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  1. Mono

    Leighton Moss Café Closure

    Just to spread the word that Leighton Moss café will be closed for a revamp from 14-26th April. There will be a hut selling takeaway drinks and snacks but no café.
  2. Mono

    Tripod in Kendal

    There is a nice looking Manfrotto tripod in BHF charity shop in Kendal. It has a photography head rather than a scope head. Tripod and head are £80.
  3. Mono

    Parabolic vs Shotgun

    Nothing to do with birds but this weekend whilst watching various men with odd-shaped balls I noticed the following. In the 6 Nations rugby all the pitch side sound people are using shotguns. However, in the Super Bowl they are all using parabolics. Is this just the way the sound industry...
  4. Mono

    Odd EBay find

    Found while browsing oddities on eBay. More of a monocular than scope. Claims to be 2.5 x 17.5, so nice and bright. Not seen one before now there are multiple identical listings, all under £10. Says Made in Russia, but all the sellers are Chinese. Might get one out of curiosity. Shame I can't...
  5. Mono

    What AI binoculars are these?

    I got DALL-E to draw a birdwatcher!
  6. Mono

    The Ivory-billed Woodpecker lives on...

    ...in the Endangered Species Act. "Although the delisting proposal included the ivory-billed woodpecker, the Service will continue to analyze and review the information before deciding whether to delist the ivory-billed woodpecker."...
  7. Mono

    8 out of 10 Bats

    No Autumnwatch this year so Chris Packham has put together his own alternative. Going out on YouTube. https://8outof10bats.com/
  8. Mono

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    Came across this being shared on Twitter. A survey for an undergraduate dissertation on UK invasive species. https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=RQSlSfq9eUut41R7TzmG6a7zSNtjcl1GgifYPuYwmxZUQ1QyRlZMOExQQU44TjdHUEowR1EwTkxXUy4u
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    Hide Etiquette

    Popped into a small but busy hide. Lots of ducks and waders at all sorts of ranges. There were only six windows, each occupied plus a couple of folk stood up behind looking through the gaps between people. So far, so normal. But two of the windows were occupied by photographers who were fast...
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    Non-native breeding birds in the UK

    The RBBP has just published a paper on non-native birds breeding in the UK. The summary is here... https://rbbp.org.uk/2023/08/31/non-native-breeding-birds-in-the-uk-2015-20/ The full paper is in September British Birds, so subscribers will be getting it soon. The main takeaway seems to be...
  11. Mono

    Agressive Willow Warbler

    Was round a friends house this morning. I was watching the well visited bird feeders when a Willow Warbler flew onto them. It then flew at every bird in turn driving them off. For the next 5 minutes or so it sat on top of the feeder pole and drove off every bird that tried to visit, including...
  12. Mono

    Pilot Whale Mass Stranding

    On Isle of Lewis today 55 animals. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-66215683 As with a lot of these Pilot Whale strandings it seems to be a case of a single injured or diseased individual straying into shallow water and rest of the pod following them. It makes me...
  13. Mono

    Golden Pheasant no more?

    Newly published study of Golden Pheasant in the UK concludes "...therefore can no longer be considered to be truly naturalised as of 2023." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-023-03125-0
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    A very weird project‽

    Not sure this belongs in the Conservation forum but don't know where else to put it. A proposed project to build a butterfly reserve, by excluding butterfly predators! They are looking to raise £400k! https://www.butterflies-forever.org.uk/the-project/
  15. Mono

    New 7x

    As folk who frequent the Zen-Ray forum might know my ED2 7×36 are no more. So I'm looking to get some replacements. I do like a 7x, I like the extra FOV and brightness. Budget is c£250 which doesn't leave many options. The stand out does seem the Opticron Discovery 7x42, I would interested in...
  16. Mono

    Gulls do stupid things

    If folk have visited RSPB Leighton Moss in recent years they may well have seen that a nesting platform, complete with cameras, has been put up to try and tempt some ospreys. No luck yet but for the last two years Great Black-backed Gulls have nested on the platform. Unfortunately the gull...
  17. Mono

    Curio Whoopsie!

    My Curios are in need of trip to those nice people of Swarovski.
  18. Mono

    Parabolic Phone Mic

    A parabolic mic to plug in to your phone. Use your phone as the recorder and have direct access to Merlin et al. Not out yet but Kickstarter coming soon.
  19. Mono

    So much stuff!

    Had a great spring day at Leighton Moss. Highlights included; first Reed Warbler of the year, great views of multiple Cetti's Warbler, a Bittern flight and a roast dinner in the café. But I was stuck by how much kit some folk carry. One chap had a huge LowePro rucksack containing unknown...
  20. Mono

    Bird Buddy Live Feed

    Folk might be aware a product called Bird Buddy, a feeder with camera that can send you alerts and photos if birds land on your feeder. Well the makers also post a live feed of birds landing on their customers feeders, presumably with the customers permission. It just seems to be US...
  21. Mono

    Wildlife Photographer of the Year - camera survey

    Have just been to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. For each of the photographs there is a panel giving the details include the camera, lens, shutter settings etc. So I thought I would do a survey of the camera brands used. The results are... Canon 28 Nikon 27 Sony 12...
  22. Mono

    Walrus in the Hebrides

    No id information but it is unlikely to be "Thor". Not really twitchable at the moment but who knows where it will go next. https://hwdt.org/news/2023/2/27/walrus-in-the-hebrides
  23. Mono

    "I have come to see the Bittern"

    Earlier today, sat on my own in a hide at Leighton Moss. A person comes in and announces to the hide in general rather than to me, "I have come to see the Bittern". I tell them that I have been there for 20 minutes or so and haven't see one, but that Bitterns will be about. They assure me that...
  24. Mono

    Copitar Nova Sport

    I have been having grand tidy out at home, an early spring clean. Among the old love letters, 30 year old P60s and assorted life detritus I found these. A all plastic pop-out Galilen of about 3x15, must have and it for decades. Not really a birding binocular but maybe the ultimate EDC.
  25. Mono

    Ultimate Deck Binoculars?

    For the binocular collector who has everything. https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-435---a-pair-of-novosibirsk-ref-pnb-2-15-x-110-military-patrol-binoculars/?lot=459319&so=0&st=Binoculars&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=1&g=1
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