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#1 Posted : 19 January 2012 07:49:46(UTC)
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Just a few from my trips around Yorkshire and Lincolnshire over the past few weeks.



Long Eared Owl  -they always look like they want to rip your head off !! 



Red Kite




Red Kite and Rook



Young Kite



"Seen who's moved in next door dear ???"



Buzzard



Short Eared Owl - taken in near darkness.




Rough legged Buzzard, Red Kite and Common Buzzard all together - never seen this before 



Red Kite roost - I think there are 14 in this picture but the location I go there can be 30 at a time which is superb and very rare



Sunset Worlaby Carrs



Global warming via Drax Power Station

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#2 Posted : 19 January 2012 07:58:26(UTC)
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Those are superb Chris.


I don't think we get red kites here but they look magnificent. Buzzards are big we sometimes see them in the summer when they glide across on thermals from the near continent but none nest here.


Red sky at night Guernseymans' delight, Jersey's on fire.
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#3 Posted : 19 January 2012 13:00:13(UTC)
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Excellent!

I particualrly like the owl in flight.
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#4 Posted : 19 January 2012 13:10:01(UTC)
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My favourite has to be the long-eared owl. The only one I've not seen!
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#8 Posted : 19 January 2012 13:13:59(UTC)
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Beautiful owls! I heard an owl for the first time in ages a few nights ago.
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#5 Posted : 19 January 2012 17:30:59(UTC)
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CAPE-steve;268786 wrote:
My favourite has to be the long-eared owl. The only one I've not seen!


Steve it would have been a lot nearer in the photo if some nugget (i.e myself) hadn't messed with his lens - ditched the extender, messed with the zoom and taken it at 170mm instead of 300mm. TBH it was almost dark when that was taken and below freezing and I'd tried getting as close as possible for 20 minutes - this is my first Long Eared and they look totally aggressive  - dunno if they are but I wouldn't want to mess as they are sizeable I would say that one was well over a foot and a half and at least a 5ft wing span.

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#6 Posted : 19 January 2012 18:19:37(UTC)
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light without heat;269027 wrote:


CAPE-steve;268786 wrote:
My favourite has to be the long-eared owl. The only one I've not seen!


Steve it would have been a lot nearer in the photo if some nugget (i.e myself) hadn't messed with his lens - ditched the extender, messed with the zoom and taken it at 170mm instead of 300mm. TBH it was almost dark when that was taken and below freezing and I'd tried getting as close as possible for 20 minutes - this is my first Long Eared and they look totally aggressive  - dunno if they are but I wouldn't want to mess as they are sizeable I would say that one was well over a foot and a half and at least a 5ft wing span.



What camera/lens do you use?

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#7 Posted : 20 January 2012 07:32:10(UTC)
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speckledjim;269053 wrote:


light without heat;269027 wrote:


CAPE-steve;268786 wrote:
My favourite has to be the long-eared owl. The only one I've not seen!


Steve it would have been a lot nearer in the photo if some nugget (i.e myself) hadn't messed with his lens - ditched the extender, messed with the zoom and taken it at 170mm instead of 300mm. TBH it was almost dark when that was taken and below freezing and I'd tried getting as close as possible for 20 minutes - this is my first Long Eared and they look totally aggressive  - dunno if they are but I wouldn't want to mess as they are sizeable I would say that one was well over a foot and a half and at least a 5ft wing span.



What camera/lens do you use?



Hi Scott - These were all shot on a Canon EOS 7D with a Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 HSM OS DG lens some with a x1.4 converter and some with a x2 converter depending on how much light was about. I was shooting on an EOS 60D last year but my Mrs now uses this and I upgraded to the 7D which is a faster camera an ideal for wildlife due to its massive frame rate burst.I'm hoping for some nearer clearer shots as we move into spring and summer when the light becomes better and a little more stable. I'm a big raptor fan as most know on here and we are lucky to have a fair few different species within a 30 mile radius of here there are some more pics on here that I did still viewable in the thread that DBH started called Kestrel. And http://www.theweatherout...y-At-RSPB-Blacktoft.aspx And http://www.theweatherout...673_Short-Eared-Owl.aspx

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#10 Posted : 20 January 2012 20:25:57(UTC)
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Great photo's, my favourite is
Short Eared Owl

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#14 Posted : 25 January 2012 23:16:34(UTC)
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Great photos! Red Kites are 10 a penny around here, they're probably the most common bird apart from starlings. I didn't realise they were that far north as well!
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#15 Posted : 26 January 2012 07:53:07(UTC)
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Darren S;274396 wrote:


Great photos! Red Kites are 10 a penny around here, they're probably the most common bird apart from starlings. I didn't realise they were that far north as well!



