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    A century of protection, and the poisoning continues.. (RSPB)

    I see more birds of prey now than I did 30 or 40 years ago (fewer kestrels but more sparrowhawks, merlins, buzzards, marsh harriers) but perhaps I'm going to 'protected' nature reserve areas where they are safer than with a shooting area in their territory...
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    Cassowaries need us!

    http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/missioncassowaries Hmmm, sorry about that... try this
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    Cassowaries need us!

    http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petition...ioncassowaries It's one of the rarest birds in the world... so please sign this petition and help keep pressure up for a potential development plot in Australia to be bought for national park and protect a vital habitat/corridor for threatened cassowaries...
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    Save cassowary habitat/Lot 66 buyback

    http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/missioncassowaries Please sign this petition and help keep pressure up for a potential development plot in Australia to be bought for national park and protect a vital habitat/corridor for threatened cassowaries. Much more info at...
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    Giving the Henderson petrel a fighting chance

    Yes, they are a nice set of stamps and I'm pleased with mine, however only about 70p of the total cost of about £7.50 will go towards saving the petrels and other rare birds so a direct donation (especially with UK Gift Aid) via the RSPB will have more effect.
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    Norfolk birding

    Blakeney is a good bet - we saw two at one time last week after the strong winds had dropped and one the day after... about 7pm though, I doubt they'll be out much earlier than that. The second time it nearly flew right over us, only diverting from its hunting course when it realised we were in...
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    Norfolk birding

    Marsh tit (they've bred there, apparently, so aren't a rarity there) and spotted flycatcher at Weeting Heath's woodland hide this morning. I'd like to say I saw a stone curlew but the object which looked most like one through the 10X binoculars had vanished by the time I'd got my scope in...
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    Norfolk birding

    Ouch. As fast as we plant wild flowers, etc, some fool will cut down a mature tree. In minutes the work of centuries can be removed but, hey, perhaps they'll learn the error of their ways eventually and will start planting.
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    Why are common names of birds capitalized?

    Thanks. Well, thank goodness I've never been to Dartford. Dartmouth, yes...
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    Why are common names of birds capitalized?

    I was being lazy and should've written 'capitals' in full. There's enough confusion over apostrophe use as it is (and we all make mistakes, of course). Personally if I was writing, 'caps' or 'No, probs', in an email I wouldn't think it needed an apostrophe to signify the missing bit but...
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    Why are common names of birds capitalized?

    That's a fair point... I was thinking it's fine to cap a country in a name and not what it refers to, as in African elephant/Indian elephant, but it doesn't always work. Is an African grey parrot just a grey parrot you happen to know comes from Africa, or an African grey (as in the variety)...
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    Why are common names of birds capitalized?

    I haven't read the whole thread but in my view you just don't need caps at all for common names of birds or animals... grey squirrel, red squirrel, blackbird, bluebird, house sparrow, hedgesparrow/dunnock... they all work perfectly well without capitals. Now if you refer to the manmade...
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    Norfolk birding

    Yes, I found that interesting too. I'm sure I see a greater ratio of blackbirds to thrushes than in past decades and it wouldn't be a surprise if that were at least partly caused by gardeners and their hatred of slugs/snails.
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    Comment by 'Cleme' in media 'Marsh Harrier'

    Should be in the next edition of the RSPB's Birds of Prey book...
    • Cleme
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    East is Eesti: Estonia April 2011

    Nice work!
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    East is Eesti: Estonia April 2011

    Let us know what you saw when you get a chance...
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    Coate Water Country Park, Wiltshire

    Did you call in? It's a very easy diversion off the motorway if you're heading to Devon...
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    Beginner scope...and cheap...sorry!

    Sadly it's usually a case of the dollar price being the sterling price, or very close. We have 20% purchase tax (VAT) which doesn't help buyers or shopkeepers as more and more people turn to ebay... then people wonder why specialist shops in their towns, which have been going for decades...
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    Comment by 'Cleme' in media 'House Martin'

    Yes, plenty in Spain when we were there at Easter but I haven't seen one in Wiltshire yet. We put up three nest boxes a couple of months ago so let's hope there's still time for them to arrive and raise some young. Great picture by the way!
    • Cleme
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    Cheap Compact question (carson, brunton, bushnell...)

    My girlfriend has the Olympus PCI 25X10 and, despite being a porro fan, I still prefer the Silva Lite-Tech 25X10...
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    Cheap Compact question (carson, brunton, bushnell...)

    Can't entirely agree... we can get these in the UK for about £65 and they seem fine to me. I love my Nikon 10X35 EIIs but for sticking in a bike handlebar bag or a jacket pocket when in town I'd say they were hard to beat (at the cheap end of the market, of course). >>>Silva Lite-Tech Compact...
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    Hello from the Netherlands

    Great. Utrecht's a nice little town too. Love those canalside cafes...
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    Comment by 'Cleme' in media 'Hoopoe in the shade'

    Not the world's greatest picture but what a great sighting!
    • Cleme
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    Dogs

    Ha, ha. Yes, we were being shown Sri-Lankan frogmouths in India last year - the danger there is of being trampled by an elephant hidden in the undergrowth, the guide told us! Still, we nearly had a lifetime's best ever (and only, so far) bittern sighting in the cold spell nearly ruined by a...
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    dartford warbler-worlds end

    ...or the New Forest in Hampshire, I think. Text book photos. Great stuff
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