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Black Woodpecker, snow and mulled wine A cheeky pic of a Coal Tit near Onuma this afternoon. Pretty cold and there was snow on the mountain tops this morning after FIVE days of rain. A second Whitefonted Goose was at Kamiso as well as lots of Wigeon (but no American Wigeon this year). We drove out to Onuma and I finally got the Black Woodpecker. Only seen (in flight) for 5 seconds but still one of the birds of the year. A male. Otherwise the birds were almost identical to earlier in the week. It's snowing outside now in fact and we're making mulled wine. I never really got into the stuff until I moved to Munich (Gluwein it's called there-where's the umlaut on my Japanese keyboard?). I need a strong drink before the Arsenal/Liverpool game anyway. Annoyance of the day was my shutter release cable. Without going into boring details the threads no longer catch so it's useless. Only one small part is to blame (I lost this one small part earlier in the year and had to replace the whole thing and now this). I ordered a slightly different model this time. Upshot is I've now spent as much as I did on my last Camera just on this annoying but essential accessory. Oh and I no longer use my new Camera for digiscoping because it's crap. Lots of small birds striking attractive poses but I had to rely on my 3 second timer. 22:04 - 12/11/2006 - post comment
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