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    I get them about once a month I suppose, and have done since my teens. Triggers for me are milk chocolate and bright sunlight - especially when driving Migalieve, straight to bed with curtains drawn is the only option - otherwise I get shakes, blindness and sickness - which makes it almost intolerable It is a commoner affliction than you would think though OTC
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    A few more ~ Woodpigeon 2 Moorhen 2 - you won't believe what she was sitting on . . . I think at least 3, maybe 4, different moorhens had laid in this nest OTC
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    A few more from today Coot 2 - a clutch of 6 Woodpigeon sitting tight 1 Water Rail with 5 OTC
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    Here's a few from today's walkabout Moorhen 1 Jackdaw - couldn't get high enough to see clutch of eggs unfortunately!! Coot 1 - clutch of 5 OTC
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    I was watching a pair of kingfishers feeding a hungry brood in a hole just like that today! OTC
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    I shot a dog fox last week carrying a bream of about 3 pounds in weight, presumably for the same reason OTC
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    Bump!! OTC
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    Great shots Jon, I found a whitethroat still building yesterday so I will go back to that one for another look soon, and a couple of LTT's. OTC
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    PM sent OTC
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    PM sent OTC
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    Snoop, It sounds obvious and cliched - but carrots are best, some find grated ones give off more scent. Silage can also work if the rabbits know what it is OTC
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    I found a nice low one yesterday, but no eggs yet which I thought was a little late for crows. Every clutch I have ever found has got one odd coloured egg, different from the rest. OTC
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    KX100 PM me your address and I will send you some to try OTC
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    Jack Legg invented the multi catch squirrel trap in the 1960's to deal with high populations of grey squirrels in forestry areas. Since then the design has altered slightly but its use has altered more. Food for the squirrels is generally more freely available in suburbia, and the prebaited maize cages are not quite so effective. OTC
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    For those interested in the continued bizarre goings on of our countryman friend Ditch Shitter follow the link http://ditchshitter.blogspot.com/ OTC
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    Elder was what I always used back in the day, it stinks when you cut it first off but the smell goes off quickly and, as you say, they are very lightweight. OTC
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    The straight sappers at the base of chestnut trees makes very good pegs - it splits straight too OTC
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    Great finds Jon, I went out for 3 hours and found nothing really worthy of note. I did find a nice little gang of fallow deer where I didn't expect to see them though I've only ever found one lapwing's nest, they aren't a common bird down here Keep them coming OTC
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    Superb! OTC
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    Mine are untreated also but I have considered using speed dip (or a cheaper substitute) All those US pro-trappers must be onto something OTC
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    Here's the tawny owl She's really hard to see but whilst I was craning my neck for a better photo she took off so this is the best I could get of her, you can make out her back sitting tight. And there's no way I could shin up there for a look at the clutch - I didn't manage it all those years ago either! It must be 40 foot up a smooth beech trunk . . . OTC
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    I noticed a similar thing today - I had a poke around the gorse and broom bushes looking for linnets and yellowhammers but nothing yet at all. Found a couple of blackbirds pre-lay and visited an old site I remembered from my youth where the tawny owls used to nest and sure enough she was there, probably a few generations later than the old birds I used to know. The site is a long narrow crack in a tremendous old beech tree - pics up later. OTC
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    The robins always seem to make a little runway to the nest with leaves and moss which gives them away OTC
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    A sett near my house has been having some spring time modernisation it seems, plenty of fresh soil pulled out over night mixed with old bedding OTC
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    Found this pheasants nest in the rushes this morning with a virtually full clutch of 12, and a robins nest tucked well into a bank still laying also, only 2 eggs so far OTC
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