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These beautiful Australian Shelducks were perched on the rugged rocks around Childers Cove'. They were well and truly at the end of my zoom lens. Tadorna tadornoides. Not I bird I see very often but they are beautifully coloured.
I was delighted to find three European rollers (Coracias garrulus) in France last month, a bird I've only ever glimpsed from long distance before. Frustratingly however, they were always perched on high wires against a white sky, so very difficult to get an exposure that does justice to the exotic colours of their plumage, or the detail that a closer view would allow. This bird is I think perhaps a juvenile, as it seems to lack the blue head of the adults. Fun to watch them swooping down for large insects, lizards and so on, something like a cross between a jay and a massive shrike. Fingers crossed I'll get the opportunity to photograph them again, much closer and in favourable light
The name comes from a Perch; a timber tripod supporting a lantern first erected in 1683 as a crude beacon to allow shipping to pass the rock safely.
As the Port of Liverpool developed in the Nineteenth Century the perch was deemed inadequate as it required constant maintenance and only produced a limited light. Construction of the present tower began in 1827 by Tomkinson & Company using blocks of interlocking Anglesey granite using dovetail joints and marble dowels. It was designed to use many of the same construction techniques used in the building of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse 70 years earlier.
Modelled on the trunk of an oak tree, it is a free standing white painted tower with a red iron lantern. It is 29 m (95 ft) tall. It was first lit in 1830 and displayed two white flashes followed by a red flash every minute; the light-source was thirty Argand lamps, mounted on a three-sided revolving array (ten lamps on each side, with red glass mounted in front of one side). There were also three bells mounted under the gallery to serve as a fog signal; they were tolled by the same clockwork mechanism that caused the lamps to revolve.
The lighthouse was in continuous use until decommissioned in October 1973 having been superseded by modern navigational technology. Although the lighting apparatus and fog bell have been removed, the lighthouse is very well preserved and retains many features lost on other disused lighthouses.
It was restored and repainted in 2001 when an LED lightsource was installed which flashed the names of those lost at sea; including all the 1,517 victims of the sinking of the Titanic.
At low tide, it is possible to walk to the base of the tower, but a 25-foot ladder is needed to reach the doorway. The lighthouse is privately owned and maintained by the Kingham family, and is a Grade II* listed building.
Taken using :
NIsi V6 Holder.
Landscape CPL
3 Stop Med GND
Benro Rhino 2 CF Tripod.
A belted kingfisher was seen perched in a bush in Osceola Copunty near Kenansville, Florida.
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A White-crowned Sparrow perched pretty with the signs of spring just starting around it.
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New Brighton Lighthouse, originally known as Perch Rock Lighthouse after the navigation hazard that it marks, came into operation in 1830 and continued as a navigation beacon until 1st October 1973, when it became a victim of modern navigation technology. The tower rises 90ft above the rock, the first half of which is solid. To gain access when the tide is out a ladder is needed to reach the first of the 15 iron rungs built in to the side of the tower that lead up to the door. A spiral staircase leads to the keepers' accommodation consisting of a galley/kitchen, a bathroom, a living room and a bedroom and then up to the lamp room.
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Perched near the trail in a grove of gum trees, this young male white-rumped shama scans the ground for its preferred meal of earthworms and insect larvae. He would periodically flutter just above the forest floor fanning away the leaf litter to expose the soil below. From his perch, he launched into warbles, ticks, and melodious flute-like song, proclaiming his established territory and mating availability.
My work takes me over to Wirral a couple of times a month so I thought I would scout out Perch Rock Lighthouse after work. Unfortunately it was a rather grey evening and started to rain just as I got there. Still, it gave me some ideas for future trips.
European Stonechat ♀ (Saxicola rubicola) perched on colourful berries at Redgrave and Lopham Fen on the Norfolk and Suffolk border