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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #450 on: August 02, 2007, 09:56:45 AM »
Lovely images Rob and John,

A far less exotic subject from me this time..... was this jackdaw (Corvus monedula) impersonating a magpie to get the much maligned Pica pica into even more trouble?  :)
....or is this whitening of the plumage more common than I realised? 
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #451 on: August 02, 2007, 10:10:58 AM »
Random thought, here.... James Cobb, in a Journal article(??) mentioned a hybrid bird he had ringed....can't recall what it was, something small...... but might this chap be a hybrid? The blue sheen on his wings is much more magpie than jackdaw, isn't it? Our jackdaws are resolutely black and the fact that there is the blue sheen as well as the white patch suggests to me that this bird may be a hybrid... anybody know any more about this possibility?
We can get Blackbirds with white patches, which can be fairly extensive... thought at first it was just a fluke, or due to accident but we had a dynasty of them, over several years, though there are none about at present.
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #452 on: August 02, 2007, 10:27:19 AM »
I'd prefer jackpie to magdaw Maggi.....there certainly weren't 4 and 20 of them in Hebden Bridge where the image was captured.   :)

I can't really believe that a cross has occurred....more an aberration in this particular bird I suspect.

Anyway...what are you doing trawling the net on your anniversary....get yourself ready for the day out and evening meal that Ian has planned?
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #453 on: August 02, 2007, 01:15:22 PM »
John I really like those dragonfly pictures. What size lens did you use?

I've looked in my dragonfly book for an identity and the migrant hawker seemed the closest.

A quote from the book 'note the almost non-existant antehumeral stripes'.

The antehumeral is the bit behind the eyes.
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #454 on: August 02, 2007, 02:04:55 PM »
no not a hybrid bird but just a random white feather. I see many with white feathers including a pied Rook that I havent seen around for a while. All Covids, I think, are mainly blue/purple and not black
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #455 on: August 04, 2007, 10:34:01 AM »
Cliff, perhaps your Jackpie has just been promoted to Corporal from the ranks. ;D

Thanks for the kind comments about the Dragonfly.

Rob, I have just looked again at the Dragonfly website   

http://www.dragonflysoc.org.uk

and though I find it difficult to distinguish between Common & Migrant Hawker, it does seem to resemble the migrant a little more.

I took the picture with my Nikon D200 using a 70-300 zoom lens set at the the 300mm end.
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #456 on: August 04, 2007, 01:05:30 PM »
You should get corporal punishment for that one John..... :)

From the sublime to the ridiculous now....

Three images captured on the moorland not twenty metres from our house.....

Is it a baby rat, mouse, vole or 'kangaroo'   ???   .....  (those back legs look fairly powerful)....?

....And no clever answers saying 'It's a RABBIT' please......
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #457 on: August 04, 2007, 02:06:22 PM »
Good question Cliff. It looks like it may be on the way to mouse heaven. It may be a wood mouse or field mouse

I would like to know from language experts ... when does an animal name have a capital letter?
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #458 on: August 04, 2007, 02:43:09 PM »
It actually hopped away quite healthily Mark....I think it was trying out the 'statue' defence mechanism?
Still not too sure WHAT it was .... anyone help please?
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #459 on: August 04, 2007, 06:58:33 PM »
Your beastie is a bank vole, Cliff.
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #460 on: August 04, 2007, 07:01:57 PM »
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« Reply #461 on: August 04, 2007, 07:20:28 PM »
Maybe but Cliff's shot shows a animal with a very long tail
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #462 on: August 04, 2007, 09:22:12 PM »
I'm told by husband, "That's why it's not called a Short-tailed vole."
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #463 on: August 05, 2007, 12:13:46 AM »
I'm happy with that Anne and John (many thanks)....but which bank?   

I suppose it would have to be the Bank of Scotland!    ::)
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #464 on: August 05, 2007, 06:27:56 AM »
That little bank vole is absolutely adorable!! (great pics Cliff!!)  What a cutie!! (The bank vole, not you Cliff!! ;))  It resembles as least superficially some of the native hopping "kangaroo mice" we get in Central Australia I think..... I didn't realise that other countries had hopping mice as well.  Those back legs certainly do look powerful.
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