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KinkyS
KinkyS
Dec 2016
5:54pm, 1 Dec 2016
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The differences between our robins and Scandinavian ones are subtle, but pretty much as Steve says :-) Our robin has quite a warm, milk chocolate brown back whereas the visitors are more of a greyish ash brown. Residents tend to have a really bright pillarbox red breast, whereas the mirgants are more of an orangey brick red. And as S45 says, whereas British robins are very much garden birds and tend to be almost tame, the Scandinavian birds are mostly forest dwellers and a lot more skulky in the undergrowth.

I've never seen a Siberian chiffchaff.
Chrisity
Chrisity
Dec 2016
7:06pm, 1 Dec 2016
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Chrisity
thanks Katie, i will have to go looking with my truffle hound.
bonners
bonners
Dec 2016
7:45pm, 1 Dec 2016
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bonners
Had a great view of a red kite in the hills above Fairbourne today, even managed to nab a poor photo on my camera. Seen plenty of them further south, but this is the furthest north by far I've seen one. The great White Egret put in yet another appearance in the estuary before we started climbing. This is the holiday that keeps on giving!
Surelynot
Surelynot
Dec 2016
8:09pm, 1 Dec 2016
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Surelynot
Great to watch red kite. We have them around Loch Ken in Dumfries and Galloway. They are doing very well here.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Dec 2016
8:09pm, 1 Dec 2016
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Derby Tup
:-)
Heinzster
Heinzster
Dec 2016
11:06pm, 1 Dec 2016
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Heinzster
Snow
Heinzster
Heinzster
Dec 2016
11:07pm, 1 Dec 2016
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Heinzster
Yay! It works! How cool😜
steve45
steve45
Dec 2016
9:51am, 2 Dec 2016
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steve45
heck you are lucky bonners!
Nothing much on my morning run...just a solitary Buzzard surveying rabbit activity. All pools still frozen down here along trails.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Dec 2016
3:58pm, 2 Dec 2016
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Derby Tup
Handsome mistle thrush this morning and a very tuneful blackbird who thinks it's late February, not early December
Chrisitymas
Chrisitymas
Dec 2016
5:38pm, 2 Dec 2016
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Chrisitymas
Little Egret and Goosander in/on the River Trent by our parkrun this morning.

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