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Jan 2017
6:15pm, 27 Jan 2017
22,422 posts
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Derby Tup
Lapwing are very distinctive. Black and white plumage (from a distance). Boxy shaped wings and distinctive call
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Jan 2017
6:34pm, 27 Jan 2017
12,823 posts
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HowFar?
We did the RSPB Big School Bird Watch today. The results of our hour:
greenfinch 1
siskin 1
jackdaw 2
collared dove 1
goldfinch 12
great tit 2
pied wagtail 1
dunnock 4
sparrow 5
blackbird 2
blue tit 3
robin 2
chaffinch 5
coal tit 2
That's certainly the most goldfinches we have had for the Bird Watch. I think the number of siskins is down on what we have had in the past and chaffinch numbers are down as well, I think.
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Jan 2017
6:46pm, 27 Jan 2017
1,448 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I thought the call sounded a bit like a herring gull but softer and sort of apologetic 
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Jan 2017
6:53pm, 27 Jan 2017
169 posts
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bonners
What a great set of birds howfar Be interesting to see what we get tomorrow (doing it after parkrun).
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Jan 2017
6:55pm, 27 Jan 2017
22,423 posts
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Derby Tup
Good stuff HF?
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Jan 2017
7:41pm, 27 Jan 2017
22,063 posts
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HellsBells
we'll do ours tomorrow, but I'm majorly excited as I came a roundabout way home in order to squish a fetchpoint bug. My reward was a waxwing and a redwing, neither of which I'd have seen if I'd gone straight home
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Jan 2017
11:29am, 28 Jan 2017
1,429 posts
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steve45
Good Watch HowFar? My Hour's watch was the worst in a decade! I think I'll do it again..my garden only gave ten species and a total of only 21 birds. Showers and habitat change just a quarter of a mile away over the last year might have impacted.
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Jan 2017
12:03pm, 28 Jan 2017
170 posts
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bonners
The RSPB website is seriously rubbish, can't find my actual details from last year, just the date I did it. Anyway, to the best of my recollection both numbers and variety are seriously down on last year, which is what I suspect anyway. Only thing up is feral pigeons!!!
Sparrows 3
Starlings 4
Great tits 1
Blue tits 2
Robin 1
Blackbirds 2
Collared doves 2
Herring gull 1
Last but not least, feral pigeons 8!!!!!
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Jan 2017
12:27pm, 28 Jan 2017
22,439 posts
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Derby Tup
Herring gull isn't your average 'garden bird' 
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Jan 2017
12:55pm, 28 Jan 2017
9,319 posts
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D2
This morning on the little wall where I feed them;
robin 2
great tit 3
blue tit 1
blackbird 5
dunnock 5
some kind of corvid, please excuse my ignorance .. 2
bullfinch 1 (first time in front garden!)
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