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9 minutes ago, Mice! said:
The blackbird is probably moulting which could have thrown you.
Now you're just being kind! 😄
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I shall retire suitably crushed!
In my (weak) defence, this bird's wing feathers are still not fully emerged from their sheaths, so I assumed a fledgling and its beak is much heavier than any blackbird I have seen, so on both counts I discounted a blackbird itself.
But still alive and recuperating in my aviary. Won't take food from me yet or from the ground, though it is able to move around if it has to. Time will tell....
Had success with this Jackdaw, dropped by a crow, who is now whizzing around quite happily with all the others in the field
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Thought juvenile blackbirds were brown and flecked?
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Any ideas what this is? Saved from a cat by a neighbour, my bird book has let me down. Obviously a nestling,just fledged. About the size of a juvenile jackdaw or blackbird. Not so obvious from the photo is that the eyes have bright yellow rings around them. Beak is corvid like and bright yellow/orange. Nearest I can think is a chough but wrong colour beak and a bit small?
Queue up and make me look uneducated! 😄
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It's a logarithmic scale, each 'unit' represents a 10-fold increase on the one before.ie 1=10, 2=100, 3=1000 (unit = the power of 10 used)
1 minute ago, Lord v said:It's a logarithmic scale, it's needed where you have exponential growth or your graph looks like a vertical line.
It's also used on a lot of loading charts in design calcs.
beat me to it!
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Syzygy
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22 minutes ago, lancer425 said:
Yerman i am not used to consultations and such sort in any way so excuse my nativity, but when they draw conclusions is it on a proportional basis. ?
Like by way of illustration if you had say Against 78% of 14000 10 920 in one camp but in the other camp for..you had but 63% of 22700 at 14 301 would the against s win?
Because i am sure WJ will out strip us on numbers easily .
Fair point, well made: it's not about absolute numbers ie a vote, but it points to the strength of feeling for and against (and they will/should take proportions into account where they can). And in an ideal world, which it isn't, they would apply different weights to responses according to eg the specific impact on the individuals responding, whether they're writing an individual email or simply a cut and paste petition letter etc.
My point was that individual emails don't water down the representations by umbrella organisations, quite the reverse, they provide extra support and ballast. So we should all write in.
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2 hours ago, lakeside1000 said:
If you are sifting emails looking for genuine evidence of the need for pest control, how many people will it take and how long will it take to read several thousand emails, the government department looking into this will view this as a pain in the butt to have to pull staff away from other work to sort out this mess caused by NE, the actual evidence and fact will be 'watered down' by the excessive numbers of emails, yes we could all send in our thoughts and if we had any, actual evidence, but the groups who represent us can do a much better job , and they will ask us, the members if they need any specifics,
Like a lot of public consultations (I have personal experience mostly of plannning enquiries and consultations), it's not that they read every detail of every email, it's more that they categorise you as one side or t'other and use the volume of responses to judge the mood and the seriousness of the reaction. They will know that BASC, NGO, CLA and the like will have the most detailed and reasoned evidence and will give it the appropriate weight, but it's still important to make your views known.
Not least because WJ and friends will be writing in too.............
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For those who enjoyed it (like me), why not give the Beeb some positive feedback about it? Might encourage more of the same (well I can dream...)
You can do it here https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/faqs/forms
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You ought to be able to use the existing trap, but it would obviously connect at a lower point than the bath trap did. That means you may have to lift a floorboard to give it the clearance below the shower (though often the floor board has already been removed for the original bath installation). That's not really a difficult job.
BUT (which is where I came unstuck with a similar project) that means the fall between the end of the trap and your downpipe may not be enough to take the water away quickly and you'll end up with a constant pool of water in your shower. That means you'll have to cut a new lower entry point to your downpipe and block off the old hole.
The alternative (which I ended up using) is to lift the shower tray using 4 pieces of 4x2 to form a platform for the edges of the tray. Other dimensions are available to suit your specific need. You can then tile or paint the bare wood.
