http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/ London Birders Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:38:46 GMT paul@... http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11935 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11935 Surely once the VM hide is built on top of Tower42 and kitted out with digitally enhanced Questars we will be able to see all the London sites, Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:37 GMT ANDREW VERRALL http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11934 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11934 Hi Des, Thanks for this link to the Ospreys in Herts article. Last week I missed the start of the item on BBC 1 London lunchtime news, so didn't get the place Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:04:20 GMT Steve Spooner http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11933 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11933 Sorry Des mate, but it ain't going to work. The geology around here is about 6 inches of top soil (sometimes less) then up to 4 foot of London Clay. Hard work Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:32:23 GMT Des McKenzie http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11932 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11932 Ok, I'm calling time on this Two Tree Island reportage. No more please. It's significantly far enough outside the London recording area for us to live without Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:12:32 GMT Malcolm Riddler http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11931 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11931 Hi You were with the LNHS trip.... If missed - What can I say - Urrr Try harder next Time. Corn Bunting (2) - With reed bunting opposite hide & Over ... These Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:55:29 GMT Reuben Braddock http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11930 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11930 I just had a peregrine fly past my office window (next to Southwark bridge) at eye level with a big piece of prey in its mouth - must have been only 3 metres Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:21:52 GMT lbodini http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11929 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11929 Flippin 'eck! Just had a Woodcock low over the garden, landed for a moment in the neighbours' then took off again (possibly scared off by some bloke appearing Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:14:08 GMT Lee Johnson http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11928 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11928 Hi Just to say went for a short walk in Stokes Field (KT7) this morning and saw Treecreeper & Nuthatch however got home looked out the kitchen window to see Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:13:37 GMT Des McKenzie http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11927 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11927 ... Quality gen Steve, rather not risk the damage. Plan B: London Birders Tunneling Committee. Wildfowl Counting or Vis-migging?. Sod All That, Let's Get Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:54:00 GMT Dave Burbridge http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11926 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11926 ... Must have missed these - where were they? I thought I was there the whole day...?? -- dave_burbridge@... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:15:05 GMT Steve Spooner http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11925 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11925 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, Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:56:36 GMT Des McKenzie http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11924 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11924 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 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:47:42 GMT nick_tanner@... http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11923 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11923 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 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:39:43 GMT Dave Morrison http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11922 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11922 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 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:18:24 GMT Nathalie Mahieu http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11921 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/message/11921 ... 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