Fetch Birdwatchers
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Jan 2022
12:21pm, 26 Jan 2022
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Derby Tup
Two singing mistle thrush this morning, plus a flyby dipper. Another noted rise in general birdsong They know 
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Jan 2022
12:40pm, 26 Jan 2022
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TheScribbler
Phal, my brain said ‘starlings’ when I saw a flock of birds flying in the distance. When I saw a flash of a white belly, it offered ‘puffins’… They were lapwings. Puffins not being known to hang out near an industrial estate on Teesside |
Jan 2022
4:33pm, 26 Jan 2022
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I struggle with lapwing/waxwing too. Not the actual birds but just the names. But I often forget the words for things, and I’m terrible at remembering the names of famous people when I see a picture of them out of context (e.g. on Pointless)
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Jan 2022
4:45pm, 26 Jan 2022
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HellsBells
I must unearth the blog I wrote when my brain told me there was a penguin sitting on our fence
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Jan 2022
4:50pm, 26 Jan 2022
53,893 posts
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Derby Tup
You must
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Jan 2022
5:51pm, 26 Jan 2022
84,976 posts
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Hanneke
Oh yes HB
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Jan 2022
6:35pm, 26 Jan 2022
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HellsBells
I’ll try, problem is that I really can’t remember how long ago it was
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Jan 2022
6:41pm, 26 Jan 2022
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HellsBells
Found it - it’s really not very interesting and only the first couple of lines fetcheveryone.com/blog-share.php?id=385184 |
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Jan 2022
8:21pm, 26 Jan 2022
84,986 posts
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Hanneke
Still funny Great opening paragraph for a novel. |
Jan 2022
9:13pm, 26 Jan 2022
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KinkyS
A few years ago we saw a stricken little guillemot on the salt marshes on Norfolk. It was so out of the place that both phal and I said "penguin?!" My brain also helpfully supplies the following highly unlikely birds on a regular basis: Ibis (any kind of egret) Garganey (gadwall) Yellow wagtail (it's always a grey!) Hen harrier (I'm so obsessed with hen harriers that I can't say the word harrier without putting the word hen before it. Even when it's a marsh harrier...) Some nice sightings in the last day or two - huge numbers of LTT, a beautifully confiding goldcrest, a song thrush at the very top of a tree very loudly declaring that it wants to be a curlew (took me a second to work that one out!), the first tufties I've ever seen down on our canal (two males), and the usual but always lovely dippers and goosanders. Oh, and a raven. I hate my commute
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