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    Mistle Thrush - mid-Wales

    Thanks all. Steve
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    Mistle Thrush - mid-Wales

    Hi all, I'm pretty sure this was a Mistle thrush from the call but I'd be grateful for conformation. Steve
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    Voting Booth - September 2008 theme challenge - Insects

    Congrats to Scottishdude and Saphire, :clap::clap: those are both gorgeous shots, and thanks to those who voted for mine, I didn't expect to do anything like so well against such a great selection of shots and am very chuffed. :-O Steve
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    Please ID these

    I'm sure I'll be soon corrected if wrong, but as far as I know the only one of your plants not considered native is the cotoneaster. Unless things have changed in the fog of time since my youth, the only native cotoneaster is Welsh cotoneaster, C.cambricus. I went to look for it years ago on...
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    Please ID these

    I reckon that; 1. - common mallow, malva sylvestris 2. - pass 3. looks like a cotoneaster, an introduced species. 4. Great willowherb? Epilobium hirsutum Steve
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    Are you a "Bottle" or a "Flask" Birder?

    I'd have thought that taking a slash in the undergrowth was actually the eco-friendly option. No wasting gallons of water flushing, not to mention the noxious blue chemicals etc people seem obsessed with adding to the sewage system. Just biodegradable, (sterile IIRC), nitrogen rich plant food...
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    two butterflies ID please

    I know nothing about US butterflies, but if that is not a Berger's Clouded Yellow, Colias alfacariensis, then it must be a close relative. Steve ps the kestrel's made me laugh :) pps gorgeous shots I'm very envious.
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    Unsure of these 'shrooms 2

    Thanks for the comments on both of these threads Leif, I think I may have to update my books, the Phillip's I've got is one of the originals from the early eighties, those blasted taxonomists have changed loads of names since then without telling me :)
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    Caterpillar: York, UK

    My un-expert opinion is that it's a Grey Dagger Moth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Dagger Steve
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    Unsure of these 'shrooms 2

    Continued from previous post. Number three looks like an Inocybe, maybe I. napipes ? Finally a bolete of some description, closest match I've found is B. lanatus which is described as rare by Phillips. Any other suggestions? Thanks for looking Steve
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    Unsure of these 'shrooms

    A few from a walk in my local woods (mixed conifer and broadleaf) that I'd like some ID help with. The first two look like Amanitas to me. There were a lot of Blushers in these woods but the first is a bit different and I was wondering about Panther. The second has me beat closest I seen is A...
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    Fungi ID please

    I'll have a go at the easier ones. 1. Many zoned polyphore (Coriolus versicolor) 2 & 3 pass 4. possibly a mouldy bolete of some kind 5. Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
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    Melanic 2-Spot Ladybird or Harlequin?

    My money would be on Harlequin, specifically Harmonia axyridis conspicua (have a look here, http://www.harlequin-survey.org/recognition_and_distinction.htm# ). How big was it? Harlequin are big, about twice the size of two-spot.
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Drilling'

    Many thanks for the kind comments. Steve
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    Fungi ID Tyne and Wear

    Not definite but Wood Woolly-foot, Collybia peronata is a possibility.
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