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  1. Steve Jones

    Oneword digital radio - how many birds?

    My wife stumbled across Oneword Digital station last night when she told me she'd found a radio station just broadcasting bird song. Turns out that Oneword digital radio closed over the weekend after 51% of its shares were sold for a pound. Now its closed there's a track of birds running...
  2. Steve Jones

    Opticron Imagic BGA SE

    I've just been reading a store review of the 8 x32's, which give a glowing report of the latest Imagic standard with the oasis coatings, including use of words like 'stunning'. They are rated as up there with the best (obviously Leicas, swaro etc). Are they really that good? Anyone got...
  3. Steve Jones

    Coolpix 880 adaptor connect problem

    I got a Coolpix 880 (the older non-swivelly model) for digiscoping with my Zeiss Diascope and have got all the bits and pieces needed, but am still struggling to connect this camera to the adaptor I bought. The adaptor is the 'basic' LCE type that pushes over the scope lens and is secured with 3...
  4. Steve Jones

    Scope Quality???

    With a new scope purchase imminent I discussed the 'best models available' today at a leading North West OPtics Shop. I brought up the issue of 'sample variation' in scopes, that I would not like to order a scope based on viewing an example of one (at a forthcoming optics event) and was told...
  5. Steve Jones

    Non-Birders sightings that make you go "AAARGH!!!"

    We all get them don't we, when our 'non-birding' friends/collegues suddenly say "I saw this bird a few weeks ago flitting around in some bushes behind the ASDA store..." (and as you start thinking of the usual suspects of Jay/Chaffinch/GS Woody etc. they continue) "and it was just like a Robin...
  6. Steve Jones

    Ordnance Survey Maps for Inspiration

    As a birder who loves his Ordnance Survey maps, I've found 2 or 3 new places that have turned out to be really good for local patch-watching. This was further reinforced by an article in Bird-watching mag. by Ian Wallace who advised birders to use these maps to enhance their birdwatching. I...
  7. Steve Jones

    Have you any Swallows?

    I've just had my mum round for dinner today. She casually mentioned the FIVE Swallows that lingered along the open grasslands outside her house....LAST WEDNESDAY!!! (I make that the 17th). She lives in an open area at the eastern edge of Preston with fabulous views over the Ribble Valley, and...
  8. Steve Jones

    Staying in cars (with optics handy)!!!

    I need to blow off steam! Driving up to a local Quarry yesterday I stopped the car at the roadside where local fields were well flooded by the recent heavy rain. I was about 1 minute into browsing excellent views of the hundreds of gulls, herons, snipe etc when the driver of the only other car...
  9. Steve Jones

    Dive Bombers!!!

    Watching TV recently, a wildlife presenter (no it wasn't Bill Oddie...although I'm sure he's done it!) was being 'dive bombed' by Great Skua's close to their nest site. This brought back boyhood memories of climbing a (very) tall tree to look at a Mistle Thrush's nest and Eggs. Imagine my panic...
  10. Steve Jones

    Bird Audio CD's...are they any good?

    Does anyone out there possess any of the currently available Bird Audio CD's?..and if they do, are they of any practical use? By this I mean that I'm not interested in a CD full of Blackbirds/Thrushes/Warblers singing merrily, or a CD of 'garden bird sounds' but something that helps with those...
  11. Steve Jones

    Hello Everyone!!

    Hello everyone from a lovely sunny Lancashire (well today anyway!). Its a great time of the year with the Pink-Feet here in their thousands and the good weather keeping the swallows and warblers around yet, not to mention who knows what cropping up at any moment (hopefully!) This site looks...
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