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  1. Big Phil

    Vanderpoel Hits 650

    Won't the Hooded Crane be uncountable for the big year as not on ABA list at the time? Didn't Komito also see 3 such species which would make his big year 748 if they are counted? Confused! A great effort and compulsive reading whatever the outcome!
  2. Big Phil

    Luz St Sauveur - 2012

    I think forum member 'rosbifs' lives round there...
  3. Big Phil

    ? migrating spoonbills - Barns Ness, East Lothian, Scotland

    There have been three on the Montrose Basin, Angus lately. The same birds?
  4. Big Phil

    emperor penguin on NewZealand mainland

    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news-in-pictures/news-briefly/lost-penguin-a-symbol-of-the-remarkable-stupidity-of-animals-201106213976/ ;-)
  5. Big Phil

    UK - Pipit ssp

    Has the look of the wily Dunnock to me ;-).
  6. Big Phil

    Nightingales - help needed!

    I wouldn't claim to be an expert at all, but I did have a great local patch for Nightingales in the 90s... When Nightingales stop singing you can still detect them if you know their calls...listen out for a somewhat frog like croak as you walk through areas which earlier held singing males. If...
  7. Big Phil

    "Surprise" at Disappointing Windfarm Results

    For me the biggest problem with nuclear power isn't the danger of operating the installations, it's the as yet inadequately resolved issue of disposing of the waste, which will effectively be with us for ever...
  8. Big Phil

    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Anyone know about this (from birdguides): 21:45 11/04/11 White Stork Aberdeenshire Banchory reported in Tesco car park Cheers, Phil
  9. Big Phil

    "Surprise" at Disappointing Windfarm Results

    Hydrogen is a nice clean fuel, but you need to produce it first...and that's the problem. As I understand it the only really viable industrial scale methods are to create hydrogen from gas/oil or by electrolysis of water (requiring lots of electricity). So, to produce green hydrogen you will...
  10. Big Phil

    Spain Mid May

    I'd guess so, my only experience of the species was singing birds at La Lomanza on 15/16 May some years back.
  11. Big Phil

    Lesser black backed or Cape gull? Angola

    Do LBB get that far south? 3 adult Kelp Gulls were my only large gulls when I worked offshore Congo/Angola in 1997.
  12. Big Phil

    Mountain Hares from the car

    Hi Marcus, They certainly get on the road along Glenshee (A93) - one time I walked along this road in early May and was stunned by the amount of road casualties :-(. Another place I've seen them from the car is the Lecht road (A939). Cheers, Phil
  13. Big Phil

    BBC Twitching Documentary

    Mines and Quarries 1954 act? I think the owner is obliged to exclude the public from a site coming under this act?
  14. Big Phil

    How do I get rid of my ISP?

    I had a similar problem with Tiscali. I cancelled my broadband with them after 12 months. They provided me with the MAC code and I changed over to Sky (who incidentally are very good, to my complete surprise!). Meanwhile Tiscali continued to charge my credit card. I repeatedly rang them and...
  15. Big Phil

    Seeing in ptarmigan outside Caingorm

    Just about anything that goes above 900m has them in the Grampians. One of my favourites is Bynack More near Aviemore as walked from Glenmore Lodge via the beautiful Ryvoan Pass and its amazing green coloured fairy loch. Normally we see Crested Tits in the woods on the way before getting out on...
  16. Big Phil

    Bird call flying over at night, UK

    Redwing?
  17. Big Phil

    Aythya x Anas hybrid

    I still cant see anything that precludes an immature scaup! The pale ear covert patch, pale patch at bill base, head shape, described size etc points this way. I can't see enough bill detail to rule out a hybrid with another Aythya, mind... The Anas theory is, to me, bizarre. Can anyone...
  18. Big Phil

    Aythya x Anas hybrid

    Looks like a (Greater) Scaup to me Lars!
  19. Big Phil

    UK - Gull one legged and ringed!

    Looks like a 2nd winter Med Gull.
  20. Big Phil

    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Legend - sadly missed. I loved his balsawood IBW photo - pure genius.
  21. Big Phil

    Mystery plover

    Looks like some type of lapwing to me. Crowned?
  22. Big Phil

    Ruddy Shelduck (UK Thread)

    Not really, fella. I was really just pointing out the inaccuracy in your statement 'resulted in a relatively large bunch of records in Britain' - it didn't. As regards West vs East Side, it's surprising that an 'invasion' (i.e. multiple birds) originating in Scandinavia (or elsewhere in Europe)...
  23. Big Phil

    Ruddy Shelduck (UK Thread)

    As I recall one of the main reasons none of the 1994 birds were accepted because there weren't actually any more records then previous years - just a couple of large flocks that attracted mass attention. I don't think anyone denies that there could well have been wild birds in the UK that...
  24. Big Phil

    In Search of the Holy Quail

    Mark Riley is more famous for being 'The Hapless Boy Lard'.
  25. Big Phil

    Cairngorm National Park Birds?

    It's hideously expensive!!!
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