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  1. scampo

    Global cooling???

    So it's shares in Damart we need then?? Make of this what you will - but it seems interesting whatever your position regarding climate change. http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1563
  2. scampo

    Was this a queen hornet? Help please.

    With my son the other day we saw what we then assumed to be a queen hornet. Now, though, looking at photos of this insect on the web, we're not so sure. The insect was flying near water at a local nature reserve. It was about 3cm in length and bulky; it flew easily and well but more slowly...
  3. scampo

    Nikon ED50 and Cullman Shoulder Pod

    As there seems to be a lot of interest in the new Nikon scope, I thought I'd post a picture of it attached to the Cullman shoulder-pod. This makes a very useful combination that can be held still easily for long enough periods to be useful. I'd say for woodland use it is the ideal combination...
  4. scampo

    Help please! Wi-fi printer problems.

    Hi. I need help with my home wifi network. I have a Canon ip5200 printer connected to my USBRobotics 5461 Wi-fi router (which has a usb printer port). The two computers in the house are on a wi-fi network and so not hard wired to the printer. Sadly, a problem occurs that prevents printing. I...
  5. scampo

    Can you help with a wi-fi security problem?

    Hi - I have always run my wi-fi unsecured owing to problems connecting my school laptop to it when secured. Now I have a different laptop I thought I'd secure the network. I run a PC and this laptop on the network. When I initially changed the connection to WPA2 secured, all went well - I put...
  6. scampo

    Wonderful things birds and words...

    This was posted on the "Birds and Poetry" thread but I thought others might enjoy reading it as it does "make you think", I reckon! Paired Things Who, who had only seen wings, could extrapolate the skinny sticks of things birds use for land, the backward way they bend, the silly way they...
  7. scampo

    Has your Internet slowed down?

    Just recently our 2mb cable ntl Internet seems to be slowing down - it's not consistently slow but every site, even Google, can be slow at times. I was thinking it might be because so many are using the Internet with Christmas close by? Or should I be phoning ntl to complain?
  8. scampo

    Interesting Scope Review

    Here's an interesting link to a scope review I hadn't seen before. It reads well and adds to the Alula and "Better View Desired" reviews that are also online: http://www.6mmbr.com/spotterreview.html
  9. scampo

    Your old PC is damaging the earth...

    Ever wondered where all the useless but toxic "e-waste" ends up?: http://www.computerbuyer.co.uk/?news/news_story.php?id=98928
  10. scampo

    A Superb Thread This - thanks!

    Just thought I'd post to say that if you haven't seen Christine Redgate's 'Birds & Poetry' thread yet, I think you're in for a treat! It just runs and runs... http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=12805&page=28&pp=25
  11. scampo

    We Will Remember Them...

    I've posted this in the "Birds and Poetry" thread, too, but thought it relevant to post it separately. Here is a very moving poem from the Second World War along with a commentary (not mine). I find it tragically moving. “Some of those educated since the 1960s will judge the poem dated...
  12. scampo

    Feeder design and disease spread

    If this has been said in an earlier thread, I missed it and apologise but a member has just written to say he is seeing sick birds in his garden and he has been advised to follow RSPB advice and clean the feeders. I am wondering whether anyone has considered whether we shouldn't stop using...
  13. scampo

    Manfrotto Service *****

    I don't know if anyone else has needed to send back any Manfrotto kit to their distributors, J P Distribution Ltd in Newcastle-under-Lyme, but I just want to say what exceptional service they offer. The service manager answered my emails the very next day and my two-year-old 700RC2 head is now...
  14. scampo

    A Walk on the Wild Side?

    The following is a breath of fresh air amongst the doom and gloom we often read. Anyone have any views that support it or know it to be too rosy a view? What's going on? Suddenly it's all come in, have a walk, enjoy the air Wild Notebook by Simon Barnes YOU ARE NO doubt familiar with the...
  15. scampo

    Bluetits demise - Gruesome job

    As I thought what with the cold and wet snap leading to a lack of larvae - our almost-fledgling bluetits have all perished. I just peeked into the nestbox not having seen the parents for a week - to find the worst. Six dead babes providing food for another species: flies! I buried them and...
  16. scampo

    Herby Hedgehog needs help...

    We found a beautiful and fairly young-looking hedgehog in our garage last weekend. It was the highlight of an otherwise pretty poor weekend mostly spent tending an ill father-in-law. Isn't it wonderful how wildlife can lift you and help you put worries into perspective? Anyway, he (?) was...
  17. scampo

    Save 50% on sunflower seeds!

    I don't suppose I'm alone in worrying about the cost of feeding garden birds. I now buy 20kg sacks of sunflower hearts at £20-00 from a local pet shop and that has brought the cost down a good deal but here's another useful tip that seems to be working well in our garden... On a visit to...
  18. scampo

    American Birding Site (with birdsong)

    An American friend passed this link on to me - it's a pretty good place to find out more about US birds: http://askabiologist.asu.edu/expstuff/experiments/birdsongs/index.html
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    Yawn... BF Page generated in 16.12245893 seconds...

    I've posted on this before but only recently realised that at the very bottom of each BF page is a statistical analysis of the time delay in loading the page. This past few days things have been s-l-o-w for me - but today is the worst yet. I have fast 750kbs broadband, too. I was wondering...
  20. scampo

    Feeding the enemy...?

    I thought some of you might find this article from The Guardian (a UK newspaper) interesting if, like me, you are struggling in your efforts to keep grey squirrels from eating your expensive wild bird food. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,,1205168,00.html I'm not sure, but I...
  21. scampo

    From email link to page load 20secs!

    I'm wondering if my Internet connection is up to scratch... If I, say, click on an email link from BF to a page in a forum, it takes between 15 and 30+ seconds to load the page fully using a broadband connection (with Internet Explorer not open beforehand). It's pretty much the same if I reply...
  22. scampo

    Feeding wild birds is breaking the bank...

    I don't know why, but just lately the birds in my garden (and there are none too many) are devouring great quantities of bird food. Earlier in the year the cause was a couple of unwelcome grey squirrels, but for reasons I know not why, they have not been around for several weeks at least...
  23. scampo

    Any entomologist here? Strange 'worm'...

    I've just seen the oddest creatures in our garden. They are worm-like larvae (?) about ten centimetres in length but merely perhaps 0.2mm in diameter. I thought they were just fine roots or even hairs until I noticed them swaying and moving slowly. Any ideas what they are? I shall try to post...
  24. scampo

    Frozen shoulder! Help...

    I know it's hardly a birding topic, but I was wondering... Has anyone out there ever suffered / is suffering from a "frozen shoulder"? It's related to birding in as much as I carry my tripod and scope on it and wonder a) how long it will last and b) how to stop it hurting... Any advice would...
  25. scampo

    Some of us will, some of us won't...

    I thought a thread on why some people do and some people don't might be enlightening. I don't, do you? ...Hide behind a pseudo-nym? I have to say that I really don't feel comfortable when I am referred to as "Scampo", nor do I feel myself able to reply to another's post along the lines...
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