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    A Year of Birdsong (Cozens & Floyd)

    I've just been given this book as a Christmas present. I hadn't heard of it before, and can't find any mention of it on here. At first glance it looks good, and a bit different. Anyone seen it ? Any comments ?
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    House Mice on Gough Island

    Apparently at least one mouse has survived the attempted eradication of these supermice. Very bad news if there's more than one. (Apols if this has been mentioned already.)
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    "Planting trees in woods"

    My headline is a scathing quote from the late, great, Prof Oliver Rackham (1986). I'm very pleased to read these remarks in the latest RSPB mag, "Nature's Home" : "Is tree planting the answer ? The right trees in the right places Picking the wrong trees may mean that they will struggle to...
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    Chris Packham's Animal Einsteins

    I was almost put off watching this by its stupid title, but now I'm glad I wasn't. I really enjoyed episode 1 last night: not only did I learn a lot of things I didn't know (quite easily done) but a good deal of it was genuine behavioural science imho. Recommended - oh, and yes, plenty of...
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    British Birds - July 2020

    No, this isn't Docmartin's regular synopsis, just what is probably a stupid question concerning Great Cormorants breeding in Britain. This month's BB includes a short article by Robert McGowan and Christopher McInerny, presumably on behalf of BOURC, entitled "The first British record of...
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    IOC World Bird List 7.3

    And (again) I've only just twigged that 7.3 is now complete. And (again) apologies if someone has already pointed this out.
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    Fair Isle

    Interesting programme (first of two I believe) on the Beeb. Deryk & Hollie had starring roles but, despite a few pics, there was little or nothing about the Obs; maybe in part 2 ?
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    IOC World Bird List 7.1

    I've only just twigged that this has been available for two weeks now. Apologies if someone else has already posted.
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    Which subspecies of Jay on Lesvos ?

    Not sure where to put this - if I get no response here I'll try another forum. Booked to go to L in September, so got Steve Dudley's book (2010) which says : "Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius atricapillus cRB "The black-crowned race G. g. atricapillus occurs commonly across the island." But...
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    Countryfile on Alderney

    Watched the Countryfile 'Spring Special' last night, and was interested in their pieces on the new obs on Alderney. The warden got very excited about a trapped Bonelli's Warbler (presumably Western though he didn't mention the split); but was extremely laid-back and casual when he pulled out a...
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    Clywd ?

    Erm, shouldn't this forum's title be Clwyd ?
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    The Infrastructure Bill (England & Wales only)

    The newspapers on Thursday were full of reports quoting e.g. the Zoological Society and the RSPB, regarding the draft Schedule 9A that this Bill would add to the Wildlife & Countryside Act, providing for "species control agreements" and/or "species control orders" re what it calls "invasive...
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    Sonagrams: the scope for Mis-ID

    Well, it's Saturday night and I just got paid. Been meaning to float this for a while ... A while back, I was astounded when, on here, an almost certain singing Blackcap was ID'd as a Mistle Thrush on its sonagram. Never got into how this could happen, but here's a vague starter - sonagrams...
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    Chiffchaffs in Cantabria, May-June

    Just returned from holiday near Potes, western Cantabria. Heard only a few Chiffchaffs out there, all around 800-900m above sea level. Didn't see any of them but they all sang, very clearly, chiff chaff chiff chaff chiff chiff etc. I thought this was supposed to be Iberian territory ...
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    The upper Deva valley, Cantabria, May 27 - June 19 2013

    This wasn’t a birding trip, just a holiday, and I didn’t keep a detailed diary, so don’t expect too much. And, there are a lot of remarks in here that no doubt show my ignorance, feel free to comment in the best traditions of BF … A bit of an adventure: towing the caravan in Spain for the...
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    Making field notes using a voice recorder

    Not sure where to put this (mods please move if you think there's a better slot for it). On holiday in the Carpathians I met a couple of naturalists (particularly interested in butterflies) who used a small voice recorder to record what they had seen and where. Presumably at the end of the day...
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    France in May

    Like last year, not a birding holiday (though I did manage a few hours in La Brenne) so no report, just a list. One thing that may interest those concerned about sub-Saharan migrants: there were plenty of Cuckoos and Nightingales, unlike most of England; but I didn't find one single flycatcher...
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    An Atlas of the BIRDS of the Western Palaearctic

    On my shelves is this barely-touched book, published by Collins in 1982, by Colin Harrison, can't remember how long I've had it or where from. It never seems to get a mention: is it just out-of-date, or discredited ?
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    Autumn song of the [European] Robin

    Now they have started singing again, it reminds me of a question I've always been meaning to ask ... Several writers (I'm too idle to look them up now, but I know I've read it many times) describe the autumn song as 'plaintive' or 'melancholy', in contrast to the spring song. Now I can't hear...
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    Two-barred !

    Birdguides this morning : 07:09 01/08/11 Euro News: Southern Scandinavia; probably 10.000s of Two-barred Crossbills with several 100s seen in Denmark so far is the largest invasion ever recorded
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    Netherlands, Belgium, N France, June 2011

    This wasn't a birding trip, so no trip report, just a bird list. June 7-30: Hook of Holland - Amstelveen - Schönberg (SE Belgium) - Burtoncourt (Lorraine) - Géraudot (Champagne) - Jargeau (Loire) - St Pierre-en-Port (High Normandy) - Calais. 1 Common Quail 2 Common Pheasant 3 Greylag Goose 4...
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    Lack of wintering warblers ?

    Maybe just me but very few Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs here this winter. There were some Blackcaps around Xmas but very few since. Hope they had the sense to go further south.
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    Doubts ? String ?

    Not sure what to call this, or where to put it ... the idea is to ask people whether they have any old records, maybe from when they started out, that now seem to raise questions ... Here's what I mean. I started birding on our first holiday in the Highlands of Scotland, Jul/Aug 1958. The...
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    Subsong: a non-ornithologist's question

    Prompted by a Blackbird Turdus merula singing quietly from a neighbour's garden this morning (well out of season for full song). I've always thought "subsong" and left it at that. But I'm not sure, so ... Is there an agreed definition of "subsong" ? All I've found on a very quick trawl boils...
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    Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs.

    Dropped in to the local library yesterday: had a quick look as usual at the 'birds' section (about ten dismal volumes) and saw something new, "Bald Coot and Screaming Loon" by Niall Edworthy. Quick skim, usual ragbag of bits about birds, can't see anything here, oh well, nothing else, might as...
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