My mum and her husband were doing a bunch of birdwatching around their place. They were listing every single species of bird they saw, but within a specifically defined range - I think on the beach from the headland to part-way down the beach, in the sand dunes, and a specific distance inland. Last I heard they were up to something like 120-150 species before they ran out.
I'm thinking I should get a bird book for the UK... And maybe animals - I saw deer today
Aye that's called patch listing. With 'local patch' referring to a place you visit on a regular basis to birdwatch.
For a field guide I recommend the Collins Bird Guide. The Most Complete Field Guide to the Birds of Britain in Europe by Mullarney and Svensson. It has some of the best illustrations I've ever seen in a field guide, the information is fantastic and the layout makes it very easy to use.
For a field guide I recommend the Collins Bird Guide. The Most Complete Field Guide to the Birds of Britain in Europe by Mullarney and Svensson. It has some of the best illustrations I've ever seen in a field guide, the information is fantastic and the layout makes it very easy to use.
When I was a kid, my constant companion was the Observer's Guide to British Birds. It fit easily in a pocket, and had a beautifully simple layout - one species per double-page spread, picture on one side, text opposite. Unfortunately the only copies I can find online seem to be older and more dated than the one I remember, which must have been printed in the mid-70s.
Is there such a thing nowadays as a pocket-sized guide?
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When I was a kid, my constant companion was the Observer's Guide to British Birds. It fit easily in a pocket, and had a beautifully simple layout - one species per double-page spread, picture on one side, text opposite. Unfortunately the only copies I can find online seem to be older and more dated than the one I remember, which must have been printed in the mid-70s.
Is there such a thing nowadays as a pocket-sized guide?
The guide I linked to isn't that big, but wouldn't fit in your average pocket. Still it has such a wealth of information that you won't regret getting it.
If you have an i-phone you could get an electronic field guide. Some are quite inpressive and some even come with actual bird song recordings! Unfortunately I don't have a smart phone so I really can't provide advice on this.
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She rang me about an hour ago from the top of the gondola in Queenstown... they flew down there for the day so he could propose. I approve of this man
(this isn't the first time my sister has been engaged. The first guy was a jerk who broke off the wedding... I have a better feeling about this guy, for one - I've met him and I approve, and I never liked her first fiance... and two, her first engagment, I got a text message. This time around, she rang my mobile from hers - and we're in different countries.)
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I'm considering taking a trip to Sydney when their Supanova rolls around, as it's just days after my 21st birthday. What do you all think? I will, of course, be in cosplay.
I'm considering taking a trip to Sydney when their Supanova rolls around, as it's just days after my 21st birthday. What do you all think? I will, of course, be in cosplay.
Do it. And I can give you more reason to...I'll be there with some of my awesome cosplay friends...Probably as Cats (from the musical). So...That's a reason!
Do it. And I can give you more reason to...I'll be there with some of my awesome cosplay friends...Probably as Cats (from the musical). So...That's a reason!
Oh my god! I'm not the only one on the internet who likes Cats! I want to hug you!
*hugs and celebrates*
My own cosplays will be from TF2 and/or Assassin's Creed, depending on what does and does not get finished on time.
Oh my god! I'm not the only one on the internet who likes Cats! I want to hug you!
*hugs and celebrates*
My own cosplays will be from TF2 and/or Assassin's Creed, depending on what does and does not get finished on time.
Aaaaccctually, I'm not a big fan of cats, /BUT/ the cosplay group I'm the photographer for/part of is one of the major Cats cosplayers in Melbourne, and I believe she was at sydnova last year...And some of the group in general wants to do it. I'll 100% be coming, but only like, 75% be cosplaying a Cat :P
If you go I'd totally want to grab lunch with you or something. I'd likely be there all three days (:
Aaaaccctually, I'm not a big fan of cats, /BUT/ the cosplay group I'm the photographer for/part of is one of the major Cats cosplayers in Melbourne, and I believe she was at sydnova last year...And some of the group in general wants to do it. I'll 100% be coming, but only like, 75% be cosplaying a Cat :P
If you go I'd totally want to grab lunch with you or something. I'd likely be there all three days (:
Is that a date?
I kid, I kid. I think you'd be a great person to hang out with, though.
My younger brother is walking around singing the Trollolol song. Somebody please end my suffering. Please.
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YOUR FEAR! YOUR FEAR! SO SWEET! SO STRONG! TO TEASE MY TONGUE, YOUR LIVES ARE GONE!
YOUR ODDS UNFAVORED, MY WEB TOO STRONG! SPEED WON'T NEGATE A LINE STEPPED WRONG!
YOU DARE? DARE SMITE THIS AWESOME BEAST? YOUR FATES ARE SEALED AS MY NEXT FEAST!
HEED THIS BECK AND HEAR THIS CALL! FIGHT ME STILL, YOUR WILLS SHALL FALL!
Just listen to something soothing. It helps me block out my friend's terrible music.
However, if he's being really obnoxious about it, then I've got nothing.
Been raining for two days on and off here. Lovely and cool after the hot weather we've been having, but the sudden switch has made me sick, as it always does. I'd just started getting over a bit of a flu, too Ah well. In other news, I'm selling a single-handed sword in the style of a 13th-14th century military sword. Hammer forged, through-hardened. Wanting around 300 including shipping within the eastern side of Australia. Anybody interested before I go to eBay?
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Been raining for two days on and off here. Lovely and cool after the hot weather we've been having, but the sudden switch has made me sick, as it always does. I'd just started getting over a bit of a flu, too Ah well. In other news, I'm selling a single-handed sword in the style of a 13th-14th century military sword. Hammer forged, through-hardened. Wanting around 300 including shipping within the eastern side of Australia. Anybody interested before I go to eBay?
It's times like these I wish I had more money...
Why're you selling it?
And as for the weather where I live, it's been rainy some days, other days it's been sunny.
We managed to get our lawn mowed, which is good. And I didn't have to do it, which is even better!
Various reasons. I don't use it as much as the other two currently with me, even though I prefer it to my katana but mostly because as much as I love my swords, I prefer being able to pay rent and buy food.
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I'd go to his house and steal all the awesome.
But I'm afraid I'd accidentally stab myself to death.
The weather where I live is unbearable for me yet for some reason I don't seem to care.
I moved to the central coast about three years ago from sydney and the heat is truly ridiculous.
But everyone of my friends is wearing shorts or in the case of girls really short skirts, while I've been wearing a wooly jacket for the past three months just to troll everyone else who is complaining how hot it is.
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It's been raining here recently as well, and at the moment, the sky is that bright white it goes when it's overcast, but not grey overcast.
It's too bright to even look at.
We finally get to autumn and the temperature shoots up again. Stupid weather.
I'd try and will Melbourne's "wonderful" weather over to you, but it changes every 15 minutes, so I'd probably send you a heatwave rather than a thunderstorm :P
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