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    Default Hovering Hover-fly: Syrphus ribesii - Family: Syrphidae

    Managed to capture one. Not easy and takes a lot of patience.
    I believe this one is the Syrphus ribesii .It is difficult to see
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    Wonderful... how long did it take you?

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    Thank you.

    Well.....................
    Not telling You would think me daft (You probably think that any way)

    I really can't say really as it would be any opportunity in between snapping birds etc and I might be out for 4-5 hour at a time. I was out for 5 hours on Monday walking about 7-8 miles up on the cliffs

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    It would have been daft if you had ended up with only the blue sky.You didnt and its not. Nice one Chocky.

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    Thank you .
    I was quite pleased with it.

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    Annoyingly, yesterday I was in a bus shelter and one was hovering about (and it landed), and IF I had had my camera I could probably have caught it - it was glass-roofed so it hovered at the roof. I was gutted!!! Anyway, well done for getting it. I wouldn't say you were mad however long you took to do it, it's a good capture.

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    Thank you.

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