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    Sparrow Numbers on the rise at feeders

    Results from the BTO Garden Birdwatch scheme suggest sparrows of both species are increasingly using garden feeders. http://bit.ly/1MdnN8V
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    Free Feeder Offer

    I see the National Trust wild bird food site is offering a free feeder on all orders over £30 until end of May see here. They have also reduced their prices for Spring so all their mixes are £17.95 for 12.75kg
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    Sparrowhawks and House Sparrows

    New study of 40 years of data suggests either Sparrowhawks may impact on House Sparrow visits to garden feeders or may influence behaviour in relation to them. http://bit.ly/1NO0mmh
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    Help Farmland Birds Through the Hungry Gap

    This week sees teh start of the 'hungry gap' for many finches and buntings as early ploughing of fields starts. You can help some birds make it through the hungry gap with supplementary feeding either in the garden or dropping small quantities of seed as you walk in the country. More about the...
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    Red Kites and Urban Gardens

    Surveys of garden feeding in Reading have revealed the reason for the high numbers of Red Kites in the city see here but is it a good thing, simply replicating their urban roots of the Middle Ages or should we be discouraging garden feeding?
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    Female Great Tits Have Better Memories

    According to new Swedish research female Great Tits have better memories than males and they make better thieves! full story
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    TRees attract birds to feed on larvae by smell

    New Dutch research suggests trees give off chemicals to alert birds to larvae infestations. http://bit.ly/1vj3mes
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    Crows and Magpies Off the Hook on declining Bird Populations

    New study points to crows, magpies and corvids generally not being responsible for declining bird populations (common sense) and raises questions about the continued removal of them across Britain, read here and full study here.
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    Offers on New National Trust Bird Food site

    The new National Trust wild bird food website (wildlifehabits.co.uk) has various offers on at the moment. If you're a National Trust member and get the monthly email newsletter there will be a 10% off discount code in the January edition. For non-National Trust Members the site is currently...
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    City Blackbirds stay up later?

    New study suggests Blackbirds in cities tend to feed later and longer due to artificial lights - http://wildlifehabits.co.uk/blackbirds-adopt-a-city-lifestyle/
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    Great Tits Copy Feeding Habits

    Interesting study on Great Tits and copycat behaviour at http://bit.ly/1AeZMFk
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    The End for Netfugl?

    From the excellent Danish website Netfugl: "After over 12 years of Netfugl it has been decided that it is time to start the decommissioning of the site 1 January 2014. Since there eventually is a very large amount of information on the page , it is not something we just do from one day to the...
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    National Wildlife Crime Unit Facing Possible Funding Cut

    See the story in today's Independent. I'd urge everyone to write to their MP and ask them to sign the Early Day Motion calling on the government to maintain the unit's funding and to email or tweet the Home Office asking them to do same.
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    Game & Fishing Orgs Call For Cormorant & Goosander Culls

    An array of game & fishing groups have aligned together with a call for Cormorants & Goosanders to be added to The General Licence allowing them to be treated as pest species and controlled without licences see here.
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    DEFRA Funded Trial of Buzzard Management

    As some may have seen news came out today of a DEFRA funded Buzzard Management Trial to test methods of reducing alleged predation on Pheasant poults. One of the management techniques they propose to use taxpayers money (up to £375k) to test is nest destruction. This in my view is abhorrent and...
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    Aerial Assassins - National Geographic Wild TV 14th February 21:00

    National Geographic WILD TV network will debut Aerial Assassins, hosted by James Currie, in the UK on NEXT TUESDAY, 14th February at 21:00. The new hour-long show delves into the Sonoran Desert to track Harris Hawks and attempts to film these amazing creatures in one of their cooperative hunts...
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    Grist to the Anti-raptor Mill

    This link in the Daily Mail today will no doubt stir up the anti-raptor lobby. Obviously it could be photoshopped, it offers no new information, we all know Eagles will take weak or dead lambs and if it is genuine was the lamb dead before the Eagle took it? I find the explanation of anonymity...
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    EL50's or Extremadura

    Anyone thinking of parting with large bundles of cash for either the new EL50's or a bit of birding in Extremadura could do worse than check out these links http://www.talking-naturally.co.uk/extremadura-new-swarovski-el50-swarovisions/...
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    New Conservation Podcasts

    For those with an interest in conservation Charlie Moores of 1000obirds has launched a new series of conservation podcasts at www.talking-naturally.co.uk Well worth a listen.
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    New Government Withdraws Game Bird Code of Practice

    I noticed this story in the Independent today http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/gun-lobby-persuades-government-to-kill-off-game-bird-welfare-law-2018393.html Whilst it immediately raises concerns that what appeared sensible proposals in terms of inspection frequency...
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    Juvenile Gull ID -UK

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    Gull, North Sea.

    Couple of images of a gull from the UK side of the North Sea a few days ago. Would be interested in comments. Apologies shots are not the greatest quality. Maybe it helps if I pin my colours to the mast. I started off thinking it might be YLG but I've come to the conclusion it's a LBBG...
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    The Darter

    As there seems to be lots of interest in various insects including Dragonflies & Damselflies I thought I'd let everyone know about a new weblog just starting up that's 'open access,' essentially anyone can request to become an author and post sightings, images, site information, breeding records...
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    Med Gull Now Breeding in Northumberland.

    News has been released today confirming that Med Gull is the latest species to be breeding in Northumberland. Details at http://birdneast.blogspot.com/2009/07/med-gull-first-northumberland-breeding.html
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    Bottle-Nosed Dolphins off Northumberland

    There have been a number of recent sightings of Bottle-Nosed Dolphin in waters off Northumberland in the last two weeks ranging from Budle Bay in the North to Newbiggin in the South. All sightings refer to a pod of about eight dolphins including at least one small calf. Last sighting was 06:45...
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