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  1. Eddie

    Full Geese species?

    Steve, The BH Goose is most certainly not sedentary. It breeds on the plains of the southern former USSR and winters on the lowlands of India and thus has to get over the Himalayas in the course of its migration (though not necessarily over the top of Everest). So it is certainly a...
  2. Eddie

    Gulls of Europe and North America

    This is good news. As I mentioned in an earlier post I was going to email the publishers to try to get my money back and I did so on the 13th Sept but have had no reply. I was thinking of going and banging on the counter when I saw the above post. I shall be sending off the title sheet for my...
  3. Eddie

    Grasshopper or Cricket?

    Hi Jen, I would say that this is a species of grasshopper as the antennae are quite short. Crickets generally have antennae which are at least body length and often somewhere in the region of one and a half body lengths. Wouldn't like to pin it down to a species although I suspect...
  4. Eddie

    Mystery bird

    Looks like the ill-fated Ruddy Duck? Eddie
  5. Eddie

    Gulls of Europe and North America

    Oh dear. My tiny problem in sorting out the errors on the errata page seems to be the tip of the iceberg. I might drop a line to the publishers and see if I can get any money back. Eddie
  6. Eddie

    mapmate

    Pete, Thanks for that. I may do the same as I can't figure out how to colour in these items but I might ask on their website for help since their example uses coloured areas. My next effort is to get the keys to show up. Keys and key items seem to do the trick but I have not found...
  7. Eddie

    mapmate

    Peteee23 I've just got Mapmate and managed to get some records onto a map of my county. All is going reasonably well but how did you colour in the sea blue and the land green? I see this on the sample dataset of the moths of Somerset which comes with the software and in the...
  8. Eddie

    Gulls of Europe and North America

    OK, I have sussed it out. I have carefully read the text and the errata should read - "figure 4 is described by caption 1;" and "figure 12 is described by caption 9" Figure 13 has the correct caption and need not have been mentioned on the erratum page at all!! All the other corrections...
  9. Eddie

    Gulls of Europe and North America

    Help with Errata I have just purchased the said book and a good one it is too. Like most books of this detail and size there are inevitably errors and I was annotating my copy from the errata paper. I am having difficulty. Please help It says "Page 26-27 .........figure 4 is described by...
  10. Eddie

    Birding/Twitching

    Hey, what a great thread. Someone made the following comparison - Calling a birdwatcher a twitcher is like calling a motorcycle enthusiast a hells angel!! The greatest sportsman/woman of all time? From a statistical point of view, it has to be Rocky Marciano who in his career which spanned...
  11. Eddie

    Sobig virus wreaks e-mail havoc

    Here is a useful tip I noted some time ago. Since some of these viruses use addresses in email address books to get to other puters, here is something which will not stop it but gives you some warning that your puter address book has been used. Put a new entry in your book with the name of...
  12. Eddie

    How do you hold your binoculars?

    Hi everyone, I hold my bins either with fingers on top, thumbs underneath as already described or with fingertips supporting them on one side as already described BUT I find to get more steadiness with, one hand is nearer the objective lens and the other nearer the eyepiece...
  13. Eddie

    Choosing compact binoculars

    JT, I have the new 8x20 Nikons with the HG glass and they are fantastic. I have a pair of 10x42 for birdwatching trips but use the smaller ones for walking days. I tried the little Zeiss but could not get on with them. I think the Nikons are the best, at least for my eyes. Eddie
  14. Eddie

    Coming home

    T0ny, Next time you are in a car and travelling reasonably fast, say 50 mph, turn your head onto one side, ie. put your ear on your shoulder while looking forward in the direction of travel. You will probably get a sudden sensation of speed. It's something to do with the brain being...
  15. Eddie

    Birdforum universal Quiz 2

    I can't get any. Do I win a prize? Eddie
  16. Eddie

    uk Migration

    Steve, I have posted a new thread in this forum called "Bird Migration (UK)". It was purely coincidental that you posted this thread as I was typing mine. Add mine to this thread if you wish. It seems that migration through the UK has gone ballistic in the last 48 hours. Birds...
  17. Eddie

    uk Migration

    Bird Migration (UK) Is it me or is there some fantastic migration numbers happening right now? Yesterday, Monday, there appeared to be lots of birds passing up the Severn estuary and that appears to have continued today with over 100 Common Terns seen at Avonmouth alone. I was on the estuary...
  18. Eddie

    Looking the wrong way .....

    Screech, What is a flock of TV's. In my book TV's are either televisions but that is unlikely as they are never seen in flocks and the other TV's are transvestites and I am sure you weren't looking at a flock of them....lol Eddie
  19. Eddie

    European Eagle Owl loose in Essex!!!! Lock up your Children

    I have to agree with Esmond. Unless it was overweight, slow and pampered through years in captivity then maybe but a real, wild Eagle Owl in it prime, well my money would not be on the fox. In fact, owls especially the bigger one are not to be messed with. I believe a well know bird...
  20. Eddie

    I.D. this Icelandic Kite

    Here I have pasted a message from Surfbirds regarding this Kite. Edward, looks like another person is going for Black Kite. I apologize if Graham is a member of this forum. Eddie From: "Graham Etherington" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc...
  21. Eddie

    Red Kite in Iceland!

    Martin, There is a bit more info on this subject in another forum - Bird Identification Q and A. Eddie
  22. Eddie

    Kingfisher By Gerd Rossen

    I am impressed with the photos, (this and the close up one in the gallery). One question, were they two different birds, it looks like it to me? Eddie
  23. Eddie

    I.D. this Icelandic Kite

    Edward and the other posters to this thread, The more I think about this the more that I am becoming fascinated. I understand that Kites in Iceland are pretty rare and they are so in some repects in the UK (except near to release sites). I saw only my second one ever in Gloucestershire a few...
  24. Eddie

    European Eagle Owl loose in Essex!!!! Lock up your Children

    "Lock up your children". No, take them along to see this magnificent creature. Unless they grow up to travel abroad (from the UK) they may never see such a bird flying free again. I think they are majestic and even if an odd cat goes missing, well, it should have been more careful. Eddie
  25. Eddie

    Crab eating Curlew takes the biscuit!

    Alastair/Peter, Yes, I was expecting something different and was expecting it even when I was close to the end of this piece. Almost at the last sentence (This time the Curlew picked up its prey......) and I was thinking of how the crab was going to triumph. Maybe the...
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