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Recent content by Dave Ball

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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Come on, there are worse sources 😯
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    157. Great Shearwater
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    While we’re in this Gull/Tern area, let’s have a Skua. 24. Pomarine Skua Edited to add number (think 24 is correct)
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    Birding and football

    Chesterfield: Crag Martin ;)
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    The popularity of birdwatching by country

    I wouldn’t worry too much. It was much the same in the Sixties - probably worse.
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    Enjoy living in a place with a low bird density?

    “Cope” as a noun seems to be a recent neologism amongst those ‘down with the kids’, I’ve frequently seen it used, as ‘copium’ (cf. opium) of Russian attempts to polish the turd that is the performance of their armed forces. As a more-or-less retired Bedfordshire birder my sympathies are with...
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    Inaccessible bird species

    Anything on North Sentinel? Anybody know? Anybody ever looked? Anyone want to look (not advised)?
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    Garden / Yard List 2023

    That’s very skilful how you’ve posed that crossbill with its bill hidden behind a twig so we can’t question your ID as Scotbill. Reminds me that the large-billed Crossbills I saw in Scotland in 1983 were before (I believe BBRC say) any Parrots turned up there, so they must have been Scotbills ;)
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    Average age of Bird Watchers

    ...but - you’ve got to have an intelligent conversation occasionally ;) Seriously, I often used to talk aloud when birding on my own, but it was always ‘thinking aloud’, not holding a conversation with myself. I think that vocalising the interior monologue that is continuously going on inside...
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    Mothing Equipment RFI

    I think trapping people is illegal, even in Essex ;)
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    Biggest crowd for a U.K bird.

    Gyr Crakes “History of Dipping Part 2”, on his cartoon page here (third or fourth one down): http://www.gyrcrakes.com/cartoons Sums things up quite well ;)
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    Garden/Yard List 2022

    ...or lie in the garden and cover yourself in small mammals ;)
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    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    Air-dropping birders on Bryher?
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    Why don't we use What3words for bird sightings?

    Don’t forget selling beer in pints. More seriously, Streetmap.co.uk not only gives you the excellent 1:25000 OS map centred on the location*, showing paths including right of way information**, and things like buildings and watercourses and lakes, but will also zoom out to the 1:50000 map and...
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    Birdguides, Twitter or...?

    The problem with the free view of Birdguides is that I believe it doesn’t differentiate between positive and negative news. So the message you saw when the bird wasn’t present might have read, in full, something like: [Full date and time stamp] Purple Heron in [county where Kev is] [site Kev is...
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