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Positive signs here of having Eagles back in the Lakes one day. I think that solitry male died around 6 years ago now and he spent his last 12 years by himself. I called in there on two seperate occasions years back to see him and failed both times. My sister sent the screenshot by the way, she lives up there. Interesting though to think what is actually knocking about up in the sky that we're not aware of. I spotted a f@@king huge bird here in notts a few weeks back soaring on a thermal.. way up above a fair of crows that where larking about, they wasn't even aware of it's presence it was that high. Only time I've seen anything like that before was in Scotland. Pretty sure it was an Eagle of some sort.. maybe a juvenile WTE from the Isle of White project roaming about the country as they do at that age before returning to where they were raised as they apparently do. 

I'm no expert by the way on this.. sure does interest me though.

Anyone else seen or heard anything similar??

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And had a good few with air rifle ,gardens a no fly zone now ,they give it a wide berth 

A mount i got done by a local lady(who's also easy on the eye) for a keeper i know who found it when we were out hole checking one day,cock blackbird..

Going to make a head dress out of them when I've enough !

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Yep. A rather larger than normal bird of prey, defo bigger than a buzzard and a lot darker, spotted just outside Ashby de la Zouch by two walkers not prone to exaggeration. We thought eagle. Jok.

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  On 18/04/2022 at 18:45, Greyman said:

I saw this twice some years ago soaring high over avonmouth,turned out to be a lamaguire vulture with a 9ft wingspan quite something, like you say surprising what’s flying about up there un noticed ?

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Good spot that mate! I remember reading about it at the time when it was over your way. Had one in the Derbyshire peaks too a couple of years back.. was only an hour from me, suppose i should have gone over for a butchers. 

There's Albatross at Bempton now.. been there a while i think..

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Albie returned to the RSPB Bempton Cliffs nature reserve on 30 March

 

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  On 18/04/2022 at 19:12, mackem said:

On the subject of BOP's anyone seen this..... 

THERAPTORCOLLECTION.COM

A rare opportunity to buy a stunning collection of Raptor Taxidermy.

 

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Amazing collection that mate thanks!! Interesting reading through the various birds. A lot of vonga that though eh... 800K!! 

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  On 18/04/2022 at 20:18, McVey said:

Not quite on par with these finds but I'm working beside the Derby County ground on a bridge that crosses the Derwent.

I heard the things before I saw em, around 5 ring necked parakeets, didn't know they were that far north.

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Yes mate.. some being seen over in Notts too recently. I know what you mean with their call.. not used to hearing that racket up here are we!!  

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  On 18/04/2022 at 20:11, Bush Rummager said:

Amazing collection that mate thanks!! Interesting reading through the various birds. A lot of vonga that though eh... 800K!! 

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That's someone's life, imagine a private collection like that, it's taken time to build up, it's even got Goldie the London zoo escapee Eagle in there, I think he might have been better breaking the collection up to sell it however? 

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Who's that taxidermist, specialises in BOP's?  Gadd, is it? Lancashire way, I think. Bet he had some hand in that lot.

(Dunno if I'm especially tired. Or if this is what it's like as ye start to fall apart with ageing! Can't remember shit, these days)

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  On 18/04/2022 at 23:14, Ken's Deputy said:

Who's that taxidermist, specialises in BOP's?  Gadd, is it? Lancashire way, I think. Bet he had some hand in that lot.

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He did, Mike Gadd, mounted a number of the specimens in the collection. 

 

  On 18/04/2022 at 20:58, Bush Rummager said:

Making their way slowly up North by the looks of it!! Was loads of them and Kites when we stayed at Marlow few months back. 

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I have found dozens of nests, thousands of the birds in Surrey, roosts of a couple of thousand birds. 

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  On 18/04/2022 at 19:12, mackem said:

On the subject of BOP's anyone seen this..... 

THERAPTORCOLLECTION.COM

A rare opportunity to buy a stunning collection of Raptor Taxidermy.

 

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I might of worked this out wrong...... But 800,000 for 133 cases, that's over 6 grand a case? Surely even stuffed BOP aren't worth that

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  On 18/04/2022 at 23:46, mackem said:

He did, Mike Gadd, mounted a number of the specimens in the collection. 

 

I have found dozens of nests, thousands of the birds in Surrey, roosts of a couple of thousand birds. 

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There was 6 of them sat in a tree outside my old ducks place 2 yrs back in South Wales...stayed in a place at Sussex gardens London 10 yrs ago,there was more parrots than pigeons ?

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  On 19/04/2022 at 09:27, Daniel cain said:

There was 6 of them sat in a tree outside my old ducks place 2 yrs back in South Wales...stayed in a place at Sussex gardens London 10 yrs ago,there was more parrots than pigeons ?

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The originals supposedly came from Shepperton studios Dan, I have a place about 5 miles from the studios, there's thousands of them in the area. post-1930-0-38260600-1474394764_thumb.jpegpost-1930-0-83195000-1497107114_thumb.jpg

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