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    NOCMIG from a real amateur

    Hi folks. Just got into nocmig recording with some trepidation, but am loving it. A little advice from a real novice on getting started. This is assuming you have visited https://nocmig.com/ and have sorted out equipment and the software. This has cost me nothing, zilch, as I aready had a Sony...
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    Caithness Scotland, Long-tailed Duck ?

    Just been sorting through photos from 2nd Nov 2019, I think this is a fem winter Long-tailed Duck. Can someone verify please. apologies for photo.
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    probable Dunlin, Caithness Scotland

    Hi folks, can someone please confirm that this is Dunlin- just had small flock of them up here in Caithness, first of the year.
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    Sea duck ID, Caithness, Scotland

    Hi folks, another one off Sinclair Bay today please.
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    What species of Diver (Loon) please. Caithness, Scotland

    Sorry for quality of photo, anyone able to id these for me please. Sighted today, Sinclair Bay, Caithness. A trio.
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    Such excitement, Blackcap

    Amazed this afternoon to see a male Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) in my Caithness garden, feeding on an apple.
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    ID confirmation, Caithness Scotland.

    Hi can any of you kind folk confirm whether these are Twite please ? Much obliged as always.
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    Raptor ID Caithness, Scotland today, please help.

    Hi folks, thanks for the Peregrine ID the other day. Got this beauty this afternoon over peat fields, quartered, tried hovering, dived down into shrubland for its kill. Harrassed by Hooded Crows.
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    Medium-sized raptor, Caithness coast today

    Hi folks, experts (and average birdwatchers like me). Please can you give me an ID of this kestrel-sized raptor, over the coastal area of Caithness, Scotland, today- it was chasing a flock of Starlings over the beach. Sorry for the poor-ish images
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    Sea Otter and Grey Seals, Caithness.

    Lovely benign weather this morning, cloudy and slight drizzle but not cold or windy. Great views of Sea Otter and 3 x Grey Seals around Keiss Harbour and beach.
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    Help identify these waders - please

    Caithness, Sinclair Bay. 12th August. Can someone please put me out of my misery? Thanks
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    Gannet resting up.

    Sometimes, something occurs which makes you glad to be alive. I came across this Gannet along the coast, that was resting-up for the day after some pretty rough seas along the northeast coast. Good luck and fair winds, my friend.
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    Bird App - Sanderling

    Technology is absolutely amazing. Used free app -Merlin Bird ID by Cornell University, the app identified my pic below as indeed a Sanderling - pleased my original ID was correct. Good APP -worth 5 stars
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    Sinclair Bay, Caithness

    20-25mph winds today: Gannet, Ringed Plover, Sanderling, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Redshank, 'Comic' Terns, Cormorant, Rock Pipit. Lovely deserted beach - too dreich for tourists.
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    Sinclair Bay, Caithness.

    After a long lay-off, I'm back out birding and taking photos when I can. I was walking home from the beach/dune area in the early afternoon mist and a pair of Bonxies (Great Skua) flew out of the mist, over the fields south of the village looking for easy pickings. Trio of Oystercatchers rose up...
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    Tree sparrow

    singleton tree sparrow in my garden amongst the resident house sparrows. location keiss, highlands, very northeast of scotland
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    Whoopers

    50 Whooper swan between Keiss and Wick in the fields
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    Which bird have you wanted to claim but couldnt

    Have you ever thought you had seen a species but everything pointed to it being a dubious record. Mine was on a trip to Menorca where I swore I had seen a Lammergeier. I had great views in my scope but no-one to confirm my id. Field guides persuaded me that it was not a possible sighting and I...
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    keiss

    Just moved into nice bungalow in Keiss near John 'o grotes. Couple of curlew in field across from house. Saw pair of swift on the beach. Thought this was too far north for them ?
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    Hello hello it's good to be back...

    Hi folks, some of you might remember me. I have just returned (in a rush!) to UK from 6 years in Cambodia. I am now living (permanently I hope) in Caithness. I have mental health problems but can still get out birding. The good thing is I can start my British bird list from the beginning! Just...
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    feeler: ringing Cambodia

    Hi folks. Am trying to tie together the right contacts for a competent ringing group to visit Cambodia. Virtually unheard of. Anyone who is tentatively interested - no dates/ costs as yet, but it would have to be self-funding and have a specific scientific aim (which we would liase with)...
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    Cambodia bird forum

    I hope you will allow this Post to be published. Everone who knows about Cambodia's recent history (fighting only stopped in 1996/7) might not realise the conditions that the local Khmer population had to endure. Starvation was rife and people resorted to eating/killing anything to survive...
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    Perth Australia

    I'm lucky enought o be going to Perth for a few days conference on 14th march. I've identified a couple of good lakes near to the hotel for my first birding trip in Australasia, anyone know of a good camera shop in Perth where I could buy second hand lenses for Canon Dslr, and maybe a shop where...
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    Gull-billed Tern - Cambodia

    Can anyone confirm id please - I think Im right on this one - group of about a dozen flying upstream on Tonle Sap - Phnom Penh
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    Good news from Cambodia

    news item courtesy of WCS September 2, 2010 Vultures have been dwindling throughout Asia for years. The unlucky scavengers have been eating cattle carcasses laced with an anti-inflammatory drug that is fatal to the birds. The drug—dicloflenac—has driven some Asian vulture populations to...
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