I am now a Merlin twitcher. Waiting for my first bird which at moment are drowned out by traffic 
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I am now a Merlin twitcher. Waiting for my first bird which at moment are drowned out by traffic
Best try Barrybados beach. You'll find some rough old birds there today.
That's a Suzuki Swift.I am now a Merlin twitcher. Waiting for my first bird which at moment are drowned out by traffic
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
There are a lot of swallows in High Wycombe......................
What are you trying to say? Come on, spit it out.There are a lot of swallows in High Wycombe......................
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
What are you trying to say? Come on, spit it out.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Funnily enough I'll be across there next week for a few weeks in my favourite cottage - I'll give you an update if I spot any more.
I don't think there are many turkeys across there, but does this app pick up gobbling?
Just been sat in the gardens with mam at the care home she's in.I am now a Merlin twitcher. Waiting for my first bird which at moment are drowned out by traffic
It picked up a few birds, but most were being drowned out by a chiff chaff.
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My first bird song. A Eurasian Wren. Somewhere in tree in Pontypool.
For a little bird, they make a racket.
Just installed the app, looks like I've got a feathered 'friend' flown in from Llandaff, it's identified a ****ehawk.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I’m off to Reading this week for granddaddy daycare. Looking forward to seeing and listening to the red kites which fly over my daughter’s house every day. And the cuckoos.
Yesterday at our club trout fishery. There were a few others that didnt fit on the screenshot.
I stopped the session before the Oystercatchers started their raucus aerial display.
I stopped the session before the Oystercatchers started their raucus aerial display.
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While I was fishing, Mrs Remote went out with a friend. The first part of the outing was to watch the motorbikes coming up the M6 for Dave Day. Dave Day celebrates the life of Dave Mayers, one half of the Hairy Bikers.
The convoy starts in London and finishes in Dave's home town of Barrow in Cumbria with bikes joining along the way with an estimated 40k bikes involved.
Mrs Remote and friend settled themselves on a bridge over the M6 between J18 and 19 just south of Knutsford services where they were having a pit stop.
Police stopped the traffic on the M6 when the bikes were due to leave the services. It took over 15 minutes for all the bikes to exit the services.
As an aside, on Friday I drove Mrs Remote to 6 bridges over the M6 so she could pick the optimum venue based on length of M6 that could be seen from the bridge, availability of parking and how busy the road over the motorway is.
She settled on a small road not far from our small holding.
Only 4 groups totalling a dozen people used that bridge as a viewing point.
The video footage was quite impressive.
Plenty out there to google.
This was getting out of the services. Its not a great bit of motorway at the best of times. Always delays. This convoy can't have helped.
The convoy starts in London and finishes in Dave's home town of Barrow in Cumbria with bikes joining along the way with an estimated 40k bikes involved.
Mrs Remote and friend settled themselves on a bridge over the M6 between J18 and 19 just south of Knutsford services where they were having a pit stop.
Police stopped the traffic on the M6 when the bikes were due to leave the services. It took over 15 minutes for all the bikes to exit the services.
As an aside, on Friday I drove Mrs Remote to 6 bridges over the M6 so she could pick the optimum venue based on length of M6 that could be seen from the bridge, availability of parking and how busy the road over the motorway is.
She settled on a small road not far from our small holding.
Only 4 groups totalling a dozen people used that bridge as a viewing point.
The video footage was quite impressive.
Plenty out there to google.
This was getting out of the services. Its not a great bit of motorway at the best of times. Always delays. This convoy can't have helped.
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Id like to say i was there somewhere but alas I was bimbling around Monmouthshire listening for birds. Probably just as well as my new glasses broke and I used an old pair I had on the bike with a prescription from a few years ago. I would have been better off not wearing glasses at all !
Are those the same ones you watch football with......no offence.....just asking for a friend!
No, he's get a special rose tinted pair for watching us.
More boring stuff 
, but that bloody circus in the US is driving me to it.
Alloys on my car needed some TLC. Some minor kerb scrapes on the rims (avoidable
) and stones thrown up through normal driving (unavoidable) had broken through the lacquer in a number of places on the spokes. It didn't look good and would only get worse.
Once the lacquer is breached, water gets under it and reacts with the alloy oxidising it into a white powder. The damage commonly known as "white worm" will creep under the lacquer over time affecting more and more of it. On the rims it tends to turn black with tyre wear particles getting under as well, whereas the spokes just turn white.
Options. Getting these 20" alloys re-diamond cut would cost at least £150 a corner and I'd probably be without the car for a couple of days. Also there's a limit how many times you can have them re-cut as you're losing some a the alloy shaved off each time on the cutter. The fronts had already been re-cut once by the dealer to remove some minor scuffs and get them perfect when I bought the car off them as a demo.
Once again, bugger it - I'll have a go myself. Ideally should have taken each wheel off and worked on them on a workbench. Problem is, with runflats on a car is there's no jack nor spare wheel supplied as there's no need - if you get a puncture you just carry on driving for up to 50 miles even if totally flat until you can get it sorted. I didn't want to fork out on a decent trolley jack and torque wrench to refit the wheel nuts, I decided to leave them where they were and tackle them in situ.
