tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35623259349361877142024-03-19T10:34:28.090+00:00Daf's Orkney birdingBIRDING..STARS..STONES..SHOREdafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.comBlogger778125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-835175737673107712023-05-12T16:27:00.001+01:002023-05-12T16:27:12.026+01:00<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">At last after more than a week of
freezing cold the warm air has returned and once again the promise of
summer is in the air. The first breeding success has registered with
the scrambling calls of newly hatched starlings come from deep within
the old wifes dike. The breeding season in the garden is looking good
just now with song thrush,dunnock,greenfinch and robins paired up.
Sparrows blackbirds and starlings are going at it as well!!. Down the
fields we have common gull, lapwing, oystercatcher and snipe on the
go. There are several nests of curlew around the house and the
bubbling in the air counterpoints the mipits and skylarks
wonderfully.....chance of northern lights tonight !!</p>
dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-86344451831368072302023-05-01T19:06:00.003+01:002023-05-01T19:06:27.227+01:00<p> Its Beltain baby, the year kicks in gear. We will be having a wee fire once it darkens down a bit. In the mean time this is a</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfZULvMiTjYA6WC2gJFUvVfWBWxOF9mMyVAxN324gmFdP5VXqgfJkoBhaaZVPTHmqegcs7KXfbaaC2XDmVkpNLA8Bw3H0KCdrlJANQQfaF9Xt6OiKZcRDvb0CcTiY3ZOw1mpSsyg86uq0y70hj_g4hRp5ie48bdJ7rcFLjoWUL5jRZZuqr8PsU9iHlQ/s5152/DSC00120.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfZULvMiTjYA6WC2gJFUvVfWBWxOF9mMyVAxN324gmFdP5VXqgfJkoBhaaZVPTHmqegcs7KXfbaaC2XDmVkpNLA8Bw3H0KCdrlJANQQfaF9Xt6OiKZcRDvb0CcTiY3ZOw1mpSsyg86uq0y70hj_g4hRp5ie48bdJ7rcFLjoWUL5jRZZuqr8PsU9iHlQ/s320/DSC00120.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_op_oY5WijJYAsCyzWPxnCPnUYhzp5E4knnqrNnaWzdbNA5VD-8fcxdrnuFSWelvHKuJkT13w-c8Kk7QHK7ABjiZSTlCHcFf4K-Y42PX26bXD5wowueEUCxUXmqi5mBtVYOICjAlQCgI8eOdJ_X3Uqn07IM2omGpf_1DyXihHa5bBYHtm6leXTGJD9g/s5152/DSC00117%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_op_oY5WijJYAsCyzWPxnCPnUYhzp5E4knnqrNnaWzdbNA5VD-8fcxdrnuFSWelvHKuJkT13w-c8Kk7QHK7ABjiZSTlCHcFf4K-Y42PX26bXD5wowueEUCxUXmqi5mBtVYOICjAlQCgI8eOdJ_X3Uqn07IM2omGpf_1DyXihHa5bBYHtm6leXTGJD9g/s320/DSC00117%20(1).JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> primus type stove i bought at an old mart sale. Just been getting it going for the first time in a while. Might look for a coffee pot for the shed next......ya all have a good Beltain.!<br /><p></p>dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-42400299461275497662023-05-01T16:09:00.001+01:002023-05-01T16:09:14.542+01:00<p> Well well six years on are stirrings once again, is theis blog going to wake from coma, fuck knows but I smell bacon on the air....<br /></p>dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-17891648465601220242017-08-12T00:14:00.001+01:002017-08-12T00:14:04.920+01:00Two years on.Well here we are again, two years on.....darkness is once again returning. With all the bollocks and personalities that are involved with the aurora I thought I might keep this for having a wee spout off rather than facebook.Its nearly the the start of the sorry old grouse season so if you like your grouse live and flapping you have come to the right place...its quite quiet as it goes just now. Wind speed is picking up a bit and theres a chance of a glow over the weekend. Its also the Persids shooting stars this weekend. Unfortunatly its not going to be the bigest display in human history as advertised by some groups on facebook. It has been interesting to watch as the story developed. After the first meme was shared about it was fairly dismissed and debunked but yet astronomy and science pages were seting the same message to new graphics in an effort to seem if they were the ones predicting this huge event. Its all quite amusing but makes you think how much you can trust the veracity of the rest of their pages......not that mine is run by any kind of expert i should add....lol.<br /><br />dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-54634387146302268292015-06-07T02:22:00.000+01:002015-06-07T02:22:00.370+01:00Atlast something in the sky to post as noc cloud sweeps over followed by more cloud.<br />
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Four days since my last sighting, frustratingly I was down with a bad back. I missed at least one night. Managed to get back in tow now tho with a display last night that showed very well against the strong moon light.dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-84691901690185452015-03-25T21:21:00.000+00:002015-03-25T21:21:34.018+00:0090A thin show starting out tonight but there is time yet. Nice ring about the moon tho !<br />
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<br />dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-13050035762861696882015-03-23T01:10:00.001+00:002015-03-23T01:10:19.335+00:0087 Just crept over the horizon. I dont know if its going to clear enough to get a propper view tho.dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-36585557199540654762015-03-23T00:37:00.000+00:002015-03-23T00:37:04.206+00:00The rest of the catch upThe night after the CME produced another small show as a precurser to the morning of the eclipse. Needless to say although it was a little cloudy the almost total eclipse was a spectacular affair. The night produced another display that was seen a long way south, a great day !! The next night produced the curious blob as a rogue ribbon of light pusated from the eastern side of the sky overhead and off to the south south west. The ribbon was actualy south of us !! The night of the 22 produced the start of a display before being lost to the cloud....So thats all up to date at 86. its been a cracking week in to the equniox and tonight we are missing storming conditions to the cloud cover.....I feel a photo stream coming on......dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-35064353841373417112015-03-22T19:11:00.001+00:002015-03-22T19:11:04.871+00:00Catching up a bit.81 showed little more than a difuse show on the horizon before dropping
back to show later in the night. 82 came storming in to produce the
biggest show this year. The awaited CME produced aurora that was seen
all over the UK. We suffered like a lot of places with mist and fog.
