Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
Dec 2023
2:52pm, 11 Dec 2023
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Hertford Tiger
independent.co.uk There are a number of articles on this from a year or so ago. It appears Gull numbers are worryingly low at the moment |
Dec 2023
3:27pm, 11 Dec 2023
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J2R
Hertford Tiger, thanks. That's worrying. But I can't think the food situation has changed so much in the one year that all the lesser black backed gulls which were here last year in large numbers have since starved (I certainly hope not). I suspect they must have moved on somewhere else.
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Dec 2023
3:44pm, 11 Dec 2023
61,840 posts
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alpenrose
When I have left over chips from the chippie I always put them out on the grass for the seagulls. They usually appear quite quickly.
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Dec 2023
4:04pm, 11 Dec 2023
4,887 posts
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J2R
I don't understand the concept of left over chips, alpenrose. 
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Dec 2023
12:36pm, 15 Dec 2023
32,490 posts
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HellsBells
Today is a good day |
Dec 2023
12:49pm, 15 Dec 2023
4,201 posts
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jacdaw
That is a good day. I'm jealous. They do seem to love those weird ornamental yellow (is it rowan?) berries that nothing else eats. Highlight here was a return visit of the beautiful, small, female Sparrowhawk scaring everything from the garden feeders. Lots of Greenfinch about, many LTTs, and 2 GSWs trying to get on the fat block together. No Goldfinches, Siskin or Redpoll, which is odd for this time of year. Big flocks of the latter two feeding in the alder and birch, so maybe they don't need my niger seed. |
Dec 2023
12:51pm, 15 Dec 2023
62,783 posts
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Derby Tup
Great pic HB 8 degrees C here and great tit loudly teacher teachering like it's early March |
Dec 2023
1:03pm, 15 Dec 2023
4,576 posts
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Curly45
Very jealous HB. Great day.
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Dec 2023
1:17pm, 15 Dec 2023
6,124 posts
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Wintryfree Wonderland
Oh perfect! A very good day indeed
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Dec 2023
1:22pm, 15 Dec 2023
32,492 posts
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HellsBells
Even better , they were only 2 miles away on an easy cycle route
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