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Mike Powell

@PortlyLeader

Adventure before Dementia. Birder since 1970. Dragonfly recorder, moth-er & orchid botherer. Dad to Luke, Dominic & Joshua. Bampa to Grace, Leo, Jake & Rex.

Cardiff, Wales Katılım Mart 2015
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@Llynfian Good to see you Sid & have a matter about crazy conspiracy theories doing the rounds!
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A few pics from Corfu: Levant Sparrowhawk, Collared Flycatcher and Montagu's Harrier. 76sp on foot from the hotel in 7 days. Trip report here: ebird.org/tripreport/271…
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Fantastic morning walk in Corfu, with a pair of Levant Sparrowhawks the best. Also juv Monty's, ST Lark, Tawny Pipit, Icky, Honey Buzzards, more Collared Flys, tonnes of Bee-eater and another Wheatear sp with some Northerns.
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Alun, are you suggesting it’s a hybrid? Asking for a friend.
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c25 Narrow-lipped Helleborines at the usual north Cardiff Beech wood today.
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@Juddhunt1 & AB took theirs. We found them very useful when owling. Sure Judd will add more. Radios were in hand luggage (I think) but will check. The guards did not make a huge fuss but no way were they coming through. Tbh, mobiles with local sim proved ok between both cars.
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Our crew took two into Oman last year without problems. They did confiscate the two-way radios that were not returned however.
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Had to wake Darth up EVERY morning after 7.00, and I quote ‘I had a terrible nights sleep’. Bear in mind Rich & Sid had been up most of the night at the traps with the odd visit from me.
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Did you take a wrong turn on the M5 on your way the Upton Warren?
john thomas belsey@upstarts1979

Afternoon at @slimbridge_wild wintering birds were much depleted. Bewick's 4, Whitefronts 120+, Spotshank, Avocet 50, Blackwit 250, Snipe 4, Lapwing 6, Redshank 25, dunlin 1, Spoonbill, Great White Egret, Little egret 5, Med Gull 2nd sum. Several chiffchaff singing, Peregrine,

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Glamorgan is still a vice-county of course, vc41. Some people to the east of Offas Dyke sometimes refer to it as Glamorganshire but as you know it’s not a shire county.
Jeff Hazell@levelsbirder

@Juddhunt1 @RSPBHamWall Hi Judd, so a mistake I made then in my notebook & sightings spreadsheet. I believe, could be wrong, that Glamorgan is no longer a Welsh county as in 1974 it was split into Mid, South & West, then in 1996 these were split into County Boroughs, so Kenfig Pool is in Bridgend CB?

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Jeff, where to start? There used to be three ‘counties’, South, Mid, West. Then it got really daft with unitary authorities. Kenfig NNR has been in Glamorgan, Mig Glam, Bridgend BC & now for recording purposes sits in East Glamorgan. Not unlike the mess over your manor, C.U.B.A.
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@Juddhunt1 @RSPBHamWall Hi Judd, so a mistake I made then in my notebook & sightings spreadsheet. I believe, could be wrong, that Glamorgan is no longer a Welsh county as in 1974 it was split into Mid, South & West, then in 1996 these were split into County Boroughs, so Kenfig Pool is in Bridgend CB?

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