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| Posted: Fri Sep 13th, 2019 15:56 |
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Graham Whistler
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Our holiday home for two weeks in quite remote countryside. Good weather and heated swimming pool and good food from the French supermarket 5 ks down the road in Thivirs.Sadly hardly any bird to be seen apart from the few Flycatchers getting ready to move to Africa for the Winter. Attachment: House1710.jpg (Downloaded 168 times)
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16th, 2019 03:52 |
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blackfox
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have a good holiday graham
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16th, 2019 10:23 |
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Graham Whistler
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Out agin after birds plenty of noise in the woods but too shy to come to camera. Weather here very hot 34C. This is our local chateau at the end of our little road. Very harsh light but D500 spot on exposure just a little lower contrast in Photoshop. Attachment: Jumilhac-Le-Grand1796.jpg (Downloaded 140 times)
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16th, 2019 16:50 |
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jk
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What is the name of that Chateau? I visited many of the Loire chateaux about 25 years ago. I think you are in Masif Central area near Clermont-Ferrand. It looks very fine there. It gets very cold there in the winter.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17th, 2019 04:07 |
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Eric
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jk wrote:What is the name of that Chateau? Ch¢teau de Jumilhac
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17th, 2019 04:09 |
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Graham Whistler
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Chateau-de-Jumihac it is about 8 miles due East from our place. Eric tells me there is a series of lakes 5 miles due north from us about with possible birds stopping off on the way S so hope to go there before we go home this Sat.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17th, 2019 04:42 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:Chateau-de-Jumihac it is about 8 miles due East from our place. Eric tells me there is a series of lakes 5 miles due north from us about with possible birds stopping off on the way S so hope to go there before we go home this Sat. That looks like a nice chateau to visit and an interesting area that we haven't seen. Maybe next year! Don't hold your breath about the lakes. In my experience France is so big the birds are spread wider than in UK ...and are as a result far less approachable. Like many of the large lakes in the UK, the birds tend to stay at a distance from any people. Ok for binoculars but not so for photography. The French are also not very good at positioning observation hides .....except for shooting the birds! One of the (supposedly) best places for birds, just south of the Loire, is La Brenne, west of Chateauroux. It's a huge area of lakes and surrounding woodland where the French have done a better job of hide positioning. We hope to take a look next May....Boris permitting. One thing that has struck me on this thread and seeing Jeff's wonderful images....most 'birding' locations for the general public are only adequate for birdwatching with binoculars etc. If you want to photograph birds well...generally speaking you need to be able to get much closer than most public places allow.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17th, 2019 10:37 |
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Graham Whistler
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Eric you are dead right about birds in France. Wendy and I drove up to the lake today it is great big dam but lake behind is 2/3 empty. Mostly brown dry mud sloping down all round to what little remains. Not a bird in sight! Locals say there has been very little rain this year, all the fields round here only short brown grass! Another 35 c today almost too hot to sit in the garden. Will swim later when sun goes down. Sory all this is way off topic!!!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17th, 2019 15:26 |
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Iain
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And more to the point making us that are in 15c here in the UK very jealous. 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17th, 2019 15:42 |
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jk
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If you want green and pleasant then stay out of sunny climes unless you want tropical with high humidity. There is no perfect place on this Earth only a great place to be at that moment!
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