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    Sound Recorder Advice

    I'm here looking for advice myself. But based on my experience using the Olympus LS-12, I'd say you'd do well with the LS-100. Whatever the merits of those Tascam units, they are surely too big for use while out birding. My LS-12 sits in my top pocket or in a little shoulder-holster I made and...
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    Recording all day long: what to use?

    I had my Olympus LS-12 running all last week on Scilly and it was very reassuring to know that I was capturing any unrecognised calls and that I was able to listen back to them. What I hadn't bargained on was capturing calls that I'd completely failed to notice in the field! While listening back...
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    Recording all day long: what to use?

    Result I bought an LS-12 on eBay for about £60 and have been running it while I'm out birding, even just sitting out in the garden. This morning I've got a recording of a Hawfinch flying over the garden, a decent bird in Beds. https://soundcloud.com/mark-telfer-2/hawfinch-over-eaton-bray I'd...
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    Recording all day long: what to use?

    Thank you all for your advice. I'm not too worried about quality - I just want recordings that will help with ID. So I will give it a go.
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    Recording all day long: what to use?

    If I am out birding this autumn and an interesting pipit or bunting flies over calling, I won't have time to get my Sennheiser ME66 out of my pocket and switch it on. I'd like to have a sound recorder running the whole time I am in the field, with battery life that will last all day, and I...
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    Foxed by a tjip call

    The "low grate" is a lot like the soft churring of this Marsh Warbler: http://www.xeno-canto.org/240858
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    Gull, Laem Pak Bia, Thailand

    Thanks Lou - how stupid of me!
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    Gull, Laem Pak Bia, Thailand

    I think if its a Heuglin's, it has to be a 1st winter. A 2nd winter would show extensive adult-type grey mantle, scapular and wing-covert feathers. When I saw it (earlier the same day), I was put off Heuglin's by the paler window on the inner primaries and the pale greater-coverts. But reading...
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    UK Beetles for id

    Second photo is an Amara, possibly lunicollis as the 2nd and 3rd antennal segments look dark and elytral intervals look convex. But the rarer A. curta also has these characters. Try this: http://markgtelfer.co.uk/2012/03/09/sunshiners-moonshiners-and-stem-climbers/
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    Yellow-spotted Whiteface in Suffolk??

    That's exactly right Paul. It wasn't certain they were Leucorrhinia dubia. Does anyone know yet why news didn't get out earlier about the Yellow-spotted Whiteface? Mark Telfer
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    Hooded Seal in Lincolnshire

    If it gets released in Britain, I'd be keen to get a carload together.
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    Snail or what? ID Kent please

    It's Hygromia cinctella, an introduced snail that started off in Devon but has now spread quite widely at least in southern England.
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    I.D. Portugal Nov2011

    I agree with Simon that this is Asilus barbarus. I've seen them at Cape St Vincent/Sagres and had photo identifed by experts on diptera.info.
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    Beetle /Weevel ID please N Scotland

    Probably a Vine Weevil Otiorhynchus sulcatus.
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    Quedius mesomelinus?

    Thanks for the plug Ficedula. The staph is either an Ocypus or a Tasgius. Might be identifiable to species from the photo but would need to spend some time on it.
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