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Ian McKerchar


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Has the link on the website to my email let people down? Could anyone with further details please let me know as soon as possible, preferably by emailing me on ian@mckerchar1.freeserve.co.uk , as this is a bit of a worry to me

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Geoff Hargreaves


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hello all,i,ve had another thoughtsome people may have used the sites email system to enter and as me and tony know it can let you down.I email ian with my guess on hotmail and he does confirm reciept.so if you have emailed through the site and ian didn,t diss your choice it,s fair to guess your entry dissapeared into the ether of electronics.

any comments will be gratefully recieved
cheers geoff

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Geoff Hargreaves


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tony and all was tierd and emotional when i wrote that, sorry
cheers geoff

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Tony Coatsworth


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Hey no clues now !

Here's me thinking a duck and and a duck, or a duck and a grebe, or a duck and some sort of furry mammal ??

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Geoff Hargreaves


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1990 , come on tony beer has gone up at least 2p a gill since then, let,s try to and get back to the comp. tis a duck and a wader but which one? only time will tell ,

cheers geoff  

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Tony Coatsworth


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£36 on www.abebooks.co.uk

I paid £7.99 for mine in 1990 !

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Tom McKinney


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MacMillan stopped publishing both the bird ID guides some years ago, and they are now like gold dust. Unless you want to fork out a small fortune then you pretty much have no chance. I bought mine in 1992 for £14.95 - one recently sold on eBay for over £60. Of course you could get really lucky, I remember someone sold one on Birdforum for £15.50 a couple of years ago. Your best bet is eBay.

They are brilliant, but I wouldn't pay £60 for them.

-- Edited by Tom McKinney at 12:35, 2007-03-18

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Dean Macdonald


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  It's available at www.amazon.co.uk  just type "macmillan birds" in the search box in the books section.

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Henry Cook


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I've been told the macmillan guide is great too but cant get hold of a copy. Does anyone still sell it??

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Tony Coatsworth


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I find my MacMillan guide is the best for these mystery birds. Collins etc. always show them in nice fresh plumage, whereas MacMillan concentrates on the confusion species, juvenile plumages etc. and doesn't even bother with mint adults !

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Dean Macdonald


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 Couldn't agree more. I'm still studying this months and they're not as easy as they appear. Which has been the case every month, apart from last month which i got both right!
 This is certainly a great way of learning to identify birds and good fun, i look at birds more closely these days and pick out more subtle details.
Of course it's a lot easier when you can see there heads!!

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Geoff Hargreaves


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it,s late it,s dark and it,s raining , so i,ve had another look at the march mystery birds,i,ve already sorted them out,same as i did in nov dec jan,got on the score board feb(well chuffed)but it is difficult without a decent field guide so you might need to go shopping,if your having a go privatley (i watched nov dec)carry on ,but there,s no shame in failure to identify the very difficult images ian picks.But the learning curve is usefull,as i,m out and about i,ve started to pick up 'jizz' leg and bill colour and other details,i.e todays coal tit(nothing else has a mohican)so have a go,
 
cheers geoff

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