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  1. David FG

    Plant in a Shropshire garden

    I am fairly certain this isn't a British native plant, but I am hoping someone can identify it for me. I have no information other than what is in the photo, I'm afraid - so no precise idea of size or anything else. It does look fairly distinctive though.
  2. David FG

    Monocular advice needed please.

    The mother of a friend is considering buying a monocular (she can't use binoculars). She is nothing like an expert, and doesn't need/want anything hugely exotic or expensive. This is very much out of my area of knowledge, so I am hoping someone can give me some advice I can pass on as to what...
  3. David FG

    Bush Cricket - Cambridgeshire, UK?

    I have an idea what this might be but this is way out of my area of competence, so would be very grateful for a proper ID.
  4. David FG

    Ravens?

    My question, basically, is are Ravens to be found in Oxfordshire? The background is that my wife was paying one of her regular visits to Oxfordshire (a rural location a few miles from Banbury) and she saw a bird she thinks must have been a Raven. Though not an expert birder she does know a...
  5. David FG

    Request for information

    I am not entirely sure where this should go, but here seems about the most likely spot. I have a question: this has been driving me mad all day, so I would be eternally grateful to anyone who can answer it. I am sure there is a name for the collection of data on things like the first...
  6. David FG

    Cetacean evolution

    Please forgive me - it is early on Sunday morning and I wasn't really paying too much attention, but I think I have just heard on the radio news that a porpoise has been found (dead) with a mutation giving it four 'limbs'. It was said that this is evidence that cetaceans evolved from land-based...
  7. David FG

    Autumn Watch

    I know we had this sort of discussion some time ago (when the subject was Spring Watch) but this has now become totally unwatchable. Simon King with the complete descent into 'Disneyfication' of wildlife documentary making: 'Percy' and 'Ivan' the Red Deer stags is just vomit-inducing and just...
  8. David FG

    Egg Collecting

    I read today of the inquest into the death of the infamous egg-collector Colin Watson (and I apologise for starting another thread on him, but I am interested in a slightly different aspect of this business.) How do these people justify what they do? To say that they don't, or that they don't...
  9. David FG

    Falcon advice please.

    I saw today, in East Kent (UK) an undoubted falcon. Unfortunately (as is usually the way, I find) I had no camera - or even binoculars, but I am going to ask for advice based on a description. It was Kestrel-sized and Kestrel in appearance, but it was very dark: the upper-parts charcoal grey...
  10. David FG

    Rspb

    Have just heard on the radio, that on Saturday June 10th at 8pm on Radio 4, there will be a programme on the history and so on of the RSPB, presented by Ken Clarke (whether that is a plus or a minus, I leave for you to decide.)
  11. David FG

    Swifts

    My first Swifts of the year: today, Isle of Thanet, East Kent at 7.15pm. Have I missed earlier ones?
  12. David FG

    Inter-specific 'relationships'.

    A couple of days ago I watched what at first I thought were a couple of Pied Wagtails flitting around a car wing mirror and searching around for food. After a very short time it became obvious that although one of them was a Pied Wagtail, the other was a Grey. I am familiar with birds of...
  13. David FG

    Rare but now common?

    A little while ago there was a thread on the subject of birds that were once common but have now become rare. On a slightly more upbeat note, are there any species that were once rare (or at least, comparatively so) but are now more common? This is completely subjective, but I seem to see a...
  14. David FG

    A question of taxonomy

    I'm not sure where this belongs, so if it's in the wrong place, I apologise. I have been wondering why it is apparently not done to give a plant a scientific name in which the generic and specific names are the same, but it is considered perfectly acceptable to double up in the case of animals...
  15. David FG

    Weigh-hey!

    A first for me. I have just got my first Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochrurus) in my garden. Seen them in other places, but this one is special. [strolling around with a smug grin.]
  16. David FG

    Migration

    A subject that has puzzled me, on and off, for a long time, is the seemingly odd pattern of migration/non-migration in bird species (specifically in the UK). I am aware of the 'calculations' that species make in deciding whether to adopt migration as a strategy or not (and I know that is wildly...
  17. David FG

    Another anagram game, if I may

    1 Puss loses a garland 2 'ello, be a single? 3 Shut her whist! 4 a/c her pellets 5 Re: less litre, Ed 6 A Plod trunks 7 Ow! Why nut a elms? (sorry about the grammar in that one!) 8 Grits a clark's terms 9 A carafe soon, Nell! There is a sort of connection.
  18. David FG

    So own up

    I seem to remember that in Kingsley Amis's 'Lucky Jim' the staff of the English Department of a University play a game in which they have to confess to the most famous book they have never read. Is anyone here prepared to admit to the commonest bird they have never seen?
  19. David FG

    Anagrams

    These are all Western Palearctic, and there is a connection (of sorts). 1 Fencer nigh 2 A pert gig dryer 3 Be a cork, slug 4 A legged Noel 5 Eh, tits work 6 Wow! A lit galley 7 Try elf, crown bach 8 Butchers hurl, OK? 9 Ron ruts a budgeted fin 10 A true zit 11 Deferred inn rots 12 Horns spills...
  20. David FG

    Hello

    I have just joined - after finding this site by lucky accident. I am in East Kent and a reasonably experienced birder: I was a Reserve Warden many years ago. I am, however, completely hopeless when it comes to computers, so it will take me some time to become familiar with the site! David FG
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