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The mist made it impossible to obtain any clear pictures while adding nothing to the composition.
Today's picture was taken in the early evening and has been heavily processed. Three, heaped, tablespoons of gamma, several big dollops of contrast and the sky was no longer dark grey. 400mm [MFT] + internal 1.4x Teleconverter and 2x digital zoom handheld and cropped. Then the Goldfinch took ages to pose.
Today's mystery bird of prey rose from a distant field hedge and retreated. It was almost all white above with only a little buff. Black wing tips were reminiscent of a harrier or kite. Tail medium long without a fork. Marsh harrier in late winter garb? It was too far away, even in the binoculars, for greater clarity.
A lady stopped her van in the lane to ask about my perambulations. Her curiosity had arisen due to frequent sightings of this ambling septuagenarian. She had noticed me sporting my cameras or binoculars and had correctly assumed I was a wildlife enthusiast.
There is a stretch of the main road which was planted with mixed, native trees some years ago. It is slightly set back from the road. Though not by much. So that it cannot be reached by the flails of the tractor, hedge slasher. The tallest tree specimens have now reached well over 7nm or 20'. With lots of bushy infill down below. Blossom and leaf are presently bursting forth in spring abandon.
The smaller birds absolutely love it! I have never heard so much, varied birdsong anywhere before. Warblers, finches, tits and blackbirds all clamour for attention. In the all too brief silences between the traffic, tyre roar. Yet the established, taller, but much more slender, double slashed, roadside, field trees hardly provide a perch for anything but a chaffinch or timid blackbird. It could be the greater depth of the planted trees which is so attractive to the birds. Being backed by one of the few uncultivated fields where only long grass is grown. Largely uncut except for an annual clip. Not even an animal grazing there over the years.
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Fascist cult leader, Dunny 'da' Dump, delayed the updates to his private, Brownshirt's environmental <cough> protection <cough> agency reports for four years. The EPA [Exclusive Pussy Elite] sat on its updates as the world's climate, literally fell apart at the seams. The cost to the US alone running in the tens to hundreds of billions. Drought, uncontrollable wildfires, larger and more ferocious storms all took lives, homes and their economic toll. That'll be another hoax along with his repeated denial of a pandemic.
The EPA is only now accepting that humans "may" have some "slight" effect on the badly broken climate. It is understood that EPA executives continued to [corruptly] accept their monthly salaries [a.k.a. Non Disclosure bribes] throughout this entire, devastating period.
No doubt we will soon be reading about these same corrupt EPA executives accepting massive pay-offs. As they crawl off into comfortable, early retirement in their sprawling, air conditioned mansions. To wallow in lifelong passes to Dump's putting infant courses and to ride around in chauffeur driven, luxury cars at taxpayer's expense.
US environmental agency releases climate report delayed by Dunny Dump - BBC News
Carbon: How calls for climate justice are shaking the world - BBC News
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