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    UK Spring gatherings of Hobbys. Moving north from Beds/Bucks/Cambs/Suffolk to Yorkshire?

    10-15 years ago there were significant gatherings of Hobbys in May at several staging sites in the south where dozens of birds could be seen together hawking insects. This year I've visited Wilstone Reservoir, Linford GPs, Marston Vale, Grovebury Pit etc without seeing a single one. I was...
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    Unknown Call / Song, Gunjur, WD, Gambia

    Heard this on two separate days, and recorded it the second time. Although it is very loud and really distinctive, I'm completely stumped, and assume it is a bird and not, e.g., a squirrel. Habitat is a remnant of coastal forest holding a good diversity of species. Call appeared to come...
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    Gambia, Western Division, Bush-shrike

    Please confirm, if possible, that this is nothing more interesting than a Northern Puffback. Sat like this in the half-light of morning for fifteen minutes, high in a tall tree on the edge of a forest remnant of just a few hectares. No call, no movement. I later saw a pair of Northern...
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    MP3 player for very basic recording / playback

    I'm looking for a very basic device to carry bird songs and calls in the field. I no longer have the smartphone I've used on previous trips (it went with the job) and my old Creative Muvo TX (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-MuVo-1GB-MP3-Player/dp/B0009U79NW) has only 1Gb of memory and a very...
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    Couple Sue RSPB for Defamation

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8119932/Conservationists-sue-RSPB-over-claims-their-study-harmed-birds.html Science or raptor politics? Anyone know the full story? Graham
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    UK Garden Bird Poster

    Needed for my godson who wants to feed the birds in the garden. Does not need to be extensive as it's an urban garden where anything that isn't a feral pigeon, house sparrow or starling is big news. Can't find one online which doesn't come to best part of a tenner with postage. I guess...
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    Meadow Pipit

    As pointed out here,... http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=1946923&postcount=10 the bird pictured in flight in the Meadow Pipit entry is a Skylark... http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Image:21391RV8P4191_meadow-pipit123.jpg Can the Opus entry be edited to remove or replace this image? Graham
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    Washington State Most Wanted

    Spent the day preparing for my trip to Seattle in 3 weeks time - my first Nearctic birding experience. (Previous trips to the US were in the wilderness years of not briding so I only saw TV, RTH, RSH, grackles and Ring-billed Gulls) I've made up an excel checklist with rankings and the...
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    Bird Song CDs / MP3s - Pacific Northwest / Washington State

    Hi, Off to Seattle for ten days at the end of the month and need to start mugging up on songs and calls sharpish. What are the best online or CD sources? Thanks, Graham.
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    Help a newbie understand mic power

    Hi, I'm looking at a 2nd hand K6 Sennheiser module with ME66 Shotgun Mic for a first stab at sound recording, and looking to team it with an Olympus Le-10 or similar solid state recorder. I'm advised the Sennheiser module for sale is definitely the K6, not the K6P, but that it "Requires...
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    Podcast Help Needed

    Hi, hoping someone can make my life easier. Have already wasted too much time trying to get this ste up right. I want to be set up to automatically download podcasts so that they appear in Windows Media Player from where I can copy them to my Smartphone and/or my old MuVo media player...
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    Small Feral Parrot, Torrevieja, Spain (no photo)

    Apparently nesting in a hole in a building near the sea front, and seen only briefly without binoculars. Please excuse the scant description from a brief and unexpected view. Small parrot, (lovebird size, smaller than a Starling, and initially thought it was a swallow) All black head...
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    Info Wanted - Lucca and Northern Tuscany 21/04 to 25/04

    Hi, I have a short break in Tuscany next week and looking to get some birding and walking in at least on the three full days we're there. I guess I'm too late for the Wallcreepers? Very grateful for any tips on good locations. I'm more interested in good birding than listing but there are...
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    What am I? - Rubbish Drawings.

    Ever found a rubbish drawing of a bird that makes it almost unidentifiable? Why not post it here to see if it really is impossible to put a name to? Your rather difficult starters for ten... (from South America, Asia, and North America respectively)
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    A Farm for the Future - Best TV in a very long time

    Just finished on BBC2 and available to watch on iPlayer now... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hs8zp The most interesting and thought-provoking piece of television I have seen in a very, very long time. Quite profound. (And with Firecrests, Lesser Whitethroat, Spot Fly, Beutiful...
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    Chat in The Gambia - Redstart?

    Taken by a fellow birder the day after we left Janjangbureh (21/11/08), I figure this to be an adult male Redstart in a state of wear unfamiliar to us... http://flickr.com/photos/chalto/3077111519/sizes/o/ But I figure that largely because I have no idea what else it might be. Graham
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    Buteo, the Gambia

    Near Janjangbureh, 19/11/08... http://www.flickr.com/photos/chalto/3074173358/sizes/o/in/set-72157610231803131/ Must be red-necked buzzard, a rare bird in the Gambia but the commonest buteo, but is the tail pattern odd? Or merely a clue to age? Or are these chaps simply as variable as our...
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    Picasa? Flickr? Webshots? Dotphoto?

    Hi, Looking to share recent, and previous, holiday snaps with friends and family. Very much amateur and not saleable pics. Happy to pay for something worth paying for, including online storage and backup of full size images. Unlikely to order prints online. UK based, if that makes any...
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    Balls and Fluids - The Basics

    I've got a Velbon tripod who's head has a single twizzle stick which enables me to point the scope in all directions... http://www.velbon.co.uk/newvelbon/pages/sherpa800R.html I've been looking at upgrades / travel scopes and I'm befuddled by terminology. Is mine a ball head or a fluid head...
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    Canon Ixus 80 IS

    Hi, Need a pocket point and shoot camera for holiday snaps and the Canon Ixus 80 IS looks a good deal here... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-Digital-IXUS-Camera-Chocolate/dp/B0012ZEDT6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1225672398&sr=1-2 I have no intention to get into digiscoping proper...
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    Scopes for all occasions - Agony Aunt needed

    Dear Aunty, I have an Opticron GS665 non-ED, 18-54x HDF zoom, case, Velbon 600 tripod. I want a sharper scope. I've reached the stage where I'm just getting frustrated at the detail others can see at distance, in low-light, when seawatching etc. etc. I've looked at one too many Swaros and...
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    Anyone use a Walkstool?

    I've latterly tried to buy something once which lasts instead of buying cheap stuff that needs constant replacement. These Walkstools seem to be proper good, but are they worth the money? (from £25 up to £60)... http://www.walkstool.com/uk/product/indexframe.html Simon King seems to like...
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    Coastal Gambia ID

    Whilst revising for a forthcoming trip I came across this chap. Won't reveal what it was labelled, but I suspect it to be a spectacular piece of stringing by the local guide in the Gambia. Posted with the permission of the photographer just to confirm my suspicions...
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    Birding in the South of Hungary next week?

    I'm in Budapest for a meeting next Thursday so I'm staying for the whole of the Bank Holiday weekend - will pick up a car from Thursday evening to Monday afternoon and drive and camp. Only been birding abroad once - Pyrenees, plains and Ebro Delta six weeks ago, so there's a lot of lifers...
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    Game Bird - Clumber Park, Notts, UK 07-07-07

    Found on another forum via Google. Domestic Quail? Thanks, Graham
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