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  1. pianoman

    Danish Woodland Webcam

    Anyone know something more about the location of this webcam - other than Northern Denmark? Not looking for precise location but I like to see these things on a map for some reason
  2. pianoman

    Hornbill spp, C.160km SE Windhoek Namibia (summer 2010)

    More armchair birding - but FWIW the head stripe and the white outer tail look real, rather than an artifact, to me. The bill looks distinctively orange (deeper than yellow). Is Southern Red-Billed out of range? It looks good for that to me. Edit: I see Southern Yellow Billed can have quite...
  3. pianoman

    Where's My Willow Warbler?

    On the other hand some other birders, such as me, might be seeing Willow Warblers but getting annoyed that they didn't see any waxwings this year...
  4. pianoman

    Is my bluetit family behaving as it should?

    I believe that the eggs are incubated at various times and temperatures so that they hatch at the optimum time for weather and food supply. Cooler temperatures (within reason) slow down the development of the embryos but doesn't harm them
  5. pianoman

    Irish hybrid duck

    Hi Joern I see that the sighting is from last year, and that the notes section of the sighting mentions that the bird may be a hybrid, though not of the species that you mention. IrishBirding is a somewhat informal site, privately maintained, and as far as I know it is not a system of...
  6. pianoman

    Bird spotted -banks of Dodder river, Dublin, Ireland

    I normally see them first a couple of weeks later in the year, I don't know if it is an early migrant this year or if I just haven't been paying attention
  7. pianoman

    Picture in gallery, Cuban Crow or Cuban Palm Crow

    I'm an armchair observer here - googled all the images I could find. In those images, to my eyes, Cuban Palm Crow's bill is significantly shorter, noticeably so. But much of the text for diagnostics either doesn't mention that feature, or says that the difference is slight. The only...
  8. pianoman

    Brabant Netherlands - Now more likely a Willow Warbler than a Chiffchaff ?

    Yes the short primaries are well shown in the second photo
  9. pianoman

    Bird Bird Small Feeder

    Bird strikes on windows usually happen when there is another window on the far side of the room, letting the birds think they can fly straight through to the other side. Without that fairly unusual setup, a window hit is pretty unusual
  10. pianoman

    Identify bird call 'puk puk poww', early spring, Kent, slightly wooded

    Ah yes, you could indeed be right there. Likeliest candidate so far in fact
  11. pianoman

    Identify bird call 'puk puk poww', early spring, Kent, slightly wooded

    The sound has the sense of a poultry or game bird - I can't think of a British game bird that would sound like that but there are some unusual-sounding chicken varieties (long-crowing chickens). You may be able to dig out some recordings of those, I can't find one that matches but I haven't...
  12. pianoman

    Bees in nesting box!

    I would agree that if the bees decide to move in, leave them be(e). You can't always predict how nature will work. You can always set up another inexpensive birdbox elsewhere
  13. pianoman

    Warbler 2 - Cyprus

    The OP (ie post #1) has a rather diffuse eye mask to me and the throat is also less distinctly bordered than I'd normally expect from a Lesser. Also get a rufous look to the wing/mantle area so far as we can see it. So I can see the confusion with Common. But it could all be accounted for by...
  14. pianoman

    Amazon Rainforest Peru Night Bird.

    Looking at 4a and 5a in succession shows there is definitely a moving creature with eyes. And gave the impression of being something in the nightjar family, even before reading the comments. That said, an owl of some sort is a possibility too
  15. pianoman

    Peregrines called "hawks" in a book

    I think he means that the absence of the peregrine meant freedom for the birds to fly in the open and go about their business without constantly hiding from the falcon. But by contrast, the author had lost something rather than gained something by the falcon's absence
  16. pianoman

    Sexing Short-eared Owls

    In the bird world it seems that the males are the ones that wear the frilly things
  17. pianoman

    Any point putting out niger seed?

    Goldfinches in my area seem equally happy with either sunflower hearts or nyger. For Nyger, as mentioned the stainless steel nyger feeder seems the most successful. But these days I don't really bother with Nyger. I have one large seed feeder with a mixture of quality general purpose feed...
  18. pianoman

    Blue tit worry

    Happens a lot for me too, most pronounced at this time of year, presumably at the start of the breeding season. The Long-tailed tits are even more persistent
  19. pianoman

    Baby S

    As someone who has been into astronomy on and off over the years, parents have sometimes asked what would be a suitable cheap telescope to give their child for a present. Unfortunately, there's no reason why poor quality optics should be any more suitable for a child than for an adult, in...
  20. pianoman

    Europeans, which American bird would you most like to see?

    At least it stays put - I've had better binocular views of CW from a few days in Maine than of BW from a lifetime in Europe
  21. pianoman

    Europeans, which American bird would you most like to see?

    Actually, on holiday last November, Painted Bunting a daily visitor to my brother's back yard feeders in Florida, so got a good close up eyeful. Didn't disappoint :)
  22. pianoman

    Danish Woodland Webcam

    AFAIK only a couple of Marsh Tits and not a single Willow Tit has made it across the Irish Sea, not even the short hop from Kintyre, this century. So it seems tit species don't like to travel
  23. pianoman

    Black-headed Gull

  24. pianoman

    what bird makes a sound like a goat/sheep, after dark?

    Oops LOL BTW I always thought "drumming" was not a very good description - sometimes called "bleating" which seems a lot better.
  25. pianoman

    Home made fat balls are too soft - any recommendation for how to fix?

    You will never be able to avoid some spillage onto the ground below the feeders. In my case there is never a shortage of ground feeding birds to mop up the leftovers though
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