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Netto are also selling fatballs @6 for 49p.

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smile.gifsmile.gifwith your old reffrence to aldi selling cheap bird food i find that b@m bargins is the cheapest 6 fat balls for 49p wich adds up to 60 for £4.90

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Mike Price wrote:

Found on another bird forum

Aldi offers 22/10/09

50 Fat balls £6.99
12.75kg sack of Premium seed mix £7.99
1.8 kg bag of peanuts £3.99
1.8kg bag of High energy food £3.99

Also available is a
Feeding station £9.99
Chrome plated peanut feeder £2.99
Chrome plated seed feeder £2.99

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers...?WT.z_src=main

-- Edited by Mike Price on Tuesday 20th of October 2009 07:39:37 AM

-- Edited by Mike Price on Tuesday 20th of October 2009 04:12:28 PM





Thanks for posting Mike.

I picked up:
1.8 kg bag of peanuts £3.99
Chrome plated peanut feeder £2.99
Chrome plated seed feeder £2.99

from Aldi on Market Street.

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Mike Price


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Found on another bird forum

Aldi offers 22/10/09

50 Fat balls £6.99
12.75kg sack of Premium seed mix £7.99
1.8 kg bag of peanuts £3.99
1.8kg bag of High energy food £3.99

Also available is a
Feeding station £9.99
Chrome plated peanut feeder £2.99
Chrome plated seed feeder £2.99

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers...?WT.z_src=main

-- Edited by Mike Price on Tuesday 20th of October 2009 07:39:37 AM

-- Edited by Mike Price on Tuesday 20th of October 2009 04:12:28 PM

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Nik Grounds


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Praktica CN 10 × 42 Waterproof Binoculars £29.99 on Ebay offer of the day section.

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Geoff Hargreaves


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Just because i can,t find them in any of the 'cheap' shopsfurious.gif

Energizer lithium AA batteries expensive YES but they are very good,after trying the B&Q
/toys are us 32/48 for any combination of prices I,ve been using these for a while nowbiggrin.gif nearly 600 images and still going strongbiggrin.gifalthough i,d like to find some really good rechargeable that won,t flake out after 10 shotsno.gif.

cheers geoffbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif

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Pete Lane


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10 x 50 Bresser bins in Lidl (Farnworth) got some last year, great for keeping in the car and a snip at under £15.

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Pete Lane


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Still scopes in Bolton Aldi, I think these are a really good buy if only for keeping in the car or, as I do, keep set up in the dining room in case anything lands in the trees that looks interesting.

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Popped into altrincham aldi off atlantic st at dinner,cameras all gone but about 20 scopes left and mountains of fat balls and seed still available.

cheers geoffbiggrin.gif

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Hi Dave,

You did better than me. I went down to the local Aldi on Sunday afternoon and they had sold out of both nestbox cameras and scopes. The early bird and all that...

Cheers, John

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John
Thanks for posting about the Aldi nest box with camera offer. I nipped to the Swinton Aldi yesterday and picked one up.
For the price it seems pretty decent , I tried the camera out without putting it in the nest box and got a very good picture on my tv.
I will be putting the nest box out in my garden in the coming weeks to go with the other 11 nest boxes [ including 2 Sparrow terraces ] which I already have.
I just hope that the birds pick the nest box with the camera insmile.gif


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Lots of bird related offers coming up on Sunday 8th Feb at Aldi.

Camera Nest Box Kit £39.00... Camera pre-fitted to nestbox. Connects direct to TV. 6 LEDs for night watching. 30m combined S-video/power cable. Camera microphone, Scart connector etc.

Has anyone any experience of using this type of kit?

Also 20-60x 60 Spotting Scope/Tripod £26.00
Pair of ceramic topped bird feeders £4.18
Pair Nest boxes £5.35
Bird Table £11.19
Feeding Station £11.19
+ variously priced Seed/Feed/Nuts etc.

Cheers, John


-- Edited by John Rayner at 13:40, 2009-02-05

-- Edited by John Rayner at 13:40, 2009-02-05

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The Aldi Bins are the zoom type.
Lidl have porro-prism binoculars from 15th Dec. 10x50s, 5 year guarantee, £12.70. Pick 'em up the same time as your telescope/tripod smile.gif

As has been said you get what you pay for but they're probably OK to keep under the front seat of the car.

