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Dec 2023
5:19pm, 8 Dec 2023
2,331 posts
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Heinzster
Looking out at the apple tree this afternoon. Over 5 minutes it had a rook, two magpies, a jackdaw and two hooded crows. Corvid central!
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Dec 2023
8:01pm, 8 Dec 2023
62,620 posts
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Derby Tup
Not common over here are hooded crows. You're lucky
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Dec 2023
10:12pm, 8 Dec 2023
2,332 posts
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Heinzster
I am aware that they are less common in England than sometimes reported, DT😅
They are a very frequent sight here.
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Dec 2023
10:15pm, 8 Dec 2023
32,448 posts
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HellsBells
Apparently waxwings were spotted on the other side of Cambridge this afternoon. Fingers crossed
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Dec 2023
6:02pm, 10 Dec 2023
4,882 posts
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J2R
I was surprised when going for a little run (in miserable weather!) in rural Oxfordshire today to come upon a little flock of corn buntings. I got the best view of them I've ever had in this country, quite close to. I first identified them by the song (which was surprising considering it's December) and then spotted them flitting across the road in front of me and perching in some bushes nearby. They're not the most exciting bird to look at, but they're uncommon enough that I was thrilled.
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Dec 2023
6:17pm, 10 Dec 2023
62,676 posts
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Derby Tup
Perching birds. Whenever I've seen them (not near home) they've been standing on fence posts or similiar
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Dec 2023
6:23pm, 10 Dec 2023
4,883 posts
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J2R
They were flying up from a field on my left across the road to perch in bushes on the right. Also groups of fieldfares flying over and lots of skylarks on the ground. Red kites galore, too.
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Dec 2023
8:30pm, 10 Dec 2023
8,004 posts
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um
Feeders were mobbed by goldfinches today. We get a lot in summer, but seems a flock is either passing through, or just arrived?
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Dec 2023
8:32pm, 10 Dec 2023
8,005 posts
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um
And a very soggy squirrel. But the washing line pole was too wet and slippery for it to climb up.
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Dec 2023
1:34pm, 11 Dec 2023
4,884 posts
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J2R
Anyone on here know much about gull behaviour? I've mentioned before about the peculiar changes in urban gull populations I've observed locally, where the most commonly seen gulls years back were herring gulls, and then black-headed gulls took over for a long time, and then in the last 2-3 years by far the largest population has been of lesser black-backed gulls.
Now, though, the LBBs have largely disappeared, I'm seeing very few. In fact there are seemingly fewer urban gulls around in general (as observed from flocks in the parks and school playing fields) and what gulls there are are mainly black-headed gulls again.
Anyone have an explanation for this?
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Bird song watch
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