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Oct 2020
6:58pm, 7 Oct 2020
3,067 posts
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J2R
Do magpies roost together? I never really thought they did, but being corvids, I don't see why not. I ask because I just saw a group of about 30 of them just now while I was out on a dusk run, with others flying to join them.
More bats along the woodland edges, and a great sight, a sparrowhawk barrelling along between the hedges in front of me.
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Oct 2020
9:25pm, 7 Oct 2020
2,264 posts
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flyingfinn
Never really thought about it but I would suspect so given their general behaviour patterns.
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Oct 2020
10:14pm, 7 Oct 2020
272 posts
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Cheekys Dad
We’ve had a yellow wagtail turn up every day for the last couple of months. Pretty sure it’s a yellow not a grey after much research. OH Claim’s to have seen his mate though I don’t think I have. He only seems to hang around the pond picking up whatever he finds & never goes to the feeders. Any ideas of what we could feed him or is it best to just let him get on with it?
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Oct 2020
10:34pm, 7 Oct 2020
46,947 posts
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Derby Tup
If it is a yellow wag it’ll be off south on migration very soon
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Oct 2020
8:45am, 8 Oct 2020
4,162 posts
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steve45
If someone has mentioned a mate I'd think it was a Grey Wagtail. Not likely to have two Yellows hanging about during September..and now it's pretty late for a Yellow. ID by call....a Yellow only gives a single "tsweep" in flight.
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Oct 2020
9:32am, 8 Oct 2020
46,956 posts
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Derby Tup
CD - yellow is small, size of pied wag or smaller. Quite dainty. Grey is bigger and much more ‘robust looking’
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Oct 2020
10:58am, 8 Oct 2020
1,809 posts
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Surelynot
Delighted to see a dipper yesterday on my walk along the river right in the centre of town. I've never seen one on that stretch before.
Nice to see robin, chaffinch, coal and blue tits visiting the garden feeders regularly now. Jackdaws like the fastballs but aren't as ravenous as when they have young to feed.
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Oct 2020
1:57pm, 8 Oct 2020
3,068 posts
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J2R
OK, I've always said I'm not a twitcher, the sort of person who drops everything and rushes off to see a bird to get the 'tick'. But...There's an obliging hoopoe that's been hanging around at a location 35 miles away for a little while now, and it's a nice area, and I COULD just be going there for other reasons, and...
Should I go?
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Oct 2020
1:59pm, 8 Oct 2020
13,802 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
Is it still there? (assuming it's the one near me that people were talking about last week)
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Oct 2020
2:19pm, 8 Oct 2020
285 posts
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Cheekys Dad
I originally thought it was a grey DT. BiL was sure it’s a yellow so I tried to check against everything I could find online and came to the conclusion it was probably a yellow (despite the annoyance of having to admit BiL might be right). I’ll try to get another look...
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