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  1. J

    Black Grouse

    Whilst out on a gated Derbyshire moorland track yesterday, I spotted two Black Grouse. I believe eight were released into the wild last year as an experiment to see if they can breed up there. Anybody with more information please.B (:
  2. J

    Tit population

    B (: Has any body else noticed the size of the "Tit" population this year has exploded, my garden is full of Blue, Great and Coal tits at the moment. They are using the feeders but are also foraging in the Honeysuckle, Broom, Birch and Fir, but what I have noticed for the first time this year is...
  3. J

    Blackbirds gone

    The Blackbirds nesting in my Honeysuckle reported last month, completed the nest. Hen bird was seen sitting on the nest, and gave cry when my wife went up to the propagator. However one of next door's cats found a way up to the nest by walking along the top of the oil tank and jumping up onto...
  4. J

    Bowling Green Marsh

    Thanks to Andrew and everybody who has added various helpful comments on this excellent site. I visited my daughter this weekend tried Dawlish Warren on Saturday but not a lot to see, except reaquainted myself to the song of the Skylark last remembered from my youth on Portsdown Hill. There...
  5. J

    Bill Oddie on Raptors

    Thought I would start this one off before Euan could. I know some of the material was old hat, but the photography and the full information pulled together in one programme was excellent don't you think? B (:
  6. J

    Bbc 2

    Last night the programme I most wanted to see was the celebration of 100 years of Flight. The natural world compared to the Aeronautical inventions. I switched on only to catch the tail end, which was fantastic the programme being started early owing to Saddam Houssain's capture which we knew...
  7. J

    Corvid Raptor?

    I was looking out of the bedroom window this weekend, when a small finch flew down my roof tiles, over my front flower bed and between my two Laburnhams. It was closely followed by what looked like a Common Crow, flying hot on the heels of the finch. The two locked together like tight...
  8. J

    Lapwing numbers increasing

    Usually on the airfield we seem to have one squadron of Lapwings, about 150 strong. Who when put to flight by the nasty air traffic guy, with his maroons or raptor talk yellow landrover, fly away and split into two flights of approx equal numbers. They then circle the airfield until aircraft...
  9. J

    Golden Eagle second largest raptor in UK.

    I couldn't sleep last night so I went on the PC, I had a message from BBC Nature which I read at 04.20 this morning the Topic was entitled Golden eagle the second largest raptor in the British Isles. I then went to bed after reading the article which didn't mention what was in fact the largest...
  10. J

    Lapwings at Woodford

    I work in the Design Block at Woodford Aerodrome, recently we have been moved up to the top floor, with a good view of the Airfield. It is inhabitated by a large number of Lapwings (Peewits), I have been watching them for the past few weeks and noticed that they seem to be split into two...
  11. J

    Melanistic Great Tit?

    Yesterday on the side of a peanut feeder, was a bird which puzzled my wife, called me into the kitchen. I feel that it was a Great Tit right size, behaviour lording it over a Blue Tit on the same feeder. Black head black stripe down it's chest but the black colouration carried on spreding out...
  12. J

    Would like to Buy

    Old RSPB bird book circa 1983'ish, with cover depicting Robin in Ivy by Hilary Burn.B (:
  13. J

    RSPB Birdwatch

    Anybody else out there tried inputting their data on line? Seems as though there was a great response, so much so the RSPB site was over subscribed. I sat at the dining room window with my two grandsons 5 and 6 they each had their little binoculars and thought it was great fun. Just as well...
  14. J

    TV programme on Highgrove Sunday

    Watching the programme on Prince Charles's attitude to farming, conservation etc., I was very pleasantly surprised. I actually learnt someting about the bird kingdom that I was unaware of before. That was that it was possible for a Sparrow Hawk to take and kill a bird the size of a Jackdaw, I...
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