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Whilst I was up on the roof on such a lovely sunny day (for once!!!) I thought I may aswell take a pic of Pendle, I'm so pleased with it I've even sent it to BBC North West Tonight... :D
 

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Nice pic - is that a red kite circling over the rooftops?

Rolf what do you think?
 
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Analoguesat said:
Nice pic - is that a red kite circling over the rooftops?

Rolf what do you think?
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Looks brown or black to me definitely no strings attached perhaps a falcon :p
 
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I think it's just one of the local crows, they're pretty big birds...:)
 
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2cvbloke said:
I think it's just one of the local crows, they're pretty big birds...:)
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Big as in thunder thighs or are we talking more eye level appendages :)
 
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Big as in thunder thighs or are we talking more eye level appendages :)
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I think you've got the wrong kind of bird in your mind... :-rofl2
 
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Looks like a Red Kite, with the tail, but too distant to be precise. :) Nice photo though. :)

PS. Is that the roof you were standing on? Rather you than me. :)
 
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I'm certainly no bird expert but even I can tell that the tail feathers are of bird of prey of some kind!
 
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Hope you don't mind, had a little play and changed the lighting slightly, adding a little more cloud contrast, to see what it would look like. :)
 

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Its Kez, its proper BO, I tel thy :)
 
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rolfw said:
Looks like a Red Kite, with the tail, but too distant to be precise. :) Nice photo though. :)

PS. Is that the roof you were standing on? Rather you than me. :)
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If it is a BoP, that was one hell of a coincidental snapshot!!! :D

And I was actually still on my ladders poking through the skylight, if I was a little higher (aka, on the roof) the telephone lines wouldn't have been in the way... :)

As for playing with the photo, that's fine, it looks good... :D
 
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Actually, any ideas what that tripod aerial's for? It looks ancient!!! :confused
 
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Looks like the remnants of a CB antenna, with only the ground plane radials remaining.
 
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Looks like the remnants of a CB antenna, with only the ground plane radials remaining.
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I thought CB antennas were just a long pole-type antenna? Or are/were there different kinds of antenna? :confused
 
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This one looks like an old Procom antenna with ground plane a bit like the one pictured below, they were quite common in the old analogue CB days.
 

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rolfw said:
This one looks like an old Procom antenna with ground plane a bit like the one pictured below, they were quite common in the old analogue CB days.
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Ah, so back in the day it would have been much taller? :eek:
 
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Yes, by quite a bit. :)
 
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rolfw said:
Yes, by quite a bit. :)
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No wonder it's missing it's top half!!! The winds that blow here (mostly from the west) can be pretty strong, as my aerial found out... :D
 
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