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20081215.p.Binoculars.ar7

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Geoff Hargreaves wrote:

Mike,thanks for the reminder( long senior momment therebiggrin.gif) aldi have some binoculars due in 14/12/08 £13 quidbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gifI won,t be buying the scope but will probably get the bins (to put with all the other sh***te in the garageashamed.gif)so if any one gets either please post your thoughts soonestbiggrin.gif

cheers geoffbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif





Details on the bins http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/2867_8256.htm

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Geoff Hargreaves wrote:

Mike,thanks for the reminder( long senior momment therebiggrin.gif) aldi have some binoculars due in 14/12/08 £13 quidbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gifI won,t be buying the scope but will probably get the bins (to put with all the other sh***te in the garageashamed.gif)so if any one gets either please post your thoughts soonestbiggrin.gif

cheers geoffbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif





sound like me geoff,think i was the only one who had a collection of minidiscs,and betamax tapes.the bedroom roofs getting lower all the time with the tat ive baught over the years,to bang in the loft along with my cassette/lazerdisc/12 track cartridge/and 35mm slide collection plus tasco telescopes,mark sheiffull bins,1 megapixal cameras,2 megapixal cameras etcbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gifThe only reason we won't move house is because i can't face emptying the loftbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif

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-- Edited by JOHN TYMON at 07:04, 2008-12-11

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Geoff Hargreaves


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Mike,thanks for the reminder( long senior momment therebiggrin.gif) aldi have some binoculars due in 14/12/08 £13 quidbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gifI won,t be buying the scope but will probably get the bins (to put with all the other sh***te in the garageashamed.gif)so if any one gets either please post your thoughts soonestbiggrin.gif

cheers geoffbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif

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Caveat emptor, I believe. A well -known phrase of the retail trade (me)biggrin.gif

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coming soon to a lidel store near you,scope and tripod from bresser £98 for both,it,s advertised as available from the 15/12/08 it,s 90mm x 75 so it maybe a bit cumbersome,I havn,t seen it but if your on a budjet it,s worth looking out for,but buyer beware(once knew the latin for that)in wiganeese tha geets wot tha paays furhmm.gif.

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Dean Macdonald wrote:

Steve Suttill wrote:

Just picked up a copy of the Hume/Hayman book from the Arndale. I hadn't looked at this before as I thought it was just an update of the edition I bought over 30 years ago. In fact most of the plates are new and there are more species and many more plumages illustrated. Peter Hayman's plates are excellent and probably show birds from many more angles than any field guide. Not a book to carry around in your pocket but a worthy addition to anyone's library - and only £6.99!





Just got a copy of this excelent book from The Works in Bury, plenty left.

There is another edition of this book which i very nearly paid £25 for not long ago.
The illustrations are the same but there's also photographs of each species and it come with a cd rom with bird song and interactive stuff. I've seen in on Amazon for £16.



i baught the edition with the cd rom at xmas from borders books in warrington for £15,also got the new edition for £6.99 from the works.both good books,but the edition with the cd rom has more stuff in it,but beware the cd rom i tried it on the computer and it changed every file i had on the comp to a applet file,and i had to system restore to the previous daycry.gif

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Steve Suttill wrote:

Just picked up a copy of the Hume/Hayman book from the Arndale. I hadn't looked at this before as I thought it was just an update of the edition I bought over 30 years ago. In fact most of the plates are new and there are more species and many more plumages illustrated. Peter Hayman's plates are excellent and probably show birds from many more angles than any field guide. Not a book to carry around in your pocket but a worthy addition to anyone's library - and only £6.99!





Just got a copy of this excelent book from The Works in Bury, plenty left.

There is another edition of this book which i very nearly paid £25 for not long ago.
The illustrations are the same but there's also photographs of each species and it come with a cd rom with bird song and interactive stuff. I've seen in on Amazon for £16.

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Steve Suttill wrote:

Considering the amount of trivia contained within these website pages, perhaps we should get together a pub quiz team!





Do they allow teams of 285confused.gif

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Well well more book stuff Eilleen A Soper excellent artist, and as far as I know produced 3 books
When Badgers wake
Wild Encounters
and Wanders of the field, all have illustrations taken from her notebooks creating a very special atmosphere.

Keep reading keep birding.


ps Steve re-homing on way!!

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Thanks Mike - you learn something new every day!

Did you know that Eileen Soper who used to illustrate E.B.'s Famous Five books was actually a really good wildlife artist?

Considering the amount of trivia contained within these website pages, perhaps we should get together a pub quiz team!



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Hi Steve

Re: Noddy & Big Ears go Twitching

It appears that E.B. was employed as an editor, whether just on Natural History books I don't know, and possibly only by Frederick Warne & co.

