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Apr 2020
4:32pm, 30 Apr 2020
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Roberto
Pied wagtail in the garden for the first time after seeing it out the front yesterday. Love my garden now that getting a lot more activity.
Apr 2020
5:31pm, 30 Apr 2020
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Eynsham Red
If there is an upside to shielding (part from staying safe) is seeing the bird activity in the garden that I would normally miss if I was at work.
Apart from seeing a coal tit for the first time, there have been no new visitors but I love watching the antics of starlings in particular.
Apr 2020
5:51pm, 30 Apr 2020
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Derby Tup
Did someone mention greenfinch? I can’t remember when I last saw one but there was a pair up near Penistone Hill this morning. Male is an understated but handsome bird
Apr 2020
5:58pm, 30 Apr 2020
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Eynsham Red
We had a group of four greenfinches on one of the feeders yesterday. They’re only occasional visitors to the garden so nice to see.
Apr 2020
7:03pm, 30 Apr 2020
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bonners
We've got a pair still on our feeders, usually disappeared by now, fingers crossed we'll get some fledglings for the first time this year
Apr 2020
7:04pm, 30 Apr 2020
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runnyeyes

This bird has become a regular under the niger seeds picking up the debris that the goldfinches drop. Can someone tell me... is it a chaffinch? It’s the right size.. but it’s different from the other chaffinches. Thankyou.
Apr 2020
7:42pm, 30 Apr 2020
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jacdaw
Try googling "chaffinch brambling hybrid"; see what you think.

I heard my first snipe drumming this evening.
Apr 2020
8:24pm, 30 Apr 2020
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Derby Tup
I wondered if chaffinch could breed with brambling. Coarse fish can hybridise. Roach-rudd is possible and roach-bream reasonably common
Apr 2020
8:59pm, 30 Apr 2020
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runnyeyes
Oh. Interesting. Thanks.
May 2020
9:01am, 1 May 2020
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Surelynot
Eynsham Red - I'm not shielding but working from home more regularly then I usually do and it's great looking out on the small front garden we have and seeing the birdlife.

I noted the following visitors yesterday; blue tits, coal tits, herring gull, wood pigeon, jackdaw, blackbird, starling, sparrow and rook. Sadly no reappearance of the greenfinch.

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