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Birds / Re: Recent birds.yesterdays bird.
« on: December 14, 2011, 09:16:23 am »
After yesterdays excitment [Desert Wheatear] in Lerwick it was back to the Rough Legged Buzzard..

I found it sitting on a shed roof..

I got my car side on to the buzzard, unfortunatly it was back lit..

Never mind it was relatively close [about 4 hundred feet from me]

Then a Hoodie crow started to annoy it, thats when the fun started..

R.L.Buzzard..















george..

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Birds / Re: Recent birds.. Desert Wheatear..
« on: December 13, 2011, 08:25:30 am »
Yesterday was a day of choices... continue watching the R.L.Buzzard, go to Lerwick and see the Desert Wheatear or head to Sumburgh to see the Humpback Whale.. The Desert Wheatear won hands down as I've never seen one before.. so I made the phone call for its location..

Desert Wheatear..







This is a shaky video I made of the D/Wheatear..



george..

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Other / Re: Videos..
« on: December 03, 2011, 08:50:47 am »
This is a short video of Garths Voe, on the background is where TOTAL are building there new Gas Plant.. They are laying a gas pipeline to the east..

I took this video after I visited the R.L.Buzzard site..



george..

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Other / Re: Videos..
« on: December 03, 2011, 07:30:31 am »
Another video of the elements.. this time its Stenness Isle in the storm..



george..

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The News / Another whale in firth voe..
« on: December 02, 2011, 09:49:06 am »
While I was watching the R.L.Buzzard this afternoon I got a call from Mark Chapman.. he saw possibly a Minke or a Sei Whale in firth voe, it almost cleared the water when it jumped, Mark told me it had very long fins, and it was traveling quite fast.. if it is the Sei Whale, then it might stay in the Voe for a few days, Mark & I will be watching tomorrow.. Mark did say that he did'nt think it was a Humpback Whale....

The statement above was copied & pasted by me today. just thought you may be interested..

george..

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The Sea / Re: Sea things.. trying to brighten up..
« on: December 02, 2011, 09:39:39 am »
I just left the Braewick cafe and thought.. that looks nice.. so I took them with my video camcorder..







george..

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Birds / Re: Recent birds.Scaup & Goldeneye.
« on: December 02, 2011, 09:33:40 am »
These guys were at the Houb o Urafirth..

Goldeneye in a hurry..



Scaup..







george..

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Birds / Re: Recent birds
« on: December 02, 2011, 08:08:06 am »
Thank you Anne.. it was Hugh Harrop that told me about the bird seeds..

Last winter I did peg out rabbits for the over-wintering R.L.Buzzard.. but the Ravens got them first. lol ..

george.

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Other / Re: Videos..Storm. 1st. Dec. 2011.
« on: December 02, 2011, 07:55:38 am »
I went to Eshaness cliffs to make a wee video of the storm, my car was parked side on to give me a bit of shelter, so the vid. is a bit shaky,  as the wind was gusting at 80 mph at least. lol ..

Storm..



george..

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Birds / Re: Recent birds
« on: November 30, 2011, 08:28:54 am »
I've just realised that i've not showed my recent pictures of the Snow buntings at Eshaness..... Snow buntings are a bit nervous, and usually fly away from you.. So I took some wild bird seeds with me and prepared the site with them.. Then waited for them to get used to my car... Which they did.....

Snow buntings..













george..


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Birds / Re: Recent birds
« on: November 30, 2011, 08:16:19 am »
Horrible weather for taking pictures.. but I did get these of the R.L.Buzzard..





That was two days ago...

This was yesterday.. It was windy and wet, with the rain blowing in my car window.. digital cameras don't like getting wet, so did'nt hang about for long..



george..

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Other / Videos..
« on: November 29, 2011, 08:48:24 am »
A HD video of a drive along Nibon.. Nibon is very wild and ancient.. lots of ruined croft houses, if you pause the video...... It must be the worst road in Shetland, with blind summits and scary bends.. and its single tracked...

The video.. [please allow time for the video to buffer]



george..

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Birds / Re: Recent birds.catch-up cont..
« on: November 24, 2011, 07:46:47 am »
Shetland Wren..







Snow buntings..



!Tundra! Geese..





Hume's warbler..



Rough Legged Buzzard..







george..

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Birds / Re: Recent birds. catch-up
« on: November 24, 2011, 07:36:12 am »
I thought I would do a wee catch-up..

Its been interesting in shetland with all the migrant birds we have, and the local birds don't disappoint either..

This is the Merlin.. I had been looking for the R.L.Buzzard and could'nt find it, so I decided I would go for my breakfast.. I was crossing the moor in my car, when I noticed this bird in the heather, at first I thought it was a Fieldfare, but it was a Merlin, it seemed to be searching an area of heather, probably knocked a bird out the sky and lost it in the heather..















george..

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Other / New camcorder..
« on: November 12, 2011, 09:19:15 am »
I got my new camcorder. its a sony nex-vg10e.. It comes with a 3.5-6.3/18-200mm lens. but it has interchangable lenses, with the use of adaptors [which I got yesterday]

I'll show pics of it with the lens which comes with it..

Then I'll show pics of it with my long-lens for wildlife..

Short lens..











Long-lens.







Set for 70mm..



Now all I need is fair weather to play with it..

george..

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