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Peregrine?
Thanks all - it was circling repeatedly and swooping over grassland (which feels quite a hobbyist behaviour to me). Apparently put the wind up a while host of resident birds including some quite big ones like pigeons. We do have resident peregrines but can’t recall seeing one with this kind of...- Isurus
- Post #7
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Peregrine?
I’ve just been sent this by my wife. Im assuming peregrine but it’s been a long time since I saw a hobby, it looks very red and I know a lot of you will do this ID with your eyes closed. Guernsey in the Channel Islands- Isurus
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Canary Islands virgins!
Probably not helpful for you Scridifer but seeing this post made me realise I never posted a trip report for Lanzarote last year. I was holidaying with family (inc two toddlers so birding) was not a priority to the extent we didn't even have bins but having got there and remembered houbara was a...- Isurus
- Post #44
- Forum: Information Wanted
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New York warbler
Apologies these are iPhone shots of something hopping round Bryant park this morning; I’m rubbish with us warblers but can’t place this one...is it yellowthroated male? It seemed to have a darker cap. https://flic.kr/p/2c75g79 https://flic.kr/p/2c75g6h https://flic.kr/p/2aMMHUv...- Isurus
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John's Mammals 2018
I missed the BNW, spent hours questing for it into the darkness on Friday, gave up and went for a kebab and then spent the weekend watching on tv as thousands saw it whilst I recovered from the effects of said kebab. -
John's Mammals 2018
good luck to anyone going for the beluga. If you have a chance to ask it to stick around for a couple of weeks please do! -
Garden Tick Rules
Well they're definitely not as prevalent as they were in BVI (where I like to think of them as an accidental rewilding substitute for de Booy's rail). We don't have so so many but there are a few little colonies that have appeared. Most of them are males (unsurprisingly) but a few hens around...- Isurus
- Post #54
- Forum: Lists & Members Yearly Lists
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Garden Tick Rules
Realise this is well old but since its resurfaced I have continued to apply "Fugl's Law" as regards things which could have been seen from the garden but weren't (only current difference is Osprey) - stops one "needing" to turn round and go back up the drive in a rush when something good flies...- Isurus
- Post #52
- Forum: Lists & Members Yearly Lists
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Birding Obituary: Audrey Dixon 13 April 1933 to 10 July 2018
So sorry for your loss but at the same time glad for your shared time together John.- Isurus
- Post #10
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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John's Mammals 2018
Guernsey list for the year.... - Bottlenose dolphin - Grey Seal - House Mouse - Wood Mouse - Guernsey Vole - Greater White-toothed shrew - Hedgehog I've not had a ferret yet this year but they are (unfortunately) around the orchard at the moment. Here's a video of GWTS I took earlier in the... -
St Thomas Island, Aug 2017
This is feral green iguana. There are, to my knowledge, none of the native VI Ground Iguana in any of the USVI but here is is one from Guana Island in BVI https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3601/3324349944_0872edeaa3.jpg- Isurus
- Post #3
- Forum: Reptiles and Amphibians
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John's Mammals 2015
Checking in on birdforum for the first time in a long time and seeing this reminded me that I've never posted our pantanal trip report. We got much of the above without the ocelots but did get both otters and fluke giant armadillo on the drive back to the airport down the trans-pantanerio. The... -
John's Mammals 2015
Time almost halfway through the year for me to make a belated entry into this year's mammals thread. The reason for my late arrival is that per the official rules of mammal listing laid down either here or mammalwatching some time ago I can now tick human having seen one in its new... -
Nest boxes on sticks - in the UK
I am in the process of developing an orchard. At the moment, it is full of trees of varying sizes but mostly quite small. At the moment I don't have anything big enough to nail or otherwise attach a nest box too. In time, as the trees grow, I'm not particularly inclined to hammer nails or...- Isurus
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- Forum: Garden Birds, Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
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John's Mammals 2014
Flew over to Southampton on Friday night for some mainland wildlife watching for the better half's birthday. Driving out towards wareham we quickly scored plenty of rabbits as well as brown rat, a single roe deer and a particularly fine herd of English longhorn cattle. After a night in a... -
John's Mammals 2014
Thanks John - we've done Arne previously but I think we'll give it another crack as I fancy attacking Arne/Bournmouth/Parley common to try for a sweep of the reptiles. Blandford Forum seems like it's so close it'd be rude not to! -
Mediterranean Monk Seal
Lebanon used to also be the best place in the world for small-tooth sandtiger shark (not heard current gen) - could make for a truly unique aquatic double twitch http://www.nisd-online.com/article-101506-TalesAndDivesInLebanon.htm -
John's Mammals 2014
The RSPB reserves web-sites are particularly poor. What makes it particularly frustrating are the number of good personal blogs being run by reserve managers/regular patchers that aren't easy to find and could easily be applied direct to a site. On a more cheery note I'm taking the better half... -
large owl, central marrakech
oops. that's a sharp lesson in mistaking size - I never even considered tawny on the basis I thought it was far too big.|8(|- Isurus
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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large owl, central marrakech
my girlfriend found this absolute beast sat atop a tree in, of all places, Le Jardin Marjorelle in the middle of Marrakech. Pharaoh Eagle Owl? https://www.flickr.com/photos/deep-blue/14180461493/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/deep-blue/13973740568/in/photostream/- Isurus
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Don't Panic Mr Mainwaring!
If you think Lydia's off course go here: http://www.ocearch.org/#SharkTracker and check out where poor Rezillient the mako is currently pinging from!- Isurus
- Post #9
- Forum: Cetaceans & Marine Life
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John's Mammals 2014
That's not helping Martyn! I worked what looked like really spot on habitat for about 3 hours sunday - no dice. -
John's Mammals 2014
Quick jaunt through new forest on the weekend. Depressing failure to find Adder but did get fallow deer near Boldrewood and Red and Fallow Deer out at the usual spot near Rhinefield. -
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John's Mammals 2014
Flew over for a quick mammaling tour of the fenlands this weekend. Landed in Gatwick friday evening, picked up a rental car and headed up to Cambridge. Nothing doing on the motorway up but we made decent time, got to our room and hit the hay ready for an early start. On the road by 0615 we soon...