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  1. Booga

    Seen yesterday (and today)

    Hi Peter, he river just outside Petersfield is the Rother, a wonderful meandering river that eventually joins up with the Arun at Pulborough. When I worked on the Tree Nursery at Liss it flowed through one of our sites and I have spent many a relaxing lunchtime by it's banks. It's pretty good...
  2. Booga

    Gardening diversions

    Steve mate, I think that the BF galleries are for Photos like yours above anything else. OK, we have some of the finest Nature photoraphers in the world but that's not to say the rest of us don't get a look in. What you have here are some prime examples of a bird doing what it was created...
  3. Booga

    Do birds create art?

    I've had a song thrush in my garden last year immitating my mobilephone ringer! the strange thing is he is back again now and still does it even though I have a new phone. I have no doubt that birds take both pleasure and pride in what they sing, just think of the wide variety of combinations...
  4. Booga

    Gardening diversions

    Groovey day all round then, I've been doing a spot of gardening the past few days too, same with my robins, I reckon the'll be eating from my hand by the end of the week at this rate!
  5. Booga

    Red Kite

    the beech is my favourite deciduous tree also. My fave evergreen being the gorgeous taxus buccata. Perfect spelling by the way.
  6. Booga

    Red Kite

    Don't worry Spar, I do the same with trees all the time, most of my friends think I'm mad because I have to correct myself and translate into common names for them. You should see the look I got from a friend when I said he had a spendid Quercus!!!
  7. Booga

    Conservation Hooligan Outrage

    Well done lads, justice prevails for the powers of good! Charlie sounds like a character straight out of the fast show.
  8. Booga

    My Birding day(s)!

    Hi all, I've been a bit tied up the past few days and not posted much, although there is quite a bit to post. I've seen Red kite on 3 locations, all within 2 miles of each other, I saw two together though over carpenters down nr Basingstoke. Also since last week I have seen willow tit on 5...
  9. Booga

    Mini Meet part 2

    I saw a pair of willow tit!, a Kinfisher, but not the normal one I see!, a new Heron,bigger than my normal one, a gorgeous male kestrel, a marsh tit, 12 deer, a badger, and a mallard ( groovey because I never expected to see one in such isolation). The place; the river loddon in hants, about...
  10. Booga

    Mini Meet part 2

    John the excitement of your day and the pictorial results say it all. Well done matey. And yep, I'm mad enough to sit around in a wood, I did today, twice!!!!!!
  11. Booga

    First Ladybird & Bumble Bee of the year

    I have seen at least a hundred bumblebees in the past 4 days, sevel butterflies alos. But today I got my first mozzie bite! The little thing was following me for at least a mile before it went in for the 'kill'. So I know have a nice red spot on my neck and a definate indication that this is...
  12. Booga

    Budget Digiscoping? is it possible?

    Hi Ben, I finally purchased my first scope yesterday. A nice Kowa TS611 with a 20x eyepiece. My digital Cam is a Kodak DX3600 with 2x optical and 3x digital zoom. As I was about to save up for a Nikon CP4500 I was pleasantly surprise that the eyepiece is a perfect fir for the camera with...
  13. Booga

    The Best Of Bill Oddie Goes Wild on tonight

    I'll be taping, will have to watch Comic Relief with lizzie.
  14. Booga

    What a week!!!

    I hate you paul!!! I am desperate to see a Firecrest and you have a whole gang! Every time I see a goldcrest they seem to Poop with surprising regularity for such a small bird, I don't know if it's just that I spend a lot of time watching them so it seems like all the time or that they are...
  15. Booga

    View From...

    My garden list is as follows: Blue tit Great Tit Coal Tit Long-Tailed tit Nuthatch Robin Wren Collared dove Starling Tree sparrow Wood pigeon Great-spotted Woodpecker Lesser-sptted woodpecker (for just a second or two) Blackbird Bullfinch Chaffinch Redpoll Goldfinch Song thrush Mistle thrush...
  16. Booga

    What a week!!!

    hello all, ok, on the day I had my job interview my 'EXPERIENCES' went like this: walked out of door, chatted to neighbour, my dog peed on my leg!!! walking in the woods I had a goldcrest try and fly into my face, it missed and the shat on my arm!!! being one of my fave birds I was more...
  17. Booga

    Red Kite info

    I have had 2 sightings of a red kite this week! on my 3rd excursion I saw a pair of buzzard, which while always nice to see were not as groovey. Having just bagged this lifer for me, I'd be well into an organised trip to view them. Maybe it would be good for you all to know that locally we...
  18. Booga

    Swollen Eyes

    Kevin - I thought to say this earlier, but you can buy, cosmetic glasses, ie just plain glass in nice frames.
  19. Booga

    Swollen Eyes

    Could be a rubber allergy. Maybe a barrier cream would help?
  20. Booga

    hey ppl

    Hi and welcome, mowazzy! I'd have thought you'd get some pretty good birding in London. It's easy to assume an urban environment would not be good for birds but here in Basingstoke, right in the heart of town, a pair of Peregrines live atop the IBM building, and it's right next door to a new...
  21. Booga

    Sparrowhawk ?

    yellow feet? I've noticed a lot of Sprhawk flying low. I would think that your bird was a SH, the only problem I have is that a SH is approx 55% smaller than a raven. Having said that, it's all about distance
  22. Booga

    dying birds

    I would think that in most cases, the corpses get devoured by scavangers, crows, foxes etc. Bird bones being as light and delicate as they are would soon disentigrate if left by scavangers, so I would have thought. I quite often see half devoured pigeons and starlings in my local woodland...
  23. Booga

    fighting woodpeckers

    Hi Peter, I've seen similar with my local GSW, 2 males went hell for leather and one of them has now got a mate, they are never more than 2 feet apart. Don't apologise JBM, ironically after viewing your site I wonder if my 2 males were in fact 2 females. I'm 80% they were males but am willing...
  24. Booga

    Roadrunner, turtles and Mourning Doves

    I found drinking yogurt to be the best hangover cure! I second the request for a roadrunner, I even have to admit that I only think of them in terms of the cartoons! Having said that, did the Guys who invented Woodie-Woodpecker actually know what a woodpecker looked like? So shots please...
  25. Booga

    Hen Harriers in serious trouble-all of a sudden!

    This is the fourth time I come back to this thread. In found it hard to answer in case I offened any members. I'm heartened to see that I am not alone in my feeling for the attitudes and actions of the IFA. Sadly it's an attitude echoed in various forms with regards to all kinds of wildlife...
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