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  1. jape

    Advice please - need AA Barttery Powered Camera

    being teenager a decent 'go pro' may be what he prefers as an alternative to carrying spare AA batteries look at solar battery rechargers. you can get them for AA also good quality battery packs which can charge most devices and are designed rugged with built-in panel are available. i have...
  2. jape

    thrush or blackbird? lymm uk

    thanks lowell. the pleasure for me is in observation but it is enhanced by knowledge of behaviour and identification. i wish i had watched these feathered birds more when i was younger as i think i may have even studied them seriously at University. instead i watched birds in mini skirts. if i...
  3. jape

    daily delight, lymm UK, garden and nearby reports

    a blackbird dropped a cherry earring on the lawn under the tree, you know, the double stalk that kids hang over their ears, or we did anyway. i didnt think cherries were out yet so someone is feeding them perhaps. it could explain the red beak on the pale bird, cherry skin. not what the bird was...
  4. jape

    From my Manhattan Window

    a slightly belated happy birthday btw, and many more to come!
  5. jape

    Tatty Goldcrest - just tired, or ill?

    and this one from a couple of days ago [https://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/605978/limit/recent certainly shows grumpy but also how a less tatty one can look!
  6. jape

    daily delight, lymm UK, garden and nearby reports

    still cant find anything in ID books or online like that bird. another anomaly. it was just like a very pale robin with darkish tail, no red breast, but with a red bill. first ladybird today, 12 spot. they must be around, i have seen two larvae, but like so much else, becoming rarer than ever...
  7. jape

    Ethical Question

    i think ethics are no longer relevant except to individuals working out their own balance. every time you buy clothing you dont really require, pop into the supermarket for packaged food, put down lawn, even go on a forum in some way you are destructively affecting the environment. and that is a...
  8. jape

    Tatty Goldcrest - just tired, or ill?

    i think the droopy mouth coupled with the bent eyebrow makes it look worse than it hopefully is! almost human expreession of weariness. i wonder why the wing looks so droopy? i have a dunnock the same and thought that was because of the loony wing waving they do at each other but now a...
  9. jape

    Bizarre ‘half-bird, half-fish creature

    i just see cruel people watching a creature suffocate.
  10. jape

    Code of Conduct

    i know from responses i have had in the past before i took birdwatching more seriously, that if people outside of the 'hobby' discuss it, often the perception is of weird nerdy people that once would have worn anoraks and watched trains ... and if you read wikipedia the conclusion is that...
  11. jape

    Pheasants in the UK

    yup, most of us are imports from that perspective. :t:
  12. jape

    Question about feeding backyard birds

    i often see my backyard birds eating all sorts of stuff especially white bread others put out and often dried cat food. they may eat all kinds of scraps especially when under feeding pressure or raising a brood. however snowyowl is correct, some foods are dangerous or unhealthy especially for...
  13. jape

    Pheasants in the UK

    thanks sangahyando and britseye i shall have to go back and check my teenage haunts. plenty of pheasants were breeding in Woburn area, if it isn't all concrete now. i think they built a little town called milton keynes there after i left! and if the Bedfords didnt shoot them all. they did breed...
  14. jape

    Comment by 'jape' in media 'Grumpy Goldcrest'

    i just browse these pics most days as i am never going to be able to afford a camera but now i know what kit i would get. i even bought a scratch ticket because of this and i never do that, havent dared rub it yet. great photo, great fine detail and fortuitous lighting. thank you.
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  15. jape

    Skylark ? (UK)

    agreed, beautiful photo of one of my favourite birds.
  16. jape

    daily delight, lymm UK, garden and nearby reports

    im not going to ask in the forum because i felt no-one believed in ny arctic redpoll! just a few minutes ago a small robin sized bird landed on the branch above the feeder. 8 metres distance. it was facing away, brown unpatterned back. pale belly, dark legs. couldnt see head but thought it was...
  17. jape

    Pheasants in the UK

    just wondering, is there a rule of x number of generations before considered local not feral or are they forever damned to be unticked except by me and schoolboys?
  18. jape

    jenni & winkler

    no worries. the site with the copy is a russian scholars site with many hundreds of books, zoological, paleantology, aves and more if anyone is interested - and copyright may be suspect so i didn't post it here as i am not sure of legality. they are black and white .pdf which limits the usability.
  19. jape

    daily delight, lymm UK, garden and nearby reports

    i like 'scruff'. he has lost most of his tail feathers and his missus has lost all of hers. he did fight the magpie too. today he stood guard while missus had a ten minute bathe. then two of the babes called by for a visit before all flying off. good family stuff and i don't want to know if...
  20. jape

    daily delight, lymm UK, garden and nearby reports

    there are two young orange blackbirds now, being fed but also foraging a bit.
  21. jape

    jenni & winkler

    email or pm me
  22. jape

    daily delight, lymm UK, garden and nearby reports

    thank you. i should have swallowed my orange juice before i read that! exactly what i saw (and decided i may get censored for if i wrote it up in detail). spike on its way soon. varies a lot in price but eBay has some decent offers
  23. jape

    daily delight, lymm UK, garden and nearby reports

    thank you as always; he was just feet away from the ground level bird bath when i saw him. i hadn't heard of hog houses, will investigate, also the food if i can keep the birds from it
  24. jape

    thrush or blackbird? lymm uk

    thank you! that is 4 young blackbirds this year so they are doing well. i have seen both parents with her now as well. mind you, this one is currently sitting in the tree being fed catfood pellets and white bread from somewhere nearby but i saw mum get a slug so it is not all junkfood.
  25. jape

    daily delight, lymm UK, garden and nearby reports

    turns out the 'check out the house' blackbird is dad to a very rusty coloured fledgling. i have been watching him and mum feed the youngster every few minutes in the nearest tree, including unfortunately some white bread and cat food pellets from somewhere. this 'dad' has also knocked 'scruff'...
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