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  1. Bill@dwp

    Lowepro Scope Photo Travel 350 AW bag

    We never seem to review in any detail the sundry items we acquire as birders. There are lots of opinions about bins, scopes and now camera’s and then I suppose waterproofs. After that tripods maybe but seldom do we consider a bag. We seem more than happy to spend many hundreds on all of that...
  2. Bill@dwp

    Farne Isles

    Went there last Thursday. What can i say?? Its a must for everyone in terms of what you can see and how you see them. even getting pecked on the head by the Terns is brilliant. I normally go to Anglesey for my sea cliff birding fix but no disrespect to Anglesey but this is better. If you...
  3. Bill@dwp

    Controlling ants with chemicals and the effect of insect eating birds in the US

    Now before you all start shouting at me, this isnt me and i am asking for an american friend of mine. i can guess that her ant problems are on a different scale to the birtish species we have so I can understand her desire to control them if she can. She tells me she wants to put down something...
  4. Bill@dwp

    Bullfinch behaviour

    I am more accustomed to seeing bullfinches around feeders and its only recently that I have seen them anywhere else. Last week I came across a male and female in a tree. The female wasn't doing much other than sitting there but the male was far more animated and doing that quiet warble they...
  5. Bill@dwp

    ID Required on African species (Ghana) - anyone help?

    Apologies in advance as this is a second hand description. My daughters boyfriend has just returned from Ghana where he is reasonably familiar with the local birds to where his family lives but this visit he saw a new bird that they can't find in their bird book (its quite an old one and...
  6. Bill@dwp

    Do you need to change the position of your feeders in winter?

    I'm not blessed with a sunny garden, I think its something like NNE in direction so in the winter the sun isnt getting very high and with the surrounding houses it hardly touches us. In the summer the birds are eating me out of house and home but this year like previous ones we get visits from...
  7. Bill@dwp

    Liverpool RSPB?

    Anyone got a link to their web page? I have this http://www.livbird.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ but error message saying access is forbidden. I suppose they could have made the site restricted access but that link above is everywhere else (Fat Birder, RSPB, and other local birding web site links.) I...
  8. Bill@dwp

    How do you plan for the weather?

    I've managed to wangle a day off work to spend birding and what I want to do is have a few hours around the fields near a local nature reserve and then go to WWT Martin Mere. Which day to pick? Well at the weekend it looked like Thursday or Friday looked good so I plumped for Thursday as I...
  9. Bill@dwp

    Seed spillage

    Although it is inevitable that spilt seed will start to grow where it can has anyone got a quick fix to get rid of the masses of seedlings I have from the nyger feeder. It's all fell and sprouted into a gravelled area and I seem to be pulling up as much gravel as seedling. I dont wanted to use...
  10. Bill@dwp

    Bald Eagle in the North west???

    Local BBC News reported on evening bulletin and breakfast bulletin about numerous sightings of a bald eagle in the Rochdale area. No pictures and I can't find any reference to the story on the BBC web pages. No bird reports of a bald eagle anywhere (not surprisingly). Some folk were...
  11. Bill@dwp

    Monster from the deep at Martin Mere???

    :news: A friend told me he saw a programme the other night on TV about a huge catfish that is taking ducks on the main lake at Martin Mere. I didn't see the programme so I thought I'd post here to find out more. I know last year or maybe even the year before it was publicised that something...
  12. Bill@dwp

    It's more confirmation I'm after

    My daughter and I visited Pennington Flash yesterday. I was telling her about one time I visited and had a lesser Scaup pointed out to me in amongst dozens of Tufties. She asked me what they looked like and we ended up looking at the guide. Anyway that got us looking at the entry for Scaup so...
  13. Bill@dwp

    South Stack, Anglesey

    My daughter and I have planned this for a few weeks so we could see the Puffins so the threat of rain wasn't going to deter us. As it turned out it was dry whilst we were there but rained whilst driving so can't complain about that. First visit to South Stack and I think it was worth it. Never...
  14. Bill@dwp

    Grasmere Lake, Grasmere Village, Cumbria

    Mothers day out. Grasmere Lake, Cumbria The kids wanted to treat the wife and as she likes Grasmere village so we thought we'd go there have lunch and a stroll. Used to go to this little cafe in the village called the Coffee Bean but it seems to have changed hands and is now called Miller...
  15. Bill@dwp

    Need help on this one, sorry its a little vague

    This is on behalf of my daughter whose quite good normally but has us both baffled on this one. On valentines day she was travelling by bus to Grasmere. From the bus she saw in a field a bird we cant ID. She describes it as blackbird/thrush size and having the same characteristics in movement...
  16. Bill@dwp

    Snow Goose or not

    I was at WWT Martin Mere on Monday and saw 4 white geese in amongst the Pinkfeet. I was actually looking for the White Front I'm not that confident to claim a tick unless I was sure so would appreciate some validation. The first bird I saw was the same size as the pink feet and had a few dark...
  17. Bill@dwp

    Weasel behaviour

    Yesterday I saw what I thought was weird behaviour but someone else in the hide thought was a hunting technique. The weasel came out into the open and had what I would have described as "blue fit". I thought it was actually chasing something at first but then started jumping in the air, turning...
  18. Bill@dwp

    Hello

    I am new to this forum, this is my first posting here, and on first impression it certainly seems to be a lot friendlier place than other discussion group's I've visited in the past. I cant say I'm an expert birder, only had a scope and a decent pair of bins for a couple of years now, but...
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