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    Lothian Birding

    birds still nesting On my house I have swallows and tree sparrows with young chicks in the nest, this is the third brood for both nests. Can the more knowledgeable of you advise me if this is unusual, three broods seems a lot and also isn't it awfy late in the season, thanks.
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    Lothian Birding

    There is a consultation ongoing regarding the proposed charges. Either pick up one of the leaflets from a library or such usual places or download it from the council website. The councillors are saying this is a genuine consultation and if the public don't want the charges then there won't be...
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    Lothian Birding

    Birdspotter - I'm just back from my hols and read the above; I've a personal interest in the poacher you mentioned (I know who it will have been and have no doubt he was poaching), any chance you could forward me a grid reference of the exact spot he was at also can you describe him at all. If...
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    Lothian Birding

    stork Yesterday was my dad's last day before retiring from his work at Borders General Hospital. He's an avid birder who will be known to many of you out there. The attached photo is the view he had from his office all of yesterday!!!
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    Lothian Birding

    The above I feel is a wee bit OTT. These guys have a job to do, potentially a very important one, it must though be terribly boring to cover the same area repeatedly and if they stop to speak to some people with a scope or binoculars near to Torness then so what. I've got to know a few of the...
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    Lothian Birding

    Dunbar starlings Whilst entertaining the kids at a play park in Dunbar this afternoon I spent 45 minutes watching between 1000 and 2000 starlings doing their fancy swirly formation flying thing. :clap: I know its a small number of birds compared to the famous spots down south but it was...
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    Lothian Birding

    sorry about rubbish english, on goblet of wine no.3!!. First line should begin: "Good to see others upping"
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    Lothian Birding

    Torness Good to seeing other upping the virtues of our local nuclear power station!! For those of you with young kids I thoroughly recommend a trip here: the prom is great for them to learn to ride bikes on; at low tides the rocks between the prom and Thorntonloch are great for rockpooling...
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    Lothian Birding

    On the Dunbar community website info there is chat of a golden eagle in the Dunbar area. Some posts suggest that what was seen was a sea eagle, osprey or just a buzzard but the original post suggests he has heard of numerous sighting of a goldie!! Anyone got any info on the progress of the sea...
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    Rare birds dead on Queen's estate (BBC News)

    "Full knowledge" or "stupid and ignorant". I think that both do apply. The people persecuting raptors do so well aware what they are doing is illegal and the identity of the birds they are killing (apart from poisons which are indiscriminate although abviously intended for raptors or corvids)...
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    Rare birds dead on Queen's estate (BBC News)

    realist, not royalist. There are a lot of posts on this thread trying to ask "why" and considering it was possibly a mistake of misidentification. Do not worry yourselves about why they did it, accept that whoever pulled the trigger did so on purpose and probably with the full knowledge of...
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