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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
It's been a good few days on the bird front.
The greenfinches and chaffinches continue to eat the sunflower seeds without cease, but on occasion even they in turn have to wait. Even more occasionally it's a bullfinch who is making them wait. Even ...
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
I recently had a disaster with my binoculars, I lost them.
The really irritating thing is that the bins were not only a means of enjoying a great pastime - birdwatching not spying on the neighbours - they were also my 40th birthday present from R...
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
The balcony of delight, normally a scene of restrained but persistent avian feeding has in recent days become a bacchanalian maelstrom.
After much trial and error, I’ve found that the birds in my neck of the woods prefer dehusked sunflower kernels...
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
The lovely Roderick, Helen, Rona and Keith all contributed to my fortieth birthday present which was a pair of Leica binoculars - thanks again! As Roderick no doubt intended, I was bitten by the ornithological bug and started twitching within months....
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
Continuing the stuffed toy theme of recent blogs (see Hula Monkey) this blog is specially for Emma.
Once upon a time Emma came to “in Scotland” to see her Grandparents. During her visit she, Mummy and Special Uncle David went to the zoo to see all...
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
Anyone with a hint of IT knowledge would probably know that a MAC address has nothing to do with Apple's Macintosh computers but stands for the Media Access Control address. They would definitely know that it is the unique serial number assigned at m...
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
Astonishing.
I was asked today by an 18 year old, "Who's Julian Ceasar? Was he something to do with the church?"
Someone in Finance asked, "What is the budget?"
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
It's been a good few days for twitching.
The fogeys have been in London seeing cousin Colin being ennobled, please see the previous blog entry.
So while they have been enjoying themselves in London, I've been Bertie sitting. Having the use of M...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=213
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
Summer is just round the corner.
How can I tell?
By looking out of my living room window, scouring the sky with my Leica binoculars and seeing - swallows skimming the tree tops eating insects at every turn and stiff winged swifts screeching thr...
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Submitted : Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
As I walked into work on Friday morning, it was freezing. The rain was the finest drizzle that an easterly wind could whip up and scatter along The Shore. The water of Leith while not quite having "white horses" prancing on the crests of its waves, d...
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