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Recent content by David Tate

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    Yorkshire Birding

    I really should go to Specsavers - many thanks
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Doc - re: LT Tit eyelid colour By chance the results from a LTT eyelid colour study came out last week! It seems that juveniles have a purple eyelid colour until December at the latest. The colour then changes to anything from red through orange to yellow. The new colour doesn't appear to...
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    Schedule one breeders

    Update Sticking to the theme of 'should details about Schedule 1 species be relesaed on an open forum during the breeding season' 2 recent developments may prove interesting. 1. A previous suggestion was that you may wish to guess the name of a well known 'confidential' Woodlark site in...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Richard Broughton reviewed the methods of separation of Willow and Marsh Tit in the November 2009 edition of British Birds. He says that, 'Features such as cap, bib, structure, colour of underparts, habitat and behaviour have limited or negligible value for identification'. His conclusion was...
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    Schedule one breeders

    Hi Ollie My mistake - Gargany are not on the legal quarry list. However, I still think it would be worth reviewing the legality of shooting some of the Schedule 1 (S1) duck species a few weeks after they have fledged. Compared with Barn Owls the national number of pairs is very low eg Pintail...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    The earliest John Mather (The Birds of Yorkshire 1986) reported was 12 March 1981 at Fairburn Ings. But it looks as if the Yorkshire record goes to the one seen at Otley on 29February 1886 (Thomas Nelson 1907).
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    Schedule one breeders

    Hi Ollie Just to show your are not in a minority of 1 here's my take on Schedule 1: The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 gives extra protection to 79 bird species which are listed in Schedule 1. Since then Capercaillie was added in 2001. The data used to determine which species to list came...
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