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  1. steve minton

    My Garden List

    201 in 15 years, last 2 being Pied Wheatear and Olive-backed Pipit last autumn
  2. steve minton

    Anyone with birding tattoos?

    Got a full 'Twin Peaks' sleeve with several GH Owls "not what they seem", TP fans will know what I mean, everyone else won't have a clue, but eh ho.
  3. steve minton

    Birding guide recommendations, Bangalore?

    Get a taxi and driver for the day and head north to the Nandi Hills - a good site for Yellow-throated Bulbul
  4. steve minton

    Birding in Gujarat.

    Organized by myself, used guides at desert coursers (inc in price) and at CEDO (a guide called Veer - brilliant) but the rest of the trip was just me and the wife wandering around gujarat for a month Steve
  5. steve minton

    Birding in Gujarat.

    Hi Jeanie, I went in 2010 for a month, great place - trip report here - http://shetlandmisfit.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Gujarat%20Trip%20Report%202010 Desert Coursers in the little rann is a great place (and has Hoopoe Lark) Steve
  6. steve minton

    Raptors ID please. Athikadavu, Tamil Nadu, India.

    Photos 1-3 look like Changeable Hawk-eagle, Photos 4-5 are Oriental Honey Buzzard SM
  7. steve minton

    Is this a Ashy Wood Swallow? Athikadavu, Tamil Nadu, India

    It is indeed Ashy Woodswallow - smart looking birds SM
  8. steve minton

    ID help please.

    looks like crescent to me SM
  9. steve minton

    ID help please.

    # 3 & 4 looks like 453. Honeysuckle Moth Ypsolopha dentella SM
  10. steve minton

    Micro ID please

    second one looks like Aethes cnicana Steve Minton shetland misfit
  11. steve minton

    Macro I.D. Shetland

    I've got #2 down as a Dusky Brocade, tho' it is smaller than other dusky brocs that i've caught so far this year If #3 is northern dart, then its the first record on shetland for 78 years ! SM
  12. steve minton

    Macro I.D. Shetland

    Hi Guys - i'm struggling a bit with these 3 trapped on Shetland last night - any ideas ? Cheers in advance SM
  13. steve minton

    Micro - Shetland

    Anyone any ideas ? SM
  14. steve minton

    Gujarat

    Full (massive) trip report from jan-mar this year now on my blog Steve Minton www.shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com
  15. steve minton

    Gujarat

    Just put a full (massive) trip report jan-mar 2010 on Gujarat, India on my blog Steve Minton www.shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com
  16. steve minton

    Can you identify this bird from Thattekad Bird Sanctuary?

    eclipse male purple sunbird - you can just make out the purple shoulder patch on the photo SM http://www.shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com
  17. steve minton

    Can you identify this bird from Thattekad Bird Sanctuary?

    looks like a Long-tailed Shrike to me SM lots of photos of Indian Birds on my blog here - http://shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com/search/label/India%20Birds%20Gallery
  18. steve minton

    Photographing Moths

    I don't know if anyone is aware of the 'VEHO discovery VMS-001', it's a 20-200x USB microscope and camera, i picked one up from Amazon on Monday for less than £40 and it turns out to be brilliant for photographing moths (or anything else) close up. I've posted some shots on my blog -...
  19. steve minton

    moth sp shetland

    Cheers Brian SM
  20. steve minton

    moth sp shetland

    anybody got any ideas ? trapped on shetland last night (the width of the bottom of the pot is 20mm) Steve Minton http://www.shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com
  21. steve minton

    Snipe sp - Goa, India

    maybe !? there could be someone yet, who's got experience of 'eastern' Snipes with a feel for the bird...... or maybe not SM
  22. steve minton

    Snipe sp - Goa, India

    Have been scratching my head over this for a couple of years now - http://shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com/2009/07/snipe-sp.html - anybody got any ideas ? I suspect it's one of those birds that's probably best left unidentified ! Steve Minton http://www.shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com
  23. steve minton

    Anybody else have a blog?

    Started mine up in August last year (but back dated it to Jan '08) - http://www.shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com It's mainly a diary about birding (and mothing) in Shetland with a few foreign trips as well SM
  24. steve minton

    Houbaras

    Hi just got back from Fuerteventura and had crippling views of Houbaras and BB sandgrouse etc near Costa Calma, if anyone is planning a trip out there soon i've put full directions on my blog - http://www.shetlandmisfit.blogspot.com Cheers
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