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  1. JWN Andrewes

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    My Mum loves using it, and has now become familiar with a few of the more common bird songs around her home. She did not for one second, however, believe it when it told her there was a Bittern calling nearby. It was a cow
  2. JWN Andrewes

    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    Given some of the wildly unexpected birds that seem to be able to make it here how about - Eastern Honey Buzzard Pallas's Fish-Eagle Pied Harrier Japanese Sparrowhawk Grey-faced Buzzard Broad-winged Hawk Steppe Eagle Sooty Falcon None likely, but all possible?
  3. JWN Andrewes

    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    Anyone taking a punt on Mississippi Kite?
  4. JWN Andrewes

    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    I don't think more than a couple of people saw the Shetland Long-legged Buzzard, so that might be the pinch point, unless there's been a second.
  5. JWN Andrewes

    Passerine in EVOA, Portugal

    Not something that had ever struck me before but I reckon you're onto something there. I will try and be more aware of it in future. Instructive thread.
  6. JWN Andrewes

    Passerine in EVOA, Portugal

    Yep, I confess it's not at all close to such Cisticolas as I have seen but I must be wrong on this one. More experience required!
  7. JWN Andrewes

    Passerine in EVOA, Portugal

    Looks more like a Grasshopper Warbler to me, eg brown back streaked darker brown rather than buffish streaked blackish, tail looks too long, face pattern not quite right either I find ZC to look more open faced and dark capped than this.
  8. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    Moth trapping just lends itself so well to spreadsheets that I think I'd find it almost impossible not to keep track of numbers! Ah, Emperor Moth. Don't know if they come to light, only one I ever saw was on a family holiday to Pembrokeshire one spring back in the eighties.
  9. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    Cheers John, always interesting to get that context. I've had a look beyond garden moths, and my UK list currently stands at 420 (345 macros, 75 micros). Next off reservation jaunt will be coastal Suffolk at the end of May. Watch this space.
  10. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    Did well last night, in quality at least, with a macro tick no less, Tawny Pinion, along with a Pale for a nice comparison opportunity. Two Powdered Quakers were only my second record (from memory, will check spreadsheets tonight), and a possible Oak-tree Pug.
  11. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    I enjoy keeping abreast of everyone's catches, and I'd be interested to know roughly where people are trapping. It's intriguing to see people who seem to have been trapping for some time, longer than me certainly, tickling stuff that I think of as pretty routine (Pale Pinion, Oak Beauty, March...
  12. JWN Andrewes

    Last 3.....I promise. Costa Rica ID's please

    Red-capped for the Manakin.
  13. JWN Andrewes

    BOP - Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Apr 2024

    I would suggest Double-toothed Kite.
  14. JWN Andrewes

    A presumed micro?

    I had my earliest this morning, considerably further north.
  15. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    Pine Beauty was a garden tick for me this morning, Lichen Button a micro tick. Pale Pinion, Least Black Arches & Twenty-plumed Moth all NFY. The balance consisted of usual Common & Small Quakers, Clouded Drabs, Brindled Pugs and singles of Hebrew Character & Early Grey.
  16. JWN Andrewes

    Scratching my head on this Rustic?

    Odd Small Quaker I'd think, inasmuch as they don't usually seem to have an oval as well as a kidney, but some (eg quite a few labelled as SQ on Norfolk Moths) do seem to show one to a greater or lesser degree. Odd Blossom Underwing would seem to be the only other option, but I'm finding making...
  17. JWN Andrewes

    What is your favorite backyard bird?

    If a Towhee turned up in my garden it would instantly become my favourite by a country mile!
  18. JWN Andrewes

    John's Mammals 2024

    Cheers John. It seemed a bit dopey still, presumably a poor life choice wandering out of hibernation on a sunny day into a crowd of people. It was successfully gathered up and taken up a ladder and offered up to a bat box, into which it crawled.
  19. JWN Andrewes

    John's Mammals 2024

    In work today. Pipistrelle I think, presumably Common, but I'm wary of over reaching in my bat ID skills!
  20. JWN Andrewes

    UK Bird in the bushes.

    Reed Bunting
  21. JWN Andrewes

    UK first - Tribble found in Manchester!

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68656787
  22. JWN Andrewes

    Great or Lesser Grey Shrike? Greece - Late Spring (May)

    Surely it's a Red-backed?
  23. JWN Andrewes

    Ouarzazate Morocco

    Showed these to my rodent guru at work, he reckons Libyan.
  24. JWN Andrewes

    Ouarzazate Morocco

    Not a Sand Rat. A Jird, rather than Gerbil I think. Not sure on species.
  25. JWN Andrewes

    Any possible ID on these 4 birds? Costa rica december 22.

    3 looks like Olive-streaked to me, white post ocular & yellow at the gape, which seems to be a feature of Mionectes Flycatchers.
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