TOOK ANOTHER DIP..

Went down to the Lizard yesterday to have a look at a Female Bufflehead that had turned up,now this is a first for Cornwall so wanted to get it in the bag. Guess what it was not seen and looked as if it left overnight.
So thats three "MEGA'S I've dipped on this Autumn, " The Greater Yellowlegs at Wadebridge" "The Scarlet Tanager at St Leven Porthcurno" and now "The Bufflehead on the Lizard" things have to change soon. Anyway if you want to see some cracking images of the Bufflehead go to SW Optics Blog, (Link on my Sidebar ) as Steve got some great images of it.
For me it was back home and in desperation I turned to what was around the trees at the back of the house.
So best I can do today are the images below

DUNNOCK.

ROOK

There is a large roost of this species around the local area.



NORTH AMERICAN BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY, BY PETER LATOURRETTE

Hi All



With all the vagrants that have been arriving from the shores of America this Autumn, I thought I would drop a link for the North American Bird Photography website by Peter LaTourrette. This site contains superb images of American species that can help with identification.

As well as a link on this post I have also put one on my Sites of Interest on my sidebar, I hope you will find this of some use.

                                                      http://www.birdphotography.com/

IMAGES WEEK 13/10/2011

So after sorting out the Internet problems and upgrading to a new hard drive, hopefully things will now settle down for a bit.

I have not done much in the way of Photography with just the odd hour over the past 2 weeks.

Still have one more job to do here in the Shack, I am going to upgrade my second PC with the old motherboard from this pc, have just been waiting for a suitable case to come along.

This Pc contains my Nikon scanner for slides and negatives which is about 16 years old and will not run on anything newer than Windows 98. But it is such a good scanner and I still use it quite a lot, so it will be worth it.

Anyway back to the post and these images were taken at Marazion, and Tehidy Country Park over the last two weeks. 

BLACK-HEADED GULL.

ROCK PIPIT.

MOORHEN.

MALLARD.

MEADOW PIPIT.

HERRING GULL.



ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE AT HELLS MOUTH.

This happened a couple of weeks ago at one of my favourite places, it is from Hells Mouth on the North Cliffs coast.

Cracks had appeared in a few places over a few days,and a Geologist from Cornwall Council was observing it with his camera when the scene below occoured.

It is estimated that around 200,000 tons of cliff face fell.

There are many landslides along this coast due to coastal erosion but this is the first I have seen captured on video.

WINDOWS AND ME

Hi folks just a quick note to say I'm having big problems connecting to the internet at the moment,managed to get in using Firefox.As soon as I've resolved it "I WILL BE BACK"

GLOSSY IBIS

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Just hotfooted it up to Stithians Res this morning to try and catch up with a Glossy Ibis that was reported yesterday evening.

After waiting about 30 mins it flew onto the Northern Cutoff, and spent the next hour getting a few images (Most of which ended up in the trash can ). Still did managed to get a few record shots of which a couple are below.

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PICK OF THE PECK

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After a Birding trip down to the west of the county yesterday, not a lot seen because of thick fog, stopped of quickly at Marazion on the way back and spent 15 mins with the very obliging Pectoral Sandpiper which has been showing well.

I guess there must have been thousands of images taken of this bird which has been showing down to 10 ft and is not a bit concerned about all the attention.



ST GOTHIAN SANDS1st OCT 2011

The images below were taken on a visit to St Gothian Sands on Saturday.

CURLEW SANDPIPER.

NORTHERN WHEATEAR.

NORTHERN WHEATEAR.

POCHARD

1st one I have seen this Autumn.

STARLING.

Enjoying the spoils of Autumn.