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Jun 2022
8:51am, 24 Jun 2022
5,892 posts
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TheScribbler
Sounds fabulous FF. I loved seeing the nightjar on Springwatch this year. What a fascinating bird.
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Jun 2022
10:03am, 24 Jun 2022
55,922 posts
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Derby Tup
There are a couple of possible nightjar sites relatively close to here but I’ve never been. That sounds a brilliant evening ff
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Jun 2022
10:17am, 24 Jun 2022
4,239 posts
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J2R
That sounds great, ff! The churring of a nightjar is such a weird sound, I think. Hard to think of it as a bird sound.
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Jun 2022
10:29am, 24 Jun 2022
3,349 posts
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flyingfinn
Really excellent evening. I've never heard (knowingly) never mind seen nightjar before. Walk was organised by Natural England who run the reserve and was very low key (and free) but highly informative. The local expert and ringer was a mine of information. I loved the bit about them having a comb on the base of their third toe that they use to clean the whiskers around their mouths which are so important in the way they hoover up moths 😀
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Jun 2022
10:34am, 24 Jun 2022
4,240 posts
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J2R
On my recent French holiday, I fell asleep one night to the sound of a nightjar. We had the window open in the apartment and there was one churring away in the scrub some distance away.
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Jun 2022
1:55pm, 25 Jun 2022
9,852 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I think this was asked before but ages ago so I can’t find it.
Can anyone recommend an online supplier of bird seed/peanuts that sells it in large sacks? I’ve been using the RSPB shop until now but they’ve had a problem with their website not taking payments for ages now and I gave up hanging on the phone for someone to pick up.
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Jun 2022
2:04pm, 25 Jun 2022
2,248 posts
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MudMeanderer
YP uses Happy Beaks iirc for the birds in our garden. They do sacks of up to around 25kg I believe.
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Jun 2022
2:54pm, 25 Jun 2022
6,201 posts
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um
I use ... depending on prices and which seed
- Love Garden Birds
- Maltbys (via Amazon)
- Charlies
- Robert Dyas
- In shop : In-Excess (probably local-ish to So'ton/Salisbury/Bournemouth triangle)
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Jun 2022
3:00pm, 25 Jun 2022
20,629 posts
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flanker
The wildlife trusts have a partnership with a supplier (and I assume they've selected an appropriately ethical one) and they get a % of any purchase you make.
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Jun 2022
3:40pm, 25 Jun 2022
9,855 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Thanks I’ll take a look at those, especially flanker’s suggestion.
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