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Recent content by Ian Bennell

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    Collins Birds Guide App.

    Rumour has it that an app will be out in march.
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    First time in New York

    I know its a bit late now but I was in New York from 27th aug - 1st sep. had a few hours in Central Park and a full write up is on my blog if you have a few minutes to spare. Ian
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    RFI Boston area

    Hi Lerxst. I too will be in Boston from 20-23rd August. I've booked myself on a 3 hour whale watching cruise in the hope of seeing whales and seabirds on the 21st. Just google it and its easy to find. $62 for me and gf. Or there is Boston harbour cruise which I think takes you too the islands...
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    Bird Sightings 27th-31st Oct 2012

    I spent a great 5 days with the family staying at the Formosa Park hotel + apartments near Almancil and 1 day at Faro I thought i'd share my sightings just incase any of them are rare or interesting for that area even though i'm a week late posting! 50+ Azure-Winged Magpies most around the...
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    Unprecedented movement of Jays?

    A birder in Italy who posts on the Herts yahoo group mentioned a while ago about the lack of acorns there and suggested that Jays could well move in numbers this autumn. He mentioned Nutcrackers aswell but isn't their favoured food the arolla pine? Have they failed to produce a crop this year...
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    Young Birder

    Hi all Have just been reading the last few posts regarding the year list competition and may I say it's an excellent idea. I just wish this sort of thing was around when I first started year listing 11+ years ago. I guess I'm too old to join in nowadays being nearly 37!! It's good to see my...
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    Cold Snap

    So long as it's minus wing-tags ;-)
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    400 In A Year??

    Herts list is only 307. It's amazing how many good birds have been seen sometimes just yards from the county boundary! Surely London's list is so much bigger because they count birds from neighbouring counties? Grey-Cheeked Thrush for example was in Herts but also counts as London.
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    Long staying rarities

    Not a major rare but the Topsham Glossy Ibis I saw 2 autumn/winters running then presumably the same bird at Breydon Water the year after that.
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    400 In A Year??

    With the Veery on Muck being the 450th species of 2011 (UK 400 rules) I just wondered whether someone with unlimited time and money ( if there is such a person?!) could potentially see 400 species in a calendar year?
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    'Egg Thief fined' - not quite the story you're expecting

    He should have tried scrambling away quicker
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    Hybrid Pigeon?

    Thanks for the replies but it's neither a stock dove or juv woody as I know what they look like!! Slightly more in depth description in post 3. Ian
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    Hybrid Pigeon?

    Nope!! It looked like a dark grey Feral Pigeon with black markings on the chest until it flew and showed the White flashes in the wings and the pale bar through the tail.
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    Hybrid Pigeon?

    Today in Cassiobury Park, Watford I saw a group of about 15 Woodpigeons and in with them was what I thought was a Feral Pigeon. It was smaller than the Woodpigeons and superficially it looked like a bog standard Feral Pigeon but when it took flight it had the wing and tail pattern of a...
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    First Twitch

    My first twitch was for a flock of 8 Cattle Egrets near Rickmansworth in May 1992 (got a knock on the door from a birder friend up the road who had driven past the twitch and then asked if I wanted to see them!). First out of county twtich was for Western Bonelli's Warbler at Languard in May...
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