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Enjoying the Orange Peril

10,000 Birds

There was a worthwhile cash prize, which I spent on a sculpture of a swimming Otter – whenever I look at it, it reminds me of capturing the Wryneck shot. It was the advent of lightweight, mirrorless cameras that saw me finally abandon digiscoping, while the Panasonic camera I used didn’t have a great pixel count.

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Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

10,000 Birds

Nowadays, it has a feeling of an abandoned construction site. The last Eurasian Otters were spotted here about the time the construction works started (I have observed them here half a dozen times, and other birders have seen them at least that many times). …and after the road construction (June 2018).

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