Jan 2021
10:46am, 25 Jan 2021
3,361 posts
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J2R
Smashing photo, Scribbler!
Nothing rare at the weekend, but main highlights were big flock of linnets wheeling around, and another field completely covered in redwings and fieldfares.
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Jan 2021
5:22pm, 25 Jan 2021
19,436 posts
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Rosehip
Similar here J2R and also a lot of goldfinch and LTTs.
Local farmer has been trimming some hedges in order to be able to dredge out a couple of ditches, I was a bit cross until I saw how they were making good gaps in the hedge the other side of the ditch with the cut branches and also had a trailer of saplings ready to go in once the grounds thaws out a bit. I then saw him/one of his lads on a quad bike spreadng birdseed along one of the tracks
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Jan 2021
10:34am, 26 Jan 2021
4,356 posts
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steve45
I guess trimming might be essential at this time of year Rosehip--prior to the breeding season. Good farmer chucking bird seed out, that has to be a rarity! Five mile trail route this morning turned up nothing except what I'd typically expect in my own garden although a Greenfinch singing was a surprise.
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Jan 2021
11:31am, 26 Jan 2021
1,961 posts
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Surelynot
Spotted a jackdaw collecting nesting material in my front garden. Spring is not far away.
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Jan 2021
11:54am, 26 Jan 2021
19,447 posts
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Rosehip
One of the landowners s a very good sort - he grows seeds plants on a few rough corners - full of sunflowers and flax and goodness knows what else - should have seen the nuber of mippits there in the autumn,
(they also have pheasants and partridge and have shoots too)
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Jan 2021
11:55am, 26 Jan 2021
19,448 posts
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Rosehip
(so not all good, but more balanced than some)
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Jan 2021
6:08pm, 26 Jan 2021
21,712 posts
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Red Squirrel
Redwings in local urban park wooded bit. Doing that on-the-ground feeding thing and not too worried about the odd person walking though. Lovely! I was so close I could see the stripe by the eye and the red patch. Made my day.
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Jan 2021
6:11pm, 26 Jan 2021
3,364 posts
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J2R
Redwings were a bird I remember getting very excited about as a boy, and they can still make my day now. I see hugely more of them now than when I was a youngster, but I suspect that's nothing to do with actual numbers, more that I'm just much better at spotting them now.
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Jan 2021
7:29am, 27 Jan 2021
1,775 posts
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bonners
Great crested grebe yesterday, which is a first for a confirmed sighting for me.
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Jan 2021
9:16am, 27 Jan 2021
21,713 posts
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Red Squirrel
Great spot Bonners.
Redwings in the park again and 2 mallards mating in the river.
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