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    Peregrine?

    Thanks all - it was circling repeatedly and swooping over grassland (which feels quite a hobbyist behaviour to me). Apparently put the wind up a while host of resident birds including some quite big ones like pigeons. We do have resident peregrines but can’t recall seeing one with this kind of...
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    Peregrine?

    I’ve just been sent this by my wife. Im assuming peregrine but it’s been a long time since I saw a hobby, it looks very red and I know a lot of you will do this ID with your eyes closed. Guernsey in the Channel Islands
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    Canary Islands virgins!

    Probably not helpful for you Scridifer but seeing this post made me realise I never posted a trip report for Lanzarote last year. I was holidaying with family (inc two toddlers so birding) was not a priority to the extent we didn't even have bins but having got there and remembered houbara was a...
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    New York warbler

    Apologies these are iPhone shots of something hopping round Bryant park this morning; I’m rubbish with us warblers but can’t place this one...is it yellowthroated male? It seemed to have a darker cap. https://flic.kr/p/2c75g79 https://flic.kr/p/2c75g6h https://flic.kr/p/2aMMHUv...
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    John's Mammals 2018

    I missed the BNW, spent hours questing for it into the darkness on Friday, gave up and went for a kebab and then spent the weekend watching on tv as thousands saw it whilst I recovered from the effects of said kebab.
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    John's Mammals 2018

    good luck to anyone going for the beluga. If you have a chance to ask it to stick around for a couple of weeks please do!
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    Garden Tick Rules

    Well they're definitely not as prevalent as they were in BVI (where I like to think of them as an accidental rewilding substitute for de Booy's rail). We don't have so so many but there are a few little colonies that have appeared. Most of them are males (unsurprisingly) but a few hens around...
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    Garden Tick Rules

    Realise this is well old but since its resurfaced I have continued to apply "Fugl's Law" as regards things which could have been seen from the garden but weren't (only current difference is Osprey) - stops one "needing" to turn round and go back up the drive in a rush when something good flies...
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    Birding Obituary: Audrey Dixon 13 April 1933 to 10 July 2018

    So sorry for your loss but at the same time glad for your shared time together John.
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    John's Mammals 2018

    Guernsey list for the year.... - Bottlenose dolphin - Grey Seal - House Mouse - Wood Mouse - Guernsey Vole - Greater White-toothed shrew - Hedgehog I've not had a ferret yet this year but they are (unfortunately) around the orchard at the moment. Here's a video of GWTS I took earlier in the...
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    St Thomas Island, Aug 2017

    This is feral green iguana. There are, to my knowledge, none of the native VI Ground Iguana in any of the USVI but here is is one from Guana Island in BVI https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3601/3324349944_0872edeaa3.jpg
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    John's Mammals 2015

    Checking in on birdforum for the first time in a long time and seeing this reminded me that I've never posted our pantanal trip report. We got much of the above without the ocelots but did get both otters and fluke giant armadillo on the drive back to the airport down the trans-pantanerio. The...
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    John's Mammals 2015

    Time almost halfway through the year for me to make a belated entry into this year's mammals thread. The reason for my late arrival is that per the official rules of mammal listing laid down either here or mammalwatching some time ago I can now tick human having seen one in its new...
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    Nest boxes on sticks - in the UK

    I am in the process of developing an orchard. At the moment, it is full of trees of varying sizes but mostly quite small. At the moment I don't have anything big enough to nail or otherwise attach a nest box too. In time, as the trees grow, I'm not particularly inclined to hammer nails or...
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    John's Mammals 2014

    Flew over to Southampton on Friday night for some mainland wildlife watching for the better half's birthday. Driving out towards wareham we quickly scored plenty of rabbits as well as brown rat, a single roe deer and a particularly fine herd of English longhorn cattle. After a night in a...
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