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The bird garden's Guinea Fowl enjoying the benches. |

In terms of University work, it's about time I started work on my final year project. I have over 1 million pieces of data in a database that all of my ringing group (Sorby Breck) have compiled over the years and I am very greatful for them letting me use it. Unfortunately the daunting size of this data is making it difficult for me to be able to prise out any specific questions that I want to answer. I'm looking to focus on the timings of moult in various species and seeing if that is affected by weight or climate. This has been made all the more difficult by the fact that I can't find anyone before me who has used the BTO codes in this kind of scientific study. But I'll get there eventually!
I'll finish on two things... Today there has been a Red Necked Phalarope present most of the day at the local RSPB reserve Fairburn Ings. Lectures today stopped me visiting and I won't be able to visit tomorrow due to volunteering. However if the birding gods keep the Phalarope around till Sunday, I'll be straight down to try and see the first one at Fairburn since 1976 and tick off a lifer for me.
And finally here is a picture of some feathers collected from some of the aviaries at Harewood and stuck on my wall. See if you can guess what they are...
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