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Recent content by Farnboro John

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    John's Mammals 2024

    Last night Maz and I witnessed for the first time a bit of fox behaviour that is documented all over the place but perhaps not so often seen. Our familiar friend Hoppity the four-year-old vixen came for her usual dinner of chicken drumsticks and ate the first one on the front path. When she...
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    April Moths

    Phwoooaarrr! John
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    April Moths

    Zero catch from the trap last night. It's nearly May for goodness' sake! John
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    Check your local railway line

    E.g. The Dump Clump on St Mary's! John
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Or to look at that from the other perspective, one in ten of its guesses will be wrong, even of the birds it can hear - which may or may not be what you are listening to. That's far too high for a marketed product, I hope nobody is paying for this. There's a webcam in Finland (Nuuksio) which...
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I'm with you on Merlin. All it does is encourage the fantasists among the newbie birders. People need to buckle down to using field guides and learning calls: there may be short-cuts in the future but there aren't at the moment. John
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    What Bird can you hear just now?

    Bit late but Willow Warbler along the brook while I was working on the fence day before yesterday: last night at 2230 while I was feeding Hoppity a Carrion Crow was cawing angrily some distance from our house. John
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    April Moths

    Recent photos: Grey Pine Carpet and Lunar Marbled Brown. John
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    Common Eider Morecambe Bay

    If Eider are your photographic target you may be better off on the other side of the country at Seahouses: not only do they breed on the Farne Islands where trips are once again running this year but there are usually a few loafing around Seahouses harbour and nearby rocky shores as well as at...
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    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    I think there's a basic misunderstanding of raptor flight in that Buteos don't sit on the ground on cloudy days in winter (for instance) for lack of thermals and American warblers don't actively fly the Atlantic they get blown across on air currents moving very fast indeed: air currents more...
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    April Moths

    Trapped last night despite the temperature being marginal and a bit of a North wind. Just one moth in the trap this morning but since it was NFY Lunar Marbled Brown I'm pleased I tried. John
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    restaurants where you can bird and eat at the same time

    I had alligator nuggets and fries while watching Snail Kites at a Seminole restaurant on Alligator Alley in Florida which was quite nice. Also remember eating fish and chips in the chip shop at Tyndrum in the Highlands of Scotland while watching a summer-plumaged male Common Rosefinch attending...
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    Butterfly photo= Dublin in Ireland

    It's a Holly Blue and the easy way to tell in a British Isles context is the underwing which is plain pale blue with black spots, no colour or fancy patterns. Cheers John
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    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    But Northern Harriers are? There's more than one way of skinning a cat..... John
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    Beyond Barry Hill

    Bit late of me but that Brambling is a male with that amount of black wearing into view on the head. Nice. John
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