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Recent content by Muso

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    Coul Links Under Threat - Yet Again

    Latest from RSPB: https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scotland/posts/save-coul-links?utm_source=20250405_ActionforNature_SCO&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=8&utm_campaign= Essentially, the Public Hearing has looked at the evidence presented, and will pass their recommendations to...
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    Coul Links Under Threat - Yet Again

    DPEA hearings are scheduled for 11th Nov. More here: https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scotland/posts/coul-links-update-june-2024?utm_source=campaigns_update_scotland_June24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=16&utm_campaign= You may need to copy'n'paste the link if it doesn't take...
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    Coul Links Under Threat - Yet Again

    Update can be found here: https://www.rspb.org.uk/helping-nature/what-we-do/influence-government-and-business/casework/coul-links?utm_source=campaigns_update_scotland_feb24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=11&utm_campaign=
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    Coul Links Under Threat - Yet Again

    Can't see any way round the postcode limitation. I can only assume it's because they're trying to get the Scottish Government to act, therefore Scottish residents. Fairly sure that wasn't the case the last time. Because I live in Scotland, my registration just went through, so I didn't know...
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    Coul Links Under Threat - Yet Again

    Thanks Jos - wasn't aware of this. Might be worth trying RSPB directly or the Not Coul website. I'll look into this and see what I can come up with.
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    Coul Links Under Threat - Yet Again

    Hi all Around 2017/18 an American billionaire tried to build a golf course on Coul Links, near Dornoch. The existing Royal Dornoch golf course, which is as exclusive as this one wanted to be, is 2 miles away. Local Councillors gave it the go-ahead, despite this being a triple-protected area...
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    Greetings..

    Welcome Flying Scot. I'm in Glasgow - where are you based? Best Ian
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    Feral Parrots, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

    But I wouldn't have known that Andy (although I've now learned another little bit). My lack of knowledge in the terminology led me to use "front" in the more general way, eg the front of a building. Also apologies to The_Fern if my first post seemed like an attack - it was more knee-jerk...
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    Feral Parrots, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

    Spot on BH - didn't see your post as I posted mine...
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    Feral Parrots, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

    Sorry, just me misusing an established term which I wasn't aware of. By front, I was meaning from the chest area down. Apologies for confusion.
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    Feral Parrots, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

    Quote: The_Fern - Suggest blue-fronted from Southern cone area based on: blue front (!) One of the reasons I almost give up on this. You are looking at a completely and undoubtably green front and say it's blue, as if that's a duh moment...do you really see that front as blue? Or is it just...
  12. Muso

    Finch? - North London

    Female, I think
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    Help with Dipper behaviour- Dodder river in Ireland

    Not an expert by any means, but observed quite a few dippers over the years, and suspect you would immediately know if this was a territorial thing - dippers take no prisoners...! Here's 2 males having at it on Arran, and the aggression did not stop until one had exited stage left. One pursued...
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    Canary Islands, Plan B in the Era of Omicron

    Jos, this is great! Thanks for recording all this. Although I've been to Fuerteventura several times, my first trip to Tenerife was in December 2021. We'd cancelled / postponed all our overseas trips since Covid began, and the Tenerife holiday was sort of still sitting there, and we were...
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    Highland golf course plan is a possibility at Coul Links in Scotland again

    Hi Murmur, hope all's well. Indeed, such incredibly bad luck with the fires, eh? To quote Ian Fleming: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”...
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