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... A hundred notes says I'm pushing up dafodils before any type of shrike is found by me on my patch. The last, a Red-backed, was August 1904. Des....
Malcom, The Woodpigeon we had were both a little above, and a bit below, the horizon. I would guess maybe 450-500ft altitude. The passerines were at 600ft or...
Hi Folks This morning while out on an ecological survey (Pit-fall trapping)- I was attacked by a male Sparrowhawk. It came low over the field where exclusion...
Hi Nathalie, ... and well done on your first patch Little Grebe. Always nice birds to have around, even temporarily. Keep at it with the reported Caspian Gull,...
Maybe it thought you were a tit? Des. ... This is not the first time I have had run ins with sparrowhawks. In fact I probably get Buzzed by a hawk 3 - 4 times...
Des - and other Brown Shrike Gaming fans I know you are all going to shake your heads in dis-belief... But I haven't got round to seeing it yet (The Shame)...
Malcolm, With respect, can I (as a moderator) ask you to calm down a smidgen, it's bad enough you've had a confrontation with a Sparrowhawk, the last thing we...
Graham The big bad Ogre might be online - and he doesn't like fence jumping see its Trespass... and the elitists don't like site crashers loooking over there...
At 12:56hrs I got onto a very distant flock of birds which may have been Brent Geese. They were south of me at Paddington Green and moving east but really were...
Des Your comments are tantalising and very interesting. It sure would make for an interesting study to be able to sky-watch over London during spring/Autumn...
Hi Malcolm, It would indeed make an interesting, and novel, study. Hopefully we'll hit the right day in the spring and have a large raptor or three to report. ...
Just a quick note to say the Mediterranean Gull has returned to the lake at Burgess Park, presumably for the rest of the winter - it was showing well early...
Des Would the owners of tower 42 consider more days - Looking back through the threads I understand that David (Lindo) (Birdguides) was instrumental in making...
Malcolm, David Lindo, who's profile among the wider public is certainly higher than anyone's in our little crew on Friday, did indeed organise the whole thing...
Hi Des That is a mouth watering prospect and thanks for expanding on the possibilities. My observations that the WWT centre at Barnes dominates to some extent...
... Good find. That's what I mentioned on Thursday seeing on BBC London News on Wednesday, but, at the time, I couldn't find anything on the net about it. Kind...
Hi to all, Quite a bit of Wood Pigeon movement this morning with c1075 all mostly south with another c170 north, all very high so looked like they had come a...
Malcolm i most certaunly did not call you a muppet, folllowing on fron Des's observation that the Sparrowhawk mistook you for a tit I was helpfully trying to...
Hi Nathalie, Hadn't seen much either but found a link to the story on the Habitat website (a sort one stop shop for natural history/environmental news stories...
Kempton NR when it was first opened didn't have a security fence and Thames Water provided two hides costing about £15,000 each. Within a couple of years,...
