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    Any ideas?

    Afraid I forgot to get some photos of it. A plant with a single stem growing from the ground to approx 3 inches where 5 leaves bud off in a ring around the stem. At this point the stem splits into 5 smaller stems, each running upwards and outwards for approx 2 inches before each splits again...
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    Porbeagle shark at Fishguard.

    Those in Wales will have heard about the Porbeagle shark at Fishguard harbour, well I was there. Having received a report of bottle nose dolphins at Fishguard harbour from RBA we headed over on our way back to the caravan from haverfordwest. Immediatly upon parking the car a fin showed about...
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    A twitch

    Hearing of the bird on friday, But unable to see it on saturday due other plans. I thought. Oh well, I'll have to miss it. But sunday morning, We where off , checking out raptors along the way, but they where just buzzards. eventually arriving at where the bird had been seen where I met...
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    Cycle-birding

    A 10 mile round trip, in search of new birds. first destination, hope and Fagle Lane quarry or more precisly a large area of standing water. This was the furthest away I traveled. Not much overall, coot, widgon, pochard and gulls on the water, corvids and cormorants on this large and old metal...
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    Wrexham peregrines

    quick chat to the RSPB peregrine project leader today revealed that their latest victem was a lapwing. which they never ate as unusually they fought over it. They also feed on woodcock and kestrel!
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    The corvid challenge

    I set myself the task to see all the resident UK corvids on new years day, so a trip to anglesey was in order. Carrion crows where easy, as where jackdaws and rooks. South stack produced the goods with chough, raven and one of the resident hooded crows. However, I failed to connect with a jay...
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    Happy birthday Janay15

    Happy 18th birthday Janay, hope you have a good one:clap::clap:
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    A bit icy

    Finally, after 2 days of trying, I caught up with an iceland gull thats nearby.. oh, its a lifer.
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    First ringing session.

    today I went ringing for the first time. The site is a farm a few miles from the border on the english side. From 8am when we began to collect the birds from the nets to 1pm we had caught around 60 birds, most being reed bunting, a few tree sparrow. 2 wren, a male and female chaffinch, two...
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    Ringing

    Shall be attending my first ringing session tomorrow, will post pics and details on the ringing forum tomorrow on my return
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    Anyone after a jay?

    Because if you are you should come to my patch, as in less than an hour you will defently see 1, 2,3, maybe 4, quite possibly 5, or even more! I did today.
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    The Great orme.

    I convinced the family to head over to Conwy at 6:30 pm. The sun was in front of us and bright for most of the journey until we arrived at llandudno, where it was hidden behind the orme, and an RAF sea king helicopter hovered below the horizon. We traveled round on the marine drive and up into...
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    03/09/07

    6 buzzards played over a slagheap, and an adult male manderin showed well on the dee, not bad for a days non-birding.
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    Categories

    I've added catagories to the blog for each list I'll be trying to keep. List entries will start at the beggining of the 2008 calander year. More catagories will be added in due course.
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    Introduction.

    well everyone, on this blog, I plan to keep you all up to date with any birding I get up to, trip lists, from holidays and single outings, and hopfully much more.
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    anglesey 13th-16th august

    Day 1 We departed at 12:00 and arrived on site at 13:30. after setting up we headed onto Holy island and south stack. A bite to eat from the café and a quick sea watch with the light in the wrong place produced only a few gulls. A few Chough flew about. But no where near as many species as is...
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    Whats this spider?

    About 5mm in length with a relatively large green abdomen.
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    Laptop recommendation

    Any advice? I'd like one with a decent sized hard drive and processor. and a good battery life, mainly for storing and editing photos wifi would be good but not essential as i have a usb adapter.
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    Night time birding.

    3 local birders including myself headed out at 9pm in search of some birds, we had 2 targets, woodcock and night jar. after arriving at the location, we looked for what would probably be the best spot, 2 other birders where across the clearing and a bit lower down from us. Plenty of birds called...
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    A new garden bird

    A woodpecker has started visiting my garden ..... YAY!!!
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    Happy 19th birthday to Fiona Morton

    Happy birthday Fiona. Hope you have a good day and do me a favor, enjoy your last year as a 'teen'o:D Heres a few drinks on meB (:B (:B (:B (:B (:
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    sand, sea and electric fences.

    well, today I managed to go to see Wales only little terns. Buzzards, kestrel and of course the usual road seen birds showed- great! A single whitethroat showed in a bush briefly (If anyone wants to start to learn warbler calls, whitethroat and chiffchaff to me are the easyest...although I...
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    Kite country, photos.

    I hope these whet your appetite o:D If anyone would like I can link a full size photo from photo bucket, just let me know what photos you would like to see larger. I still need to sort few a number of photos.
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    Tripod/head combo

    Hi all, I'm planning on purchasing the sigma 50-500mm in the near future so I'm looking for a new (or used) tripod and head combo that is reasonably light and is quite small when packed. Not sure of the budget yet but I'm planning to get the lens of ebay (approx £500 inc p&p) I'm unsure how...
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    Pirates! What pirates?

    I was At Worlds end for a a few hours this morning. (Now those who Can't tell I came up with the title after the new Film Pirates of the Caribbean, At Worlds end.) a glimpse of a bird that I had no clue to its ID, camera was in the boot and we went passed too fast. Meadow pipits entertained...
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