Unfortunatly it seemed to suck the colour out of the sky. The display
was massive tho with hours of bands passing overhead fading and growing.
Ocasionaly it would stop moving and seem to fall out the sky in a
coronal display that would go on and on.. A great night even with the
conditions......83 is on right now as im typing. Theres a lot of cloud
obscuring it but its showing green to higher than 50 deg !!!....theres more of the update to come tonight.dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-14883776886435535262015-03-13T21:10:00.001+00:002015-03-13T21:10:06.413+00:0080Waiting for a storming display thats not happening by the look of it. It seems the x flare cme passed us by. Still its a good night and we havecolour so we will see what will be !!<br />
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We are in reasonably
exciting times just now. Of course if you start to think like that it
seems you are doing nothing but preparing your self for yet another
long stand in the cold with an anti climax in the end. Over the
nights of the10<sup>th </sup> and 11<sup>th</sup> I was hoping for a
glancing blow from an earlier CME. Over the last two nights the
positive magnetic field has pushed almost everything away from us and
there has been almost nothing to be seen. Ironicaly we have had a
couple of the finest clearest nights you could wish for. Even the
huge moon is rising later and helping to give us nice dark skys from
the off. EPAM has risen but there is so much going on I think it is
more of a harbinger of current flare activity happening now. The
previous few days have seen 2297 producing continuous flaring with
loads of C class, several strong M class, some of which produced
coronal mass ejections and while not coming directly at us are
expected to have some influence. last night the one we are all
waiting for an X2.2 with a CME came ripping out followed by another M
class. NOAA has a storm warning in place now and they are expecting
potential effects from the Ms to scrape past us and stir the pot.
2297 Is now coming in to a position where it will be fully geo
effective. It still maintains a complicated magnetic structure which
is good because it means there is still some potential for more very
big flares as it really starts to face us. We are about to feel the
effects of an incoming HSS from a recurring equatorial hole CH658.
Hopefully the high speed solar wind and the clouds of plasma will
cook up something for us. All kitchen analogies aside I am really
hoping that this is one pot that will boil over on the stove.......With
all that said we all know fine there are no givens in this game. Many
of you will have stood here before, X flare hurling towards us with
the UK press hyping it and expectations sky high so lets be
realistic. There is the potential for lights over the next two
nights, maybe even more. As the last two nights and other X events as
well have shown it is just as easy for all of this to simply bounce
off the magnetic field and carry on past us, and after all this is
what the planets magnetic field does so well, protect us from this
dangerous shit. That aside I am some looking forwards to darkness.
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dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-53970908925307620772015-03-08T22:16:00.000+00:002015-03-08T22:16:35.425+00:0078It seems like ages since I managed some colour but tonight with a breal in the endless clouds and the big moon yet to rise I managed to catch this difuse aurora. Stats are really poor and once the moon started to take hold there was little for my poor old camera to pull out. Im just waiting noe and going to seed if the field comes south for a bit and go for it again....Its really thin stuff out there.<br />
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<br />dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-64664182257269070892015-03-01T22:50:00.001+00:002015-03-01T22:51:08.703+00:00There are storm warnings for the weekend this weekend due to a HS SSBC.
Last night was a wash out and probably had the best show, tonight is
less active but there is a faint arc visable. At the moment im waiting
for some expansion.<br />
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dafihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882966852207132772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3562325934936187714.post-47421872778718601732015-02-27T00:53:00.000+00:002015-02-27T00:53:14.248+00:00It took a lot of shots to find 76 eventualy tho I caught it with a 4am fast snap. This was one of those shots that you manage to take and run back to bed before you wake up to much. I only realised I had it the next night when I looked through before deleting....Marginal to say the least !!<br />
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