Fetch Birdwatchers
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165 watchers
4 Jan
3:27pm, 4 Jan 2024
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J2R
When I was a young lad, a keen birdwatcher and member of the YOC, I was always very excited to get occasional sightings of redwings in winter in the local fields. So it's a real delight for me to look out from my upstairs office and see, throughout the winter, little posses of redwings alighting at the top of a big walnut tree overhanging the garden. They never normally stick around for more than a minute before moving on elsewhere, but that usually gives me time get them in my bins (I have a pair sat next to my laptop). Having said that, they often do have that preternatural awareness shared by all birds of that exact point when you have got the binoculars trained on them and are about to bring them into focus, so they can fly off.
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4 Jan
6:29pm, 4 Jan 2024
21,090 posts
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flanker
I think it's a game they play. They are all laughing at us.
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6 Jan
3:15pm, 6 Jan 2024
2,903 posts
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RunningRonnie
Saw a red kite on our walk today.
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6 Jan
5:05pm, 6 Jan 2024
63,464 posts
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Derby Tup
I've been into Keighley around dusk and the trees near the bus station are alive with pied wagtails. There's obviously a big roost somewhere there abouts
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6 Jan
5:25pm, 6 Jan 2024
4,225 posts
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jacdaw
Are they not just roosting in the trees you saw them in? They seem to roost in city centre trees in Newcastle and Carlisle. I saw some pictures of them roosting in a christmas tree amongst the fairy lights recently.
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6 Jan
5:44pm, 6 Jan 2024
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Derby Tup
The trees weren't very substantial although a couple are covered in ivy. I suppose even a load of wagtails packed together don't take up much room
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6 Jan
5:47pm, 6 Jan 2024
4,226 posts
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jacdaw
The christmas tree wags were on twitter: twitter.com |
6 Jan
5:48pm, 6 Jan 2024
8,110 posts
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um
birdguides.com (quite old) |
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6 Jan
6:56pm, 6 Jan 2024
4,227 posts
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jacdaw
Hadn't realised that those pics were so old. Must have been retweeted in reply to this yearas bunch of christmas light wags! Anyway, more evidence thet don't need a lot of tree: twitter.com |
7 Jan
10:48am, 7 Jan 2024
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TheScribbler
Went to Gosforth Nature Reserve yesterday morning. Didn't see very much, but did photograph this little bird at the small bird feeding station. I thought it was a willow tit, nice to see among the regular blue tits, coal tits, great tits, sparrows, robins, etc, but the team at the park have posted sightings of a marsh tit. I didn't hear it call, so only have photos to rely on. What do you think? |
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