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    Little Owl pellets?

    Yes the black bits are theelytra of beetles
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    Butterfly photo= Dublin in Ireland

    I agree Holly Blue, I hope you submit your records to the Irish Biodiversity Data Centre recording scheme.
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    restaurants where you can bird and eat at the same time

    I believe there's a hotel in Iceland where you can sit in the restaurant and watch the Puffins on the cliff top outside the window, they also serve Puffin on the menu. I bet it tastes like chicken.
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    First Butterflies 2024

    My first Orange Tip and Holly Blue in the garden (S. Hants) on 16/04 this week. Then both again on 18/04 and a Hummingbird Hawkmoth. First Small White on 19/04.
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    Larks of the World

    They're probably just larking around...
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    First Butterflies 2024

    My first Speckled Wood in S. Hants today 24/03 and two each Bombus lapidarius and Bombus pascuorum queens about a month earlier than I'm used to as well as a female Andrea fulva, also a bit early and a few Bombylius major. I guess the Holly Blues will be out soon.
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    Hawk Question

    yes absolutely. you're providing a bird feeding station so where's the problem?
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    donating binoculars

    How about donating some to a local hospice?
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    First Butterflies 2024

    Two Peacocks territorial fighting in the S.Hants garden and a single Comma on Weds 20/03 while I sat in the garden having lunch20/03. Also seen plenty more Brimstone this week and my first Bombus lucorum/terrestris worker.
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    Any point putting out niger seed?

    Some years ago after having never had Goldfinches on my feeders I put one out filled with niger seed, within twenty minutes two Goldfinches arrived to feed on the niger, they became regular visitors after that, so try it and see. Good luck
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    How's Your 2024 List Going?

    Mine is now at 100 with Sand Martin on Friday, and all done on foot.
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    Nature's Home magazine

    I was surprised to read in magazine in my local GP's waiting room that the Berlin Olympics were being cancelled.. who'd a thought it?
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    First Butterflies 2024

    Brimstones and Red Admirals in my south Hants garden last week w/b 04/03 and my first Marmalde Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on 8th March along with another local Adder, male this time.
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    What are the most interesting wildlife that you've seen in YOUR HOUSE?

    Stag beetles regularly come into my house when I have the windows open at night in early summer. Also had the odd Western Conifer Seedbug too over the years later in the season. Always nice to see, Last year I found the scarce hoverfly Volucella inflata in the conservatory, closely followed by...
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    Helm Identification Guides - What Next ?

    For parrot illustrations you still can't beat Edward Lears' magnificent book , even though it's long out of date.
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    Large insect Fuerteventura

    definitely an orthopteran
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    First Butterflies 2024

    Brimstone in my south Hampshire garden on 15/02, also two Melangyna lasiopthalma hoverflies and locally my first Adder of the year on 16/02.
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    Today in Norfolk UK.

    It's a Cormorant.
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    First Butterflies 2024

    Red Admiral in south Hampshire on Friday 2nd Feb, moments later my first nest prospecting queen Bombus terrestris of the year
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    Bird ID needed for small bird in rural Somerset, UK

    Fieldfare
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    ID help - Whinchat?

    Yes it is and very nice too.
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    West Runton, Norfolk, United Kingdom

    Grey Plover
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    John's Mammals 2024

    You probably could have seen a beaver then..
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    Put me out of my misery please

    female Blackbird
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    North Sea Thread

    I've got a Peregrine pellet which contains two leg bones with racing pigeon rings still attached, it was collected from the vicinity of a Peregrine nest some years back, there were a number of others there also with racing pigeon rings in but these were collected and later lost by the site...
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