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May 2023
2:00pm, 30 May 2023
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paulcook
Our blue tits fledged before I got up this morning, I am missing them. I think this post neatly sums up why your previous post |
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May 2023
2:00pm, 30 May 2023
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paulcook
Our blue tits fledged before I got up this morning, I am missing them. Try again. I think this post, neatly sums up [USER71977][USER71977] why your previous post is spot on about watching the native birds. |
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May 2023
2:01pm, 30 May 2023
2,770 posts
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paulcook
Ah well. Still not working!!
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May 2023
2:53pm, 30 May 2023
38,016 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Our blue tits fledged before I got up this morning, I am missing them. Try again. I think this post, neatly sums up [USER71977][USER71977] why your previous post is spot on about watching the native birds. Now I am curious as to what post is being referenced paulcook |
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May 2023
3:10pm, 30 May 2023
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paulcook
I was trying to tag J2R!! Simply your two posts neatly corroborated each other, that native species can be far more interesting to watch than life ticks.
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May 2023
3:58pm, 30 May 2023
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RunningRonnie
I can hear a greenfinch in my garden! Very excited. Can't see it though, but going to keep looking and try to get a photo. |
May 2023
4:45pm, 30 May 2023
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Rosehip
Titchwell's a great place, isn't it, Rosehip? Seen lots of good things there, including on more than one occasion some unexciting looking bird that everybody around me has been gibbering about, evidently more clued up than me. To be honest, I take much greater pleasure in viewing the still special birds which should be there, like the hobby, rather than the rare blow-ins. I remember as everyone had their big lenses trained on this wader (can't remember what it was), I was looking instead at a snipe much closer to. No interesting birds for me in the last couple of days but did get a great view yesterday of a stoat, which ran out of the grassy verge into the road in front of me as I was cycling, then turned around and scuttled back having spotted me. I'm always surprised by how small they are. Agree, Titchwell is fab, love the work they are doing to preserve the different marsh and pools - with bonus points for not having a height restriction to get in the car park and the potential for a dip in the sea on too warm days. There were lots of coot-lings (is that a word?) could have watched them all day despite being a pretty common bird I can see on my runs most fays here. |
May 2023
6:34pm, 30 May 2023
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flanker
Agree J2R. While seeing the rare raptors, bitterns, etc can be exciting, the birding I tend to enjoy most is just watching the "common" birds in the local wood or hedgerow, the house martins swooping in and out of our eaves, or the dunnock on our feeder. I'll always look at the waders on the coast or up on the moors, but struggle to get grabbed by them. When I do it tends to be the more common ones such as oyks, sanderling, golden plover, etc as you see them often enough to become familiar with their behaviour and that makes them far more interesting.
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May 2023
8:06pm, 30 May 2023
38,017 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
The garden birds bring me so much joy 
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May 2023
9:54pm, 30 May 2023
5,950 posts
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Windsor Wool
This afternoon I sat at one end of the garden while a Jay destroyed / devoured the Wren’s nest that was under our pergola at the other. But yes, garden birds can bring a lot of joy (normally!). |
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