>>>As other people have said, the pix were too far to the right so they have truncated beaks, and there's no horz. scrollbar to get to them. >> >>That was fixed by reducing the size in both posts so far (3 photos). >> >> >>>Now as photos go, they're fine but, my not being a twitcher, I don't find the subject matter all that exciting, just like an illustration in a book about birds. Now if they'd been taking off in fright, from an airgun pellet's ricochet, and you'd caught them mid-flight ... >> >>You do have a mean streak, don't you? > >Not really, I did stipulate an airgun and not a 12 bore. I thought that was rather humane of me! :-) > >No seriously, they're just mugshots of birds. I'm quite a keen amateur photographer myself. On the beach I tend to take pix of flotsam & jetsom, breakwaters from weird angles - that sort of thing. What's that 3rd bird by the way? Seems to be a group of boobies :-) > >Near us the old burnt-out pier is used by a myriad of starlings, swarming in great balls around the sky in the evenings. I try to catch that every so often.
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