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Mar 2024
4:10pm, 26 Mar 2024
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HowFar?
There are a couple of greenfinches on the feeder outside my classroom just now. That's the first ones I've seen here for about 10 years I think.
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Mar 2024
4:11pm, 26 Mar 2024
65,186 posts
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Derby Tup
Yes and stick it next to something familiar in size to help with scale please. Say a hooded crow
The sprawk has a proper look on her face. I suspect death is on the agenda and not hers
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Mar 2024
4:14pm, 26 Mar 2024
12,579 posts
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lammo
Thanks for the comments. I'll ask her to turn next time 
This was in my mums garden on Saturday, first time she'd been spotted there, and Derby you are very perceptive, shortly after that she whooshed into a small tree and emerged with something in her claws and flew off with it.
Fascinating.
We have red kites where i am but haven't see them take anything.
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Mar 2024
4:18pm, 26 Mar 2024
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paulcook
Don't think kites take much in terms of live prey. Mainly (entirely?) carrion.
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Mar 2024
4:43pm, 26 Mar 2024
6,247 posts
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Windsor Wool
I saw a kite with a slow worm the other day and I know that they hand around ploughed fields in search of earthworms too. But agree, mainly carrion. Or the cooked chicken breasts that some Windsor residents like to feed them with.
There have actually been some calls for locals to stop feeding them, particularly close to the local Tesco as folks in the car park were getting spooked!
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Mar 2024
4:55pm, 26 Mar 2024
65,188 posts
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Derby Tup
This was in my mums garden on Saturday, first time she'd been spotted there, and Derby you are very perceptive, shortly after that she whooshed into a small tree and emerged with something in her claws
and flew off with it
I recognised that look and not from raptors but shall we say other females
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Mar 2024
4:56pm, 26 Mar 2024
18,267 posts
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KinkyS
Say a hooded crow The sprawk has a proper look on her face. I suspect death is on the agenda and not hers
That yellow eye... I'm glad I'm not a small bird!
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Mar 2024
5:01pm, 26 Mar 2024
18,268 posts
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KinkyS
We also have one or two that *could* be serins as they look different to the others but they don't come on the feeders often so I am not 100%, maybe they are just last years young ones?
Serin are a scarce passage migrant in the south and east of England, less than 100 per year. And maybe the odd breeding pair but not every year. Can you get a pic?
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Mar 2024
5:05pm, 26 Mar 2024
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jacdaw
Eye colour says sparrowhawk, not common buzzard. I was expecting people to be debating whether or not it was a gossy.
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Mar 2024
5:20pm, 26 Mar 2024
4,520 posts
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paulcook
I initially wondered goshawk because of the colour but also then wondered female sparrowhawk. I didn’t answer mainly because I wouldn’t have been certain either way.
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