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Jan 2018
11:54am, 19 Jan 2018
15,776 posts
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Chrisity
Enjoying the image of Flying Finn spitting woodcocks, or is he looking to barbecue them?
Very noisy Green Woodpeckers around the garden, a glossy Jay and a Sparrowhawk putting the Woodpigeons to flight.
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Jan 2018
12:27pm, 19 Jan 2018
17,404 posts
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flanker
Happy - single stripe or multiple light/dark stripes? If the latter could be a dunnock.
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Jan 2018
12:47pm, 19 Jan 2018
1,893 posts
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jacdaw
Siskin, Happy?
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Jan 2018
6:03pm, 19 Jan 2018
24,630 posts
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Derby Tup
Siskin sounds good shout. Surprisingly colourful
I had a trio of raptors on my drive home tonight: classic hovering kestrel, soaring buzzard and a skulking low-gliding sparrowhawk
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Jan 2018
7:59pm, 19 Jan 2018
2,318 posts
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phal
I was thinking Siskin too....
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Jan 2018
9:00pm, 20 Jan 2018
971 posts
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J2R
I was running along the Norfolk coast path today and happened upon a little flock of snow buntings - a real delight. Also, something which is by no means a rarity here but which always gives me pleasure, a flock of extremely tame turnstones. They were just a few feet away from me, completely unbothered by me. In fact the snow buntings were quite tame, too.
I've heard that the birds which breed in the far north or arctic tend to be tame, as they're so unused to people - waxwings are another example. But that doesn't make sense to me as they come across enough people when they overwinter further south (such as here).
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Jan 2018
9:05pm, 20 Jan 2018
24,640 posts
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Derby Tup
Confiding is the word often used. Add dotterel and phalarope (species) to the list
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Jan 2018
10:52pm, 20 Jan 2018
972 posts
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J2R
Yes, I've heard the term 'confiding' as well. Always strikes me as a bit odd. They didn't confide anything to me (or maybe they did, just not in a language I understand).
How do you explain the confiding behaviour? Is it that they just don't come across humans when they're chicks?
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Jan 2018
11:54am, 21 Jan 2018
2,305 posts
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steve45
What a treat to see Snow Buntings J23.. you're in a much more exciting location birdwise than I am!
I think Long Tailed Tits are particularly "confiding"..
Bullfinches in garden this week.
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Jan 2018
11:55am, 21 Jan 2018
24,642 posts
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Derby Tup
I was within a couple of yards of ten or so LTT last week 
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