Fetch Birdwatchers
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10 Jun
10:56am, 10 Jun 2024
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Diogenes
Derby Tup wrote: Two male bullfinch this morning. Seriously handsome birds I've had a few of those recently, very nice birds. |
10 Jun
11:55am, 10 Jun 2024
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Kittenheels Kath
I'm almost able to hand-feed the robins on the allotment. They carry off grubs nearly the size of their own heads, can't imagine how they swallow that, or feed to the little 'uns.
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10 Jun
12:56pm, 10 Jun 2024
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macca 53
paulcook, we used to get lots of oystercatchers in and around Newton Aycliffe when I was working - including this one who spent several minutes “fencing” with his reflection presumably, right by my office window! |
10 Jun
3:09pm, 10 Jun 2024
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um
A Jay in the garden today.
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10 Jun
5:02pm, 10 Jun 2024
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RunningRonnie
um wrote: A Jay in the garden today. Lol, came to post the exact same thing. Not seen one in the garden before. |
10 Jun
5:29pm, 10 Jun 2024
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Ness
Nice! I occasionally see Jays in my garden but not often. There are more in a nearby wood. Today my bird feeder has been mobbed by a group of goldfinches. That was fun to watch. |
10 Jun
5:56pm, 10 Jun 2024
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paulcook
We had jays in our garden throughout my youth so I always considered them a fairly common bird. Though like Ness, our garden would have literally been the final trees on the edge of the wood, so was more likely that than the garden. Was often a characterful thing to see.
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10 Jun
5:57pm, 10 Jun 2024
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paulcook
macca 53 wrote: paulcook, we used to get lots of oystercatchers in and around Newton Aycliffe when I was working - including this one who spent several minutes “fencing” with his reflection presumably, right by my office window! It probably makes some sense to see them as I think they do like farmland and we're not too far away from the coast. Though saying that, I've never seen them on the farmland around Darlington while running. Yesterday's was by the train station somewhere. |
10 Jun
7:42pm, 10 Jun 2024
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jacdaw
The oystercatcher round here (about 40 miles from the sea), come about the same time as the curlew and lapwing, in the spring, but like to breed along the river gravels rather than in the hay meadows. They trade the risk of being silaged for the risk of being washed out. But they breed in some odd spots; they do love railway ballast, and do nest between the rails on quiet tracks. I've also seen them nesting on top of a flat roofed Tesco, and regularly on top of Rheged on the A66, by Penrith. Then they leave at the end of the summer to return to the sea shore, or the estuaries of the Tyne or Solway. On a different subject, I heard a chiffchaff along the Scotswood Road during the Blaydon Race last night. When I was growing up in Newcastle in the 60s and 70s, that would have been unthinkable. |
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10 Jun
8:06pm, 10 Jun 2024
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paulcook
jacdaw wrote: The oystercatcher round here (about 40 miles from the sea), come about the same time as the curlew and lapwing, in the spring, but like to breed along the river gravels rather than in the hay meadows. They trade the risk of being silaged for the risk of being washed out. But they breed in some odd spots; they do love railway ballast, and do nest between the rails on quiet tracks. I've also seen them nesting on top of a flat roofed Tesco, and regularly on top of Rheged on the A66, by Penrith. Then they leave at the end of the summer to return to the sea shore, or the estuaries of the Tyne or Solway. On a different subject, I heard a chiffchaff along the Scotswood Road during the Blaydon Race last night. When I was growing up in Newcastle in the 60s and 70s, that would have been unthinkable. That might make sense here. There's probably loads of spare rails outside the station that they could well find some shelter and place to nest. I seem to remember one brave bird doing similar on springwatch one year though very near to any trains. Guess you won't get many potential predators though! |
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