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    Send a PM to john b - he will sort you out with a copy OTC
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    Thanks for the comments - I must be doing something right but I think like Kay said, it is more by luck than judgement!! OTC
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    I made a trip to a place I know to take these pics this morning. She was on the nesting ledge - the young are about a fortnight old now - and then took up flight to chastise me. I took about 60 photos to get these, for some reason I couldn't get a crisp focus on it flying overhead. The auto settings were focussing on the wrong part of the image when she was on the ledge so I had to go manual for them which was probably my downfall - too much technology!! OTC
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    Been out for a wander today with my new 450D - actually my first DSLR so I am a bit ropy with lenses and settings etc but these weren't too bad for a first dabble I thought - what do you reckon? As you can see, there were one or two poppies in this field .... OTC
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    They simply make use of a space that has nothing else in - and looked quite pretty out on my deck Made a change from conventional toms, and the kids loved them OTC
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    I have 5 hanging baskets with 3 plants in each - called Tumbling Toms - actual variety is MASKOTKA They did ok last year and are growing better still this time OTC
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    Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with Duckwing's perspective, I also look at it from a 'keepers perspective so far as 'vermin on a shoot' is concerned. A litter of mink will decimate a release pen overnight (I have seen it happen) and so with a need to control the animals to protect stock then this must be your primary outlook. If the stream is nowhere near any protectable or confined game or poultry then live and let live So far as habitat is concerned, mink with run any waterway, still or moving, and any hedgerow or rabbit bury in search of food OTC
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    Looking good Kay, I got a 450D today but I cannot get out to play with it until tomorrow OTC
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    That seems to do the job well Mike - it would be interesting to have a slightly larger scale and more prolonged trial of it, but first signs look encouraging OTC
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    Could well be Kay - not 100% from the angle but the shape looks right OTC
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    Chub, definately OTC
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    The colours in the cloud are called irisation - a kind of spectrum effect from splitting light (a bit like a rainbow I suppose) It often happens with that type of high cloud if the sun angles are right OTC
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    Sheet cirrotratus at 37000 feet OTC
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    I am also bewildered about this - I thought about RTA and then discounted it To be that clean I can only think that they were 'removed' when the squirrel was a young one, maybe by a cat or something ... not sure really Got me stumped! OTC
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    Listen out for his whistling call Kay - it will give you a warning he is on his way so you can get the camera ready OTC
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    Royal British Legion will be after the second one down for their November appeal H OTC
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    Are those new Flatpack traps name stamped or are they plain coated steel? OTC
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    It's a song thrush OTC
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    Where do you get the Talpex long handle traps from AF? I don't think I have seen those before OTC
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    Which model Toshiba is it please? OTC
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    Good luck with the sales of these books Charlie I know that there are some very interesting and hard to find old books there OTC
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    Keep it simple guys - those extravagant tunnels look very nice aesthetically but are they really worth the effort? And I agree that the tunnels and traps inside will perform better on the horizontal for the reasons stated by Comanche I wonder if a simple wire mesh tunnel would do everything you want and would take seconds with wire cutters to make and be so much cheaper - if the trap/victim needed to be covered from public view in gardens or public areas then this can be achieved by wrapping with old hessian sack cloth which will blend in nicely with the site. The same goes for any
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    He lives about 2 miles from me OTC
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    Woodland tunnels for squirrels and rabbit holes for rabbits OTC
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    And I personally knew a man who's job it was to catch them and to advise the Ministry about big cats in the wild in the UK. Why would they employ a person specifically for a task that did not exist? And why is that the cats that he did catch were hushed up? See above post re- public outcry. OTC
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