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About Me
- Sam and Lisa
- St Just, Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Sam and Lisa are keen photographers with a particular interest in birds and wildlife in Cornwall. We have always been interested in photography but the improvements to digital cameras have renewed our interest. We hope you will enjoy viewing our photo blog!
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Favourite Blogs
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Musk Ox in the snow - I went with friends last week to photograph the musk oxen in the snow amidst the mountains of Dovrefjell National Park in central Norway. Our first visit t...
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Ring-necked Parakeet - I heard a strange and new bird song in my neighbours garden last week and quickly viwed this Ring-necked Parakeet perched in a tree. I q...
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OMG! - This morning I guided a birding workshop for NPA staff in the Judean Desert. I was really knackered and the weather forecast for today wasn't good, so I ha...
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Snowies Still Here - The Snowy Owls are still here. We saw 7 of them yesterday on our drive up North of town. Here's a couple photos that I took yesterday (02-27-12):
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Goosanders - I had a trip out to North Wales a few weeks ago with a couple of friends. The light was perfect and the target species were found, these being Goosander. I...
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Great White Egret - I have been in France Skiing for a week but before we went I had couple of day's in Liverpool so on the Friday17th I went to Parkgate Marsh to see if the...
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Goosanders at St Andrew's Pool - I checked St Andrew's Pool today for the Goosanders which have been seen here recently. Goosanders are a regular sight here; last year I counted seventeen...
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Bar-tailed Godwit - another blast from the past - I recall laying in the mud to get a low angle on this juv feeding
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MONO MONDAY & THE GLAUCOUS GULL. - *So here is this weeks Mono Monday subject taken at Gwithian on a day when there was a heavy sea running, which can result in some spectacular water spr...
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Spring jolly - The sun is shining; Blackbirds are singing; I even took the fleece lining out of my jacket this afternoon! The day started with mothing — plenty in the tra...
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Spots and speckles - With migration almost in full swing and increasingringingpower the last days were truly enjoyable days, first on Friday we merelyhad our first 3 digits mo...
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Gadwall - a new duck for the camera - In the last post I mentioned the session with the Tufted Ducks and Pochards had resulted in a new species for the camera. Well, that species was *Gadwall *...
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Bittern - *Report. Roger Lane.* A brief visit to Par Pool this morning, with only binoculars, showed 1 x resident Shelduck, some 6+ Tufted Duck, 4 x Goosander (1male...1 week ago
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Bicolore et tête noire de l'île Saint-Bernard - Voici 3 images captées lors de mes rares sorties photos des dernières semaines. Deux mésanges rencontrées au refuge faunique Marguerite-D'Youvillesur l'île ...1 week ago
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Adult Glaucous Gull, Newlyn Harbour. 18/02/2012 - Glaucous Gulls are regular visitors to West Cornwall, but adults are few and far between. This one is a very confident individual, hanging around the har...
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Lesser Scaup at Newquay Boating Lake - John and I would like to thank Steve Rowe for telling us about this male Lesser Scaup, that he had found on Newquay Boating Lake this morning. It had mad...
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Another quiet day - Well the sun has been out, but the wildlife hasn't shown that well, typical. Not a great deal going on on the Marsh at present. Bitterns sighted, but not...
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Review of 2011 - At last - a new blog entry!! I've been entering the records for the farm for 2011 onto my MapMate program and have set out below some highlights. It was a...
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The COMMON YELLOWTHROAT in Gwent - 8th British record - Darryl Spittle obtained the excellent images above - see his superb Gwent Birding website I was one of at least 400 people today twitching the Gw...
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Ethiopian Butterflies - As we have had very little to post lately, here are some more photos from Ethiopia. They are mostly Butterflies with a few Moths and Dragonflies thrown in....
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Around Par... St Andrews & Par Beach Pool - . I actually heard a Greenfinch today...!!! . Muscovy Duck . . . Robin . . Chiffchaff posing as a Reed Warbler! . . . . Chiffchaff posing as a Chiffcha...
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Wonderful Uganda - December 2011 - A belated blog of my week long trip to Uganda in December. All started with my Emirates flight to Entebbe via Addis Ababa in Ethiopia which involved an hou...
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Marazion Bittern opposite the standing stone just before midday - taken with the camcorder and hand held so not sharp
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Recent - As usual, I havent posted here for ages. Been busy with Press photography and havent done much Wildlife stuff. I dont think i have any decent wildlife imag...
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Finally, something of note from the reserve.... - After a bit of a dry period for birds on the reserve, things seem to be finally 'hotting up'. A group of birders from Doncaster, S.Yorks, turned up a super...1 year ago
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March 2010 - After about a week of blank nights I finally caught the first moth of the year. 16th - 1 Hebrew Character
1 year ago
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Very good shots.... i like them.
ReplyDeleteGreetings, Joop