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Jan 2017
1:32pm, 28 Jan 2017
22,440 posts
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Derby Tup
Were your corvids relatively small and grey-ish rather than black?
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Jan 2017
2:29pm, 28 Jan 2017
171 posts
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bonners
Brilliant on getting a bullfinch. Unbelievably I've been sat watching goldfinches and chaffinches in the garden, felt like shouting 'you're late' out the window!
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Jan 2017
2:32pm, 28 Jan 2017
22,441 posts
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Derby Tup
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Jan 2017
3:01pm, 28 Jan 2017
9,322 posts
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D2
big and black DT
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Jan 2017
3:04pm, 28 Jan 2017
22,443 posts
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Derby Tup
Carrion crows if plain black, rooks if fitted with white beaks. Not really correct but a good guideline: 'If you see one rook it's a crow and if you see a group of crows they will be rooks"
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Jan 2017
3:47pm, 28 Jan 2017
22,066 posts
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HellsBells
Wow, I think we've just had our best year doing this ever!
Robin 2
Dunnock 3
Blue tit 2
Blackbird 3
Long tailed tit 4
Coal tit 2
Grey heron 1
Jay 1
Great tit 3
Song thrush 1
Jackdaw 2
Wood pigeon 1
Magpie 1
It went quiet for a bit after a sparrow hawk flew over - not counted as it didn't land - but they all got brave again quite quickly
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Jan 2017
3:52pm, 28 Jan 2017
172 posts
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bonners
Brilliant HB, not sure I'd get out and run if I had that many birds coming to my garden!
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Jan 2017
4:06pm, 28 Jan 2017
22,070 posts
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HellsBells
The sad thing is that most of the time we don't notice them - I often look up out of the window to see what's in the tree, but an hour of concentrated looking shows you how much you miss normally.
The local feral peacocks have just come visiting - glad I didn't have to log and try to explain 6 peacocks!
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Jan 2017
10:10am, 29 Jan 2017
705 posts
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Heinzster
Saw a buzzard close up on my run yesterday. It was on a fence post and flew off when I drew near. It tried to land on a telegraph pole, missed, and skulked off looking embarrassed 😀
Going back to lapwings - I always think they look like the Nazguls' flying mounts in Lord of the Rings with how their wings appear to move. Beautiful birds.
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Jan 2017
10:20am, 29 Jan 2017
22,449 posts
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Derby Tup
We ran over a couple of local hills yesterday and saw lapwing close up. Also what i think were golden plover, but my glasses were listed up! Two hare too
This morning a mistle thrush chorusing up the top end of the village
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