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  1. meakinsl

    Zen-Ray Binoculars Giveaways. Ultimate Prize: two pairs of PRIME HD binoculars

    I've now bin here as well !
  2. meakinsl

    Bushnell Excursion 8x28 advice

    Hello, Well been toying with upgrading my bins for a while, have some really old Bushnell Trophy 10x25. Have recently got into birding on my lunchtime walks and today dropped my bins and getting double vision so forced to buy some new ones. Done lot of research and have settled on the...
  3. meakinsl

    Goldcrest or Firecrest ? UK

    Many thanks for all your replies - great forum as always, was back in the park today with the bins and there were fortunately a few of them all calling to each other hopping around in the tress, managed to get a good look at one and confirmed it as a goldcrest - a new bird for the park list (for...
  4. meakinsl

    Goldcrest or Firecrest ? UK

    Was in a park in swansea at lunchtime and heard a bird that haven't heard before, sods law dictates that this was the frst time in a year I didn't have my bins with me. It was a tiny bird and was in a smallish tree and hopping from branch to branch continually. I stood under the tree and it...
  5. meakinsl

    Information on Cwm Clydach

    Thanks for link - also yet to see a lesser spotted woodpecker so good that they are a possibility as well, looking forward to it.
  6. meakinsl

    Information on Cwm Clydach

    Hello, Fairly new to birdwatching and as I am working near the RSPB Cwm Clydach reserve was hoping to get down there for an evening this week. Wandered if anyone had any tips on where the best spots were - went there once earlier in the year and it was pretty quiet. Really want to see a pied...
  7. meakinsl

    Skomer little owls?

    Hello, Was on Skomer last year to see the puffins and on the walk back went to the display and accommodation building in the centre of the island - a woman there said if we were to walk back to the boat following a path that followed an old wall we were guaranteed to see the little owls -...
  8. meakinsl

    UK Bird Checklist book ?

    Many thanks for everyones replies, it did appear technology had overtaken me but pleased to know they still sell the same booklet, planning a trip to a reserve very soon so will pick one up. Thanks also for the links the spreadsheet is handy for keeping a list at work of the birds I see in...
  9. meakinsl

    UK Bird Checklist book ?

    Hello, Just recently returnbed to bird watching after about 30 years (UK). When was last interested was quite young and at the time had a RSPB checklist book that was a small book, smaller than A5 and had a few copies of a tick list for all the birds in the UK. Could keep a life list...
  10. meakinsl

    northern chiffchaff or willow warbler ??

    I had similar toruble to you the other day and posted on this site - I had recorded a bit of the song on my camera and attached the mp3 to this post - see http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=144274 This identified it as a chiffchaff, so the mp3 might jog your memory.
  11. meakinsl

    Help with Bird - UK - Swansea

    Many thanks for your quick replies - A new bird for me ! Thanks again, great forum.
  12. meakinsl

    Help with Bird - UK - Swansea

    Hello, Very new to bird watching and a few days this week been a small brown bird singing at the top of a dead tree - think it might be a ChiffChaff, have taken a sound clip and have attached an mp3 which gets it song a bit (a blackbird kicks in every now and then). Think it might be a...
  13. meakinsl

    Uk Swansea

    Looking at that last picture of the blackcap think that would be it from my memory. Whilst I would love it to have been the sardinian warbler it was more the eye that was red than an eye ring that looking at at the warbler picture again the ring is quite distinctive and would have remembered...
  14. meakinsl

    Uk Swansea

    That is the closest thing I have seen to it, I would say the crest was a little more pronounced that the one in the shot but the red eye looks correct. Can't see it that in my bird book - is it quite a rare visitor ?
  15. meakinsl

    Uk Swansea

    Hello, Failry new to birdwatching and have started to take pair of binnoculars with me on my daily walk round the park in Morriston, Swansea, Wales. Today saw a bird haven't seen before and was after some help identifying it as flicking through my bird book and rspb site not sure. It was a...
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