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    Bird for ID - West Bengal, India, Jan 2025

    Looks like one to me.
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    Deafness and Birding! - Merlin App & Microphone.

    As an experiment I have picked up a Movo X1 mini with a jack output along with a jack- lightning lead for my iPhone 14 a few days ago. Initial tests suggest the signal gain is a lot higher than the phone mic without being too directional. It does use the phone for power, so it’s worth carrying...
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    NL Pure x52 in hand

    My take from today. I’ve been looking at higher powered bins for a while now. 8x42 serves for much of the time but is inadequate when birding open farmland etc on long hikes as I take a camera rather than scope. Last year I tested the NL 12x42 and was very impressed as was my colleague who...
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    Ferruginous Duck hybrid?

    It’s a Wigeon
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    Scilly Isles - west of Cornwall, UK - June 24

    Would assume the petrel is a European Storm Petrel-Wilsons would have legs protruding beyond tail.
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    Good Boots

    Ranger Hiking Boot Had these a couple of months now, and cant fault them.
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    Last Butterfly of the Year 2023

    I was surprised to see a Brimstone yesterday in a sheltered sunny bramble patch only a few yards west of the Stevenage A1.
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    A few stickies from Southend, Essex ystrdy.

    The bird below the skua appears to my eyes to be an auk, most likely a Guillemot. I was going to go with dark Arctic Skua, but the apparent amount of white in the wing has got me thinking that Pom might be a better fit.
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    600mm pf ??

    There has been speculation that one will appear for the Z mount eventually.
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    ATX 115 Data Wanted

    Naglers vary a lot with eye relief, though not sure which ones are still available. Could not cope with the original 13mm and 9(?)mm but I have and enjoy the later 12mm design, and used it occasionally when i had the older grey Swarovski. A bit old hat now I guess but I also used a couple of...
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    Scottish Dragon and Damselflies

    I have seen Azure Hawker late June in the small reserve half way along the north shore of Loch Arkaig. Think its managed for Chequered Skipper which might be flying when you are there.
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    Knysna, South Africa #1

    You are right.
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    Knysna, South Africa #1

    2 is Clianthus puniceus
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    [Korea, Jeju Island] Taiga vs Tundra Bean Goose

    The head shape, reminiscent of a Whooper Swan, suggests Middendorff's (Taiga) Bean Goose to me. Could be wrong though, but I've read up on this form in the unlikely event of one turning up in the UK. I don't think you need consider Tundra.
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    Raptor in flight: young, male Goshawk from East Turkey on 5th of September

    Goshawk for me.
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    Cut Flower ID UK

    Larkspur or delphinium
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    Spring flowers from foothills of Sequoia NP in California, USA, April 2022

    No 4 is a Calochortus, probably amoenus.
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    Tringa sp. , Sofia area, Bulgaria

    Greater Yellowlegs. Based on apparent structure and paler bill which I think ought to rule out Lesser.
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    Ortolan or Cretzschmar's Bunting (Southern Israel - September)

    White eye ring should exclude Ortolan. Grey Necked comes to mind, but a bit out of range.
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    Flower ID Ireland

    Now known as Hesperantha coccinea. Many varieties in the red-white range. Easily divided to produce more.
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    Plant IDs x6

    No 6 could be a willow. There are people who plant up large pots with several single stemmed willows and weave them together which appears to be the case here.
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    Semipalmated or Ringed Plover?

    All Semi P for me, bills pretty short and stubby, limited orange on lower mandible and loral pattern are right for semi palmated.
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    Is this a wildflower or garden escapee?

    Unfortunately not everyone is able to smell Sweet Violets-I can't. I have several cultivated varieties, and they also grow wild near me. On rare occasions I do get a brief hint, but they have the property of inhibiting our scent receptors.
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    Pearl & Dean Song

    Just a thought-you could have a listen to Dunnock song recordings as well. There is some similarity to the rythm of the Pearl and dean ads.
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    Type of bird - London

    Egyptian geese
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