to the Rottingdean Beach album. The light was reasonable, but the spray was heavy. Some interesting sightings though, including more oystercatchers and - hidden among a flock of black-headed gulls - a solitary sandwich tern.

It was wild and windy

Sandwich tern

Oystercatcher

Splashing around

Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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Feeding the birds

Friday, 22. August 2008, 23:50:46

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Two quick shots from the past couple of days.

Gulls fishing

Kestrel with field cricket

Camera note: the photo of the gulls was taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens. I used the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS for the kestrel.

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First Flight Fun with the gulls!

Monday, 16. June 2008, 20:19:43

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To get the full sequence you'll need to go here and hit the arrows to the right of the title bar.

But for the lazy... here's a taster.






Continued...

Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens + Kenko Teleplus 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter.

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