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  1. lockbreeze926

    Shanghai, China, today

    No photo, but just a very general question: was looking out of the hotel window and saw a very brief flash of what looked like an Oriental Magpie-Robin. Is that feasible in Shanghai? Should add - on a civilian holiday, no field guide.
  2. lockbreeze926

    Can you do casual birding in China? RFI

    I will be on an organised tourist trip (non-birding) to China in April and I wonder how feasible it would be to do some casual birding there when there were no other activities planned? I understand that these are huge cities and transport arrangements could be difficult, so city parks and...
  3. lockbreeze926

    Udawalawe, Sri Lanka, two weeks ago - Siberian Sand Plover? Tibetan Sand Plover? If you want to be my plover?

    Different birds, same location. There was a debate at the time, but I can't recall what consensus emerged and now I'm seeing the same characteristics. One has a bonus leg tag.
  4. lockbreeze926

    Buteo car attack in Los Angeles

    Setting aside the sensationalist caption, this shows how thoroughly urbanised certain raptors can be (a Red-tailed Hawk, in this case).
  5. lockbreeze926

    Song Sparrow - SW Arizona, USA, April

    Song Sparrow, right? The reason I ask is that I came across this old photo from April 2019, taken in Cochise Co, AZ. The bird was quite distant and looked to me like a Song Sparrow, of whatever local subspecies. I've seen many and, yes, they are variable, but still... The woman (an American)...
  6. lockbreeze926

    Mindo, Ecuador - what is this raptor? (date 22/2/16)

    This was years ago, but I found the photo today and remembered that I was never at all clear about this one. Mindo, Ecuador - heading uphill towards the trails behind the well-known Yellow House accommodation, but not actually in the forest yet, just in the open paddocks with tree-lined...
  7. lockbreeze926

    Sand Martins carpeting the road

    This was passed to me (not my text or question, nor obviously photo) - "Sand Martins on the road in France. They roll around along our lane every year during autumn migration. Is this common behaviour? Why do they do it? It's above 30C, the roads are sticky, are they oiling their wings...
  8. lockbreeze926

    Texas woman mowing lawn attacked by snake and hawk

    It's all in the thread title. Obviously, people like us are thinking: which hawk would that be? Texas woman mowing lawn attacked by snake and hawk – at the same time
  9. lockbreeze926

    Chobe, Botswana, October 2022.

    Wasn't planning to post here, since I haven't taken any photos for quite a while, but I opened a folder that was meant to be empty and this was in there. The date tells me I would have been in Chobe, but I have a complete blank about the bird or the occasion. Is it a Willow Warbler?
  10. lockbreeze926

    Choughs to be (re)introduced to Kent

    https://www.birdguides.com/news/chough-to-be-reintroduced-to-kent/
  11. lockbreeze926

    Black Vulture? (location inside a plane's cockpit, otherwise unknown; mildly gruesome)

    Possibly a Black Vulture
  12. lockbreeze926

    Mount Hypipamee Crater and Julatten, Queensland, Australia, May 2023

    1. Habitat - rainforest, in the Atherton Tablelands. This was very active in the understorey. Best I can do is Pale-yellow Robin. Picture slightly lightened. 2. A distant blob, over open agricultural land. Brown Falcon?
  13. lockbreeze926

    Northern South Africa (in and around Kruger) - Feb 2024, 13 days

    Can I interest anybody in this? Inevitably, it's not cheap - 99,600 ZAR for two sharing, which equates to £4067 GBP or $5037US (or, if you like, another 16,000 ZAR for the luxury quarters...) This excludes your flights to RSA, but includes all accommodation, transport incl driver, vehicle and...
  14. lockbreeze926

    Queensland - April and May

    Just a personal note - I will be on a family vacation in Queensland towards the end of this month and into May. From 29 April - 8 May, I'll be in Brisbane (based Yeronga) and from May 10-18 I'll be in the Cairns area (based Atherton). If any BF members are in those areas and are available...
  15. lockbreeze926

    Nest box - views on what happened here?

    We have had a nestbox since 2020, in that time successfully fledging 29 Great Tits. A few weeks ago, as has been the case for the last few winters, a female GT began to roost overnight in the box and vacate during the daylight hours. No nest material was being used, which we would not expect...
  16. lockbreeze926

    Birds in the city

    Don't know in which city this building is located, but the nest in the S is having quite the impact. Does anybody more familiar with the story know which species is involved? Any related tales of urban mischief?
  17. lockbreeze926

    Passerine, Chobe, Botswana

    I initially thought this looks like a Yellow-bellied Greenbul, but head seems wrong - bill colour/length/sharpness, lack of eye-ring, rufous patch, etc. It was creeping around the tree, keeping very flat to the surface, probing for insects under the bark.
  18. lockbreeze926

    Ecuador - Western Andes/forest habitat

    After extensive Fieldbook thumbing and Googling in speculation, I've managed to nail down (to my own satisfaction, anyway) most of the species encountered in Ecuador. But not these... 1 is from June this year, in the Tandayapa Valley. I can't get close to an ID, beyond that it looks vaguely...
  19. lockbreeze926

    Canon 7D Mk ii image quality - what am I doing wrong?

    A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded from a 600D to a 7Dii, but have been disappointed by the results, in that the images out of the camera are neither sharper nor more consistent than the 600 produced. My lens is a Sigma 150-500 5-6.3, 18 months old, which is what I used previously. The 7D is...
  20. lockbreeze926

    RSPB garden birdwatch results

    Haven't seen this posted elsewhere : http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/results/ House Sparrow and Starling are still top of the list, although the actual numbers of each are plummeting. The listing is a little ambiguous, though, since it lists species by "average nos. per garden", which...
  21. lockbreeze926

    Birding & Rock 'n' Roll

    This subject has cropped up on a few previous occasions but there's a longer piece than I've seen before in today's Guardian. Suggests (among other things) that a Slavonian (Horned) Grebe resembles Ziggy-era Bowie....... Link -...
  22. lockbreeze926

    Five Million Starlings?

    In Rome, according to this report (although the reporter is not the best - he thinks they're "nesting" in December, nor does he seem to know that "phenomena" is a plural word.) Still, the hazmat suits are the most spectacular over-reaction to Starlings that I've seen. BBC website -...
  23. lockbreeze926

    Birding on Rhodes

    (This post is not from me - I've just shunted it across from an unrelated ID thread where it had got lost.) Hello all, I'm a Belgian birdwatcher. I'm trying to make a kind of "Where to watch birds at Rhodos (Greece)" including a (check)list of the birds observed at Rhodos. I’ve spended...
  24. lockbreeze926

    Gull enters shop and steals Doritos

    Was going to post this on the news forum, but it's not really "news", is it? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/6907994.stm What next - the crow that makes its own kebabs? Hold the jalapenos!
  25. lockbreeze926

    Bizarre Feeding Injury to Gull

    Haven't seen this posted elsewhere on BF, but it was raised on our local birdlist. It's a Great Black-Back that's tackled more than it can chew - literally. http://www.portlandbirdobs.org.uk/aa_latestnews.htm (Scroll down to July 15th). (May be slightly boggling for the nervously disposed.)
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