Quiet Around Here

[Pinno]

Thanks, would really appreciate that. So much choice available. I will pop along over the next few weeks and have a look what they have. I would like to buy one before Easter.

[harrymoon]

it opens up a new world for sure, put some seeds out for the birds and zoom right in from the comfort of your house! will give you an idea of what you can do with one if nothing else

[stevefoster]

Gonna have to go to Chester Zoo again soon, thats were i got my Panda, yes it's mine, kids loved it

[harrymoon]

so thats where that panda went.. i had my eye on it

[stevefoster]

so thats where that panda went.. i had my eye on it

I would glady give it back to you, my friend

[Pinno]

it opens up a new world for sure, put some seeds out for the birds and zoom right in from the comfort of your house! will give you an idea of what you can do with one if nothing else

Got up one misty morning a few weeks ago to a quite large hawk in the middle of the back garden tucking into dare I say its breakfast. It sat there for about 10 minutes oblivious to me waking everyone up to come and look. Our lawn is about a 90-100ft long and it was about 60ft from the house its not the first time this has happened either.

I could not identify what it was other than it was much bigger than a Kestrel. Sparrowhawk. We thought a buzzard perhaps? I actually got the video camera out and took video of it. Perhaps I should post a clip to see if anyone can identify what it was when I get a minute. Still curious as quite well up on my feathered friends.

A telephoto/Zoom lens would have been great.

[harrymoon]

nooo i think it has a great home where it is...off to make a cocoa and some toast with lime marmalade, back in two shakes of a lambs tail

[harrymoon]

what was it eating, a pidgeon? my guess would be a sparrowhawk.

[stevefoster]

nooo i think it has a great home where it is...off to make a cocoa and some toast with lime marmalade, back in two shakes of a lambs tail

Glad you said that, i have become rather attached to it, hairy arsed, ex paratrooper, fellrunner sleeping with a cuddly toy panda, there's worse things you could be

[Pinno]

what was it eating, a pidgeon? my guess would be a sparrowhawk.

We have a lot of collared doves here that are very tame, thankfully it was not one of them - poor old blackbird was the unlucky one.