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  1. jape

    thrush or blackbird? lymm uk

    lymm Cheshire uk i have seen young blackbird variations with different depth of speckling but usually dark speckles on dark brown with sometimes a pale bib. this one is new to my garden and the orangey rust you can see on head is right down her chest and belly. in the light she is amazingly...
  2. jape

    bee, new to me, lymm cheshire

    i don't see many bees here at all despite many flowers so was interested when this one came in door. i had a look through 2 pages of google images but was surprised i couldn't find this one. it was honey bee size with the higher pitched buzz not a low drone as it flew. i observed it carefully...
  3. jape

    birds and music

    i am often amused by birds' behaviour and we have recent reports of a catbird stalking a briefcase and a grouse following a guy around his property. i know birds 'sing' but never considered them musical. yesterday i played some music quietly with the french door open and four blackbirds who...
  4. jape

    are feathers alive?

    are feathers alive all over or just at root like a fingernail? i ask because a great tit i have watched for a couple of weeks has lost its drabness and become very brightly coloured. i suppose i cannot be 100% sure it is the same bird but the feathers, to become so bright, would have to be alive...
  5. jape

    security and backups

    i am not an expert but have some experience and when i ran a computer store i saw many problems that impacted on people and business in various ways. some were quite devastating. take heed of andy's warnings in the sticky at the top of the thread do not be complacent, many hoaxes and spam out...
  6. jape

    great tit, no green on vack

    sorry no pic yet. looks like great tit, very clean colours with clear black stripe down chest but this one is very grey on back with no green at all. chest belly not very yellow, pale. I assume from size it is great tit. thoughts on lack of green?
  7. jape

    backyard bees gone?

    im not a great news watcher but have seen several reports of bee numbers diminishing in recent years. i have bushes and trees such as cherry laurel and may blossom and azaleas covered in flowers in recent weeks, many finishing already, but i have seen very few honey bees. i have seen a few...
  8. jape

    magpie attacking fully grown blackbird

    i just watched a magpie attack, twice, by jumping at and pecking hard at head, a fully fledged this years' blackbird. saved by father blackbird diving in. i previously remarked in my 'daily delights in lymm' thread that this lass had lost her tail feathers, i assumed to a cat but now i wonder...
  9. jape

    amusing birds - der pigeon

    der! just watched a woody land on a much too thin twig and fall off then try and land on another, same result! i think the new leaves confused him? the only other similar thing i have seen was a blackbird came in to land on a diagonal pole across a gap in the fence and fell off backwards in a...
  10. jape

    blackbirds working as family, feeding

    i have regular blackbirds with a nest. a male i recognise by his missing tail feathers and a very speckled female recently i noticed the female still feeding a fully fledged, probably second year, daughter. she also has the new nest but i dont want to disturb to see the progress. today i...
  11. jape

    mother blackbird feeding youngster, bit early?

    i have a very speckled female blackbird who is feeding a fledged youngster. it has pale yellow bill and is brown so not mate. thinking this is early for this year's brood, why woukd she still be feeding one of last year's babes still with a nest on the go? or is this usual?
  12. jape

    address book lost

    unfortunately my google contacts and addresses over many years have been lost. and to make it worse, my backup discs. i contacted google and they said it was a network problem and to contact my admin! it was in fact a simple personal account and backups that got wiped but no further response...
  13. jape

    where to spend a couple of hours, S.E coast UK

    I am planning to look for old friends and family, starting Eastbourne and across to Kent. I am agrophobic (not open space but people and cities) and claustrophobic but car is OK usually as it is sort of inbetween but all trips are very stressful for me. I want to do this as an exercise in...
  14. jape

    pigeons in a flock

    in 6 months here i have only seen wood pigeons and collared doves, no ferals or townies ever seen here at all as i am on edge of country yesterday i saw a flock of about 20 pigeons flying hard about 30 or 40 metres up across park in a line pretty much, got binos on them but too fast so no id...
  15. jape

    preparing photos for inclusion in posts

    obviously many do this using their preferred software and methods but i have seen a couple of comments lately about this. it can be very easy but there are size restrictions. best if using an android phone or tab, just get your pics into a folder as usual then there is a good app called PHOTO...
  16. jape

    herbicides

    i really hope the modern herbicides are ok for insects and birds the local contractors recently sprayed hundreds of metres of grass edges around garden beds, walkways etc. with something like paraquat in effect that killed anything contacted. a week or so later all is dead along the edges, grass...
  17. jape

    problems with thinking about bird legs

    it seems to me that the bit we see unfeathered in many, like the robin, is the bit from the ankle down, tarsometatarsus. they bend forward or conversely hop by straightening that related to the next bone, the tibiotarsus. but the knee, patella and femur is inside the feathers. we dont see them...
  18. jape

    how do binos/our eyes do this ...?

    as a beginner i am still amazed at the properties binos add to our eyes! more than magnification and light gathering today i noticed another phenomenon. it is lowish light, grey and raining yet still enough that a backlit bird 20 metres away in tree tops can be identified, in this case, as...
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  19. jape

    female sparrowhawk?

    i think i am right in that this visitor minutes ago is the female sparrowhawk again?
  20. jape

    reporting possibles

    i am 99% convinced i saw an arctic redpoll in lymm a couple of weeks back. i am new to this so didnt fuss as i am not a box ticker anyway, just mentioned it in my thread 'daily delight in lymm' i dont have a camera and by the times i put down the binos it had flown it was only 7 metres away i...
  21. jape

    going up a bit

    some of you know how pleased i am with my 8x25 langham binos as a first set. i want to look ahead to spring/summer and hopefuĺy getting out to the nearby lake. i will need bigger magnification at present 8x25 is great for yard and nearby but at 50 yds they dont cut it for detail. i assume bigger...
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  22. jape

    mute swan

    i assume mute swan but as no other nearby i cant tell the relative size of its knob. is it a male? how do you otherwise tell sex? cant see neck either
  23. jape

    mute swan

    i assume mute swan but as no other nearby i cant tell the relative size of its knob. is it a male? how do you otherwise tell sex?
  24. jape

    how conscious are birds?

    assuming there are professional ornithologists here and experienced observers, i would like to ask for serious response, about bird consciousness. i watched a jackdaw fly across the park alone, no diversions, and off into the distance. it made me wonder where he was off to! i suppose it would...
  25. jape

    basic binos stuff please

    new to birding and binoculars i have been reading the threads but most is way beyond what i want to know. 1. mine have a knurly wheel for focus, works fine 2. they also have an adjuster on RH eye which i assume of course equates diferent eyes! question, if i set 2., the RH eye should it stay...
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