Fetch Birdwatchers
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165 watchers
Mar 2020
10:01pm, 31 Mar 2020
39,202 posts
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Derby Tup
Wheatear have white arses 
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Mar 2020
10:06pm, 31 Mar 2020
1,559 posts
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flyingfinn
J2R - Skylarks do parachute garden-birds.co.uk I've spent many a happy hour watching them do it round here.
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Mar 2020
10:12pm, 31 Mar 2020
39,203 posts
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Derby Tup
I had what I thought for a second was a starling fly directly over my head today in silhouette. As it passed over I realised it was a greater spotted woodpecker
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Mar 2020
10:44pm, 31 Mar 2020
21,327 posts
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Red Squirrel
Fab, tup. I find those 2 are similar in flight. Today's haul at the city park: Coal tits eating pine kernels from 2 conifers Large heron Coot on nest Mistle thrush Gulls (I'm not good on gull identification) Lotsa pigeons Mallards Canada geese Friendly crow |
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Mar 2020
10:47pm, 31 Mar 2020
39,207 posts
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Derby Tup
Friendly crow sounds like something from a kids book - ace
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Mar 2020
10:47pm, 31 Mar 2020
2,693 posts
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J2R
ff, I suppose you're right, I hadn't thought of it as such. Definitely the key part of the meadow pipit's show flight, but yes, thinking about it, I've seen skylarks doing it too.
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Apr 2020
10:53am, 1 Apr 2020
1,560 posts
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flyingfinn
Local pair of Ravens with beaks full of nesting material this morning perched atop of a dead tree near their nest site.
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Apr 2020
11:52am, 1 Apr 2020
2,695 posts
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J2R
By my upstairs study window, there is a nestbox on the wall of the house. I can see bluetits flying back and forth to it, although I can't actually see the box itself. For the last couple of weeks they seem to have been doing something involving lots of incessant tapping, which I can hear. I have no idea what they are doing. I fear they may been watching some nestbox makeover programme on TV and have big ideas.
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Apr 2020
4:24pm, 1 Apr 2020
34,577 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Well DT my missus has reviewed the BTO video and is staying with female merlin. She says brown back, black tipped tail and wing tips, speckled front, stands on fence post or in tree hunched, flies purposefully, never hovers is not kestrel. She thinks she's seen the grey/silver coloured male too. I haven't. Pheasant and Ms Pheasant being very loved up around the field too. Awww. Spring! No social distancing for pheasants. G
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Apr 2020
4:39pm, 1 Apr 2020
15,477 posts
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Rosehip
Greenfinch on my feeder outside the kitchen window first one I've seen in the garden for goodness-knows how long!
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