Mike Powell

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

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@hairyleader

[Dazzling Doubter @DDoubter53]

100% Me Jen!

Heat pumps are large, expensive inefficient shit boxes!

EV's are heavy, dangerous inefficient and expensive death traps that are toxic to the environment and the equivalent to sitting inside a microwave! They can also be switched off remotely!

As for Smart Meters! Don't get me started, dangerous as they come! The radiation given off by one of these abominations can cause headaches, fatigue, inflammation, insomnia and in high radiation cases cancer!
They too are surveillance devices in your home which is against human rights and can also be manipulated remotely!

Anyone investing in any of these killers I have some magic beans to sell you if your interested! 👍😂🤣

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@Llynfian Good to see you Sid & have a matter about crazy conspiracy theories doing the rounds!

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@hairyleader

[Daniel Langston @DLangstonBirder]

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: https://t.co/dJTrFHbN7E

[Daniel Langston @DLangstonBirder]

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: https://t.co/dJTrFHbN7E

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@DLangstonBirder @hairyleader

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

Alun, are you suggesting it’s a hybrid? Asking for a friend.

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

c25 Narrow-lipped Helleborines at the usual north Cardiff Beech wood today.

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@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.

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

Our crew took two into Oman last year without problems. They did confiscate the two-way radios that were not returned however.

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

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.

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@Roadrunner_Phil

[Daniel Langston @DLangstonBirder]

Anyone good at their Falcons?

Huge, sat on the rocks at Boulmer.

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@hairyleader @Juddhunt1
Check it out.

[martin price @smart0406]

List of sightings for those interested #glosbirds @slimbridge_wild

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@hairyleader

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

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,

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@hairyleader

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@hairyleader

[kevin (Birdman) willans @kevinwillans5]

Waxwing at Aberavon docklands, S Wales, A group of about a Dozen.

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

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?

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

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.

[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?

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

@Juddhunt1 Checking on flights & ferries tonight. How you fixed this weekend?

[Helsinki Birder @HelsinkiBirder]

Oh Offaly...🤦

[Mike Powell @PortlyLeader]

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[Paul Hackett @PaulHdigiman]

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