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08-09-2007, 12:18 PM
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| | | Grey Heron (I think)
spotted this while out walking this morning, makes a change for me to have the camera with me when i see something, so here are some pics
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08-09-2007, 12:25 PM
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Most certainly a Grey Heron Phil. Nothing else quite like it on our shores.
Some good images you have there.
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08-09-2007, 12:25 PM
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Lovely series of Grey Heron shots. Well done.
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08-09-2007, 12:31 PM
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Yes, Grey Heron, lovely they are.  |
08-09-2007, 12:33 PM
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Really nice pics.
I went out of late on a couple of occassions following Heron but didn't get anything as nice as these shots.
Is this a juvenile Grey Heron as the head is still pretty grey without the strong black banding, and the bill colour is quite dull which is I believe how you differentiate a juvenile from adult? |
08-09-2007, 12:36 PM
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Lovely series of shots of a juvenile grey heron, I especially like the third one where it's staring at a bit of down between it's beak  lovely close up! |
08-09-2007, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by ChasCreek  Really nice pics.
I went out of late on a couple of occassions following Heron but didn't get anything as nice as these shots.
Is this a juvenile Grey Heron as the head is still pretty grey without the strong black banding, and the bill colour is quite dull which is I believe how you differentiate a juvenile from adult? | I think it is a young one, judging by the feathering. |
08-09-2007, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by demicav I think it is a young one, judging by the feathering. | Cheers demicav.
I have to say that I love Grey Heron, While the guys down at the local reserve are all in the hide lakeside watching other things I tend to spend my time on the other side of the little island watching the Grey Heron instead.
We have a large number of Grey Heron in the Midlands and just about half a mile away from the reserve in a country park there is a reasonably sized Heronry. |
08-09-2007, 01:56 PM
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Beautiful photos phil!
(If i could take good pictures like that i would be a very happy woman! )
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08-09-2007, 07:46 PM
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might have been better for the mods to delete the whole thread rather than just remove the pics  i tried uploading the permitted 3 pics to this site, but they were rejected 
but thanks for the comments anyway  |
08-09-2007, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by phil messenger might have been better to delete the thread than just remove the pics i tried uploading the permitted 3 pics to this site, but they were rejected
but thanks for the comments anyway | Hi Phil
We permit 10 photos a day not three. Why were they rejected?
Perhaps you should have put them into the Forum Images gallery and linked them from there (you can still do that BTW)
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08-09-2007, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by John Hi Phil
We permit 10 photos a day not three. Why were they rejected?
Perhaps you should have put them into the Forum Images gallery and linked them from there (you can still do that BTW)
John | sorry, i'm quite new here and missed some of the rules, i linked the pics from photobucket, and got a pm saying i should have uploaded them here in the gallery, so uploaded 7 pics without noticing the rule of only 3 uploads per species, so after the 7 were rejected i selected 3 to upload which were also rejected |
08-09-2007, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by phil messenger sorry, i'm quite new here and missed some of the rules, i linked the pics from photobucket, and got a pm saying i should have uploaded them here in the gallery, so uploaded 7 pics without noticing the rule of only 3 uploads per species, so after the 7 were rejected i selected 3 to upload which were also rejected | Just stick them in the forum images - thats what i always do as my photos are never good enough for the gallery (not that urs arent...) - there is no restrictions there |
08-09-2007, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by phil messenger sorry, i'm quite new here and missed some of the rules, i linked the pics from photobucket, and got a pm saying i should have uploaded them here in the gallery, so uploaded 7 pics without noticing the rule of only 3 uploads per species, so after the 7 were rejected i selected 3 to upload which were also rejected | If you place them in the Forum Images gallery that rule doesn't apply. I would upload any photos that you intend to include in a thread to that gallery (unless they are the odd good photo of a species that will benefit their rightful gallery).
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08-09-2007, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by John If you place them in the Forum Images gallery that rule doesn't apply. I would upload any photos that you intend to include in a thread to that gallery (unless they are the odd good photo of a species that will benefit their rightful gallery).
John | Hi
Thanks John, finally found it     |
08-09-2007, 08:45 PM
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Love these birds...remind me of a couple of summers ago while sitting out in the garden ...my large ginger cat was high up in the sycamore tree heard a lot of flapping about ...only to see a Grey heron fly off..My cat must have had very high hopes that day ....
Great pictures ...well done.
Julie
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08-09-2007, 08:47 PM
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These are lovely shots and will be moved over to the Heron gallery in due course.
I've had a look at them and if you uploaded them to the main gallery as they are here, they would have been rejected because you made no attempt to name them correctly. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the size or quality of them. |
08-09-2007, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by glsammy These are lovely shots and will be moved over to the Heron gallery in due course.
I've had a look at them and if you uploaded them to the main gallery as they are here, they would have been rejected because you made no attempt to name them correctly. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the size or quality of them. | No prob, i never knew there was an alternative place to upload to other than the gallery |
08-09-2007, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by phil messenger No prob, i never knew there was an alternative place to upload to other than the gallery | This may be so, but we would prefer that good images like yours are loaded to the main gallery, where they belong. It's far better that way in the long run, makes finding and looking at them far easier than wading through all the forum images. | | |
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