Fetch Birdwatchers
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166 watchers
May 2017
10:30pm, 11 May 2017
22,812 posts
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Derby Tup
I'm in Frankfurt until Saturday morning. Apart from the wonderful swifts little to report apart from barflies   
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May 2017
10:54pm, 11 May 2017
18,000 posts
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Meglet
Swifts screeching round the village today. And some house martins (I think) sitting on a wire having a very noisy conversation! |
May 2017
9:04am, 12 May 2017
488 posts
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J2R
Great surprise this morning, a new species for our garden. We had a juvenile linnet on one of the sunflower seed feeders. Wasn't sure it was that at first, had to look it up to confirm, but got a very good view, got my binoculars on it. I didn't know that linnets ever turned up in suburban gardens (although they're certainly present in the countryside round here), and I've only ever really seen them in flocks, so it's all rather puzzling. Couldn't really have been anything else, though.
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May 2017
12:06pm, 12 May 2017
1,668 posts
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steve45
Linnets have become scarce in my immediate locality J23 and don't think I've ever had one in my garden. (I'll check!). Just 400 metres away from my house as the bird flies I saw a male Stonechat in the same place where I've seen it on several occasions this last month--carrying food--- so could be breeding.
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May 2017
12:12pm, 12 May 2017
1,669 posts
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steve45
..Linnet in my garden? Never...!
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May 2017
12:44pm, 12 May 2017
489 posts
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J2R
I would be doubtful about the linnet identification myself, as it doesn't seem possible, but I don't really see what else it could have been. Smallish finch/bunting, paler underneath than above, with striations on a slightly reddish breast and a grey beak. We've had redpolls in the garden before but this was slghtly bigger with no red at all on the head.
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May 2017
12:47pm, 12 May 2017
490 posts
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J2R
Incidentally, about 5 miles from here I once saw (in winter) the largest flock of linnets I've ever seen, many thousands of them completely covering a set of trees and hedges. A rather wonderful farmer there plants crops specially for winter feed for wild birds, and they certainly like to take advantage. That's still a long way from my house, though, and a completely different habit, so it doesn't make it any less puzzling.
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May 2017
12:47pm, 12 May 2017
491 posts
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J2R
habitat, not habit
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May 2017
12:50pm, 12 May 2017
7,275 posts
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Watford Wobble
We have one hatchling so far. Hopefully three more to go. ospreys.org.uk |
May 2017
7:14am, 13 May 2017
1,774 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
We have the dulcet tones of fledgling starlings this morning.
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