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Oct 2020
1:54pm, 6 Oct 2020
11,791 posts
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rf_fozzy
I've just not seen a goldfinch around here before J2R - very occasionally I've seen them at theh allotments (which admittedly are only 5mins walk away), and I do seem them in the local fields in the middle of summer, but not seen them quite so urban previously.
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Oct 2020
1:56pm, 6 Oct 2020
11,792 posts
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rf_fozzy
Also I've got a couple of squirrel buster bird feeders, which I can confirm do work.
It's very funny seeing them try to get at them!
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Oct 2020
1:56pm, 6 Oct 2020
13,795 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
J2R - very true! I have just ordered a squirrel resistant peanut feeder but I'm betting on the squirrels working out a way in fairly quickly.
The magpies are also fairly omnivorous - they finish off the hedgehog food if any is left in the morning (not that there ever is at the moment, the hedgehogs are eating everything in sight to fatten up for hibernation I think!)
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Oct 2020
2:01pm, 6 Oct 2020
3,057 posts
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J2R
Well, fozzy, enjoy their arrival in your garden. Gorgeous little birds! They seem to be unusual among songbirds in both being great to listen to and look at. OK, they don't have a particularly fine song in the nightingale/blackcap/blackbird mould, but they do make a rather lovely twittering.
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Oct 2020
9:24am, 7 Oct 2020
4,157 posts
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steve45
No sign of Redwings for me even though they've
been seen all over the country.
Single garden Chiffchaff again today.
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Oct 2020
10:00am, 7 Oct 2020
3,064 posts
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J2R
Think I saw redwings on Sunday flying over, but not 100% sure.
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Oct 2020
10:26am, 7 Oct 2020
46,929 posts
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Derby Tup
No winter thrushes yet for me or pinkies although they have been seen
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Oct 2020
4:17pm, 7 Oct 2020
4,158 posts
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steve45
Chiffchaff..again!
Cetti's Warbler singing again locally after a late summer break!
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Oct 2020
5:23pm, 7 Oct 2020
2,260 posts
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flyingfinn
We had Swallows reported over this morning! I think they overslept 😉
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Oct 2020
5:52pm, 7 Oct 2020
46,935 posts
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Derby Tup
Not seen any definitea for a while although fairly certain I saw hirundines in Wensleydale Saturday afternoon. Mind, the weather was so bad they could have been buzzards and I wouldn’t have been sure 
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