White-tailed Sea Eagles
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:17 +0100
Did not realise there was a new group called uk.rec.birds...so silly auld me
had been posting there thinking I was posting to uk.rec.birdwatching, after
setting up my new all singing dancing 'puter.
Anyhow the post I sent to uk.rec.birds last Sunday was.....
Just spent most of this lovely sunny day watching ...
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hooded cross - mussel dropping onto rocks
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:56:29 +0100
Is the practice Hooded Crows adopt in Ireland - where they
fly to say 40 foot and then drop mussels onto rocks to gain the
contents, widespread
round the British coastline and do any other species indulge in this
practice?
regards
john ...
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Scottish red kite numbers soaring
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:39:24 -0700 (PDT)
The Scottish red kite population has risen to its highest level in 200
years.
The success has been attributed to a re-introduction project near
Aberdeen and the fact the species has had one of its best breeding
seasons.
There are now 122 breeding pairs in Scotland and 1,200 pairs across
the UK.
More at ht ...
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Swan rings.
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:13:56 -0700 (PDT)
Hi.
Please excuse any slips in etiquette, I am new to posting.
I was down by the canal at Hurleston (The start of the Llangollen
Canal). There were a pair of swans with plastic rings on the left leg
- green with letters large enough to read. Metal ring on the other
leg.
As the letters & numbers were larg ...
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Raptor ID please
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:18:17 +0100
I was lucky enough to see a bird of prey with a wood pigeon in the car
park at work today. All I had with me was a compact camera and a cheap
10x mini-telescope. My immediate thought was that it was a
sparrowhawk, but I'm not convinced. Here are some poor quality photos
(it was quite a distance away and I only had ...
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Swifts in algarve
12 Sep 2008 13:51:42 +0100
I was briefly in Santa Luiza near Tavira earlier this week. In the fishermans
huts on the front, there were swifts feeding young. Now they didn't quite seem
right for regular swifts because they were nesting in a single story building,
there was no screaming and they just looked big. I didn't get time to get a ...
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FA Birds of Dar es Salaam vintage ornithology 1927
Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:48:26 -0700 (PDT)
Notes on Some Birds of Dar Es Salaam by Cecily J Ruggles-Brise ,
1927,orogonl owners decorative bookplate,small specs of red ink on
illustration opposite title page (see scan) otherwise a very nice
copy. 97 pages.
Really unusual little book,a personal view of the bird life of Dar Es
Salaam in Tanzania, (at this t ...
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Me
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:05:52 GMT
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Osprey floundering
Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:12:43 +0100
Nice to see four Osprey fishing in the Eden estuary before I went to do my
bird count last Saturday.
Two of the birds caught biggish flounders but did not seem to dive too
deeply to do this in fairly deep water.
So do flounders swim nearer the surface than I had always believed?
Bill....
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Red-breasted Goose Killing
Sat, 6 Sep 2008 21:46:14 +0100
Only 30 000 Red-breasted geese left on the Planet. The majority of them
overwinter in Bulgaria. Every year hundreds of them are killed by poachers.
The proposed enlargement of the hunting season in Bulgaria with one month
(from 31 January to 29 of February) will increase radically the mortality
from ill ...
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