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December Winner: Markulous and Year Winner: Wild Canon

Congratulations to Markulous on winning the final competition of 2009 and Wild Canon on winning the overall competition for the year!

The top 3 members this year were:

1st - Wild Canon (80 votes)
2nd - Markulous (40 votes)
3rd - Keith (33 votes)

Congratuations to all three of you and also a big thanks to everyone who entered this year. If you'd like to know your score then please contact Jamie.

As you know, this was Jamie's last month running the competition so a huge thank you to him from everyone at the forum. He's run the competition brilliantly and I'm sure you'll agree it's been a big success.

There will be no January competition this year but hopefully we should have something sorted for February.

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george
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I took these today while out angling..

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25-06-2009 07:44 PM

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great pics well done Icon_smile

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25-06-2009 08:27 PM

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lovely pics george, the markings look great.

25-06-2009 08:33 PM

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Thanks Slow Worm and Wayne.. Icon_wink

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25-06-2009 08:38 PM

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Beautiful photos, George.

Is that the bird with the haunting call the Americans call a Loon? It just reminded me of the birds that were in that great film 'On Golden Pond' with Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda.

01-07-2009 12:24 PM

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Wow! What a lovely bird!

01-07-2009 07:54 PM

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Thanks Cetti & Phyzzio.

I'm more than certain the north american bird is the great northern diver, its of the same family, its larger and more chunky than ours, and does not have the red throat..

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01-07-2009 10:07 PM

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Cetti Wrote:

Is that the bird with the haunting call the Americans call a Loon? It just reminded me of the birds that were in that great film 'On Golden Pond' with Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda.

Stunning images George......what a wonderful bird......makes me almost wish winter was here so I can see them off shore again! Icon_smile

Cetti the haunting birds "On Golden Pond" known as Loons by the are definitely Great Northern Divers,as George says they are larger and not as delicate as the Red Throated......often seen around our shores tho......in fact we've had one on our local mere a few winters ago.

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09-07-2009 08:15 AM

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Stunning as always George. Not a lot of chance of me seeing one for real so thanks for showing us!

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09-07-2009 11:51 AM

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