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  1. cafe birder

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    Variable damselfly, Westhay reserve Somerset today
  2. cafe birder

    Gordano Valley, Bristol today chiffchaff

    I had a dark brown Chiffchaff giving these calls during my butterfly transect walk today. Unable to get a picture but regular tail dipping. Presumably a standard collybita but I don't recall hearing these seeps and a sweeoo in spring before. Didnt sound insistent enough for Siberian to me , but...
  3. cafe birder

    Variegated Meadowhawk Pinnacles NP, California?

    Hi Steve, as I'm not good with NA dragons so here the pages from Dunkles: Dragonflies through binoculars, in case you don't have it. The pictures seem to match your specimen but don't photograph well Regards Howard
  4. cafe birder

    Paul's 2024 World List

    487 oriental pratincole already. More sleep required ?
  5. cafe birder

    dragonfly cape verde

    Thanks. That's what I had originally labelled it as but reviewing the pictures I thought the pattern under the abdomen and the pterostigmata were wrong. However glad to have a better informed id. That and wandering glider were my two most wanted odonata and I saw plenty of the latter at Mindelo...
  6. cafe birder

    dragonfly cape verde

    going through my photos from last weeks trip to Santo Antao, I realise I'm not sure about this one. Is it a wandering Glider Pantala flavescens ?
  7. cafe birder

    Blue on Cape Verde

    Thanks Jos, Failed to find the endemic blue sadly but enjoyed what we saw, esp the odonata with my 2 most wanted seen frequently.
  8. cafe birder

    Blue on Cape Verde

    I think this might be thorntree blue Azanus moriquae but would like someone more knowledgeable to confirm or correct please. Taken on Sao Vicente this week. Regards Howard Made a nice change from yet another Fea's Petrel :)
  9. cafe birder

    Comment by 'cafe birder' in media 'Monarch Female'

    Lovely picture but I think it might be a Viceroy rather than a Monarch
  10. cafe birder

    North Macedonia - Water or Tawny Pipit?

    While the colours make it look like an obvious water pipit the long tail, apparently well marked moustachial/malar stripes and especially the distinctive dark centred coverts all tip me towards Tawny.
  11. cafe birder

    Help using ebird offline

    Thanks. I did understand that. I was merely pointing out my own incompetence in trying it the other way a week ago before asking fo the , clearly needed, help
  12. cafe birder

    Help using ebird offline

    Many thanks for all the help from all the replies. I had downloaded the USA pack but trying it in the UK was not working. Presumably as I was on the wrong continent. Will try the various suggestions later today. Thanks also for the Google maps idea Regards Howard
  13. cafe birder

    Help using ebird offline

    I am about to go on a holiday and want to use ebird in the States on my mobile as I do in the UK. However to avoid excessive roaming charges I would like to use it offline and only connect up in my accomodation. I cannot find any way of starting an offline checklist on my android app despite...
  14. cafe birder

    What souvenirs do you keep from foreign trips?

    Thanks Andy, I've not looked much into trilobite taxonomy since my first zoology degree, and only took Geology at undergraduate level ; so I'm always willing to learn from an expert.
  15. cafe birder

    What souvenirs do you keep from foreign trips?

    I don't usually bring back anything. However, having watched a David Attenborough programme on trilobites, I could not resist buying one on a Morocco trip
  16. cafe birder

    Mystery call in Forest of Dean

    It's just possible that this is a corvid of some kind. Possibly Raven. I've heard them give a range of very weird calls including bell-like ones
  17. cafe birder

    Bird and butterfly guide (book) for Uganda

    PS I used the Helm guide to the birds of East Africa as my up to date field guide on that trip
  18. cafe birder

    Bird and butterfly guide (book) for Uganda

    An introduction to the butterflies of Uganda by Roger Waigh and Johnnie Kamugisha. Published in UK in 2018 by Choir Press. It's not comprehensive at all but a good field guide to the commoner species with c200 illustrated (out of 1200 recorded). It was easily good enough for my 10 day visit a...
  19. cafe birder

    East of Scotland Basking Sharks

    Aberdeen University pioneered the tagging of basking sharks in the late 70s and may well still be researching their movements so I would start with them
  20. cafe birder

    Eastern Ontario, yellow warbler?

    As someone fairly inexperienced in the wood warblers I would suspect Nashville because of the eye ring. Is this a trick of the light caused by the angle of the photograph please?
  21. cafe birder

    Fuerteventura & Lanzarote

    The ferry from Fuert to Gran Canaria produced plenty of Bulwers when I did it a few years ago. With a scope far more would be possible too as it's a big ship so rock steady.
  22. cafe birder

    Pelagic feeding frenzy Croatia

    Yelkouan and balearic probably now lumped again as Mediterranean shearwater making Eastern med a simpler place Steve Regards Howard
  23. cafe birder

    Never heard this call before - UK

    I ran it through merlin which said blackcap. It also said Caroline chickadee at one point but that was the only extralimital species it mentioned . Otherwise it picked up blackbird, wren great tit and other expected birds from the recording
  24. cafe birder

    Songs and calls, Warsaw (Poland), today

    There is what sounds like a Common Rosefinch at the start of the tawny pipit labelled call. Often transcribed as "pleased to see you" ie 4 notes this can often be shortened by some birds
  25. cafe birder

    Never heard this call before - UK

    Could well be Lesser Whitethroat subsong. Have a listen to that species recordings on xenocanto labelled subsong
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