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Beautiful colours. Like a still from the film "Rio"!

Middle picture is nicely composed (and a pleasing shallow depth) but the focus on the bird seems ever so slightly off...or is a lower res pic online?

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I just grabbed one of the ones I had- you should post a selfie ..Ol' Eagle eyes!- well spotted
I actually like the last one - panning trickier to do than one thinks

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I won a competition once as a young pup on Magpie- I won the smallest conker submitted competition- no, not a euphemism :eek:

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Do you Instagram? I've only recently joined and am so impressed with the quality and content of some people's photos. I don't post myself, but I occasionally 'like' a photo and have a collection of other's people's beautiful photos. It's great platform and after years of avoiding it, I now see what all the fuss is about.

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I did, then have been trying to log back into my count with not much success!
It does seem to be the way forward, a lot of photographers do use Instagram- Flickr was popular but has virtually lost most support.
I really must try and get back into it--originally, it was really just to take phone shots, square photos and put them up but now a lot of people use their DSLRs, the format is no longer compulsory square--mineSLR doesn't have wireless so it isn't that straightforward unfortunately -I am, inherently lazy!:cool:

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Good point on Flickr. It's funny how very similar functionality can somehow be hijacked by a new app with slightly different formatting. Or maybe it was the filters initially. When you look back in people's feed, back near the start (2-3 years back) so many of the photos were filtered. Not so much now. Also, I suppose Flickr was more for general photo sharing whereas IG seems to be for showing off.

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What no Blue Peter badge?

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Hell no, watchers of each programme hated the others with a vengeance :lol:

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I can't be the only male who watched BP and wanted to watch Susan Stranks. :nod:

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Yep fraid so... Michaela Strachan however . Wacaday :wub:


Timmy Mallett ..... Now there is a tw@t of the first order.. Apparently he is a talented artist.. Sadly not a great presenter... Michaela however......Really Wild Show.. sorry Snoop:unsure:

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Fred and Bob walked into a restaurant.

"What's that parrot doing over there?" says Bob.

"That's not a parrot, it's a toucan" says Fred.

"A toucan?" questions Bob.

"Yes" says Fred. "They're having a toucan dine special today."

I thank you.

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Okay, where's my prize for that joke? :confused:

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:(

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Here you go :D

http://static2.vouchercodes.co.uk/im...angrybirds.jpg

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Thanks...now if one of those birds could just lay an egg into it we can call it an egg cup.

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I have a couple of pics from when we went to Stradbroke Island a couple of weeks ago.
Not so exotic I suppose but there were a lovely lot of birds from all over the place. :wub:

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:thumbup:How are they not exotic BEVS?!
I love the little pink fellas particularly

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Someone is getting the evil eye it seems, and that someone could be me. He/she just flew up landed on the branch and almost dared me to take the shot. ;)
Although reduced for web viewing this shot is not cropped.

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They are galahs. A cockatoo. Very clever and intelligent.

Parrots are simply wonderful.

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Very very sharp:thumbup:clearly the new specs are working:lol:

You have gotta love parrots, even little Derek, the house budgie is clearly very clever.

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But I don't get my new glasses until later this week or even next week. :confused: ;)

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We just had one on the deck. I've seen yellow before but only in flight swooping across the yard.

Nice Sergeant stripes or whatever the rank is.

http://www.bedfordaudubon.org/images/birds/amgo01.jpg

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Did you take the pic?

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:rofl::rofl:

Did 'ee eckerslike...

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Nope.

Carrying my laptop out to the deck is too fiddly. :o
(although I did do it for the snow pictures 2014/15...I suspect a bird may fly away :rofl:)

I do have a digital camera somewhere but way too involved and almost impossible to hold steady when clicking.

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Whilst quaffing a large Cab Sav :lol:

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It's a lovely pic of a lovely bird.

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Toucans in the sculpture park today

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Looks like more than two cans were used.

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There's a cardinal, well a pair of them, but one of them is fire engine bright red. They've both been flying around the block the last week.

It walked along the neighbours fence as I headed out to pick the little up from dance class.

Teasing me as I didn't have my camera.

They scarper the second they see me with my camera but hang around for ages when I don't have it.

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The males are red, the females are sort of beige.

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Yes, I know.

They were both red, but one was text book bright, the other, well not as sharp looking.

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Few more from our hol on Stradbroke Island.

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A bit mundane...not quite the cardinal I was hoping for, but it is red.

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Just saw a mostly white bird on the deck. Can't recall a white bird before.

Might have been a Tufted Titmouse. It's the nearest I can find.

http://www.tringa.org/images/8095_Tu...-13-2010_2.jpg

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Hollybird?:lol:

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Now that you mention it I think I've only ever seen a Robin with Holly.

Holly is obviously a two-timer.

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First is a well hidden wood pecker. Annoying he landed right next to me today, when I didn't have the camera.

The other two, rats with wings.

One thing about the warm weather, it's loosening up the decades old lube on these old lenses, so they're quicker and easier to focus.

New glasses, probably hasn't helped, fiddled with the diopter setting but still seems slightly out.

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Isn't the first one a nuthatch?

:)

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:eek::thumbsup:
So I'm sitting at the kitchen table right in front of the window and right outside the window is a hanging basket of flowers.

Suddenly there's what for a couple of seconds I thought was a rather large bee.

Then I realised it was a hummingbird. A real life hummingbird!:ohmy:

I actually saw a real life hummingbird about four feet away.

That was exciting.

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Ahhh bless... Had the poor little fella been blown n the wind from hotter climes?:cool: