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Typical Otter dives in this habitat last around 15 seconds and on schedule an Otter burst up out of the sea for half her length, having clearly surfaced from a decent depth and acquired a good deal of momentum coming up.

My friend attended the national angling heats at the Carron Valley Reservoir last wee,.near Stirling. He saw a dead Osprey which had been killed by an otter. The bird had swooped down on the otter from behind with its talons out, but the otter managed to grab the osprey and I think it was...

Sitting at the computer this morning and listening to one of 'our' Blackbird fledglings running around in the undergrowth when I looked out of the window and saw some behaviour that intrigued me. A female Blackbird fledgling was 'lying' on the soil in the border, in full sun, wioth her wings...

I'm sure there will be different opinions, but I'm contemplating buying a 40x wide angle eyepiece for my Nikon 60mm fieldscope for sea watches (the 25-60x zoom is great at 25x but pretty dark at higher mag)... Any votes for the optimal magnification for sea watches?

Hi everybody. I am new to this forum and have only just got into 'birding' this year. As it is a bit different I thought you might like to see the bird responsible for my sudden extreme bird interest. Although I have always loved birds and put out food for them. I always assumed it was...

All, I have been asked by an international bulb manufacturer to gauge the level of interest in a bulb specially made for us moth'ers to attract moths. Please take it on trust that I have no financial interest in this whatsoever myself, I'm just the go-between with the contact who suggested...

I tried some of these by accident, they are my friends pair i think they were called standard EZ or something and they were at least a couple of years old. I asked him if i could have a look through them wow i was so impressed with the quality of them the field was wide and the view was bright...

Does anyone out there have experience with porro prism binoculars (8x30 etc) produced under the name Asahi Pentax. I believe Asahi is the original Japanese name for this company who later bought/adopted the Pentax label. I've spotted snippets of information here and there and the specs seem...

Only had a second to take this - so iit isn't as clear as I would have liked. I could hear a Lesser Whitethroat quite close to where I came across this little chap this morning. Correct habitat I think - tall hedgegrows along canal and farm land. Would be grateful for second opinions.