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Old 18-11-2007, 09:27 AM
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Re: Grey Phalarope

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Originally Posted by John View Post
I have been lucky enough to have seen quite a few over the years, some of them down to a few feet. However this bird that I have attached actually walked within 1" of my feet, and other birds feet as well) at Chasewater, near Brownhills on 30/11/2003. As I was digiscoping at the time I couldn't actually take a photo of the bird that close. Now if I had my DSLR then I can only imagine the photos I would have got.





John
Nice images John. Certainly characterful little birds. The one we saw seemed fit and well and apparently displaying normal behaviour, just a bit off course I suppose.
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