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Feb 2021
2:24pm, 11 Feb 2021
3,398 posts
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J2R
Went for a delightful cross-country ski jaunt this morning, and the main bird highlight was fieldfares and redwings 'lit up' my the snow - light reflecting off the snow really makes birds look different, and brings out the vibrancy of their colours.
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Feb 2021
4:12pm, 11 Feb 2021
21,728 posts
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Red Squirrel
The redwings are still in my local park, creeping through the trees. They've been there for about 2 weeks now. Must be some tasty food around. They are such a beautiful bird.
Saw a kingfisher t'other day too - s'bin a while.
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Feb 2021
3:12pm, 12 Feb 2021
3,400 posts
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J2R
Fieldfare in the garden at the moment having a good old feast on the crab apples. Pyracantha berries a metre away are clearly less tempting.
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Feb 2021
4:11pm, 12 Feb 2021
3,401 posts
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J2R
An hour later, still munching away!
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Feb 2021
5:23pm, 12 Feb 2021
3,402 posts
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J2R
Well, that's some kind of garden record set! The fieldfare was munching away for over 2 hours, by far the longest time I've ever seen any bird spend in the garden. Normally they just fly in, spend a minute or two on the feeders and then clear off again. At one point a blackbird was heading towards the crab apple bush, evidently keen on partaking of the bounty, but the fieldfare wasn't having any of it and chased it away.
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Feb 2021
5:47pm, 12 Feb 2021
18,637 posts
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Chrisity
Saw a small flock of Fieldfares stalking down a large lawn in the Boots factory grounds. They were like the police looking for clues, a dozen lines doing half a dozen hops, pausing, then 6 more hops.
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Feb 2021
6:08pm, 12 Feb 2021
49,132 posts
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alpenrose
I spotted a kingfisher today. 
I then looked for oycs (oyks?) on the beach butonly saw sea gulls, I think the evil wind blew them all away.
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Feb 2021
6:23pm, 12 Feb 2021
3,403 posts
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J2R
I am so missing the sea at the moment! All those birds up at the coast I can't see - the great flocks of waders, the pink-footed geese, the snow buntings. By the time we come out of lockdown, they'll all have gone. (Yes, I know that in the scheme of things this is a minor inconvenience. But still...)
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Feb 2021
7:07pm, 12 Feb 2021
859 posts
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Reiver
J2R, I had a dune /beach walk this afternoon. The bird activity on the wetlands and marshes just inland from the sea was amazing. Loads of Lapwings, Oyster Catchers, Curlew and distant geese and smaller birds that I can't identify.
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Feb 2021
8:56pm, 12 Feb 2021
3,404 posts
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J2R
Yes, Reiver, I can imagine!
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