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    29 swans shot dead (not confirmed)

    It usually does, although the Daily Mail reactionaries wanting heads on sticks and the total ruination of people's lives will never be appeased. But then if they were, they wouldn't be happy, would they?
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    Should I be a Lieca guy or a Swarovsky guy?

    Get some Nikons HGLs and save a fortune you won't see the difference or find any more birds Tim
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    Man denies taking rare bird eggs (BBC News)

    I get all mine from Tesco someone else does the horrible stuff to all the luvverly animals
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    snowfinch - Qinghai, China

    Hi Andrew We only recorded Henri’s Snowfinch Montifringilla henrici on two days in the vicinity of Wenquan (Er La area), whereas Tibetan (Himalayan) Snowfinch Montifringilla adamsi we encountered more widely, on five days (and they were very nice birds too!) Rubber Mountain rings a bell... not...
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    Norfolk birding

    I've added something to my website here about Dark-breasted Barn Owls. It might be rubbish but it's MY rubbish...
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    Norfolk birding

    I'm currently looking into guttata type Barn Owls with an aim to including something on my website records for Norfolk since 1970 are as follows - singles unless otherwise stated: 75 76 78 79 85 90 (2) 91 94 95 (four) 97 Kelling 29th - 30th Oct 1999 Waxham/Sea Palling Mar 4th - Apr 5th 2003...
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    Norfolk birding

    Hi Pete they're very variable birds indeed - BWP long version has a lot on variation in Barn Owl and 'Dark-breasted' Barn Owl. As i mentioned above, the underwing coverts are a good point as they should be white on Barn and coloured on 'Dark-breasted'. The Barn Owl by Warburton et al. has some...
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    Norfolk birding

    added some nice Tundra Bean shots of the recent east Norfolk birds to my website (thumbnailed too - whoo-hoo!) and Grey Phal too. http://www.freewebs.com/eastnorfolkbirding/diary2008.htm
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    Norfolk birding

    re DB Barn Owl the underwing coverts are a good pointer - very white on alba but buff or some grey-buff on guttata-type birds. Although there's so much variation it's hard to know what you're looking at, i think. It may be that some 'guttata'-type birds are just dark female Barns. The Ludham...
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    Norfolk birding

    re the phalarope walk on the beach! either north from Horsey or South from Waxham. Or along the dune tops. There's no need to struggle through the brambles around the old caravan site. The farm has just been taken over by new people. The last farmer was very anti-birder so people wandering...
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    Falcon ID

    Hi CAU the white breast and barred flanks are good for Saker (milvipes). This bird looks like some I saw in Tibet/China which were greyer than I was expecting. The thin moustachial and thin super are also helpful. Can't help any more. Some of these large falcons are really tricky. Laggar and...
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    Norfolk birding

    walked down to Waxham. About 1000 Pinks on the way, nothing in them. Despite a pager message to the contrary, the Grey Phal was on some pools near the pipe dump because i was watching it. Watched it with a couple of mates in peace and quiet for an hour or so at amazingly close range. A chap who...
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    weekend in north norfolk

    Although everyone says Stubb Mill for the cranes, if you do see them there it will probably be almost dark and views might be brief, distant and nearly always in flight. Better to try and see them in the day around Horsey, Waxham, Sea Palling, Hickling etc If you go to Stubb after then it's a bonus.
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    Norfolk birding

    Grey Phal at the pipe dump this afternoon 11 Cranes on my journey to work, several pinks over our football match tonight in Yarmouth. Pinks have been vocal and mobile over the last few nights with the full moon. Fantastic sight and sound - especially from your bed! Tim
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    Norfolk birding

    the shingle is being left as far as i am aware the next spring tide / surge could be interesting not sure about the wisdom of building that 'visitor' centre
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    Norfolk birding

    this was pretty much my missive last night earlier. One minor point - although we put stuff on our websites they are sightings by friends and aquaintances or people we meet (as with the 'A47' GWE). So we do not know any details... something to bear in mind... re the owls, word will spread...
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    Norfolk birding

    scuse my earlier missive our team let a last minute equaliser in so came home with a huff on..
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    Norfolk birding

    16 (+3) Cranes tonight and 2 Hen Harriers quartering at close range
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    Difficult phyllosc, Doi Chang Dao, N Thailand

    as James says. the DZIK! call of an Arctic is very distincive once you've heard it...
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    Sanderling or Semipalmated Sandpiper?

    the last pic at least hints at a lack of palmation too
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    Patterns of vagrancy in the UK and Ireland

    Ilya Keith's response is in Birding World vol 19 (8) after another vagrancy shadow piece
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    Patterns of vagrancy in the UK and Ireland

    the idea is that it is easier to navigate north-south than east-west, so any birds that only move more or less north-south, such as several Iberian species, wouldn't occur here in the numbers that vag. shadow would predict. Birds such as Rock Thrush, Western Olly, Western Oprhean etc. Those...
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    Patterns of vagrancy in the UK and Ireland

    James' paper is in BB 96 (9) the above species such as Yellow-browed Warblers (and others like RBF, Pallas's Warbler, Little Bunt etc) that have cryptic populations wintering in Africa are called pseudo-vagrants. And they migrate back further west hence lack of spring passage... The main idea...
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    a walk to buckenham marsh

    you do disturb them, and very easily.
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    Norfolk birding

    East Norfolk today 3 Tundra Beans, and a couple of unusual birds that had us guessing for a while as to possible parentage. 2 Lapland Buntings, 9 Whoopers (thanks Steve!), Pom Skua 6 Wapits yesterday (thanks again Steve) and thanks to Ilya, I've managed to add a shoutbox to the diary page -...
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