Fetch Birdwatchers
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7 Feb
8:38am, 7 Feb 2025
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Derby Tup
These guys definitely know 🤎🤎 |
7 Feb
10:16am, 7 Feb 2025
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J2R
Dippers are top birds. Siskin populations in our garden are very inconsistent. A few years ago, in March, they were about the commonest bird on our feeders, but I don't think I've seen a single one in the garden in the last two winters. |
7 Feb
1:07pm, 7 Feb 2025
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Curly45
Good to know @J2R, similar for us. I wonder if they had a good year a few years ago. We used to get the same with stag beetles in the old house which was dependant on the weather 7 years before 😂 |
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7 Feb
4:11pm, 7 Feb 2025
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J2R
I think the situation with the siskins was that they came into urban gardens once their most common natural food in the surrounding areas, alder catkins, was exhausted. This was early March. I presume this is weather related from year to year.
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7 Feb
7:29pm, 7 Feb 2025
6,639 posts
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Windsor Wool
love a dipper, haven’t seen a Siskin since I was a kid. And that is a very long time ago. Less goldfinches here the last year or so but agree that for something that was once a rarity they are a lovely addition to the everyday. Off to the Lakes next week. Will maybe pop in to Whinlatter to see what’s on the feeders. Surely there’ll be a chaffinch!! Walked in the North Downs for 5 hours today and saw almost nothing. Rubbish. |
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7 Feb
8:17pm, 7 Feb 2025
70,514 posts
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Derby Tup
Give the Downs a week or two and a skylark should be nailed on
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7 Feb
9:44pm, 7 Feb 2025
25,106 posts
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Red Squirrel
Some excitement for me this morning. Went to Lossiemouth to do some dune thatching. Walking along the sea front I saw my second ever hoodie crow!
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7 Feb
9:48pm, 7 Feb 2025
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macca 53
We have lots of house sparrows here in Portugal. Yesterday I heard a new song to me (a kind of hoo hoo hoo) which Merlin said was a Hoopoe, unfortunately completely invisible from where we were. Lots of serins about and a few goldfinches. House martins starting to appear too. The stork pole is occupied at the edge of our village.
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8 Feb
9:27am, 8 Feb 2025
7,439 posts
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steve45
Carrion Crow enthusiastically nest building this morning. Nest almost completed so must have started some days ago . Blackbird and SongThrush singing all over the place here (south east Wales).
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8 Feb
9:43am, 8 Feb 2025
70,528 posts
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Derby Tup
I thought you might have a chiff or sand martin steve
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