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  1. West End Birder

    Alaska suggestions please

    Hi We are thinking about visiting Alaska next year, primarily to see Brown and Black Bears as well as anything else mammalian and of course birds. My thoughts are fly to Anchorage and drive down the Kenai Peninsular - can someone tell me if this is a good idea and any tips? The other option is...
  2. West End Birder

    Winter birding in Estonia

    Hi All Does anyone here bird Estonia on a regular basis? I will have a free day in December this year and wondered what the chances are of seeing Hawk Owl and other stuff I might not see in the UK. Are there any tours? Thanks in advance Rob
  3. West End Birder

    Cock of the Rock spot

    I achieved my goal of seeing a Cock of the Rock (in fact up to 7 males plus a female) and to be honest it wasn't very difficult. So here is a tip if you want to see the national bird of Peru - and it is well worth seeing. We stayed in the Inkaterra Hotel at Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu) and...
  4. West End Birder

    Rubber Ferrules for Velbon

    Hi Anyone point me in the direction of getting one of these? At the Belted Kingfisher the mud devoured two of my tripod's feet, I found one but need another one. I contacted Velbon (in China) who quickly put me onto a distributor in the UK but they have not come back to me. Just wondered if...
  5. West End Birder

    A bird song gadget - what did I see please?

    About 7 years ago I was birdwatching at a well known reserve in a well known county when someone thought they heard / saw a Grasshopper Warbler. A bloke standing next to me whipped out what (from memory) looked a little bit like a large mobile phone in a wallet, produced a stylus, tapped on an...
  6. West End Birder

    SD Card Debacle

    Dotterels just 10m away and although I rarely take photos I decided I couldn't resist. Went to play them back and got some weird message which I "cancelled" but it came up again, something like "time for database recovery 11s" (?) and then it said "OK" and wiped all the pictures. Groan. Does...
  7. West End Birder

    Local bird guide - Aguas Calientes

    Hi Does anyone know of a local birdguide here that would be happy to take my wife and I birdwatching on 3rd September 2020? I am not desperate to see millions of species, but am desperate to see a Cock-of-the Rock if at all possible. Thanks in advance - if of use we are staying at El Mapi...
  8. West End Birder

    Bushnell Lens Caps

    Hi Anyone got a good contact for a replacement lens cap for Bushnell 10 x 42s please? They are the ones that loop onto the body (like Swaros). Thank you Rob
  9. West End Birder

    Cock of the Rock - Peru or Ecuador?

    Wonder if anyone can help me. Mrs West End Birder would like to see Macchu Pichu (I am not so keen but will do it) and Lake Titicaca. I would like to see Andean Condor and Cock of the Rock. The travel agency who we normally book through say that their supplier does not do a safari for CotR...
  10. West End Birder

    Costa Rica

    Next year I am 60 so as a treat we are looking at possibly going to Costa Rica and including a bit of nature stuff. I would very much like to see a Resplendent Quetzal and a Jaguar, plus Scarlet Macaw and Sloth. Any advice would be great thanks, particularly 'cloud hotels' and any other...
  11. West End Birder

    Ac2e

    I am just reading the latest edition of BB with the non-native species report. In there Black Swan, RC Pochard and Snow Goose are all AC2E. Does this mean that you could not count the RCPs at e.g. Cotswold Water Park, or Snow Geese that were in Hampshire (one still is as ticked by someone...
  12. West End Birder

    Two way radios

    I noticed on Scilly many people have what I would call 'walkie talkies' - any ideas where you can get one from and are they only used on Scilly or do people take them to Fair Isle etc? Many thanks in advance Rob
  13. West End Birder

    Embarrassing ID help please

    Is this a Willow Warbler?
  14. West End Birder

    Hampshire Warbler

    http://www.goingbirding.co.uk/hants/show_photo.asp?photo_id=6519 These were posted by Rob Marchant on Go Birding and he was interested in peoples' opinions. What do the experts on here think? Rob
  15. West End Birder

    How do you say it - Fea's

    Been having a discussion with a mate about this, is it: 1) Fay-ahs 2) Fee-ahs 3) Fays 4) Fees 5) Some other response FEA to me is finite element analysis but I doubt that is the answer. Get your stiffness matrices out ;) Thanks Rob
  16. West End Birder

    300 in a year in the UK

    As part of some 'research' I am currently doing, I wondered how the 'pros' on here go about their year listing madness. I might, and it is a big might, in a few years time, have the ability (time and money) to try to see 300 species+ in a year in the UK, so last weekend sat down and went over...
  17. West End Birder

    New species for the world discovered in Christchurch

    Hi All Just arrived back from holiday and have missed a first for the world right outside my office window. The ladies who found this called it a 'seagull' but I am going to claim the name as the Scarlet Gull (Larus bloodius). Obviously there is a lot of work to do to understand this bird but...
  18. West End Birder

    Reykjavik Harlequins

    I'm in Iceland at the moment and have a 2 hour-ish window tomorrow to nip out birdwatching and wondered if there's anyone on here from Iceland who knows a site for Harlequins near Reykjavik? Drove a long way yesterday but only saw GNDs but then wasn't looking too hard. I'm not normally...
  19. West End Birder

    Twite near the M62

    Many, many years ago I stopped off near one of the junctions on the M62 to year tick Twite. I will be travelling from Hull to Wigan next month and wondered if anyone on here could a) tell me if they are still there, and b) which junction it is (it was to the north of the junction I know that)...
  20. West End Birder

    Malware - sorry to post in this forum

    Hi Sorry to post this here, but this is a popular forum so will get read, Mods apologies in advance. Is anyone having the same issue as me? Since yesterday every single page on BF activates my Avast Threat Detector. It is (annoying to say the least) related to this website: www.pool.admedo.com...
  21. West End Birder

    Questions you wish you hadn't asked while birdwatching

    As some of you will know yesterday was a huge day in my birdwatching 'career'. Walking back to the car we joined someone who had left a little earlier and exchanged pleasantries. I asked 'Where have you got to go back to?' The reply was somewhere not a million miles from where I live. 'Oh not...
  22. West End Birder

    Quail not a fail

    At last I did it - after 32 years I finally managed to see a Quail thus ending my mission to see all the Shell Guide 'regulars' - and fantastic views too! Many thanks to all those birdwatchers over the years who have shown me some very nice regulars but in particular to some of the people on...
  23. West End Birder

    Quail at Orwell in Cambs

    Some of you might have seen the wonderful shot by Paul Rowe of the singing Quail in Cambs. It has shown a few times apparently - is anyone able to PM me some directions please? I am considering going for it (mad as they breed 25 miles from me). Thanks Rob
  24. West End Birder

    Shearwater speeds

    Talking to a work colleague of mine, who is a keen sailor (and latent birdwatcher, he has Black Grouse on his list thanks to me and his chauffeuring) I was interested to learn that some boats can sail faster than the wind, by trimming their sails to create an apparent wind - which give a large...
  25. West End Birder

    Whatever happened to (book question)....?

    ....that great big photographic guide by Hadoram Shirihai? I was waiting to buy it but it seems to have disappeared off the radar now. And is there any truth that Richard Millington (author of my favourite bird book) is writing a sequel to a Twitcher's Diary? Thanks Rob
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