rollingthunder
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Hi Steve - nice to know that the raptor watchpoint that is St Michaels is still operating
Murky and mild with a distinct unseasonal feel to the weather - 15c in Hereford this week.....Don't bet on a White Christmas.
Half an hour around the perimeter of Mary Stevens Park ystda produced a small party of 3 Goosander - 2 males and a Redhead. BHG's estimated at around 250 birds with an adult LBB in attendance. No sign of the female Teal:C
It would appear that Golden-Winged Warblers (Maidstone, Jan '89:eek! are sensitive to impending tornado's, desert the nest and then return!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30531060
BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day has gone all international which is a pity as there was the rest of Europe and then the Western Palearctic which would have been more relevant as far as i was concerned. Yesterdays species bought things a bit closer to home and was presented by the silky-brogued biologist.....Liz Bonnin. It featured an 'Eastern' Orphean Warbler scratching away in an Olive grove somewhere near Athens. The accompanying blurb says "much like a large blackcap with a white throat and greyish-brown back".
Don't forget to put that in your field description when submitting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t0hgk Disregard the first 30 seconds it's a bit confusing as it starts off about migrants and moves on to the Modern Slavery Bill - tell me all about it, i have tea to prepare! You think the Beeb would edit these things a bit better? You probably have more chance of one of these than seeing a Turtle Dove that's purring away in the background.....
Laurie:t:
Attached - Goosander MSP, Egyptian mural depicting the catching of poss Mergus spp in the Nile Delta, GWW twitch and 2 smart-looking birds for the price of one - Corvo and Giza:t:
Murky and mild with a distinct unseasonal feel to the weather - 15c in Hereford this week.....Don't bet on a White Christmas.
Half an hour around the perimeter of Mary Stevens Park ystda produced a small party of 3 Goosander - 2 males and a Redhead. BHG's estimated at around 250 birds with an adult LBB in attendance. No sign of the female Teal:C
It would appear that Golden-Winged Warblers (Maidstone, Jan '89:eek! are sensitive to impending tornado's, desert the nest and then return!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30531060
BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day has gone all international which is a pity as there was the rest of Europe and then the Western Palearctic which would have been more relevant as far as i was concerned. Yesterdays species bought things a bit closer to home and was presented by the silky-brogued biologist.....Liz Bonnin. It featured an 'Eastern' Orphean Warbler scratching away in an Olive grove somewhere near Athens. The accompanying blurb says "much like a large blackcap with a white throat and greyish-brown back".
Don't forget to put that in your field description when submitting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t0hgk Disregard the first 30 seconds it's a bit confusing as it starts off about migrants and moves on to the Modern Slavery Bill - tell me all about it, i have tea to prepare! You think the Beeb would edit these things a bit better? You probably have more chance of one of these than seeing a Turtle Dove that's purring away in the background.....
Laurie:t:
Attached - Goosander MSP, Egyptian mural depicting the catching of poss Mergus spp in the Nile Delta, GWW twitch and 2 smart-looking birds for the price of one - Corvo and Giza:t:
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