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I was having a day off.

^unethical! [we need an edit button!]

Killing wild rodents to bait them?

Trying to imagine the outcry if raptor photography tours used crate-loads of deliberately killed voles and Wood Mice to throw out as bait. Just for photo tourism. Marine life is wildlife too. 2/2

Seems quite ethical for 'wildlife tours' taking people on boats to photograph Gannets around conservation areas, and happy with killing/wasting huge amounts of other native wildlife just to throw at them as bait - wildlife (like Mackerels) already under huge pressure from industrial fishing. 1/2

Brett Richards' first really big birding achievement.

Warmer winters (climate change), woodland expansion & maturation (more/better habitat), and huge numbers of people feeding them vast quantities of supplementary food in their gardens, nature reserves and local woods across the country (improved survival).

Naturally. An MI6 man would never lose his head.

"I was often asked whether I was CIA." Dodged the question like a true MI6.

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Are Wilson's illustrations each meant to be a different variation? Many look virtually the same.

So many questions. How would you even go about verifying that?!

Martinais et al. Evidence for a relationship between bird body size and uncertainty in individual morphological measurements at ringing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

That definitely is a Willow Tit.

@bensecker.bsky.social One of yours?

Perfect for a long lunch. 7 hours should be enough 😉

They had Workday too?

One of the best pubs in the World down that way (The Bell Inn, Aldworth).

Yep, my mistake.

His birding shows were great, and it's easy to forget how much they cut through - it made him (and birding) incredibly well known in the 90s. Even made it as a running gag on Alan Partridge! But Springwatch didn't suit him, I thought.