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PMG
Knight Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: August 2006
Location: Leigh, Lancashire
Posts: 6,744
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Sun November 18, 2007 4:38pm
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Thought I recognised the spot! Well done Jeff - nice series. Ben was there last year when we went and had someone in tow that day - the dippers are very forgiving and perform beautifully and the narrowness of the river valley keeps them more or less in reach of the camera!!
Pauline
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matt_xyz
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: February 2006
Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 4,676
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Sun November 18, 2007 5:00pm
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nice dipper shots Jeff, were these taken anywhere near Lathkill Dale? I've heard there are dippers around there and keep meaning to visit.
Matt
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JeffH
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Registered: June 2006
Location: near Cambridge
Posts: 2,005
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Sun November 18, 2007 5:23pm
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Thanks Pauline & Matt. We spent the morning in Bradford Dale (where most of my best shots were taken) and the afternoon in Lathkill Dale. Lathkill is one of the busier dales and the level of disturbance from passers-by much greater. Ben's enormous lens also attracted lots of attention and we had many walkers stopping for a chat! There was also rather a lot of water coming down the valley on the day we were there and the sheer volume of water in many of the waterfalls was simply too much for the Dippers. On reflection, I preferred Bradford Dale - much quieter but, as Pauline says, with the birds being very obliging and coming into very close range even without the use of hides. The only problem was that a couple of the locals clearly weren't very friendly towards bird photographers - understandable to some extent given that some idiot had apparently disturbed a nesting pair earlier in the year by actually trying to remove rocks from around its nest!!!!
Jeff
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John D
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: March 2006
Location: West Lothian
Posts: 2,530
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Sun November 18, 2007 6:04pm
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Super shot of a Dipper Jeff in a lovely setting.
John D
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JeffH
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Registered: June 2006
Location: near Cambridge
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