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BRIAN SUMNER.
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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Back to Leeshaw reservoir. + More lens tests.

                                Plenty Greylag and Canadas .
                                    Moving fields over Upper Marsh.

                                    Grey sky to the SW
                                    Bright to the NE in between showers

                                        Looking NW

                                 
        Foxhill Common gulls
                This time with Canon 70-200  4L + Canon 1.4 mk3 Convertor.
                                Hand held, no image stabilizer. Taken at 448mm





        Another grizzly morning with fog on the tops and sunshine and very heavy showers at Leeshaw with a moderate SW>4 at 5 degrees.
       Poor for gulls this morning with plenty small gulls but all distributed around distant fields too far to check, even through the scope. A steady flow of LBB and Herring trickled >W with some stopping on the water briefly.
     A heavy early morning move of Woodpigs >S as well as Starlings >NW along with large counts of Greylag and Canada geese in the air moving fields out over Upper Marsh.
    The goose field held a good number of mixed, Redwing, Fieldfare and Starling but quiet on the water with just a single Goosander, Mallards and 2 Cormorant.
   A last light dog walk over Foxhill at 1630 hrs produced a skein of Pink Footed Geese directly east to west which could have been early trans Pennine birds. As it was coming dark I left the camera at home but managed to get an image of 22 dots on my phone.
   Looking like a very wet and windy morning tomorrow.
BS