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    Barbaric practices in France

    'Paris restaurant serves millionth strangled duck PARIS (Reuters) - Select guests have gathered at a top Paris restaurant to sample the one millionth duck to be snatched from grassy marshland, carefully strangled and ritually cooked with its own blood. The legendary Tour d'Argent has been...
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    Coming home

    There have been several discussions about the relative merits of public versus private transport recently, and I have no desire to add fuel to an already sensitive topic, so I will merely confine myself to my latest sighting from a train. Coming home from a weekend visiting my uncle in London...
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    The Saga of the Sardinian Warbler

    1000 Monday dawned bright and clear, and I was on my way by quarter past seven. I walked along the paths over the cliff-top farmland, it being a pleasanter walk than using the lanes, hoping for spring migrants. The usual Skylarks were singing, and Meadow Pipits fluttered around me. The tide was...
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    Migration Watch

    A slow day today in NE Norfolk - only had one Patch & Year Tick ! Still no obvious migrants around, although a couple of large flocks of Starlings (one of about three hundred birds, the other maybe half that, both flocks feeding on coastal farmland) may have been preparing to leave. Usual farm &...
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    Local Patch 17/03

    To celebrate St. Patrick's day, and also the fact I've lived here exactly six months, I had another walk round part of my local patch, ostensibly looking for migrants. None to be seen, but I did have four Year Ticks, three of which were Patch Ticks. As I was getting ready to go out, I looked...
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    Latest on Ospreys

    This was on BOU_Birdtalk this morning : 'The 2 Ospreys reported at Loch Garten on Wednesday (March 12) were NOT returning birds. I spoke to Richard Thaxton, the Loch Garten Centre manager, on the 13th and he stressed there was no sign of any around that day. His view was that they must have...
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    Local patch digiscoping

    Went out round the farm today to check for migrants - nary a thing (I counted them twice to be sure). So I decided to try digiscoping - spent about an hour with a chill winter's wind whipping round my legs, and was convinced I'd failed miserably. However, when I downloaded the images, I was...
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    Red Kite info

    Just received this e-mail - thought people might be interested. Try the Welsh Kite Trust site at http://www.gigrin.co.uk/w/index.htm for news of the Welsh Kite population and the English and Scottish Red Kite reintroduction schemes. Monitor this section of the English Nature web site...
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    Viral Seal Distemper

    Just had this as an e-mail - thought other UK members might be interested. If you're doing a bit of sea-watching or generally birding on the coast, the Institute of Zoology in London would be interested in any seal corpse sightings. They are monitoring the spread of viral seal distemper which...
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    Raptors in Collections - and escapes

    Thought this site might interest people : http://www.ibr.org.uk/birds/recent_birds.htm Tony
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    Digipix to slides

    If this question is even stupider than my usual ones, I apologise. Does anyone know of a way to turn digital images into slides for projecting to a large (50-70) audience ? If it can't be done domestically, is anyone aware of a professional company offering such a service ? Tony
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    Picture file IDs

    When I download pix from the memory card in my camera to the computer, each pic has its own unique id name. The problem comes when I've deleted the original pics on the memory card, taken some more pix, and want to download them to the same folder. The unique id is duplicated. What I have been...
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    Spring day

    Cycled home today on my 'serviced' bike - went along some lanes that I usually don't walk along, as they're a long way from my house (4-5 miles). Large numbers of singing finches (Chaffinch, Greenfinch and Goldfinch, with that funny little buzzing call in the song - most strange). Rooks were...
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    The day after that

    After the party and coach trip, the plan had been that Ruth & I would meander slowly back to Norfolk on the Monday, taking in the Ring-necked Duck on her local Duck Pond, the Bittern & Smew at Lee Valley, then Minsmere for the afternoon and finish up at Hickling for the Raptor Roost...
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    The morning after the night before

    Or - why I wasn't at the Lee Valley Bash ! The night before was a friend's fiftieth birthday party, which ended at about 1 a.m., and following which I got to bed at about 2.30 a.m. Up again at seven, to meet the coach party for our day out at Keyhaven & Pennington Marshes. We stopped at...
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    Hare coursing to be banned by Hunting Bill

    LONDON (Reuters) - It dates back to the pharoahs, was brought to Britain by the Romans and was popularised by the Victorians but the ancient sport of hare-coursing could soon disappear from the countryside under proposed new laws. So when thousands gathered in rural Great Altcar, Lancashire, on...
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    Fake crocodiles save Cyprus flamingos

    Fake crocodiles save Cyprus flamingos NICOSIA (Reuters) - Fake crocodiles are scaring away flamingos from a deadly lake in Cyprus, where some 40 birds have died from poisoning after gobbling up lead pellets. Authorities have placed large replica crocodiles in parts of a salt lake in the resort...
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    Hummer caught by Mantis

    Some of you may have already seen this on the Bird-pix Yahoo group. http://www.rlephoto.com/birds/hummer01.htm Tony
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    Unusual ringing recovery

    Eddie Chapman posted this on UKBN today - thought people might be interested. This was on a Norwegian mailing list this evening. A Redpoll sp. was caught today, and when the ringer took the bird out of the net he noticed that the bird had a ring. On closer examination it seems to be Chinese. He...
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    Bats (this is not a personal description)

    British bats are to be tested for rabies in the first study of its kind. The project to test a sample of live bats for the disease will get under way in Scotland next week. It follows the death in November of volunteer bat worker David McRae who was infected after being bitten by one. Mr...
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    Raven & Drooling

    BERLIN (Reuters) - A flock of hungry ravens have killed 19 sheep grazing on snow-covered fields in southern Germany, raising the uneasy feeling that the killer birds of Alfred Hitchcock's famous thriller "The Birds" have come alive. "There's a lot of snow in the area. The birds are hungry so...
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    Bill Oddie in Ireland

    Can any folkies on the forum tell me the music being played during this prog ? I got Stairway to Heaven, of course, and I think I recognised Cuckoo's Nest, but the rest were unfamiliar. Cheers Tony
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    Local Patch

    Had a brief stroll round part of my local patch today, on my way to and from the local cafe which has just re-opened. The amount of bird song was phenomenal - it was a warm day, and House Sparrows, Robins, Chaffinches, Collared Doves and Blue Tits were giving of their best. Out on the fields, at...
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    Gulls

    Anyone happen to have any info on a proposed publication date for this : Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America - Olsen and Larsson Last I heard it was supposed to be February. Cheers Tony PS I hope it's out by April, it's my birthday present to me.
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    Brief trip across the fields

    Had a walk today, when I went shopping - about 150 Golden Plover, 300+ Woodpigeon, 60 or so Lapwing, a dozen Skylark, very few crows for some reason, Turnstone and Knot on the shore, a roosting group of gulls (BHG, HG, CG, LBBG & GBBG), a little covey of Red-legged Partridge, and one each of...
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