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    Birding Britain by Train

    Anyone have any top UK sites that are only a short stroll from a railway station?
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    North Island Saddlebacks

    On More Armchair Ticks, I wonder if we can be sure that the Tiritiri Matangi saddlebacks are genuine North Island.
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    How do spring tides work?

    In High Tide but No Green Grass, I wonder how spring tides end up in spring and not in January.
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    Intriguing Sparrow, Sunnyvale Baylands

    From ten years ago and I never did get it cleared up. I won't clog the forum with the rather poor field marks, which are here.
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    Not Quite Lothian Birding

    With apologies to Mark Grubb but a brief skid into Peebles today brought peregrine and bramblings to add to yesterday's dippers.
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    Dan Koeppel’s To See Every Bird on Earth

    Dan Koeppel’s father aimed for it. Therein lies the strength of the book: it has a quest; it has obstacles; it’s a story, unlike much nature writing. I loved it.
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    Grimley/Holt

    A good number of gadwalls at the New Workings today made a lone female pintail easy to overlook. Fortunately, it was standing out, preening, so the grey leg colour added to the grey bill made identification a cinch. Structurally the species always demands a second look anyway with that slender...
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    White-Headed Magpie, Ansty

    Anyone seen anything answering to this description just north of Coventry?
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    Birding by Rail

    On Cut those Birding Car Miles I've just written Does anyone know of this book? Or did I dream it? Or am I going to write it?!?
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    Monadnocks, Western Australia

    I've just rather lamely written and wonder if anyone knows what trees they may be.
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    Common Scoters, Bittell, Worcs, UK

    A mixture of fifteen females or juveniles treated me to a flying display when I got to the reservoir; but why no males?
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    Possible Sponsors for Endangered Species?

    I wonder if any bookmakers are running bets on which will be the first species to go. This sounds like poor taste but it could be the best publicity: get William Hill or someone to sponsor an endangered species and offer a price on its extinction. They'd have a strong motivation not to pay out...
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    Dowitchers

    Part of a recent post about dowitchers in Britain So, for instance, would I be right in assuming l-b at Shoreline, Mountain View?
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    Willow Tits

    I've just blogged and wonder if willow tits still exist in Worcs.
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    Redditch

    First of the month, so my rather irregular jaunt round the coppice at Walkwood to get the September list going. Dave and I hadn’t gone far into the wood when a loud cronk issued from the canopy. So, out on the moors, up a bleak hill or on some storm-lashed cliffs, raven would have come to mind...
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    Grey Phalarope, Witcombe

    What better compensation for dipping on the wryneck that's been showing at the reservoir the last couple of days? At first, distant, the phalarope flew after five minutes – right to our edge of the water – for binoculars-filling views.
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    Trees

    Not exactly a birding question but one to which birders may know the answer. I've just written and wonder if I have the trees right. Past the airport and round about Wattle Grove or Orange Grove?
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    Little egret breeding failure

    I've just blogged the following and wonder if you locals have any more information.
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    Sexing Kingfishers (Oo-er!), UK

    According to my Collins Bird Guide, it’s possible to separate the sexes when breeding by the colour of the lower bill – pale red for female; black for male. I wonder if it holds outside the breeding season.
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    Birding Reserves

    Just wondering: are there any sites in Aus along the lines of Minsmere, Titchwell et al? With visitor centres, hides, cafes and so on?
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    Equipment

    I've just written and wonder what more experienced observers think.
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    Herdsman Lake Raptor, Perth

    Without any more information than this: could anyone give me a list of candidate species?
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    141 Worcestershire Species

    Yellow-legged gull at Bittell was one more to my Worcestershire bird list and another to follow immediately when I got on to little egret. These took me up to 141, just four behind my best English county, Hampshire, but still 37 adrift of Angus. They all pale against my 219 in Santa Clara...
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    Australian black-winged stilt

    My Morcombe guide contains black-winged stilt (himantopus himantopus) but my computer software, Wildlife Recorder, only allows me to enter white-headed stilt (himantopus leucocephalus) to an Australian trip. In other words, the programme counts it as a separate species to the Old World version...
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    Redditch, Worcs, UK

    A song thrush has treated me with early morning visits to the garden. The usual fare is blackbirds, including one juvenile that pecks at nearly everything in sight – I guess it'll learn. The most obvious birds seem to be wood pigeons, the jumbo jet of the back lawn. As I type, a jay flies...
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