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    New Video: Yellow Hammer April 2017 (added by grasshoper)

    Its a Yellowhammer. Always will be and always has been. A Yellow Hammer is something you'd find in a small child's toy box. Its not a member of the Hammer family is it.
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    The Highlands and Islands Thread

    Too early I'm afraid. Try May time
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    Greylag Geese on Speyside

    Having just returned from a few days staying at Nethybridge, we saw quite a few Greylag Geese feeding in the fields up there. We were wondering the origin of these birds as there seemed to be quite a few in the area. Genuine migrants or just feral? Also on Sunday 19th, while heading out of...
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    Birders in Fife giving birders a bad name

    If you see someone standing on a housing estate or in a town in full camo gear then its a safe bet as to what they are doing. I'm sure you'll find one at most urban Waxwings at the moment!
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    British Birds Journal question

    Some articles are unreadable, v scientific and heavy. There's the odd decent one such as archive stuff, or the rare breeding reports and rare annual report, and first for Britain. But most arcticles go wooompf straight over my head. It only does a brief review of sightings at the end. Its...
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    Black Grouse North Wales?

    Alan can be found at - http://www.birdwatchingtrips.co.uk/ @AlanTwitch. It could be a good day if he was available.
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    Black Grouse North Wales?

    Try contacting Alan Davies. He does guiding up there. He may be able to organise a small trip for you while you are up there.
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    What is the rarest bird on the British List.

    Cabot's Tern? Evening Grosbeak? Bay-breasted is a single observer sighting. Cabot's was dead. Evening Grosbeak - two records. One Kilda, one in a garden.
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    What is the rarest bird on the British List.

    Great Auks are fairly scarce these days
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    Cyprus field guide

    Helm Guides - Birds of Middle East covers Cyprus
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    Blacked necked Grebes

    Maybe female Common Scoters?
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    BOU TSC disbanded

    Dam
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    BOU TSC disbanded

    I recognise one. We used to be in the same YOC group. Do I get a point now?
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Wryneck location added to map
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    The site was monitored yesterday from 0600 to 2100hrs continuosly. The locust is probably one of many still left lying around.
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