Spent some time carefully removing the damaged "wormed" lacquer areas down to the alloy and lightly abraded the rest of the wheel lacquer surface with 1200 grit for a good bond with the new. Bought a couple of cans of quality alloy wheel lacquer to re-finish the lot. The worst job was masking the the tyres and behind the spokes - I didn't want to lacquer the discs.
Cardboard cutouts and masking tape for the tyres, and loads of bubble wrap pushed through the spokes to protect the discs - perfect.
Applied 3 or 4 light coats about 15 minutes between coats. Left to cure really hard overnight and polished the lot with some original T cut. Waxed with Mer autoshine the next day - sparkling and the water just runs off them. Close inspection from 2 feet away you can see the difference between the original diamond cut and refurbished areas, but from 10 feet it's not noticeable at all - and it won't get any worse either. Well happy.
Whatever happened to the old pressed steel wheels and chrome hubcaps........
, but that bloody circus in the US is driving me to it.Alloys on my car needed some TLC. Some minor kerb scrapes on the rims (avoidable
) and stones thrown up through normal driving (unavoidable) had broken through the lacquer in a number of places on the spokes. It didn't look good and would only get worse.Once the lacquer is breached, water gets under it and reacts with the alloy oxidising it into a white powder. The damage commonly known as "white worm" will creep under the lacquer over time affecting more and more of it. On the rims it tends to turn black with tyre wear particles getting under as well, whereas the spokes just turn white.
Options. Getting these 20" alloys re-diamond cut would cost at least £150 a corner and I'd probably be without the car for a couple of days. Also there's a limit how many times you can have them re-cut as you're losing some a the alloy shaved off each time on the cutter. The fronts had already been re-cut once by the dealer to remove some minor scuffs and get them perfect when I bought the car off them as a demo.
Once again, bugger it - I'll have a go myself. Ideally should have taken each wheel off and worked on them on a workbench. Problem is, with runflats on a car is there's no jack nor spare wheel supplied as there's no need - if you get a puncture you just carry on driving for up to 50 miles even if totally flat until you can get it sorted. I didn't want to fork out on a decent trolley jack and torque wrench to refit the wheel nuts, I decided to leave them where they were and tackle them in situ.
Spent some time carefully removing the damaged "wormed" lacquer areas down to the alloy and lightly abraded the rest of the wheel lacquer surface with 1200 grit for a good bond with the new. Bought a couple of cans of quality alloy wheel lacquer to re-finish the lot. The worst job was masking the the tyres and behind the spokes - I didn't want to lacquer the discs.
Cardboard cutouts and masking tape for the tyres, and loads of bubble wrap pushed through the spokes to protect the discs - perfect.Applied 3 or 4 light coats about 15 minutes between coats. Left to cure really hard overnight and polished the lot with some original T cut. Waxed with Mer autoshine the next day - sparkling and the water just runs off them. Close inspection from 2 feet away you can see the difference between the original diamond cut and refurbished areas, but from 10 feet it's not noticeable at all - and it won't get any worse either. Well happy.
Whatever happened to the old pressed steel wheels and chrome hubcaps........
Ill make a note of that. One of my wheels is peeling.More boring stuff
Alloys on my car needed some TLC. Some minor kerb scrapes on the rims (avoidable
Once the lacquer is breached, water gets under it and reacts with the alloy wheel oxidising it into a white powder. The damage commonly known as "white worm" will creep under the lacquer over time affecting more and more of it. On the rims it tends to turn black with tyre wear particles getting under as well, whereas the spokes just turn white.
Options. Getting these 20" alloys re-diamond cut would cost at least £150 a corner and I'd probably be without the car for a couple of days. Also there's a limit how many times you can have them re-cut as you're losing some a the alloy shaved off each time on the cutter. The fronts had already been re-cut once by the dealer to remove some minor scuffs and get them perfect when I bought the car off them as a demo.
Once again, bugger it - I'll have a go myself. Ideally should have taken each wheel off and worked on them on a workbench. Problem is, with runflats on a car is there's no jack nor spare wheel supplied as there's no need - if you get a puncture you just carry on driving for up to 50 miles even if totally flat until you can get it sorted. I didn't want to fork out on a decent trolley jack and torque wrench to refit the wheel nuts, I decided to leave them where they were and tackle them in situ.
Spent some time carefully removing the damaged "wormed" lacquer areas down to the alloy and lightly abraded the rest of the wheel lacquer surface with 1200 grit for a good bond with the new. Bought a couple of cans of quality alloy wheel lacquer to re-finish the lot. The worst job was masking the the tyres and behind the spokes - I didn't want to lacquer the discs.
Applied 3 or 4 light coats about 15 minutes between coats. Left to cure really hard overnight and polished the lot with some original T cut. Waxed with Mer autoshine the next day - sparkling and the water just runs off them. Close inspection from 2 feet away you can see the difference between the original diamond cut and refurbished areas, but from 10 feet it's not noticeable at all - and it won't get any worse either. Well happy.
Whatever happened to the old pressed steel wheels and chrome hubcaps........
