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    Help wanted

    Would be grateful for any help possible. Wife is dead set on going to Lake Garda and I am most definitely not. The prospect of not being able to set foot off tarmac in a bird-less desert devoid of any birdlife and full of gun totting people just doesn't do it for me! Otherwise I'd go to Essex...
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    Reykjavik November

    Due to go to Reykjavik in mid November for 3 days. Unlike usual holidays will not have a car but will apparently be going on something called the Golden Circle Tour. Which I assume means hours on a coach punctuated by a couple of 10 minute breaks to walk around a shop. Don't ask, not my choice...
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    Big Cats

    I see yet another report of a puma/puma type in West Wales. I was wondering has one ever been seen in Britain by a birder. What I'm trying to get as in a nutshell is that so many where the outcome is proven as a domestic cat , labrador etc are reported by people who clearly haven't got a clue...
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    Perplexed

    Would welcome thoughts on a Butterfly I saw last week. Driving through Ferndown in Dorset in slow moving traffic I caught sight of a large butterfly slowly flapping upwards from the pavement. This was a big beast on a par with Purple Emperor. It was chocolate brown and had a wide pale border...
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    The Worse Kind of Dude

    Going back to the thread on what is a dude. The worse kind of dude are those that see a rare bird and it doesn't mean anything to them whilst others (for whom it would make their month or year) dip or can't get there in time. Example: A Spanish Sparrow was suppressed by the Wildlife Trust in...
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    We have it so easy.

    Having just read Tales of A Tribe it's just struck me how easy birders seeking rare and scarce birds have it these days. Having come into birding in my late twenties I had a car readily available and phone lines and pagers have then there as a source from the start. When you read about the hit...
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    Hoaxes

    I just wondered what sort of person gets a kick out of posting the hoax photo of a Yellow Throated Vireo on the web yesterday claiming that it had been "photographed" on Portland. Luckily it only meant a reduction in concentration and work for me while the truth was being ascertained but this...
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