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Old 05-01-2008, 03:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Christmas 2007, Cernay, France

A cold and mostly damp and misty visit, but still with some photo opportunities.

The first is a view from the roof of the house, was replacing a tile and spotted a nice view.

This is an excellent area for Mistletoe, I've never seen so much.
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Default Fieldfares and Starlings abound

Certainly no shortage of these two, as the neighbour's orchard was left unharvested and provided a huge banquet for the birds.
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Default Saw my first Partridges, almost by accident

They looked like rocks on the ploughed field, but I noticed them moving.
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Default Spotted a Kestrel Hunting

. . . . and managed to get a few pictures.
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Default New coats for the Yorkies and a monster Moth and Fungus

The two Yorkies tried on their new winter coats, I found a dried Hawk Moth and a large Fungus, an interesting shot of a growing animal feed crop.
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Default Cat, Currants, Moles and Lapwings

The cat had decided that the bird table afforded an excellent view into the kitchen, I discovered a plentiful supply of wild currants (although Anna said she wouldn't use them) and the paddock was invaded by a very active Mole or Moles.

I could never get close enough to the huge flocks of Lapwing, so had to satisfy myself with a couple of long distance shots.
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Very nice Rolf. Some of those birds I have never seen.
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We have had miserable weather every were really.

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Well you have had some fun haven't you rolf, an excellent variety of images. I must say I absoluetly love your 4th kestral image, have you had a go at cropping it to get a closer view or would you loose what you have already got.

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Superb set of photos.
You have done quite well considering the weather.
It was vey miserablre here in UK
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Thanks Babs and Blue Jay.

@ Babs, that is pretty much as big as it will go without losing detail, unfortunately they move pretty quickly, so a long lens is impossible to use on them in flight.

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Hi havn't been here long just getting to know were to go... nice pics
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