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  1. Graham Osborne

    Beetle ID

    Hi All I am looking for an ID on this specimen, seen in West Sussex today. I suspect that it might be a Blue Mint Beetle, Chrysolina coerulans and I would be most grateful for a confirmation or correction as appropriate.
  2. Graham Osborne

    Harrier ID

    I would be grateful for the thoughts of raptor experts on the attached. I took this picture on 20 April 2016 near to the Kitros Salt Pit, coastal Greece (near Thessaloniki). The dark inner secondaries and unstreaked lower body suggest to me that this is an adult female Pallid Harrier rather than...
  3. Graham Osborne

    Great service

    Just received my repaired FL 8x32 (replaced ocular) from Carl Zeiss Ltd left with Gary H at Birdfair. (The delay was at my request due to a holiday absence). It is like the return of a long lost friend! I have also received two brand new Victory 8x20s (one is my wife's), shipped from Germany...
  4. Graham Osborne

    What's on the menu?

    I am assuming that lunch is a Field Vole. Please could anyone confirm or advise me otherwise.
  5. Graham Osborne

    Fujifilm x100s

    Perhaps not surprisingly, nobody seems to have yet posted about this brilliant little camera. Highly regarded though it is for street photography in particular, its 23mm fixed lens (35mm full frame equivalent) is clearly not perfectly suited to bird photography. Nevertheless, if the birds get...
  6. Graham Osborne

    Bushnell Excursion EX 7x36

    I recently acquired a virtually mint copy of the Excursion EX 7x36 on the Bay. Not at all bad optics but, apart from the crazy strap lugs, the only significant fault is inadequate extension of the eyecups to accommodate the eye relief - very similar to the problem with the Zeiss Conquest HD...
  7. Graham Osborne

    ED50 and various eyepieces

    After recently acquiring a Nikon ED50 scope and 20xW MC eyepiece (many thanks Blincodave), I gave this new kit a first test in the field today. This followed initial back garden viewing and a very encouraging star test. Having read a number of glowing accounts of the ED50 I was expecting an...
  8. Graham Osborne

    No Waxwings in Sussex.......yet??

    Seen reports from Kent, Surrey and Hampshire, but none yet in Sussex. Am I wrong, or, if not, any first date predictions?
  9. Graham Osborne

    Good service from Zeiss at the Birdfair & thoughts on FL click stops

    Went to the BirdFair on Friday. Brilliant as always. I was very pleased with the service I received from one of the Zeiss reps in the Optics Marquee. In the course of trying out the 7 X42 FLs I noticed the newer eyecup design on all the 32/42mm models. Having a pair of 8 x32 Fls with the old...
  10. Graham Osborne

    Bare-eyed Thrush

    Hi Photo added to my gallery today: Thanks
  11. Graham Osborne

    Another Skipper ID

    I am afraid that I was not able to see the underside of the antenna tips on this Thymelicus. Is there anyone who can tell me whether this is lineola or sylvestris? I am inclined towards sylvestris as the dark veins on the upperwing do not appear to be very prominent. I would be grateful for the...
  12. Graham Osborne

    Skipper ID please

    I suspect that the attached is an Obethur's Skipper (Pyrgus armoricanus). The picture was taken at Cape Kaliakra (remnant steppe grassland) on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria in late May. I wonder if anyone with experience of European Hesperiidae might be able to confirm my ID or suggest an...
  13. Graham Osborne

    Field guide for the flowers of Bulgaria

    I am going on a British-Bulgarian Friendship Soc. Natural History Tour this May/June and I am looking for a good (the best?) fieldguide for the wild flowers of Bulgaria. I am aware of 'Flowers of Greece and the Balkans: A Field Guide' by Oleg Polunin. This is out of print, and the very few...
  14. Graham Osborne

    White-winged Swallow & Carib Grackle

    Hi Guys Two for the database in my gallery http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/data/534/4097WWS1.jpg http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/data/534/4097CG.jpg
  15. Graham Osborne

    Savanna Hawk

    Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis Taken at Aripo Agricultural Research Station, Trinidad on 10 May 2004
  16. Graham Osborne

    Cocoi Heron

    Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi Taken at Aripo Agricultural Research Station, Trinidad on 10 May 2004
  17. Graham Osborne

    Grassland Yellow-Finch (Sicalis luteola)

    A number of these migrants from mainland South America were at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station, Trinidad. Taken 6 May 2004 using CP4500 + Nikon FS ED111
  18. Graham Osborne

    Hi I'm new

    There I was minding my own business checking the price of some gear at Warehouse Express when I was suddenly shunted off to this mysterious website I hadn't a clue existed. A quick look at some of the photos in the gallery nearly blew my mind. And then I perused some threads, followed by a few...
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