10 a penny lol - they have recently gone from on the RSPB Red Alert list to Amber, Darren  -you are lucky ! With an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 in existance in the UK and from only a few breeding pairs in the 1980's in Wales they are a success story really. Most were poisoned during the 70's and 80's for no reason other than farmers wanting rid of vermin of their land and killed them with pesticides, obviously anything dead on the floor kites will go for it hence poisoning themselves. So with these pesticides now  banned a few breeding programs were introduced one down your way and one at Harewood House in Leeds. The ones in my pictures are what has come from the Harewood introduction scheme(they are located near Market Weighton in the East Yorskshire Wolds), and are doing well as they are kind of in the middle of nowhere, hopefully in the next 10 years they will become a more common sight to all countryside areas as they once were cleaning up carrion and generally making the sky look exciting

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#19 Posted : 28 January 2012 11:21:05(UTC)
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Great pics Chris.
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#20 Posted : 30 January 2012 10:06:43(UTC)
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Superb photos.


PS. Do you have any more pictures of the Rough-legged Buzzard as I've been tracking a juvenile RLB around the central Wolds (Huggate to Thixendale area) since November but haven't been able to catch up with it lately.

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#21 Posted : 31 January 2012 18:24:25(UTC)
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Wold Ranger;279787 wrote:


Superb photos.


PS. Do you have any more pictures of the Rough-legged Buzzard as I've been tracking a juvenile RLB around the central Wolds (Huggate to Thixendale area) since November but haven't been able to catch up with it lately.



I have but the quality is crap TBH, this was up near Nunburnholme so it may have been yours Dave ! 

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#16 Posted : 31 January 2012 23:06:25(UTC)
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light without heat;274542 wrote:


Darren S;274396 wrote:


Great photos! Red Kites are 10 a penny around here, they're probably the most common bird apart from starlings. I didn't realise they were that far north as well!



10 a penny lol - they have recently gone from on the RSPB Red Alert list to Amber, Darren  -you are lucky ! With an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 in existance in the UK and from only a few breeding pairs in the 1980's in Wales they are a success story really.


We frequently see them hovering over our village. I would say that they are most prolific in the Chilterns; when I drive to my customer in Aylesbury that I've been visiting lately, I see loads - on one occasion I saw over 10 at once.


Here's a news story that implies just how common they are becoming, not just in the countryside but in urban Berkshire as well:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/new...gland-berkshire-15214415
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#18 Posted : 01 February 2012 07:34:45(UTC)
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Darren S;282039 wrote:


light without heat;274542 wrote:


Darren S;274396 wrote:


Great photos! Red Kites are 10 a penny around here, they're probably the most common bird apart from starlings. I didn't realise they were that far north as well!



10 a penny lol - they have recently gone from on the RSPB Red Alert list to Amber, Darren  -you are lucky ! With an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 in existance in the UK and from only a few breeding pairs in the 1980's in Wales they are a success story really.


We frequently see them hovering over our village. I would say that they are most prolific in the Chilterns; when I drive to my customer in Aylesbury that I've been visiting lately, I see loads - on one occasion I saw over 10 at once.


Here's a news story that implies just how common they are becoming, not just in the countryside but in urban Berkshire as well:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/new...gland-berkshire-15214415



Great stuff - can't believe people would feed them  - that will put them back to square one, with people moaning to the council etc. They only eat mainly voles, mice, road kill and natural death animals plus what people are feeding them ain't going to be good for the health of the birds as nearly everything we eat has something added to it TBH

Chris - Hull, East Yorkshire
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#17 Posted : 01 February 2012 17:26:08(UTC)
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Darren S;282039 wrote:


light without heat;274542 wrote:


Darren S;274396 wrote:


Great photos! Red Kites are 10 a penny around here, they're probably the most common bird apart from starlings. I didn't realise they were that far north as well!



10 a penny lol - they have recently gone from on the RSPB Red Alert list to Amber, Darren  -you are lucky ! With an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 in existance in the UK and from only a few breeding pairs in the 1980's in Wales they are a success story really.


We frequently see them hovering over our village. I would say that they are most prolific in the Chilterns; when I drive to my customer in Aylesbury that I've been visiting lately, I see loads - on one occasion I saw over 10 at once.


Here's a news story that implies just how common they are becoming, not just in the countryside but in urban Berkshire as well:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/new...gland-berkshire-15214415



Yes I often see them circling high over my house on the thermals in summer (I'm less than a mile from the Berkshire border), and have seen quite a few at closer range when out mountain-biking. They're surprisingly huge when you see them up close, with a wingspan approaching 6 feet! 

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#22 Posted : 04 February 2012 12:48:11(UTC)
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Have seen one pair of Red Kites here a couple of years ago. As I had a hangover at the time and usually see lots of Buzzards that was my first thought until I looked again and saw the V tail - got just a little excited at that point.  Best hangover cure I've yet found.


 


Would love to see Kites in those numbers - often see spirals of 20 or so Buzzards either in spring or Sept.

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