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    Polish webcam near lake Solina

    https://youtube.com/@solinskieptakiiinnezwierza8448?si=LPAfh9VBisKtYK1p Apologies if this has been posted before. Some interesting stuff visiting, both day and night, plus the extensive archive is useful for catch up. The long-tailed tits are mostly the stunning whiteheaded form but there's...
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    Bat ID SW Wales

    This little guy fell on my foot just now when I opened the shed door. Tried to measure it but it's a bit hunched up and I didn't want to stress it out - at least 60mm head to tail. SW Wales, wooded river valley. Just realised it would have been much more useful to measure the forearm length -...
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    Hoopoe breeds at undisclosed site in Leicestershire

    https://www.birdguides.com/news/hoopoe-breeds-in-leicestershire/
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    Spotted on Google Earth

    Opposite Carmarthen railway station. Paid a visit a couple of days ago and it’s still there 😉
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    Coal tits nesting in a ditch

    Last week I noticed a Coal tit fly down into a ditch with a beak full of food - at first I thought maybe it was feeding a chick which had strayed there. Over the next 20 mins or so both birds visited the same spot numerous times and getting a little closer I could hear the nestlings calling as...
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    Bonkers Balsam!

    From tiny seed to these monsters in one season - thicker than my wrist and about 9 feet tall - scary!
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    Anyone seen willow tits visiting feeders?

    We have a pair of willow tits visiting our garden and I want to try and boost their chances of survival by supplementary feeding. They stubbornly refuse to visit our feeding station by the house so I figured I’d try feeding them in the area they seem to prefer. I’ve never seen willow tits...
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    Squirrel-proof feeding station

    Here’s our squirrel exclusion zone - which actually works! It’s made from 3mm steel mesh, curiously the sizes (apart from the gauge) are in inches, so the top, bottom and back are made from 2” x 1” mesh while the sides and front are fabricated by me so that the biggest gaps are 2”x 30mm. There...
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    I hope I'm wrong!

    Found this on my neighbours land - reminds me of Japanese Knotweed - any ideas?
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    Damselfly i.d.

    On a very warm afternoon last week we were sitting by the pond when I noticed several small damselflies had appeared. I should have paid more attention, but to be honest I was half asleep in the sun! Having looked through Steve Brooks guide I’m now a bit confused. They were very pale - I would...
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    Sparrowhawk Goshawk size comparison

    While checking out video footage from the Yorkshire Pine Marten Project I noticed this comparison approximately 2 minutes in. I’ve attached a couple of screen grabs. Looks like the forest was so dark that the footage is filmed in IR mode. I think the Goshawk is a juvenile (female?), any ideas...
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    Fungi Carmarthenshire

    Could someone id this for me please :t:
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    Pigeon Wars

    I recently found myself next to the infamous Copper Beech in Bristol which was in the news briefly last year and was the subject of this thread. https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=354809 Despite the huge number (50,000+) of people who petitioned to have the spikes removed they're still...
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    A funny thing happened in Newcastle Emlyn

    Went to visit a couple of elderly friends today and they mentioned that during the snow earlier this year they had a couple of unusual birds visiting their garden. I was not too surprised when they mentioned Bullfinch and Redwing but when they said they had a pair of Broad-billed Sandpipers over...
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    Excellent Swarovski service

    In a moment of inattention (which still haunts me!) I recently dropped my new EL 8.5x42s onto a tiled floor. I might have got away with it but they landed objective end down at an angle and bent the bit that projects beyond the objective on one side quite badly. These were a surprise present...
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    Help needed with DIY field recorder

    My field recorder continues to surprise me with some great recordings but I've got a few issues I'd like to sort out. I've hooked up the recorder to a powerbank (for charging mobile phones) with the idea that it should run for 2 or 3 days and nights unattended. I like the idea of the...
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    Sing like a bird!

    I've been doing a bit of amateur research into vision and hearing in birds and came across this which I found quite fascinating. Basically the way it works is to take a sound recording of a bird's song and slow it down 20 or 30 times at which point it somewhat resembles the human voice. Then...
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    Best current field guide for Southern India (Kerala)

    Some of my family are off on a botanical tour to Kerala in October and want to take a good field guide to the birds with them. There seem to be (at least) four candidates. The Collins Birds of India -Arlott http://amzn.eu/hPeSRFp Which is also available in a Kindle format - anyone have any...
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    Tonn the GSE arrives in Spain

    The celebrated Spotted Eagle Tonn arrived at his wintering grounds El Hondo in Spain on 17th December 2017 for the tenth year having travelled nearly 4800kms from Estonia. http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/en http://www.finesystem.co.uk/birdwatchingcostablanca/sightings.html But he's more than three...
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    New record of Jackal for France

    A Golden Jackal in the French Alps is being reported as a new species for France. une nouvelle espèce de mammifère a été contactée en France, en Haute-Savoie, récemment: le Chacal doré http://www.ledauphine.com/insolite/2017/12/14/le-chacal-dore-observe-pour-la-premiere-fois-en-france...
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    Scops or not? Solved!

    Back in October I recorded a couple of nocturnal calls - one of which was of particular interest. http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=352221 And here:- http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=351700 I gave up on ever satisfactorily identifying it and was prepared to just put it...
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    Nocturnal call Dec. 2017 Limousin, France

    Any ideas? Had a lot of weird Tawny Owl calls but I've not recorded anything quite like this before so not really sure what it is.
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    Nocturnal call France

    I posted this elsewhere but it's probably better here in the I.D. forum I know what this sounds like - but I'd like to hear what others think Here's the spectrogram Last night around 10 p.m.
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    Sounds from the Night Garden

    Voices from the Night Garden Things are slowing down a bit now with the colder weather but still getting some interesting stuff Here's some Cranes from the night before last, about 9 seconds in there's a young bird giving their little squeak - and a couple more faint ones further on.
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    Microphone for home-made field recorder

    I've got the nocturnal passive recording bug and want to leave my recorder (Tascam DR-05) out in the field at some remote places locally. I'm worried about exposure to the elements so I intend to seal it in a sandwich box type container with a power bank and dessicant pack. The problem is...
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