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  1. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Building design doesn't seem so hot up the hill ...still if you get there pre-dawn and sleep on the table for a few hours, all the birds might just be settled in front by the time you are ready. Does it have a built-in stove for coffee?
  2. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Think yourself lucky - still snowing here, lakes all frozen. Forecast for next week is below zero day and night, snow on and off throughout. Hmm, time to start trawling the flight websites!
  3. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    I like days like this - can do the whole local patch in ten minutes and be home in time for Eastenders ;0 Clears the conscience that you haven't visited for yonks, doesn't waste the whole day and doesn't give you time to get cold :-O
  4. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Are you sure it was not simply a Rook stuffed with rather too much Christmas pud?!
  5. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    The committee has considered your description and, allowing for variable factors and memory lapses that may or may not have occurred relating to other features, decided that the presence of a forked tail does indeed eliminate all other birds (bar moulting anythings) possibly present 'up the...
  6. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Americans term small sandpiper types as peeps, but a jeesy peep, hhm, not sure -did you mean Cheesy Peep, then maybe a very bright Little Stint? ;) Now this being Bird Forum, we should be calling for a description, but I'll settle for wow, good one - can imagine indeed that made your day.
  7. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    ......some of us have to swot them out of the way ;)
  8. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Quite, I sure ain't fitba anything! ;)
  9. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Presuming someone shows you how to switch it on, the 'Senior' model is adapted to cope with such eventualities. It comes with an amplifier as standard and simply shouts 'Left', 'Right', etc. As a backup, when you do not respond to these simple instructions, it first checks your pulse (deluxe...
  10. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    It helps in those cases where 'senior moments' kick in
  11. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Can't you get one of those mega-buggy electric things with 4x4 big chunky all-terrain wheels and attached telescope holder, naturally available on the left or right, along with coffee maker and integrated GPS, plus bird seeker software?
  12. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Having presumably extracted his head from the grass where it had been left the day before, sticking out. ;)
  13. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Could you bring a couple over when you next come, do fancy being a bit more green myself and I'm sure I could squeeze a half dozen on my land. Do you think the energy company would fix nestboxes to them for me? PS nice about the Hen Harrier, all the best patches have one ;)
  14. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    I thought you'd been neglecting this thread ;)
  15. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Okay, I will clarify, I dislike the first bit - late October and November are the pits, grey, dull and few birds. Then down comes the snow and the land is so much nicer, albeit a tad chilly on occasion. First Grey-headed in on the feeders this weekend.
  16. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Rooks migrating up here now, steady movement of them overhead today ...oh gloom, the winter is upon me!
  17. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Almost like vermin ;) Not worth the effect of packaging up and posting - sorry I'll just have to endure another eyesore or two as they flap past my window
  18. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    hmm, yum yum says that vagrant Marsh Harrier that just happens to pop in next week ;)
  19. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    And, by strange coincidence, I too saw Hen Harrier this day, my first of the autumn and very early for here!
  20. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Not looking after him enough!
  21. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Sounds pretty good to me, nice one
  22. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Heading the other way here - perhaps minus 30 over the next two nights ...look after those Whoopers!
  23. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Having probably flown from the Baltic, they were having a quiet chuckle that this lady observing was comparing the climate on a par with their Baltic homeland :)
  24. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Northern populations do ...out here, the majority of Rooks migrate, either out of the country completely or, for a smaller number, into the relative warmth of the city. From about now, but more particularly late October/early November, I can see rather large overhead movements, birds returning...
  25. Jos Stratford

    Up the Hill

    Always a good day when a Hen Harrier puts in an appearance ;) Managed a last three Swallows on Saturday, though they were the first for a couple of weeks
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