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Bill
 
As newbies couldn’t resist sharing our first wild camping experience with you! We must have the best seat in the house
 

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As newbies couldn’t resist sharing our first wild camping experience with you! We must have the best seat in the house
Was it you I saw just down from Glen Coe waterfall?
 
No not us, we’re at Glenshee in the Cairngorms - travelled on from Pitlochry and came across this lovely spot - staying the night and it’s lovely here just now - just hope it stays that way!

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Wentworth Church near Rotherham. It is only possible to align the sun with the two windows in the church tower about 5 days per year and only for about 10 seconds and that is dependant on there being no clouds. It took me two years to get this shot and at the end I was running down the road with the camera on a tripod trying to predict where the alignment would take place as the sun sets diagonally.

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Carrying on the birding theme. Here is a few of our garden visitors a couple of months ago......
I got the nuthatch, goldfinch and coaltit, but I don't know the first finch - ID please @Nicepix ?
 
Ouch it does.... I wouldn't have noticed that . But if you zoom in it looks like it's been de-gloved , so to speak. Poor thing. It looks plump enough though.

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Lovely bird the Hawfinch, rare and elusive in the UK, spending most of their time high in the trees, which is why they are not often seen.
 
We had half a dozen visiting through the winter along with some bramblings, dozens of siskins and the usual tits and finches. At the moment the feeder is relatively quiet, but we have a pair of golden orioles nesting in a nearby tree, a lesser spotted woodpecker sitting on eggs in a hole in our cherry tree, nightingales singing 24/7 and a hoopoe calling somewhere nearby. The other day I shot a rat in a neighbour's detached garden. His cockerel and chickens kicked the body around for a while so I left it intending to pick up the next day. Before I got to it a raven dropped in and carried the dead rat away in its claws. Amazing bird.
 
...actually I want to mean "interesting"...
 
Wish I had a decent camera, we get Black and Red Grouse, Hen Harriers, Curlew, Snipe, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Golden Plover, Short eared Owl, Lapwing,Adders, Stoats, joy of living up on the moors.
 

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