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One of them looks a bit more advanced than the other two, this is purely a guess... but I reckon that's the male. As males are smaller than females he would have less growing to do so I perhaps males mature quicker...maybe that's the answer.

Thanks again Dave! When there is a new version of Flash Player I get a box on the screen advising me. Re-installing Flash Player was another thing I did at the weekend, I was having trouble using BBC IPlayer but that's OK now. I've bookmarked your latest links for future reference but I'm giving Chrome a go for a few days to see how that goes. Cheers, John

The nest box is beginning to look a bit rough now, I bet it honks a bit...

Thank you Dave. Most of what you have said here I have tried, only last evening I tried Mr Fix It and also uninstalled IE8 (this only takes you back to IE7) and then did a re-install. I was using my online banking this morning and it crashed again before I have finished... the air around here was blue... Anyway this has been going on for too long and I've given up now, I'll continue using Chrome for now and hope I get used to it.

Tina... I have set it up the same as you using the tabs for the sites I use the most which number nine. It's just I have loads of favourites and I find it annoying I can't have them in a column on display permanently like in IE and Firefox. Anyway I'll have to get used to it as IE8 crashing all the time is a pain in the a**. I actually much prefer IE when it works OK... it's a bit like I prefer XP to Windows 7.

I have imported bookmarks from IE, I just can't get them on permanent display like IE and Firefox.

Terry... I don't seem to have two little arrows. When I click on Favourites they appear in a box but they are not permanently on show like in IE and Firefox.

I have IE10 on my Windows 7 laptop and that's better than previous versions of IE but it can't be installed on my XP computer which is stuck with IE8. For months I been having problems with IE8 crashing, I've tried disabling and enabling Add-ons but the problem is still there and I've had enough. I have also got Google Chrome and Firefox on my computer, I like Firefox because it's nearer to IE than Chrome but it's not as fast as Chrome, I don't like the text zoom in Firefox and I had to install NoSquint and I don't like that either... too much trouble to use unlike the text zoom in IE. I like the speed of Chrome but I hate not being able to have my favourites permanently on display in a column on the left like in IE and Firefox. I've tried every which way to do this but it's seems impossible... am I correct or am I missing something?

Lots of jumping up and down and wing flapping outside the nest box, getting their wing muscles strong for when they go over that ledge for the first sometime next month.

It's still disturbance at the wrong time of year.... making money will always be the priority of some people unfortunately.

The young Peregrines are becoming so active now, I've just been watching two having a walkabout outside of the nest box. Apparently they were ringed yesterday and it's been ascertained that there are two females and a male. http://www.ntu.ac.uk/ecoweb/biodiversity/falcons/index.html?campaignid=falcons

It wasn't long ago I was telling you about Herefordshire Council closing all the public toilets and libraries in the county to save money, well they could save money by getting rid of some of the useless people that work for them... well put the time in anyway. A couple of weeks ago when I was out walking I came across a massive pothole (I know there are millions of them), this one was really bad and extremely dangerous on a blind bend. Having always got my GPS with me when I go walking I was able to take a grid reference, I also took a photograph. I then sent these details to the council. One week later I get an email from them asking me to let them know where the pothole was, I could hardly believe it as I'd sent them a grid reference and it was a 12 figure number which if fed into the Streetmap webpage would show them the exact location. I haven't finished yet... there's more. This morning I came across two street lights and both had the covers missing where access to the electrics is made. I took a photograph of the base of one of the lights to show the cover was missing and also another shot of the number of the light. I then sent these details to the council and also informed them that the next light had the same problem..... again quoting it's number. One would have thought they would know from the street light numbers where they are located... wrong... I get an email back from them asking me to let them know where the lights are... unbelievable. I have now sent them a Google Earth image on which I've marked the location with a pin. If these people were running a business they wouldn't be for very long.

I quite agree Richard! If I had my way everyone who is fit and able to work would not receive benefits when they are out of a job... they would have to work for the local council/authority doing the jobs that no longer get done due to cut backs. Why should people be paid for doing nothing when there is a ready supply of jobs in the community that need to be carried out, they could be made to earn their money that way.

