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    Unusual visitor?

    More hero than villan perhaps? :p (sorry - bet you've never heard that before ;))
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    Unusual visitor?

    A real beauty! Quite a thrill to have in the hand and successfully release :) By the way I forgot to say - welcome to Birdforum!
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    Unusual visitor?

    Looks like a male northern wheatear :)
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    Wood warbler singing in it's usual spot today (I can hear it as I write this :)) Think it must have just arrived as I did the same walk from the house on Friday and there was no sign.
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    A cuckoo calling in our garden for a day on the 16th, and an even briefer visit from a singing willow tit (the first for nearly a year)
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    Identify bird call 'puk puk poww', early spring, Kent, slightly wooded

    Surely the volume depends on the proximity of the caller.
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    Identify bird call 'puk puk poww', early spring, Kent, slightly wooded

    My first instinct was C. Crow but hesitated to suggest it, now that Richard has mentioned those near him I'm even more convinced.
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    Identify bird call 'puk puk poww', early spring, Kent, slightly wooded

    I wonder if it's their version of "song" - certainly the right time of year.
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    Identify bird call 'puk puk poww', early spring, Kent, slightly wooded

    Sounds like a corvid, heard some very odd noises from rooks and jays recently.
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    What are the most interesting wildlife that you've seen in YOUR HOUSE?

    Not strictly in the house but I had a paradise tree snake in the mail box once, many years ago when I lived in Malaysia. As this is one of the "flying" snakes I assumed it came by air mail!
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    Warsaw, Poland, 09.10

    What I was hinting at was that in image 3.4 both birds appear to be pretty much in focus, if the corvid is indeed a carrion/hooded crow then the accipiter is clearly bigger. Crows habitually mob goshawks in our neighbourhood but largely ignore sparrowhawks except when they are nesting.
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    Warsaw, Poland, 09.10

    Bearing in mind the very shallow depth of field that optics have at high magnifications, if two distant birds are both in focus in an image then they are going to be the same distance away, meaning that judgement of relative size is straightforward.
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    German Accipiter Identification

    Could you point me in the direction of any research on eye diameter please. I have a feeling that there is a subtle but significant difference in the proportions and placement of the eye between Goshawk and Sparrowhawk and I'm hoping there may be mention of this in studies somewhere. 🤞👍
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    Night vision equipment for mortals

    Sorry, should have checked the link, my initial thoughts on the T2 pro can be found here:- Affordable thermal device that comes with a screen? broadly my experience mirrors birdingbrickers closely https://www.birdforum.net/threads/affordable-thermal-device-that-comes-with-a-screen.450241/
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    Night vision equipment for mortals

    I've bought one, there's some thoughts on it here:- https://www.birdforum.net/members/okamotokeitasin.147241/
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