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Post by Admin Mal on Oct 12, 2006 20:14:41 GMT 1
Hi George. I hope you don't mind but I've moved your pics, so that there is one below the other. What you had done was have the two images running one straight after the other one. If you want to have them one below the other one, as David did with his snowy pics, then all you have to do is do one image - then - press the 'enter' key to go down a line or two - then do the other image. That makes them move down the page a bit. When you post more pics again <of course you will post lots more interesting pics! > then have a play with it and then click on 'preview'. This will show you what it will look like. If you don't like it, then change it, click preview again. Once you are happy - then click 'post reply'. As I say, hope you don't mind me moving them!
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Post by Admin Mal on Oct 12, 2006 20:27:17 GMT 1
I was down watching out for the Otter twoday, seen it twice but not quick enough to capture it on my camera. But i did film this Gannet. also seen a Redshank and some shags. Isn't it great that you can take pics or video and within a short space of time have them up on the internet for everyone to see! I love watching gannets dive. After seeing your video and also the video of Eshaness that was on that Fettes page, makes me think that we must try to get some video on the website..
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Post by georgeg on Oct 12, 2006 20:52:46 GMT 1
My son was telling me this evening that he had heard that the Sand eels had bloomed about a month earlier before the Terns arrived and the Sandeels were a lot larger and that their food was to large for them to swallow, he also heard that in the south of the island their was very little Terns because of the lack of Sandeels and the Terns in the North of the islands were feeding on Silocks [small Saith]
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Post by georgeg on Oct 12, 2006 20:55:54 GMT 1
Thanks Fiona.I will try to be more careful, iam just at the learning stage.
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Post by Admin Mal on Oct 12, 2006 20:58:22 GMT 1
Thanks Fiona.I will try to be more careful, iam just at the learning stage. No problem, George. You're doin' brawly weel.
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Post by patioman on Oct 12, 2006 22:11:32 GMT 1
Thanks for that Georgeg, it is amazing what you learn from communications and from this forum. Regarding your being at a "learning stage" with posting videos, I wished I was, looking at my pathetic attempts to post an image of my "Front Door" view you are light years in front of me. Keep the pictures coming, thanks again.
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Post by yogi on Oct 13, 2006 0:05:31 GMT 1
This is a bit of a morbid tale but it astonished me so much I just have to relate it. I was standing outside the Sullom Voe Terminal this morning (as one of the new social outcasts, having my nicotine fix) when I saw a crow harassing a wee bird (size of a sparrow, white/light breast - extent of my birdie knowledge) by flying a couple of feet above it. The crow cleared the perimeter fence but "weebird" flew straight into it and tumbled to the ground. Evil crow then swooped down on it and stabbed it several times with it's beak until it was dead. He then picked it up in his beak and flew off with it. My smack was severely gobbed, I always thought crows were just scavengers, not killers. Poor weebird!
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Post by Pat on Oct 13, 2006 10:15:20 GMT 1
I am probably going to show my ignorance here when speaking of craas or crows. But here goes anyway... In the early summer this year there was a pair of corbies or ravens in the trees here at Greenbrae. They hatched one young chick. The craas or I believe they are called hooded crows ganged up against the young bird and I last saw it being dive bombed and pecked at. Also while I am at it there is some interesting information about fungi and insects in this weeks Wildernews. See the link below. www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/Shetlandtimes/content_details.asp?ContentID=20472Pat
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Post by patioman on Oct 13, 2006 11:24:09 GMT 1
Hello Yogi & Pat and to everyone, yu'p nature and wildlife can be beautiful it can also seem very cruel and viscous but it has been going on since time began. A robin is a traditional symbol of Christmas, but gramme for gramme, ounce for ounce or kilo for kilo they are one of the most viscous of birds. Going South, last year I visited the Eden Project in Cornwall, one of the wardens/keepers/gardeners there was conducting a study of birds within the spheres, some introduced and some who had taken up an easy life style within them. She was relating a story about the resident Robins, some 7/8 of them ganging up on another Robin and ripping it to pieces between them. Nasty isn't it, should they be on a Christmas card I ask myself.
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Post by Pat on Oct 13, 2006 11:41:52 GMT 1
Hi Patioman At the risk of becoming totally morbid here... I understand it is a habit of craas to attack and kill other sick craas. Could this be what was going on with the robins? And yes let's keep the robins at Christmas Pat
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Post by patioman on Oct 13, 2006 11:55:23 GMT 1
Personally Pat, I prefer a Nativity theme on my cards but we had better agree to differ on that one, I had better not enter into a theology debate or I will be sunk without trace. I am afraid merely killing the weak and sick amongst birds is not always the case, territorial fights are one of the main reasons for Robins or other birds to kill/maim there counterparts. Once I watched a program on the tele called "Sea Bird City" it was filmed somewhere up Scotland may well have been Shetland and possibly Sumburgh Head, not sure now. This film gave in graphic detail scenes of Bonxies grabbing almost ready to fly Kittiwakes chicks from their nests, holding their heads under water to drown them and flying of with them to feed their own young. All this and I have not had lunch yet.
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Post by Admin Mal on Oct 13, 2006 22:49:01 GMT 1
And yes let's keep the robins at Christmas Don't know if I could eat a whole one though... ;D
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Post by patioman on Oct 13, 2006 22:58:22 GMT 1
I'll bet you could if you did the sprouts the night before
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Post by Admin Mal on Oct 13, 2006 23:03:51 GMT 1
The sprouts should be on now in time for Christmas of course. To get them cooked to perfection. <apologies for going off-thread >
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Post by patioman on Oct 13, 2006 23:08:34 GMT 1
No apoligies needed, Brussel Sprouts are classified as Flora, or are they
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