Saw a pair of these in the garden yesterday:
Never seen them before! We identified them from this site:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... fy-a-bird/
RSPB reports fewer than 100 breeding pairs in the UK. I hope they manage to evade the Magpies.
Regards
Graeme
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Re: Black Redstart
Not wishing to dampen your excitement but given the rarity of the black redstart are you sure it wasn't the much more common fieldfare:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... fieldfare/
Ken
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... fieldfare/
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Re: Black Redstart
I think you'll find that this poor bird had been photoshopped.
Or drawn!
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"(or one of the team)" - how your hospital appointment letter indicates that you won't be seeing the Consultant...
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Re: Black Redstart
Nah.
Graeme said "Saw a pair of these" and I suspect that he is too cheap to run off TWO copies of a colour print.
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Chris
P.S. UNless you are suggesting that he edits and generally post-processes those astronomically fabulous images of his?
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There's no suggesting, it's a definite. There is a lot of post-processing involved in producing good astrophotos.ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑14 Mar 2022, 11:23... suggesting that he edits and generally post-processes those astronomically fabulous images of his?...
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stuck wrote: ↑14 Mar 2022, 08:05Not wishing to dampen your excitement but given the rarity of the black redstart are you sure it wasn't the much more common fieldfare:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... fieldfare/
Ken
Not dampened at all Ken. All the garden birds we see are a pleasure. Not a Fieldfare though. We saw the first one for a couple of days and he was dark grey, not brown on the back, red/brown tail, not black and had the two distinctive white flecks on his wing tips. And he wasn't as big as a fieldfare. We saw the second one join him Sunday afternoon.
I watched him through my 11x70 binoculars but I had to stand at the front of the house to get far enough away to focus!
The RSPB site uses drawings for all their images, not sure why but it gives the site a nice country naturalist feel. They do a bird song audio for each bird too. The Blackstart has an archetypal morning chorus song! If you list a few birds on seperate tabs, you can play them all at the same time!
ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑14 Mar 2022, 11:23P.S. UNless you are suggesting that he edits and generally post-processes those astronomically fabulous images of his?
C
The post processing takes longer than the image capturing!
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Re: Black Redstart
The Black Redstart, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush and a Wren all go well together!
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Re: Black Redstart
It's the same across life.
One hour to write a function, seven years to debug it.
I do one hour of recording (books) and three hours of editing the mess.
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Re: Black Redstart
I thought this was leading into a joke - A Black Redstart, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush and a Wren all go into a bar....
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Re: Black Redstart
Apearently knot.
(Sorry, I just noticed that there were FOUR birds)
A pair of a parently knot.
Cheers
Chris
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