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    Goshawks in Cities

    For info, my colleague mentioned his book covers urban Gos in detail. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/looking-for-the-goshawk-9781408164877/ Best wishes
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    Trying to access the RSPB website for Big Garden Birdwatch

    Thanks for all the people who have been trying to submit their Big Garden Birdwatch counts. The weekend was very slow for the RSPB website but has been working fairly well since Sunday. Please try again if you've failed over the busy weekend, we've had over 100,000 so far which is great. For...
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    Bird in the hawthorn tree (UK)

    Thanks - that is an old email address for me but still got to me. Ring Ouzel is a great bird to see in Beds but we get good numbers on the hills each year, especially in the Spring. Garden ouzels are really rare, although we had two different birds in gardens last winter...
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    Has a bird ever been accepted on tracker evidence only?

    In Bedfordshire, we'll take anything...so have included both Osprey and Honey Buzzard in our annual bird report thanks to satellite tagging. From memory, I think the HB actually roosted overnight so maybe, if we'd been on the ball, we could have twitched it! We made the point that these were...
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    Hello from Cranfield, Beds

    If you'd like local birding information, feel free to join the very active county Yahoogroup at [email protected] and also take a look at the club website www.bedsbirdclub.org.uk Richard Bashford
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    Red Kites in Herts

    That's already happened too. The first ones we had hanging around were in south and west Beds about 10 years ago and these were Chiltern birds. But with wing tags, we can see they're getting nice and mixed up now - all helps the gene pool! Beds has been invaded from both sides... Richard
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    Red Kites in Herts

    We've got them breeding in Cambs and Beds thanks. Great to see of course. In this part of the world, the source is mainly then next county along - Northamptonshire where where are very large numbers. Lets hope it continues, along with Ravens and Peregrines too. Richard
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    A morning out at Marston Millennium Country Park. Bedfordshire

    It was certainly a good morning to be out in Bedfordshire (a rare thing in itself...). You did very well Kathy. I was busy but called in to Broom this afternoon to see the Common Scoters (9 of them) also found first thing along with more Sandwich and Arctic Terns. I'm out for dawn tomorrow so...
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    RSPB garden birdwatch results

    Thanks for the interest in BGBW. Hopefully all can see the tremendous value in running the activity. The bird results are one. On that, the survey is statistically sound but limited. It covers one habitat and one weekend. But it works in much the same way as more structured surveys like the...
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    Bedford Patch

    Hi, I though you might be interested in the Black Vulture story! It certainly caused a few chairs to fly back today. I was on the 'phone to a colleague when another colleague came over and said "Vulture going over!". Another colleague had seen it the day before over Sandy station and posted...
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    Bedford Patch

    Hi Kathy, I was very interested in your Firecrest sighting. Would you mind if I posted your sighting on the Bedsbirds Yahoo group to alert others? Many thanks Richard Bashford Bedsbirds Moderator
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    RSPB ABB at the Tate Modern today

    Hi, The peregrines actually only use Tate chimney to sit on. They breed nearby. The work was just one of those things which had to be done - either that or bricks falling on people's heads I think! Just bad luck it coincided with the Tate Peregrines project. But as this is such a good place...
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    Nikon P5100

    I've just got one of these and have yet to take it out. There seems to be a pale area on the bottom of the screen. You can see it as you turn the camera on or by holding your hand over the lens. I'm wondering whether this is normal but guessing it would be wise to send it back. Perhaps the...
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    Hi from Bedforshire

    We have a few kites thanks to the reintroductions in Bucks and Northants. In the last two or three years, pairs have been hanging around in the same spots but as yet we have no confirmed breeding. So keep an eye out on your Bletsoe bird/s. They are often seen near West Wood, Knotting and east...
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    Hi from Bedforshire

    Welcome. We have to work hard for birds in Bedfordshire but fortunately the county is very small and we have loads of birders. So we don't do so bad! http://www.bedsbirdclub.org.uk/ The club is very strong, putting on a great series of talks over the winter (the last had over 100 people...
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    big garden birdwatch rspb

    1200 forms in on the website already, 41,000 birds recorded - keep them coming! Richard Bashford
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    big garden birdwatch rspb

    Well it has been a busy day today with plenty of PR work around BGBW. Really great to see all the interest out there. Aside from gathering loads of bird data, raising awareness about the wildlife around us is pretty valuable among the wider public so do spread the word please. One point...
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    big garden birdwatch rspb

    No real problems doing the Birdwatch on the Monday if you're busy on the weekend. The main thing is to get stacks of people taking part - and lets hope we get a cold snap this year and it brings the birds into the gardens. Last year was so mild, many people saw very little. On that point...
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    Harlequin at Liberty Island

    Here it is for reference. I guess if they are seen in the State it may not be too exciting for locals but nice for me to see as I wasn't really birding (and you don't tend to see them around deepest Bedfordshire!) If anyone has a contact for State sightings of this sort then I'd be grateful...
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    Harlequin at Liberty Island

    Many thanks for the reply. I did a little bit of searching on the web to try and find out status but without knowing the sites mentioned, it is pretty hard to work this out. Happy it was a Harlequin although I didn't use bins, it was just offshore with a Bufflehead. Just for the hell of it, I...
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    Harlequin at Liberty Island

    Hi all, Just come back from a long weekend break to New York - no birding as it was for my wife's birthday (shopping mainly...). But did get on the boat to see the staue on Sunday. I saw, among other things, a young male Harlequin bobbing about off shore. Just wondered if any NY birders...
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    Jobs in birding?

    Like Postcard CV, I've only ever worked for RSPB and BTO (aside from short contracts picking beans and packing meat etc. which filled in gaps between contracts). I also work as a tour guide in my leave time. I can't really comment on working for a commercial company but I would be amazed if...
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    places to look in cambs/beds please

    Hi, I live about half a mile from Wyboston and was myself on a two day conference there this week. It is one of my local patches. Unfortunately, the main lakes are private watersports pits and are surrounded by a golf course anyway. The more southern lakes - the one next to the Lakes...
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    Montagu's Harrier

    I've not been directly involved in the north Norfolk arrangements but my understanding is the land owner does not want to make this site any more public - the fact that birders chat to each other and that the birds are in a place birders might just happen upon them is the reason for low level...
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    Coming to Chichester

    Well there's Chichester Peregrines Abb project. http://www.rspb.org.uk/brilliant/sites/chichester/ RSPB staff and volunteers there until the 23 June and well worth a visit. Best wishes Richard Bashford
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