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  1. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    Try sharpening after cropping/resizing, you will find most people get better results doing it that way. :cool:
  2. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    Gambia, is that near lynemouth collery 8-P :cool:
  3. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    112 was instigated in 1991 as the European emergency number, as each country had its own number and borders were coming down, it was thought a Europe wide number would be best. Since then other country's have adopted it. using a gsm mobile you can pretty much dial it from most places around...
  4. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    Yep but the dopey git told everybody its in a different county. ;) :cool:
  5. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    Just found out the birds have been nationalised and issued with geordie passports... :cool:
  6. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    I discounted the dwarf for a number of reasons, it is rarely found north of the humber, its only about 3/4 of an inch and it has distinct black dots around the wing edges. Rechecking the book has thrown up 2 more possibilities, the plain wave and the riband wave (plain f remutata variety)...
  7. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    looks like a cream wave Scopula floslactata, but its getting a bit late in the year for them now, flight season is usually may to june, a little later in scotland. Try to take the pictures square on and with a aperture of f8 or above, f2.8 is far too shallow a DOF for identification (or macro)...
  8. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    John, you last moth looks like a Eudonia truncicolella, try this link for another picture http://www.kolumbus.fi/olavi.a.niemi/Koisat/album/slides/Eudonia_truncicolella_syyssammalkoisa_IMG_3472.html :cool:
  9. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    Is this what you mean, also wait till you see a elephant hawk moth, all pink and green and not much different in size, both have velcro like feet. Unfortunately due to the weather, moth night at foxglove covert (n.yorks) has had to be canceled tonight :flyaway: :cool:
  10. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    As said previous post, it is a Brown China mark, Elophila nymphaeata, its a large micro moth, its young are aquatic dwellers, found across britain often found near ponds and lakes Last week one was caught at foxglove covert on their weekly moth trapping day (Tues night Wed morning), this...
  11. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    nice to see there are still reds at Wallington Hall, might take a trip up next week to see them. |8)|
  12. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    I much prefer the photographic ones, and this one from claravale last Tuesday :cool:
  13. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    Unusual to see red kites on the ground, they normally would snatch their meal and fly off, they tend to do most things on the wing, any photo's? :t:
  14. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    This is the best I can do, the light was failing and had to use high iso just to get the shot, as the bird flew off whatever it was, was dangling from it when it left. I thought that all captive bred birds had to be ringed, this one doesn't seem to be, maybe someone had just watched the film...
  15. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    I think it's friendy because it might be an escapee, I first saw it about a year ago and was amazed how it sat there and posed right next to my car, when I got home and looked at the pictures, I noticed a thin leather looking strip on its foot, the strip wasn't there the next time I went. Next...
  16. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    No sorry you got me, tried searching google for boldon flats bottle diggers and got nowt, can you enlighten me, did it uesd to be a dump or something? cos if they want bottles there are plenty in the local supermarket car park, big bottle banks there, thats where I get mine from any way......
  17. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    clara vale today, sparrowhawk took a siskin straight off the niger feeder, such a clatter and I was so gob smacked I didn't even raise the camera as it disapeared, prey in tow in to the woods. Other than that the usual stuff for that site, saw my first willow tit, kingfisher keeping it's...
  18. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    for a cheap bean bag just fill an old wellie sock with bird seed or rice, or like I did gave my mam some camo material and she knocked up 3 bags and 2 double bags, then even filled them for me with bean bag balls, arn't mothers great.
  19. Auntystatic

    in and around south tyneside

    saw a heron at clara vale today eating a great crested newt, nasty birdy
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