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    Goodbye Nature's Home!

    I don’t understand why they don’t offer members a digital alternative. So many organisations do, these days and it is surely a more environmentally friendly way to go. I usually find little to read in it, being generally more style than substance, so a paper magazine is a waste of resources as...
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    Your favorite books of 2021

    "A World on the Wing" by Scott Weidensaul. A study of migration and associated conservation issues. He visits destinations including the Yellow Sea (best known for being vital for the spoon-billed sandpiper but also for hundreds of thousands waders including the almost as rare Naumann's...
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    Exchange action of Zeiss straps!!!

    This from their website. i did it through a search of their website and didn't follow the email link in case it was a scam https://www.zeiss.com/sports-optics/en_de/hunting/service---support/strap-replacement-service.html quite what this achieves for an item that has already been manufactured...
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    Earth's Greatest Rivers

    This program is on BBC2 for 3 consecutive nights. The first, on the Amazon, was excellent, but the second on the Nile was superb. One of the best geography/wildlife programs I've seen. Amongst the many amazing things, the team discovered the extraordinary way in which wildlife has taken over...
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    book recommendations: migration + song

    Flight Lines is a lovely book, though it suffers from a baffling absence of maps. You might try Time to Fly: Exploring Bird Migration - Jim Flegg Bird Migration (Birdwatcher's Guide) - Dominic Couzens These have far more illustrations and maps and both can be picked up cheaply in paperback on...
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    Eyebrowed Thrush - Helsinki

    I've never seen one grey like that in Scotland. Is it a different sub species to the ones we see?
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    Eyebrowed Thrush - Helsinki

    A lady my wife follows on Instagram posted the attached pic and wanted to know what it was. To me it looks like an Eyebrowed Thrush but from what I read this would be a serious rarity in Finland. The lady lives near Helsinki and is happy for me to post it here.
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    Hugh's Wild West

    I really like this series. I only stumbled on it by accident and was changing channels when I saw the Dipper footage. The Long Tailed Tit piece in the last episode was also fascinating. The title suggests something rather naff and to be avoided - I'm glad I didn't. It's interesting to compare...
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    Dark Lesser BB Gull Scotland

    This gull, photographed at Lochwinnoch yesterday looked noticeably darker and had far less white on its primarys than the local breeding population. I assume that it had migrated from Scandinavia, but can anyone tell me what race it is likely to be?
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    Recommendations for North American birds

    It depends on what you want the book for. Sibley is an id book with little other info about the different species. I'm a UK birder and found the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America (ed John Alderfer) interesting, having seen some of the birds. It's a big, chunky book (definitely...
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    Warbler ID Bulgaria

    back colour is odd - but could it be a young Orphean?
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    New Zealand: Mythical Islands

    Great photography, some very interesting stuff but, yet again dull, dull commentary fails to make the most of it. The program concentrated almost entirely (with the exception of some disastrously introduced species) to endemics, which is fair enough I guess but surely seabirds, especially...
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    Lars Jonsson book bargain

    Lars Jonsson's Birds - £7.99 - can't go wrong at that price! Lovely book too. http://www.psbooks.co.uk/products/science-nature/natural-history/item/lars-jonssons-birds
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    John Busby RIP

    Very sorry to hear of this. A great artist who could convey movement like no-one else. An appreciation from Darren Woodhead here http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-john-busby-artist-teacher-writer-and-naturalist-1-3826869
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    Digital Zoom

    About 5 years there was a thread on here that concluded that digital zoom was a waste of time and gave nothing that could not be done as well, if not better, by post processing with eg Photoshop. Has anything changed over the past 5 years or is this still the case?
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