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If you're not happy with webuyanycar,com then also try Evans Halshaw (evanshalshaw.com I think) who do essentially the same thing.
On the two occasions I wanted to shift an old car, EH came up with an offer that was well above WBAC and when I chose to take one of them in, they didn't quibble or try to knock me down on price. (that was a Ford Galaxy valued at £4600 which I reckoned I would be lucky to move on for much more than that, WBAC offered £3500)
The other is a 2003 Ford Focus with a recurrent problem with cam sensors and fuel injectors - WBAC offered £180 EH offered £300. Actually going to let my mechanic have it for £300 as he is confident he can fix it up.
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In the interests of balance on this thread…
As a Northern Irish Person Permanently Living in England (you can work out the acronym, swear filter won’t allow it) I was tearing out what little hair I have left, five minutes before the end of the France-Ireland game. Even allowing for the conditions, a dreadfully tedious match but one which should never have been in doubt. Then France take a one-point lead with nanoseconds to go ….aaargh!
46 (FORTY SIX!!!) phases later with the clock very red, that drop goal from just about the 10-yard line goes over. Could not believe it. And nor could they!
God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world
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If Crowthorne is anywhere near you, these guys are very helpful, will cost about £4
http://www.divecrew.co.uk/gas/
ym
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This is my gun. Rationalising my kit! Not sure why photos aren't shown but you can see them by clicking the full article link.
YM
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google is your friend
http://www.airgunspares.com/store/product/11569/Hatsan-Escort-Stock-Shim./ appear to be in stock
or
http://www.dauntseyguns.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=EDGAR-S9-C appear to be out of stock but will order for you
funnily enough been looking for the same thing
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Couple of links that might help
BASC response https://basc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2017/11/BASC-response-to-NEs-consultation-Website.pdf which may guide your response - or not!
and BASC web page introducing it https://basc.org.uk/wildfowling/wildfowling-advice/wildfowling-consents-consultation/
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6 minutes ago, panoma1 said:
The run up to Christmas now starts in September/October, by the time the day arrives it can only be an anticlimax!.....and for me it certainly is!
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Blimey, that Micromesh stuff is astonishing. I am very far from skilled in these matters but after using W&D as JJsDad suggested, I only had to do a light wiping with each pad in turn and I ended up with an amazing finish. You wouldn't believe the buttplate had been anywhere near a file.
For anyone else interested, I got mine from gc_abrasives via the Bay of E code no 232107061319. They might seem expensive but they're well worth it.
Thanks again chaps.
YM
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Brilliant. Thank you.
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sorry, double post
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No, not what you’re thinking. I’m hoping that the PW massive can advise on how to polish out file/sanding marks on a new buttplate for my MK70.
Briefly, I managed to crack the original buttplate (dropped it on a tiled floor as I was putting it back in the cabinet – doh!). It’s that Bakelite-type plastic with BC Miroku embossed on it. I’ve sourced a new one which is almost but not quite the same size – it fits the stock perfectly except at the toe, where it protrudes over the stock by a couple of mm. To get a perfect fit at the toe, I’ll have to file or sand down the new buttplate, which is easily done. But that will obviously dull the shiny Bakelite finish on that part of the edge of plate, even with the finest sandpaper.
So before I start I thought I would ask if anyone knows how to restore the finish to what it should be.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
YerMan
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Hi all
Have been following the forum for a long while now, thought I should resurrect a very old subscription. Originally from Ulster (hence the username) but been this side of the water for 40 years now. Do a bit of clays from time to time, getting into wildfowling now that I've got more time on my hands, been flying hawks for several years, and every so often I get out to not catch trout with the fly rod.
Look forward to joining in!
Who would want to be an Ambulance Medic, Wiltshire and around the UK
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Magistrates court, as I understand it. Therefore no jury.