Wild Birds of Europe

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19516831
The reason I stopped by Park Frankendael yesterday: White Storks.

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I really like this one, Levina. A good reason to stop by there.

Jorgac wrote in post #19520902
A rock hyrax (locally known as a dassie) in a tree.

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Can they fly?

Not exactly a 'wild bird' or European, is it

Oops, clearly posted to the wrong thread.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19519093
These are nice, Sid. I love their little "crest".

Thanks Levina, they are a bit punk, and that's always a good thing!

the european eel did not know when to give up, long after his game was up he was still trying to bite the heron

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Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19493510
I voted! How about a pic of a pigeon that I like (the pic, don’t know the bird ). I shoot fly by’s if only to not lose my BIF skills. Almost all are deleted. But there are exceptions. This one is from last November, late afternoon in nice light.

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Very nice colours and tones. Beautiful.

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19520858
Thanks. Horse flowers, the Dartfords always seem to on gorse; think they nest at the base of the gorse bushes.

Horse flowers? Interesting. We have horse flowers too but they look very different, although they’re also yellow and rather pretty.

VSS2011 wrote in post #19520899
Thanks Levina. I've often seen crows sparrring with red kites. Always seems to be the crows picking a fight.

Agreed. And I’ve seen crows also actually tease other birds. I have pics of a crow pulling a Grey Heron’s tail for no reason whatsoever. Just sneaking up on the Heron from behind, waiting, watching the Heron closely, then quickly pulling its tail and jumping away. When the Heron didn’t react the first time, the crow tried it again. And he did it a third time. He was like a kid doing something mischievous. It was quite amazing.

sidknee wrote in post #19521019
Thanks Levina, they are a bit punk, and that's always a good thing!

LOL

Jorgac wrote in post #19520900
I really like this one, Levina. A good reason to stop by there.

Thanks very much, Charles!

kartsahoo wrote in post #19521125
Very nice colours and tones. Beautiful.

Thanks very much, kartsahoo.

pcs wrote in post #19520882
Thanks, but not my garden. Went for swallows but they didn't want to play so he had to fill in.

I shot House Martins and Swifts but need access to the raw files. I was shooting raw+jpegs but somehow managed to switch off jpegs and came home with one card filled with raws and the other card also filled with raws.

I got Darktable working but it’s not the last version and it can’t open the files. However, updating messes up the app. Affinity photo can’t read the colour profile so every file is purple. Plus it’s a bad raw converter anyway. I even tried online raw converters. None could read the files.

Today I’m going to try to install Windows 10 on one of my SSD’s. I’ve prepared my Mac Pro for it and am going to try it. I might brick my Mac though…

pcs wrote in post #19520884
Nice one(and also your other recent posts).
I think we've got little Blue tits in the garden, I can hear them already.

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A busy time for the birdies. Sweet shots, Patrick.

sidknee wrote in post #19521023
the european eel did not know when to give up, long after his game was up he was still trying to bite the heron

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grey heron

What a great shot, Sid. Amazing to see the eel still putting up a fight.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19521127
Horse flowers? Interesting. We have horse flowers too but they look very different, although they’re also yellow and rather pretty.

Agreed. And I’ve seen crows also actually tease other birds. I have pics of a crow pulling a Grey Heron’s tail for no reason whatsoever. Just sneaking up on the Heron from behind, waiting, watching the Heron closely, then quickly pulling its tail and jumping away. When the Heron didn’t react the first time, the crow tried it again. And he did it a third time. He was like a kid doing something mischievous. It was quite amazing.

LOL

That's the iPhone random word correction on posting: should be gorse.

It tried to do it again but I was watching this time!

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19521155
That's the iPhone random word correction on posting: should be gorse.

It tried to do it again but I was watching this time!

That's funny, because we do have "horse flowers"! I think they're dandelions in their blooming stage, you know, when carrying yellow flowers? They look ever so nice when there are lots of them in the fields.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19521130
I got Darktable working but it’s not the last version and it can’t open the files. However, updating messes up the app. Affinity photo can’t read the colour profile so every file is purple. Plus it’s a bad raw converter anyway. I even tried online raw converters. None could read the files.

Today I’m going to try to install Windows 10 on one of my SSD’s. I’ve prepared my Mac Pro for it and am going to try it. I might brick my Mac though…

That sounds a bit drastic, can't you uninstall Darktable and delete any files in your user directory and then install the latest version clean? Bear in mind I know nothing of Macs!

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19521131
What a great shot, Sid. Amazing to see the eel still putting up a fight.

Thanks Levina, I can see why they fight, as soon as he was still for a split second down it went!