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  1. Farnboro John

    John's Mammals 2024

    Last night Maz and I witnessed for the first time a bit of fox behaviour that is documented all over the place but perhaps not so often seen. Our familiar friend Hoppity the four-year-old vixen came for her usual dinner of chicken drumsticks and ate the first one on the front path. When she...
  2. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    Phwoooaarrr! John
  3. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    Zero catch from the trap last night. It's nearly May for goodness' sake! John
  4. Farnboro John

    Check your local railway line

    E.g. The Dump Clump on St Mary's! John
  5. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Or to look at that from the other perspective, one in ten of its guesses will be wrong, even of the birds it can hear - which may or may not be what you are listening to. That's far too high for a marketed product, I hope nobody is paying for this. There's a webcam in Finland (Nuuksio) which...
  6. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I'm with you on Merlin. All it does is encourage the fantasists among the newbie birders. People need to buckle down to using field guides and learning calls: there may be short-cuts in the future but there aren't at the moment. John
  7. Farnboro John

    What Bird can you hear just now?

    Bit late but Willow Warbler along the brook while I was working on the fence day before yesterday: last night at 2230 while I was feeding Hoppity a Carrion Crow was cawing angrily some distance from our house. John
  8. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    Recent photos: Grey Pine Carpet and Lunar Marbled Brown. John
  9. Farnboro John

    Common Eider Morecambe Bay

    If Eider are your photographic target you may be better off on the other side of the country at Seahouses: not only do they breed on the Farne Islands where trips are once again running this year but there are usually a few loafing around Seahouses harbour and nearby rocky shores as well as at...
  10. Farnboro John

    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    I think there's a basic misunderstanding of raptor flight in that Buteos don't sit on the ground on cloudy days in winter (for instance) for lack of thermals and American warblers don't actively fly the Atlantic they get blown across on air currents moving very fast indeed: air currents more...
  11. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    Trapped last night despite the temperature being marginal and a bit of a North wind. Just one moth in the trap this morning but since it was NFY Lunar Marbled Brown I'm pleased I tried. John
  12. Farnboro John

    restaurants where you can bird and eat at the same time

    I had alligator nuggets and fries while watching Snail Kites at a Seminole restaurant on Alligator Alley in Florida which was quite nice. Also remember eating fish and chips in the chip shop at Tyndrum in the Highlands of Scotland while watching a summer-plumaged male Common Rosefinch attending...
  13. Farnboro John

    Butterfly photo= Dublin in Ireland

    It's a Holly Blue and the easy way to tell in a British Isles context is the underwing which is plain pale blue with black spots, no colour or fancy patterns. Cheers John
  14. Farnboro John

    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    But Northern Harriers are? There's more than one way of skinning a cat..... John
  15. Farnboro John

    Beyond Barry Hill

    Bit late of me but that Brambling is a male with that amount of black wearing into view on the head. Nice. John
  16. Farnboro John

    What Bird can you hear just now?

    Wren, Blackbird, two Robins arguing, Carrion Crows, Lesser Black-backs probably aware of a raptor I can't see. Blackcap earlier and Blue and Great Tits shouting as they pass through repeatedly. John
  17. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    Geometrid was a Grey Pine Carpet, which I'd have known at once if it hadn't put its wings up. It finally went flat this morning. John
  18. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    Photos from yesterday morning's trap. John Frosted Green Chestnut Angle Shades Nut-tree Tussock Great Prominent
  19. Farnboro John

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    Airbus A400M Atlas C1. They get everywhere! John
  20. Farnboro John

    Case-bearing Clothes Moth?

    That's what we've been doing today, found a load confined to a tote bag, hoovered heavily and got rid of bag. Cheers John
  21. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    Update on this morning's trap: as I moved stuff back indoors I disturbed a micro that had been lurking at the edge of the old plywood baseboard on the garden table: Esperia sulphurella.... John
  22. Farnboro John

    Case-bearing Clothes Moth?

    Update - yes they were - dealt with now. John
  23. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Birdsong for the hard of hearing? John
  24. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    A delightful trap this morning (no micros for a start!) with some of my favourite moths pristine and ready for photography. Two each of Oak-tree Pug (actually I didn't photograph those, too keen to get on to the main events) and two Brindled Beauties were overshadowed by NFY Chestnut, Angle...
  25. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    In between chopping up the remains of the fence panels destroyed by various storms over the winter, I spent a fair amount of today watching the sky and trees around my back garden. I got a house tick out of it as well as seeing yesterday's singing Blackcap for the first time and three House...
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