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One for the birders
Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 16:55
by jonesey2k
This chap has been hanging around all day

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 19:01
by TobyV
Dont you mean "twitchers"?
Nice photo, think its a sparrowhawk :think:
Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 19:33
by jonesey2k
Heh, I thought you might like it

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 19:50
by TobyV
Tonks wrote:Birders and twitchers are the same thing (ish)...
Ah, fair enough - hadnt heard that term before. A friend of mine is an RSBP member and I encountered some twitchers in a hide at an RSPB place in Herts. The increduluous tone of voice of the old man telling us he'd seen a plover that morning caused me to think how lucky we are that the things havent got registrations, or people like him would be noting them down

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 20:04
by Garry Russell
At least they don't get replaced by a newer version that comes from everywhere else but here :roll:
Garry
Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 20:45
by ianhind
"Birders" is the non-UK version of "twitchers" I believe.
Re: One for the birders
Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 21:45
by speedbird591
jonesey2k wrote:This chap has been hanging around all day

This chap is a
lady, Jonesy!
Toby's right, she's a sparrowhawk and she's waiting for you to put food out to lure the poor little birds into your killing fields. How could you?
Ian

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 21:48
by ianhind
Ian
At least it's vaguely normal.
Not like those other bird killers who do it for sport
CATS

:axe:
Re: One for the birders
Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 22:00
by jab
Male Sparrowhawks are grey and Females are brown.Nice shot and your lucky to see it as I never seen one in are gardern :huf:
James
Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 22:16
by speedbird591
ianhind wrote:At least it's vaguely normal......Not like those other bird killers who do it for sport........CATS
My cats don't p*ss around with birds, Ian! They have their eye on bigger prey!
Ian
