Fetch Birdwatchers
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169 watchers
Sep 2019
5:37pm, 23 Sep 2019
41,108 posts
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alpenrose
I saw a swallow today, I thought they'd all gone now as I hadn't seen one for a while.
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Sep 2019
8:11pm, 23 Sep 2019
2,282 posts
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J2R
Long-tailed tits are one of those species which always make me smile.
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Sep 2019
4:59pm, 25 Sep 2019
1,408 posts
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bonners
Gross, don't read on if eating .. Pigeon population control is well and truely back. Got home from work, went to feed the birds and startled the sparrowhawk. It was feeding on another pigeon, that is at least three in the last couple of weeks. Interesting that there is a gaping hole in the breast, so looks like it goes for the breast meat first. I'm going to leave the carcass for nature and clear any remains in a few days. If it goes I'd love to know what takes it |
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Sep 2019
5:01pm, 25 Sep 2019
1,409 posts
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bonners
Didn't have long to wait, sparrowhawk is back
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Sep 2019
5:11pm, 25 Sep 2019
2,288 posts
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J2R
Not a bird, but an interesting nature thing...I was fascinated to watch the comings and goings from a hornets' nest in a hollow oak tree a couple of days ago. These things are HUGE! It's a bloody good job they're not aggressive like common wasps, otherwise we wouldn't stand a chance! The guy whose land it is on happened to be passing by, and explained he had put chicken wire across the base of the tree to stop badgers climbing up and raiding the nest (as well as keeping kids out). The guy is something of a hero among local nature-lovers for the amount he does for wildlife - he has whole fields planted with crops to provide winter seed for birds, and has mown strips along the edges of the field to allow the public to wander hither and thither and appreciate nature. The biggest flock of linnets I've ever seen was there in winter a couple of years ago, probably tens of thousands. |
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Sep 2019
8:51pm, 25 Sep 2019
13,644 posts
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Rosehip
 like your local hero J2R - I'm fascinated by hornets. Every year we get one huge one in the house. Every year I trap it in a jar and take it to the coppice to release it - but we still get one back again the next year. Saw the barn owl this evening - just as I was getting worried that it should have been around and I hadn't seen it it left a perch right in front of me Also lots of skeins of geese flying northwards overhead this evening. No idea what type - quite high pitched honking. |
Sep 2019
10:34pm, 25 Sep 2019
34,455 posts
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Derby Tup
Geese sound like pinkies Heron and a pair of mistletoe thrush seen by the Leeds - Liverpool canal this evening plus a calling tawny owl |
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Sep 2019
11:03pm, 25 Sep 2019
34,458 posts
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Derby Tup
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Sep 2019
6:58am, 26 Sep 2019
13,652 posts
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Rosehip
Probably pink-footed - we get them in the fields here once the winter wheat comes up but once they're that high up I can't tell one type of goose from another (once of Ralph's favourite pastimes is lifting a field full so they fly over the village and wake everyone up in the morning ) -
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Sep 2019
8:16am, 26 Sep 2019
1,345 posts
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flyingfinn
Notable shift in the seasons here this week amongst the birdlife. My House Martins have packed up and left since the weekend (can't say I blame them!) and there has been an increase in the number of visitors to my feeders. This morning saw the first Long-tailed Tits of the autumn (though there always around they never come to the feeders in the summer months) and at one point I had five different species of Tit (Blue, Great, LTT, Coal and Willow) present at the same time. More regular visits from the Nuthatches and the Goldfinches too.
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