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cragman

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  1. Nope, not me. I’m only a few miles from there, normally climb up from the Hayfield side. Or catch the train in and walk home from edale. I was that way a week on Sunday. ??
  2. Having a week up in the Highlands this week with my wife. Glorious weather so far ?? Managed a visit to Fort George and the battlefields of Culloden. Great day out, sunny and hot. Worth the visit is Fort George. Culloden is interesting but if you done get roped into paying to see a small exhibition, £11 each, it’s free ??
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    Packham

    Yep, making him look like he won the argument without even turning up. He’ll use it now at every opportunity to make those that banned him look fools and feel guilty. He’s just a shti stirrer
  4. Great night, his voice hasn’t changed, still getting the high notes. Well worth a watch if you get the chance ??
  5. I’ll be listening to Graham Nash later when I go see him in halifax, he of Hollies fame and Crosby, Stills and Nash ?
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    SERENGETTI

    Too much music in it for me. I did ten minutes then binned it??
  7. Ill bet he was “Neil” anyway ? the farmers do it round here, working well into the night. ?? Good luck to them, it’s a long day
  8. Sold mine to a lad on moochers years ago. Bought all mine at the broughton show. Mr Hobson had a stall there
  9. “Confrontation” it was called Fireman.
  10. This is a Hobson. Used to have a few of his but sold them on after enjoying seeing them on a wall. I’ve just this one of his now. That car boot picture is a little like a Mick Cawston
  11. Snipe chick ?? Came to see me as I sat on the moor
  12. But the pipit in this nest has been sitting on her clutch for at least six days before the cuckoo layed, so I’d say the cuckoo chick won’t hatch, it’ll be too far behind the others incubation wise. But you never know. I’m watching another nest on the same moor hoping the cuckoo will visit. If you fancy a trip to photograph any young ones let me know. ?
  13. Found a parasitised Meadow Pipits last week. Lovely sight to pull the foliage back to reveal a cuckoos egg among the pipits eggs. I’d been watching this nest hoping a cuckoo would call ?
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    over 75s

    There’s got to be a way that people can have the BBC removed from their channel choice so that it becomes subscription only. Maybe they’re scared that no one will subscribe? I very rarely watch tv and even less the bias BBC
  15. Photos here, Still for sale
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    Cuckoo

    They’ll lay regardless of if the host is there or not. They always lay in the afternoon and try to coincide it with the hosts being away from the nest, but it doesn’t always happen. As they glide to the nest, pipits especially will rise up and attack the female cuckoo with some ferocity, drawing feathers from the head of the bird. If you ever find a nest with a cuckoos egg in, look around the outside of the nest, there’s sometimes the odd cuckoo feather lying there if it was recent. I’ve watched cuckoos flying about and they’re always accompanied by a few small noisy birds. Some pipits almost
  17. “Build it and they will come” no need for material, the birds will sort it. This is in one of my towers in work. Pied Wagtail. It was coming in every year causing a right mess with its nest and shitting everywhere, so I put a box up over the entrance where it was coming in ?
  18. Grey Wagtail ? coming along nicely
  19. Always used the Remington. The guy who mentored me (god rest his soul) got me set up with them. I’ve hit a few bunnies with them ? I was expecting the first round pop last night but didn’t get it. Always got it with the remmys
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