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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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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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)...
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...
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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