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HowFar?
HowFar?
Mar 2023
5:31pm, 27 Mar 2023
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I'm like that with the grasshopper warblers round here. I can hear them a lot, once they arrive, but I don't think I've ever seen one (although I might have done and just not recognised it.)
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Mar 2023
8:53pm, 27 Mar 2023
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Gropper is a great example of a regularly seen but not heard species. I value the sbnh birds highly. Cettis another good one
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Mar 2023
8:54pm, 27 Mar 2023
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Heard but not seen - hbns even ;-)
Dvorak
Dvorak
Mar 2023
9:08pm, 27 Mar 2023
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Thanks, I've been looking up my ducks. Not a goosander, not as exotic as a mandarin - in markings maybe like an eider duck, but not big enough.
KinkyS
KinkyS
Mar 2023
10:49pm, 27 Mar 2023
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Our canal has a number of feral and escaped domesticated farm/ornamental ducks of all sorts of different markings and colours so you might not be looking at a wild species at all?
paulcook
paulcook
Mar 2023
11:10pm, 27 Mar 2023
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Nor, apparently, are ducks necessarily always picky about their partners and are among the more common hybrid birds.
Heinzster
Heinzster
Mar 2023
5:51am, 28 Mar 2023
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Could they have been mallard/dunnock hybrids? 😅
flanker
flanker
Mar 2023
9:27am, 28 Mar 2023
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flanker
would that be a dullard?
paulcook
paulcook
Mar 2023
9:31am, 28 Mar 2023
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🤣
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Mar 2023
12:21pm, 28 Mar 2023
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V good :-)

A fulmar / duck hybrid could be interesting

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