Fetch Birdwatchers
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165 watchers
Dec 2018
9:50pm, 21 Dec 2018
37,484 posts
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alpenrose
I remember that my brother used to enter the pike fishing competition every Boxing Day when he was young, before he discovered the pub. 
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Dec 2018
10:26pm, 21 Dec 2018
28,014 posts
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Derby Tup
Nice topical festive piscatorial tale
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Dec 2018
12:15pm, 22 Dec 2018
592 posts
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Roberto
Arrived to my parents house (where I Grew up). They have a stream that runs through the garden and recently had an otter in. (Been here for 12 years and never seen one there before). Also been a fox showing up which we haven’t seen in the garden before.
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Dec 2018
12:22pm, 22 Dec 2018
1,285 posts
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Heinzster
I saw a dipper on Thursday. It was sitting, fairly dejectedly, by a weir beside the blue pool in Blautopf, Germany. The pool is fed by a spring and is amazingly deep. It connects through kilometers of underwater caves, but they haven't found the source yet.
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Dec 2018
12:24pm, 22 Dec 2018
1,286 posts
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Heinzster
It is also amazingly blue. google.com |
Dec 2018
3:16pm, 22 Dec 2018
2,374 posts
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phal
We’ve not gone to the reserve today - however this pic by @Draycotebirding has been shared on twitter.... I was right about the fact we’d struggle to fit today!!! Dave has broken into the Christmas cake instead 😀 |
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Dec 2018
3:33pm, 22 Dec 2018
28,022 posts
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Derby Tup
We did a higher level walk this morning and saw very few birds: a handful of fieldfare and a redwing to be precise
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Dec 2018
11:27am, 23 Dec 2018
986 posts
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bonners
No fieldfare or redwing yet this year, a bit early? A newcomer to the garden just now, fairly certain it's a blackcap, which is a first for me. Definitely not a tit, so I've ruled them out. Can't see anything else similar in my guide, so think I'm right unless anybody has any other ideas? Interestingly a couple of weeks ago I had to move my feeders out of the way of the cat sentry guns I've installed (they're brilliant water guns, no permanent harm but discourages cats very well), but since then the amount of birds is shooting up. It is only a small garden, so I'm wondering if it is just the lack of cats? |
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Dec 2018
11:39am, 23 Dec 2018
28,057 posts
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Derby Tup
Blackcap are overwintering in increasing numbers and males especially are very distinctive
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Dec 2018
12:03pm, 23 Dec 2018
987 posts
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bonners
Cheers DT. I'm fairly certain, but never having seen one before I've been trawling for alternatives jsut to be sure.
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