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Recent content by PhilW

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    Large Mustelid(?) Footprint ID please Merseyside

    Jane See here: https://www.shetlandnature.net/otters/ For what its worth I think otters would show claw marks like a badger - its definitely not a badger foot print. How big was it?
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    Targets for 2018

    James. Rob Smallwoods recently had @ 200 RN Parakeets in Hulme Park (I think) in Manchester. Easier to get to than London. We've got Little Owls in the field behind our house and can be viewed from the garden on a sunny day - only 5 minutes from where you work!
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    looking for a *large* squirrel proof (cage) feeder

    If you can put your feeders in a position where squirrels can't leap onto them from surrounding trees the following solution works well and provides hours of entertainment watching them fall off. Bang wooded post in ground . Drill hole big enough to take broom handle through top of post. Push...
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    Number of starlings found dead in garden today

    Someone I know who colour rings Starlings in her garden has had a recent issue with Magpies killing them.
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    Neck-ringed Greylag at Martin Mere

    I think some were neck ringed on Shetland a few years ago
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    Biking Birder 2015 - A cycle ride to every RSPB and WWT reserve.

    Phil. There'll be a few of us arriving on Fair Isle 13th October until 19th - we'll help Gary as much as we can!
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    Flint Point, Shotton & Chester

    Why not 1st summer Common Tern?
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    1.4x converter for record shots

    Timmy I reckon you'll have more success staying as you are. With a teleconverter your field of view is greatly reduced so its harder getting onto a moving target. You'll get more blurry shots as the shake is magnified with the greater focal length. Best stick with the 400 and crop - unless...
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    Goldcrest sporting a ''stop light?''

    Here's one I ringed earlier this year
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    Managing A Small Wildlife Estate UK

    What Mark said! Wow! Looking after and managing 8 acres is a lot of work! I wouldn't be in any hurry to make changes. I'd start by mapping out all the habitat and noting areas which could be improved for key species - remember every nature reserve in the country (apart from coastal cliffs...
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    Finch (?) Near Hereford

    Aberrant Siskin. Steve Young photographed a similar bird on his local golf course! Here you go: https://birdsonfilm.smugmug.com/Other/Rarities-and-scarcities/i-QSS7rxb
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    The History of British British Birds by Derek Yalden

    Derek Yalden sadly died on the 5th Feb 2013. He was one of my lecturers at Manchester University & supervisor for my final year project. I spent many hours in the Derbyshire peaks ringing wader chicks and monitoring breeding populations. A few years ago (November 2011)he turned up on Hilbre...
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    Does anyone like me think twitching gives birdwatchers a bad reputation

    Exactly. Bringing the hobby into disrepute! Any birder not sharing their data for the benefit of future conservation should have their binoculars confiscated and made to visit RSPB reserves on buses with like minded individuals and banned from all access to BirdForum in case they inadvertently...
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    Does anyone like me think twitching gives birdwatchers a bad reputation

    Personally I think the birders who give the hobby a bad name are the rude arrogant ones (not necessarily twitchers) who take up the whole of a public hide for hours on end with their sandwiches, flasks, note books and fieldguides spread out in front of them and then make snide comments about the...
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    Will a hawk take a squirrel?

    There's a guy who hunts using Red-tailed Hawks near me. They'll often take Grey Squirrels. Our local Buzzards sit in the woods and wait for Squirrels to run beneath them then pounce.
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