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165 watchers
Oct 2021
6:56pm, 7 Oct 2021
3,851 posts
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J2R
Green woodpeckers are certainly exotic, exciting looking birds. I got a great view of one today, not far off, as I was out on a run.
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Oct 2021
7:15pm, 7 Oct 2021
2,878 posts
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flyingfinn
Today's highlight was finding the Snow Bunting that has been reported on the dam for the last couple of days. It is being very obliging, keeping to a few hundred yards of the dam and making itself very visible. There are some fantastic photos appearing on the local birding fb pages. I understand it to be only the second record for the site and it's definitely a first for me.
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Oct 2021
8:13pm, 7 Oct 2021
52,081 posts
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Derby Tup
Great spot. Very confiding birds
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Oct 2021
8:16pm, 7 Oct 2021
17,138 posts
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Ness
My highlight for today was seeing a great spotted woodpecker return to my bird feeder this morning.
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Oct 2021
8:17pm, 7 Oct 2021
52,082 posts
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Derby Tup
Redwing movement reported today locally. Waxwing can’t be long surely
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Oct 2021
8:59pm, 7 Oct 2021
22,027 posts
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Red Squirrel
I know what you mean about exotic J2R. I feel the same about nuthatches. There's a Facebook page attached to the cemetery nature reserve. A while back some people posted excitedly about a "green escaped parrot or parakeet". Someone else weighed in with a ring-necked parakeet suggestion. I realised they were probably talking about green woodpeckers, so I posted a full description and a pic. It was the first sighting for some of the posters and they were very surprised that the UK had such an exotic winged resident. 
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Oct 2021
9:35pm, 7 Oct 2021
52,083 posts
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Derby Tup
Green woodpecker and jay aren’t uncommon birds but both really quite exotic looking
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Oct 2021
9:48pm, 7 Oct 2021
17,141 posts
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Ness
Absolutely. Have seen jays in the local wood quite frequently but surprisingly one came to my garden bird feeder recently which was brilliant!
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Oct 2021
10:00pm, 7 Oct 2021
52,084 posts
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Derby Tup
stevesbirdingblog.blogspot.com
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Oct 2021
10:54pm, 7 Oct 2021
5,260 posts
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icemaiden
Jay today and two great egrets and a bunch of little.
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