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  1. dantheman

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    That's a bit of a weird sounding cuckoo - sounds like it's got a bit of a frog in its throat!
  2. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦅 #727: 🟥🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/
  3. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    A bust today.
  4. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦢 #725: 🟥🟨🟥🟨🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ Messed up a bit today. Was sure we'd already had it.
  5. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦅 #724: 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/
  6. dantheman

    Aurora borealis/Northern Lights

    I got pretty excited about my first glacier ... with birders being out and about there is a lot of crossover to the whole natural world - guess that includes geography and various sciences etc Cloudy last night here unfortunately. Did wake up and look out about 3am, there was high flecking...
  7. dantheman

    May Moths

    Has there been a bit of a Silver Y influx? One in my garden too today, with another 3 in a 50m stretch up at my place. Also a Small Yellow Underwing, smart little thing, a dayflyer.
  8. dantheman

    Aurora borealis/Northern Lights

    Good show on Friday night, less so last night (but still a strong luminescent greenish glow in the sky before midnight and again before dawn when I checked (Cornwall)) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglv53402mko Apparently still a good likelihood tonight and Monday night (12th/13th May)
  9. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦉 #723: 🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/
  10. dantheman

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    I had a John Wyndham moment about half an hour in while looking out of the velux window ... The sky started off as a luminous green to the north when I went out about 11, I was wondering if I was imagining it and there was major works on the A30 10 miles to the north. Later on deep magenta...
  11. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦃 #721: 🟥🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/
  12. dantheman

    Brown Booby may get split - an issue for British listers?

    Aren't they more similar in numbers though? Only an order of magnitude difference (of specifically id'ed birds, loads non-specific, either before criteria or id unable to be made), and either could conceivably turn up depending on circumstances. Whereas there have been 3 (known) Taiga Fly in...
  13. dantheman

    Brown Booby may get split - an issue for British listers?

    The analogy should be with 2 rarities surely (as already mentioned), one considerably rarer than the other ... eg Red-breated and Taiga Flycatcher?? Can be checked, generally, but not always? Seabirds are known to wander, so can't be ruled out. But surely pragmatism should rule - if there are...
  14. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦆 #711: 🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ I'm still doing this, just not every day, and generally varying between lucky guesses and failing miserably ... ;-)
  15. dantheman

    Blackcap and garden warbler

    I was already confused by about post 5 or 6 when it became apparent there were about 3 species of Garden Warbler out there ... (that or everyone is using different dictionaries for their definitions of words.)
  16. dantheman

    Female chest friendly binocular harness recommendations?

    Internal binoculars - do away with straps altogether! ;-)
  17. dantheman

    First Butterflies 2024

    That's global warming for you ... ;-) We had 10 days or so of nice weather down here in Cornwall, but I still didn't see many butterflies in that period. Back to winter again here now (but that's probably only relative, compared to up north).
  18. dantheman

    Blackcap and garden warbler

    Hmmm ... I don't really recall either being that harsh or scratchy ... ;-) (Guess it's relative, compared to each other, but, compared to other warbler species ... ) Haven't heard Garden Warbler yet this year, but I recall them being more continuously 'bubbling' , babbling along in more or...
  19. dantheman

    Name a bird for each letter of the alphabet-

    L - Lapwing An abiding memory from growing up near the Somerset Levels was going for an explore down by the river and coming across a couple of breeding Lapwings on territory with their swooping display flights and unearthly pee-wit calls.
  20. dantheman

    First Butterflies 2024

    They are about ... but well camouflaged! I've only seen 5 - one on the back door when we lived in Falmouth, the other 4 in three separate places after cutting bramble and they appeared out of the cut material. Not tried active searching.
  21. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦅 #702: 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/
  22. dantheman

    First Butterflies 2024

    Still a struggle to see butterflies, although just about daily Peacock in the garden or elsewhere now. Two Holly Blues in town a week ago whilst waiting in the Health Centre car park, and a newly hatched stick insect sp. in the car 2 days ago (I'd been clearing brambles from the garden).
  23. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦆 #699: 🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 https://birdiegame.net/ ;-)
  24. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦃 #698: 🟥🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/
  25. dantheman

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    Should have been a bit more judicious with my guessing on line 4 perhaps ... birdie 🦉 #695: 🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 https://birdiegame.net/ I failed with yesterday's Vermillion Flycatcher.
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