I have recently become a victim of immigrant labour from eastern europe, for the last 12 years I have been working as a self employed sameday courier. Over those 12 years I gradually moved away from delivery the normal urgent stuff like documents and machine parts and any other small items that needed to be delivered the sameday. I found a nice little number delivering samples of fruit like strawberries, raspberries, blueberries & cherries and more besides. I delivered these samples to all of the supermarket head offices for the buyers. All the fruit growers I delivered samples for have been using cheap eastern european workers for years to pick and pack their fruit and the numbers have been increasing year on year. I have now lost nearly all of my work because my main customers in their efforts to cut costs have started using some of these cheap workers to deliver their own samples and these people are being paid the lowest agricultural wages. They come over here thinking they are being paid a fortune at first only to find out that the cost of living is so much higher here and after a while they go back home and another lot take their place. The only winners are the fruit growers at the moment but surely this cheap labour will dry up in the end when the message gets around eastern europe that working here is not all it's made out to be. Even though I'm coming 67 I wanted to carry on doing my work for another year or two but now I've had to retire before I'm ready as finding another source of work is very difficult at my age.

I still use a Windows XP for my storing my photos, so I use Windows Picture & Fax Viewer. Each of these folders are for different subjects. It's basic but it works for me, so that's all that matters. I do backup to two other hard drives within my computer and everything is also on my laptop and two external hard drives as well.

I just heard that Herefordshire Coucil are going to close all public toilets in the county to save money and they are trying to close all the libraries except the one in Hereford city... just where the heck is this country going. I bet we won't have our council tax reduced, I'm sick of this damn government, they don't do anything that pleases me. We will be swamped with poles and bulgarians next year, there are already far too many here already, all I hear when walking the streets is eastern europeans talking. Nothing will stop me voting UKIP come the next election, the mainstream parties annoy the c**p out of me. I want my vote on EU membership now not if Cameron wins the next election... which he won't.

I went to the TT sixteen times between 1967 & 1983... even went on crutches one time. Perhaps now I'm not working I should go again and re-capture some of my youth. I'll never forget the first time I went... it was the Diamond Jubilee TT, the battle between Mike Hailwood on a 500cc 4 cylinder Honda and Giacoma Agostini on a 500cc 3 cylinder MV Agusta... amazing race and much nicer sounding bikes in those days. Agostini's bike was much more friendly to ride than Hailwood's beast of a Honda and Ago would have won the six lap 238 mile race had his chain not broken a few hundred yards from the finish... Ago pushed the bike over the line though.

Be sure to watch the Alastair Seeley video full screen... 170mph.... mmmmmmmmm. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/northern-ireland/22538110 Shame the sound track is rubbish though.

I'm not sure it's wise doing what he does... but he sure has guts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motorsport/22265878

The camera is back and the chicks look OK after their soaking last night.

It looks like the camera has succumded to the weather overnight.

It's a bit damp for the Peregrines, you can hear the rain falling on the microphone.

A lot of people don't like him... I think he's great.

As a Formula 1 fan I knew this was going to happen sometime, at least Richard Branson has now hounoured is bet.... good on him. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/news/richard-branson-gives-passengers-a-serve/story-e6frg8ro-1226640594206

RAW is not something I've really used much and certainly not recently, it has always seemed like a lot of trouble having to do so much editing which I'm not fond of anyway. I was just playing about with in camera processing last evening as I was curious to find out what it could do. I took a few shots out of the window and had a play with those shots on my computer, obviously to view the RAW images I had to convert them to a usable file and I converted them to TIFF files. I had used in camera processing to convert the shots to JPG which are made as copies in camera leaving the original RAW untouched, then on my computer I was then able to view the images in both TIFF and JPG and to be honest I couldn't see any difference apart from the huge file size of the TIFF images. I could never imagine myself taking every shot in RAW as the processing seems to take far too long for my liking, as I've said previously I do little in the way of editing... just basic adjustments. I may shoot the odd shot in RAW from time to time, if I do am I correct in converting to TIFF in order to do any processing.