I was surprised to find that she had edited a revised (1941) version of a field guide (of sorts) dating back to the 1930s which I bought in around 1965 as a move up from the Observers' Book of Birds. In the Preface she writes
" My knowledge of birds must be small compared with his (the authors') lifetime study but in our love for them we are perhaps on an equal footing"

Presumably, she's the editor on the edition of book you saw as well

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Paul - I think Ian should ban people trying to push addictive substances (in this case, books) on his website!

Is this the book about the Hebrides? I've seen several "versions" on Amazon: Williamson & Boyd, Boyd & Boyd and even Williamson, Boyd & Enid Blyton (the mind boggles - Noddy & Big Ears go Twitching?)! Let me know how much you want for it but I must warn you the book kitty is pretty low at the moment - I seem to have started collecting editions of Selborne with good illustrations (there are a lot of them!)

Cheers, Steve

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Once again people this is a great bargain, originally was going to give it to my lad, but to be honest it is to good for him, he can wait till I pop my clogs and can have it with the rest of the 200 club books,

This book is on a par with the collins large format copy.

Steve, need a good home for a copy of Williamson and Boyd A Mosaic of Islands sadly without a dust cover but needs somewhere new to live as my wife has noticed dupilcate copies appearing on my shelves, can you help?

keep birdingbiggrin.gif

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Just picked up a copy of the Hume/Hayman book from the Arndale. I hadn't looked at this before as I thought it was just an update of the edition I bought over 30 years ago. In fact most of the plates are new and there are more species and many more plumages illustrated. Peter Hayman's plates are excellent and probably show birds from many more angles than any field guide. Not a book to carry around in your pocket but a worthy addition to anyone's library - and only £6.99!

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Also available at The Works in the Arndale

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Paul picked up a copy today cracking bargin,it,s A4+ makes it easy on the eyes and it,s got lots of 'collins' features only bigger.The Works is on george st half way up or down depending on your mood,at least 10 still on the shelf.

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No copies of Birds Brittanica left at B&Q Wigan, I've just rang and asked.

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Not quite the collins large format but The Works ( bookshop) in Altringham has got a fair number of.

The Complete guide to Birdlife of Britain and Europe by Peter Hayman and Rob Hulme it is a large format book of the classic guide, normally £25 selling them off at £6.99

not a bad bargain features 430 species with some excellent plates.

keep birding


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Erm, no Paul, far from it. There is no place on my shelves for books that won't get read but £7:50 for a big book like that is an offer no one should refuse

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Ian McKerchar wrote:

If anyone's heading that way to pick up a copy is there a chance they could pick me one up whilst they're there? I'm not one for collecting books

See its catching ian soon you will have to buy new bookshelvesbiggrin.gif



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Thanks for the thought Geoff, but someone else very kindle picked one up for me in the week, so I didn't miss out after all

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Ian,i had to go to b&q wigan this am, sorry none left but the staff said there might be stock elsewere but puter said no.

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I was there just before 16:00 hours - and there were still about 4 or 5 copies left... maybe they've plenty 'in stock' and keep adding to?


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If anyone's heading that way to pick up a copy is there a chance they could pick me one up whilst they're there? I'm not one for collecting books but it's a real bargain and if there's one available I'd jump at one but can't get up that way curently.

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Cheers Dave
picked up a copy of birds britannica today still a few left best bargain ive had for a long while thanks for putting it on the websitebiggrin.gif

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re birds britannica,i,ve only dipped and picture read bits of it ,but it seems a fastenating in depth mix of information on british birds,i,ll never turn my back to a water rail now i know what they get up to.

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That is a bargain.wink.gif

Though I did well last week getting hold of a copy for £17 from Amazon Books.cry.gif

Well worth £17, never mind £7.42smile.gif

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dave,sent the missus in to secure a copy, as you said £14.98 sticker price with 50% reduction at the till = one very nice book for £7.42wink.gif (4 copies left ont shelf) top bargainbiggrin.gif when the best I could find on the 'net' was £35.

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There are a few copies of Birds Brittanica available, strangely, in Wigan B&Q for £14.98. As you could spend several months wandering the store, which is about the size of Andorra, as you walk in turn left and they are among a small shelf of books, mainly gardening, etc, on your LHS

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always on the look out for a bargin?? aldi in altrincham have some robust looking tripods
for sale at a cracking 11.99, i didn,t open the box fearfull of having to get it back in there,

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