Cookie (Paul Cook).

Birding/twitching/Insects/Fossils/ Anything Natural. Part time Astronaut and Professional Bigamist. Also do some Plastering...

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@robinmmorrison Hate it! The wholeNW quadrant of sky is blanked out for us at Westport by it, and depending on cloud density and height, the reflected light is almost equivalent to pale moonlight..why isn't their lights shrouded or under lampshades throwing it down to the plants where wanted ???

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@robinmmorrison Lovely stuff ! (they have virtually stopped using that spot now - appear to be concentrating on nests and egg laying instead)..

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@axbridge_birder Still got two pairs somewhere - they were so heavy I had a complicated shoulder harness else I'd end up with a raging headache - bought em s/hand for £60 in Bath around 1982...

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@alicksimmons Heard he's going to bring back Foot and Mouth disease as well, 'as its part of the countryside' and heritage...

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@alicksimmons @JLowenWildlife @DorsetWildlife ..aureolus - slip of the finger..

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@alicksimmons @JLowenWildlife @DorsetWildlife Think your beetle is Cryptocephalus aureoles or something very similar !

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@SAR_marine @alicksimmons Eristalis horticola I reckon. With the yellow in the hind legs could be E.pertinax but not with the dark smudge in wings..

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@KearsneyBirder @PortlandBirdObs With a heavy lens I have enough to carry, can see what I need through it, and take a photo if I want - why carry bins as well - no brainer...

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@GuyCampbell14 Hi Guy, remember I mentioned a dark bird that went past through the storm at the Bill - Great Skua ! If I had looked left I could have photographed it coming... cheers

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@alicksimmons @somersetbirds @RSPBSouthWest @JulianThomas @SuttonBingham @JohnHansford67 But quite a few in gardens behind Thorney and Lower Burrow perhaps ?

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@alicksimmons @somersetbirds @RSPBSouthWest @JulianThomas @SuttonBingham @JohnHansford67 Much more likely a walnut ? Seen quite a few carrying them...

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@alicksimmons @JWentomologist @SAR_marine @JLowenWildlife Love to see one here - saw just one in Turkey but couldn't get the topside on camera from where I was...

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@CarlBovisNature @RareBirdAlertUK That's just showing off !

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@GriffinWildlife @BirdGuides Little cracker ain't she !

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@JulianThomas19 @NorthNorfolkDC Just as well spray any nettles, brambles, and thorn bushes within two yards of footpaths in case people jump into them...

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@lizardschwartz They are addicted to that plant - Creeping Comfrey. Have a patch of it by the back door - loads of Hairy-foots and 100's of Scarlet Tiger moth caterpillars, every year !

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@robinmmorrison @DillingtonHouse @chardandilynews @lovesomersetonl Was hearing it loud and clear In Westport !

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@scraggybirder @BritishMoths @Lancswildlife @alicksimmons

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@Bigjohnatyeo Henpecked ...

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@alicksimmons Eristalsis tenax