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  1. Neil Hagley

    Settings for Tascam DR-05 noc migging + USB power

    Having experimented with a USB microphone direct in to Audacity I've just taken delivery of a DR-05x & QTX SG300 shotgun. Can anyone help please with basic settings e.g 24 bit WAV, file size, any low frequency cut off etc? Is the QTX best in switch position 1 or 2? Finally can I power the Tascam...
  2. Neil Hagley

    QTX 300 or 350 shotgun

    Has anyone experience of the 350 for nocmigging? It's longer than the 300 so presumably tighter polar pattern? Thanks
  3. Neil Hagley

    Mist net poles

    I've been doing some 'gardening' at my sewerage works scrub site and find a number of my time served 12 ft bamboo poles have had it. What are folks using for full sized poles these days? Any suggested sources? thanks Neil
  4. Neil Hagley

    Cryptic Wood White - still on the wing?

    I'm in Belfast for the day on Thursday and weather permitting I'd like to see CWW if possible. I appreciate it's getting late and I've missed the peak, but does anyone know if they are still flying and if so any locations with directions in Belfast City please? I have been told of Harbour...
  5. Neil Hagley

    Song - coastal north Norfolk

    I was checking roadside pools for waders this morning and picked up a scratchy song I simply did not recognize. The problem was that it was a 'thin' song from a hedgeline about 40 metres away on private land. I captured what I could on the mobile but the recording (attached) is very quiet as I...
  6. Neil Hagley

    Pocket super zoom for record shots

    I have a DSLR with zoom lenses etc, so I know that will be better than anything in the pocket/bridge category. I am however a field birder and tend to travel light with my lovely Leica binoculars and that's it, but I would love to have a pocket camera to take record shots with (I'm thinking...
  7. Neil Hagley

    Dartford Warbler - Cannock Chase

    As a Staffordshire born birder now living in Leics I am always interested in the avifauna of my home county and was saddened to read this in the West Midland Bird Club newsletter no 482 The annual counts during 2005-14 document the arrival and ultimate loss of this species as a county breeding...
  8. Neil Hagley

    Mass Bird Migration in the Baltic Sea

    Amazing video linked from the BTO newsletter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MZ7Abmz8rM&feature=youtu.be
  9. Neil Hagley

    Glossy Ibis

    For all those like me who couldn't get to RW for the one and only Glossy Ibis so far one was reported just north of the county boundary today over Chilwell at 11:00. This is only 3 miles from Sawley Marina. Keep checking those flood meadows and livestock fields!
  10. Neil Hagley

    Marsh Fritillary still on the wing?

    As everything seems late would Marsh Fritillary still be on the wing in Gloucs? I'm down there in a day or so and would like to give them a try. Thanks
  11. Neil Hagley

    Moult and Ageing of European Passerines -Jenni & Winkler

    As widely reported 'Jenni & Winkler' has been reprinted but the reviews are awful, mainly due to the image quality. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moult-Ageing-European-Passerines-Lukas/dp/012384150X Can anyone on BF who has one comment please?
  12. Neil Hagley

    Ultravid 10x32 HD - Cecil Jacobs liquidation

    I was very fortunate to buy a brand new pair of my favorite bins for half the retail price in the recent Cecil Jacobs liquidation sale. There were probably 50-60 Leica bins on offer and by the looks of it a few are beginning to turn up on eBay. Some are being offered 'buy now' price at pretty...
  13. Neil Hagley

    Bird race or Big Day rules

    In a thread that is so old that I can't reply to it PhilW wrote After many years of 'big day' events it amazes me that (as far as I can establish) there is still no broadly accepted set of rules for British teams to follow. The American birding association has a scary set of rules and I for...
  14. Neil Hagley

    the new ED-X 10x42's

    Lesson number one, never buy optics based solely on reviews. Having read the reviews on the new ED-X's one could be forgiven for thinking they were effectively Leica's at a quarter of the price (although of course you know that never really happens). First of all, I am an Opticron fan and over...
  15. Neil Hagley

    Glossy Ibis watch

    Not yet, but as they kept missing us to the west, east and north last year this time we may just get one. This evening just a few miles south of the county border a Glossy Ibis at Pitsford Res! 'at 5:30 PM' (RBA) Keep them peeled.
  16. Neil Hagley

    Reed Bunting singing like a Redstart! UK

    I checked my local Sewage works in Leics today to see what was in and the first bird I heard was a Redstart .... until that was I realised the song was coming from a male Reed Bunting! Can anyone explain? To be fair it was actually Redstart-esk but nothing like a normal Reed Bunt song. I walked...
  17. Neil Hagley

    Ruddy Duck to be shot at EBR

    Reports suggest that DEFRA will be shooting any Ruddy Duck found at EBR in the next week or so.
  18. Neil Hagley

    Cold weather movement UK to Spain

    I have been reading colour rings on Gulls recently especially as many birds have been so visible on the ice. Just heard that a Lesser black-backed Gull which was in Leicestershire on the 6th of Jan (when the conditions got really bad) was in northern Spain by Saturday (the 9th). Unless either I...
  19. Neil Hagley

    Guide to ageing & sexing Pied Wagtails

    I have an old faded copy of a paper called 'Guide to ageing & sexing Pied Wagtails'. It is dated 13.1.72 and the author was David. I. Salos??. Does anyone know where it came from or where I could source a good copy? I've tried to scan it to OCR but it comes out gobbledegook. I've also looked at...
  20. Neil Hagley

    Charnwood Ringing Group - web site

    Geocities was withdrawn by Yahoo at the end of October so our web site went kind of Spix's Macaw. For the time being I have therefore created a Blogspot but hope in due course to reinstate the web site from archives with another host. http://charnwoodringers.blogspot.com/
  21. Neil Hagley

    Shawell Tip

    Shawell is back on stream, bird-wise and Saturday p.m looks like a good time to visit.The tip was open but I don't think it operates in the afternoon. By the time I arrived around 14:30 the birds were fairly undisturbed and settled. During the week a combination of machines, humans and falconers...
  22. Neil Hagley

    Rock Pipit

    After catching up with the Monty's the other week and overhearing conversations on the subject of county listing, I finally got round to totting up my total for Leics & Rutland and was quite surprised when it came to a respectable 233 (now 234 with Smithy's Rosefinch). In the process however I...
  23. Neil Hagley

    Fuscus with inky legs - UK

    Fuscus with black legs - UK Any thoughts on this most welcome. It really did have dark slate grey legs.
  24. Neil Hagley

    Who needs canon netting?

    If you've ever been canon netting gulls on a rubbish tip how's this for a low cost and quicker alternative? ;) http://www.birdpix.lt/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=16#nav_pic (you may need to use the arrows to scroll through). On the subject of catching gulls for ringing there is a...
  25. Neil Hagley

    copyright on photos (split from WC Sparrow)

    There are a few nice pics of this bird on the usual web sites. I find both amusing yet puzzling why some photographers (even though presumably not professional in the true sense of the word) put their names and various swirls all over images when they are either no better than other...
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