|
Feb 2019
10:25am, 3 Feb 2019
1,312 posts
|
Heinzster
Thanks, guys. It's always interesting to find that what you assume is universally normal isn't really
|
|
Feb 2019
1:43pm, 3 Feb 2019
2,397 posts
|
phal
It’s like Mandarin Ducks - kinky took us to see them at a park near Stockport - our first - but bloody loads of them. The locals probably think you find them everywhere too.
They are now lovingly known as Mango Ducks ❤️🧡
|
|
Feb 2019
1:47pm, 3 Feb 2019
28,928 posts
|
Derby Tup
Mandarin are common in the Strid Woods area at Bolton Abbey and you’d be highly unlucky not to see at least one if you went a couple of times (especially in winter). I don’t know anywhere else in the arm area where I wouldn’t be thrilled to see one
|
|
Feb 2019
2:35pm, 3 Feb 2019
2,398 posts
|
phal
I am Always Excited to see Mango Ducks 🧡
|
|
Feb 2019
2:37pm, 3 Feb 2019
28,933 posts
|
Derby Tup
🧡
|
|
Feb 2019
6:27pm, 3 Feb 2019
1,795 posts
|
J2R
Oystercatchers are pretty common on the north Norfolk coast. Lovely dapper birds. I love seeing them inland, though.
Just been skiing in Italy, and was pleased to see a little flock of crossbills. Was on the lookout for crested tits, but didn't see any, although I think I heard them.
|
|
Feb 2019
6:31pm, 3 Feb 2019
11,698 posts
|
Rosehip
I always find it surprising that buzzards and red kite are not everyday birds like they are here. Would need to be lousy weather and a strange day for me not to see one and/or the other.
|
|
Feb 2019
7:36pm, 3 Feb 2019
18,111 posts
|
flanker
Same with green woodpeckers Rosehip. Any run even vaguely out of town around Cambridge and they were pretty much a dead cert, red kites and buzzards likewise. Here (Calderdale) not seen either in nearly two months, yet can guarantee dippers and goosander within a couple of minutes of the front door, both of which before used to be a rarity. Even in an urban setting, it's amazing the difference that the surrounding habitat and a hundred or so mile makes.
50+ species between us (i.e. kinky got over 50, I got just under :)) yesterday afternoon out at RSPB Burton Mere, with the highlights probably being Bewicks and Cattle Egret.
|
|
Feb 2019
7:39pm, 3 Feb 2019
11,699 posts
|
Rosehip
forgot about the green woodies - they're definitely an everyday bird here too.
no goosanders or dippers though 
|
|
Feb 2019
8:03pm, 3 Feb 2019
28,940 posts
|
Derby Tup
Can’t remember last green woodpecker I saw
|
