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  1. Charlie M

    Please help ban duck shooting in Victoria Australia.

    Signed. Can any of the hunting apologists actually give a GOOD reason why Australia's ducks should be killed for fun? Something more convincing than 'because we enjoy it and so what it's only a bloody duck' would be nice...
  2. Charlie M

    Talking Naturally with Charlie Moores

    Hi Steve Many thanks for the mention and the endorsement - the site is building up considerable momentum now, and the conservation message (eg the situation on Cyprus and Malta, Richard Porter's work in the Middle East, what the BTO does and why it's worth supporting etc) is reaching more and...
  3. Charlie M

    RFI Ring-necked Parakeets in the UK

    Hi All I'm looking for photos of RNPs visiting bird feeders in gardens for a blog article. Would anyone on BF either be willing to let me come and photo RNPs in their garden (I live in Wiltshire but am happy to drive almost anywhere in southern England), or has anyone got good photos they would...
  4. Charlie M

    Rare Birds Yearbook 2009

    Review of Rare Birds Yearbook 2009 I posted a review of this wonderful book at http://10000birds.com/review-rare-birds-yearbook-2009.htm if anyone's interested. Read the review or not but do go and out buy it anyway, the editor - Erik Hirschfeld - donates 4GBP to BirdLife's Extinction...
  5. Charlie M

    Two days birding in the Cape, South Africa

    Hi All I was lucky enough to get two days birding (actually one and a half days birding) in the Cape a fortnight ago. I was guided by Brian Vanderwalt (Brian's Birding) who found me virtually everything I wanted to see despite some pretty horrible weather. I've posted a couple of reports of...
  6. Charlie M

    The Ladybird thread

    Mis, Paul - many thanks indeed. Cheers
  7. Charlie M

    The Ladybird thread

    Pine Ladybird? Is this a Pine Ladybird or a dark 2-spot? I didn't know enough to look for a "rim" unfortunately, but it seems there is one around the elytra. It was on Broom though - nowhere near a Pine Tree of any sort (or do they fly looking for new Pines anyway and pitch up anywhere?)
  8. Charlie M

    Beetle (?) larva in Campanula seed capsule

    Hi, I noticed that almost every seed capsule of (what I'm pretty sure is) some cultivated campanula had a small hole bored into one side. When I opened the capsule this larva was curled up inside. I'd be very grateful for any ID suggestions. Thanks Charlie
  9. Charlie M

    Help to ID australian birds Perth #1

    Interesting bird, but it really doesn't look the right shape for House Crow. This looks bulky and short-tailed - more Raven-like in shape as it were: I've seen hundreds of House Crows and at distance they've always looked long-tailed and long-headed (because of the long bill) to me. I've just...
  10. Charlie M

    ID - anyone here know British bumblebees?

    Harry and others - many thanks to one and all for the help with this, and especially Harry who has been very helpful offline. For those who may be interested both Harry and Stuart Roberts of BWARS have confirmed that it is definitely a male B. Lapidarius (Red-tailed Bumblebee), and that the red...
  11. Charlie M

    ID - anyone here know British bumblebees?

    I've followed that key and came to roughly the same conclusion - but I keep getting stuck on the fact that it is such a small bee and particularly that it has long red hairs on the tibia of the rear leg but a yellow face: am I misunderstanding that the long hairs are a female trait (ie they're...
  12. Charlie M

    ID - anyone here know British bumblebees?

    Hiya - the yellow on the abdomen (and the yellow facial hair) is exactly what has thrown me too! I'm sure it's not a Red-tailed B. lapidarius - it was quite small too - smaller than any lapidarius I've ever seen. I'm stumped to be honest...
  13. Charlie M

    ID - anyone here know British bumblebees?

    Hi, I photo'd what seems to be an Early Bumblebee B. pratorum today - but what I can't work out is if it has yellow facial hairs it should be a male so why does it have such thick red hairs on the tibia (which is surely a female trait) and no yellow abdomen stripe? Apologies if this is a...
  14. Charlie M

    Jessops doomed

    I was working out how I could express more or less the same sentiment, but as you've done it better than I ever could I won't bother. I appreciate that with a new digital camera coming out every fifteen seconds it's hard to keep up, but at least make an effort...
  15. Charlie M

    I need help identifying a Moth

    wow - if it's the moth at http://booksandnature.homestead.com/Moth20.html I'm very jealous!!
  16. Charlie M

    Can anyone help get the best from this pic

    This was good fun...thought that moving the Peregrine slightly helped a little??
  17. Charlie M

    Two days in Costanera Sur Reserve, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    It's an amazing site isn't it. I was told it was created by the 'spoil' dumped from the overpass built to take traffic over the city centre. I've not been for years but it's the only place I've ever seen Many-coloured Rush Tyrant which is such a superb bird. Love to go again, that's for sure.
  18. Charlie M

    Slaty-backed Gull in New York?

    There's an interesting SBG paper on the Birds Korea website at http://www.birdskorea.org/slatybackedgull.asp
  19. Charlie M

    Mallard?

    Hiya, Not sure if I'm the "contributor to Bf with a 'domestic/hybrid duck thread" but I've been collecting together these "manky mallards" on my blog at http://www.charliesbirdblog.com/~charlie/mankymallards/mankymallards.html Cheers Charlie
  20. Charlie M

    Is this a Scarce Chaser please? (Wilts, UK)

    Thanks everyone. Really didn't intend it to be a teaser - i don't know enough about dragonflies to be able to do that - but I'm quite relieved I'm not the only one who's had problems with it...
  21. Charlie M

    Is this a Scarce Chaser please? (Wilts, UK)

    well this getting a bit odd - I had an email saying it was definitely a Scarce Chaser...I guess I'll have to see how this pans out, but i would say that I know Broad-bodied well and it wasn't one of those, and it wasn't built like a skimmer....
  22. Charlie M

    White capped bullfinch ?

    Hiya, It's a very lovely male Redstart. Nice one! Cheers
  23. Charlie M

    Is this a Scarce Chaser please? (Wilts, UK)

    Hi All, I took a photo of a (non-adult?) dragonfly a couple of days ago in a small woodland nature reserve in Wiltshire, and it's been puzzling me (I'm just a very casual dragonfly observer, so no surprise there really). I've posted it on my homepage as I can't work out how to attach photos...
  24. Charlie M

    ID help needed - beetle/wasp or what?

    they're really beautiful insects - good find and worth treasuring IMHO!
  25. Charlie M

    Recovery for warbler population (BBC News)

    thats great news - thanks
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