Springwatch team's Flickr Favourites
| 14:59 UK time, Wednesday, 26 May 2010
The Springwatch team has finally arrived in Norfolk and we're all bedding in to our new home. Martin and the Unsprung crew are scouring the for your photos to use in the Springwatch Photo Club which airs for the first time next Wednesday. So please keep adding your best spring snaps! In the meantime, our web researcher Sam's been asking the team for their favourites from the last few weeks.
TV producer Holly was first to spot this satiny shot but Martin refused to choose differently once he'd seen it, saying that this image represented everything Photo Club is about. He says photography is a real fieldcraft and being in the right place at the right time takes some knack. He thought this picture was fantastic and loved the symmetry in the composition. Well done Christopher for being our first double favourite!
Our Management Menagerie chose this fantastic vibrant butterfly image. They love the bright colours.
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TV researchers Ruth and Lucy picked these sandwich terns as their favourite this week. Ruth is off filming them in Norfolk at the moment and says there were 3,100 on Blakeney Point last year!
Level-headed Joe chose this unique image which she said was just brilliant. What a geezer!
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This sneaky peregrine capture caught TV producer Hannah's eye. She recently had a big success filming peregrine chicks being ringed. Look out for her film on this year's Springwatch!
Series producer Roger wrote: "A common bird but a real character. The jackdaw is a personal favourite of mine and is beautifully captured in this photograph."
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Simon's Squad say they are all about action shots and will be talking about African migrants in Springwatch this year.
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Executive producer Tim Scoones said: "This is one of my all time favourite birds - how wonderful to see so many all together!"
And last but not least, we Webbies loved this cocoon by Dominic Greves. It's an incredible capture showing an amazing spring mystery as, in his own words, "a burnet moth caterpillar enshrouds itself in a cocoon in preparation for flight, as the light begins to fade." This is our favourite of the spring so far!
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As always we'd love to know how spring is unfolding where you are, so add your spring pictures to the and tell us what's going on in your neck of the woods.
You can see our Flickr favourites from late May here.
Keep an eye out for even more Flickr favourites from Sam, Martin and the rest of the team in the coming weeks.
Comment number 1.
At 26th May 2010, wagtail-boogie wrote:I do not envy your jobs picking out fdavourites out them. All the pics are AMAZING. well done to all the people out there snapping away.
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At 26th May 2010, wagtail-boogie wrote:can I also say, i'm really sorry about the shocking spelling and grammer on my previous statement. my excuse is that i'm typing in the dark, and it's hard to see the keyboard. thanks, wags
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At 27th May 2010, littlejojo61 wrote:Have to agree with Tim about the long tailed tits - what pretty little birds. Fantastic pic but then they all are. Almost too intimidated to pick up my camera now - so many talented photographers out there. Well done all.
Jo
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At 27th May 2010, Ranger_Parus wrote:I'll sing out loud for the Starling but the LT Tits are excellent as well.
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At 27th May 2010, snady lady wrote:Wow,what amazing photo's we really are in for a treat,the black headed gull is stunning,it's beautiful yet scary.They're all really great and look forward to more on S/W thanks
Mahrahnee MRKW!
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At 30th May 2010, 122abcdefghi wrote:Favourite photo was the Smew shown on a previous selection. It looked as if it was conducting dawn chorus and made me smile.
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