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Scotland Visit Day 1 : Lerrocks Farm : 8th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 1 : Lerrocks Farm : 8th September 2011 The main reason that we had decided to stay in Stirling was to attend the Red Kite feeding at Lerrocks Farm in Doune, Stirlingshire. We had gone to RSPB Inversnaid, on the banks of Loch Lomond, in the morning but we had to leave earlier than we had hoped because, although it was not a…
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Scotland Visit Day 1 : RSPB Inversnaid : 8th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 1 : RSPB Inversnaid : 8th September 2011 We had the chance to visit family up north so we decided to make a bit of a break of it by staying at some birding places on the way there and back. We drove from Manchester to Stirling on 7th September. We had a couple of things we wanted to do the following…
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Summary of August 2011
Summary of August 2011 Weather The month started started with very mixed weather, some days being very wet, others quite hot and humid. By the end of the first week it was raining every day and stayed that way for the second week of August. By the third week it was a little better but still not reliable and in the last week some sun…
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“The Secret Life of Birds: Who they are and what they do” by Colin Tudge : 15 August 2011
“The Secret Life of Birds: Who they are and what they do” by Colin Tudge : 15 August 2011. I have not been doing a great deal of birding this month because I have had a bad cold that has meant that I have been a bit house-bound. Having already read any outstanding books on my reading list and having exhausted my monthly supply of…
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RSPB British Birds of Prey by Marianne Taylor & Stig Frode Olsen : 8 August 2011
RSPB British Birds of Prey by Marianne Taylor & Stig Frode Olsen : 8 August 2011 This book was recommended to me particularly for the photographs by Stig Frode Olsen and it has to be said that it is hard to imagine better photography than this. Each species has eight to ten accompanying photographs each of the highest quality. The text is equally as impressive…
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Mixed Flock in Garden : 7th August 2011
Mixed Flock in Garden : 7th August 2011 A very unusual sight in the garden. I looked casually at the back garden feeders as I must do a million times a day and was somewhat amazed to see half a dozen Long-tailed Tits all over the feeders. On top of this there were nine Blue Tits and four Great Tits. All of these birds were…
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Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 4th August 2011
Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 4th August 2011 We drove up to Martin Mere to collect the new scope I had ordered but while we were there we had a look around the hides as well. The weather wasn’t brilliant and it had been raining heavily so the scrapes were under water and a lot of the birds had flown off for the…
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