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    D500 and...

    Hi all, I will shortly be in a position to spend about £2000 on a new camera set up. For the last 5/6 years I have been using a bridge camera to just grab record shots, but have been planning to move up to a DSLR whenever the money became available. The only purpose for buying the camera is for...
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    Gull ID - January 2020, Reculver, Kent, UK

    Hi all, Kind of assumed this was a Herring Gull at the time (back on 19/01/2020) on the North Kent coast at Reculver. I have been through the CR Birding website for the colour ring, but cannot find a match. Looks to be 'G0ZT'. Anyway, this got me looking more closely at the bird which is...
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    Zimbabwe - April 2019

    Hwange NP, Zim. Confirmation that this is Bradfield's Hornbill please? Thanks.
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    Zimbabwe - April 2019

    Hi all, Just reviewing the photos I took in Zimbabwe in April 2019, I found this picture of a Weaver sp. It was taken between Harare and Mutare and seems to be a Village Weaver (black on the top of the head and wing bars...). Grateful for confirmation because if it is, then it was the only...
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    Adis Ababa Bole Airport - Birds?

    I am transiting through Adis on my way to Zimbabwe and arrive at Adis at 6am on 2nd April. We have a 3.5 hr layover. I hope to try and see some birds around the airport (but don’t have time to leave it). Does anyone have any tips?
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    Addis Ababa Airport

    Hi all, I have a three hours at Addis ababa airport in early April on the way to Zimbabwe. No time to leave the airport, but does anyone know if there is any birding to be done from the terminal? Are there any external areas, gardens, viewing platforms etc? Would be nice to add a few E...
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    Seeing more moths...

    I have been moth-ing since 2005 (very slowly at first and increasingly so nowadays). Most of my time has been spent in Kent with fairly frequent trips to Dorset. I have now recorded over 1000 species of moth (macro and micro and leafmine/early stage etc). Things naturally slow down and new...
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    Great-spotted Woodpecker and Parekeet

    Hi all, I was chatting to someone this weekend who witnessed some odd bird behaviour. She has watched Great-spotted Woodpeckers in her garden feeding their young from the bird feeder. But for a very short period, she observed the adult Woodpecker feeding a young Ring-necked Parakeet by taking...
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    Possible Rough-legged Buzzard - Dorset 27.10.17

    Hi, I had a very pale, chunky Buzzard in off the sea when I was walking along the cliff top towards St Alhelm's Head, Dorset. The bird came in and flew up the valley towards Worth Matravers. It had a white rump (but not really exgtending to the tail), very pale head and overall pale...
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    Fungi ID

    Photographed today on chalk dowland in Kent. ID help appreciated.. Thanks, Andy M.
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    Variation in Rock Pipits?

    Hi all, Two images of two Rock Pipits from Durlston CP, Dorset this morning. The first is a pretty standard looking petrosus but the second seemed larger and clearly paler with a distinct supercillium. Is this within variance for petrosus or can it be assigned to littoralis? There were two...
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    Firecrests at Dunge...

    Crazy numbers of Firecrest at Dungeness atm. 100+ Certainly a high count for Dunge but how unusual is this nationally? Andy M
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    Small Rodent - UK

    Hi all, Found this possibly moribund rodent at Cliffe Pools RSPB in Kent today. Can some let me know what species it is please? Thanks in advance, Andy M
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    Flower for ID - Kent 26.08.15

    Hi all, Can anyone help ID this flow please? I have been through my Collins guide page by page and come up blank... Many thanks, Andy M
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    Am I completly missing something? - Dorset coast 18/08/2015

    The white tips to the tail have now thrown me... Any help appreciated please. Cheers, Andy M
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    BoP - Kent 13.06.15 (poor pics).

    Hi all, I saw the attached BoP over Motney Hill, Gillingham (Kent) this evening. It was high and distant and was clearly passing through. I appreciate the pics are about as bad as they come, but there seems to be the odd visible feature as well as the silhouette... Here's hoping. Many...
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    Heath Fritillary?

    Hi all, Found today in Blean Woods, nr Canterbury. Is this a Heath Fritillary? Many thanks, Andy M
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    Beetle for ID - Kent 16.05.15

    Hi all, My son found this small beetle at Shellness (coastal) in Kent this afternoon. Many thanks, Andy M
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    Leucistic Herring? - Kent on 16.05.15

    Hi all, I found this gull at Shellness in Kent today. At first I was thinking Iceland, but quickly suspected leucistic Herring due to head shape (which just looks wrong for Iceland). Could anyone confirm either way please. It comes out in the pics as very pale, but was slightly darker in...
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    Moth ID - Kent 03.04.15

    I found this micro today whilst out at Queendown Warren in the North Downs, Kent. It wouldn't settle, so this is the only picture I have. There aren't that many species around at the moment, but I still can't ID it! ?Any help appreciated. Cheers, Andy M
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    Odd BH Gull - Kent 03.04.15

    I know it's a bit distant and can't really be anything else, but I found this odd Black-headed Gull at Queendown Warren, Kent today. It really stood out from the other Black-heads and Med Gulls due to the pure whiteness of the body and wings. The black primary tips were obvious, but it was as...
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    Can this Gull be ID'd? - Northern Ireland

    As per the thread title. Please see attached link to a BBC News Northern Ireland picture with a fly-by gull. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-31864644 Features - Red bill? White primaries, Dark underwing? Cheers, Andy M
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    Orthosia sp for ID - Kent 27.02.15

    Hi all, Just when you think you've got it all sorted something comes along and throws you. I had this down initially as Lead-coloured Drab, but have now revised my position to Common Quaker, but am still not convinced. I have even used this fantastic link -...
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    2014 - Additions and totals...

    In 2014: Birds - I saw 185 sp, adding 3 new birds to my BOU list (RN Phal, ST Eagle and Desert Wheatear) and 3 to my Kent list (RN Phal, Desert Wheatear and Whooper Swan). Moths - I saw 234 sp, adding 62 new moths to my life list. Kind of need to up the pace on the birding front for 2015 or...
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    Redwing? - Kent 25.12.14

    Hi all, Managed a couple of poor shots of a distant thrush which I took to be a Redwing. The lack of streaking threw me a little though? Cheers, Andy M
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