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Jan 2017
6:05pm, 30 Jan 2017
709 posts
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Heinzster
I saw some thrushes in road side fields yesterday. I am not good with them so not sure what they were, other than they looked "different" to regular thrushes. In a reasonably large flock (30 ish)
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Jan 2017
7:28pm, 30 Jan 2017
22,453 posts
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Derby Tup
Redwing or fieldfare probably. Fieldfare are larger than a blackbird whereas redwing akin to a starling
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Jan 2017
7:28pm, 30 Jan 2017
22,454 posts
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Derby Tup
Redwing or fieldfare probably. Fieldfare are larger than a blackbird whereas redwing akin to a starling
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Jan 2017
10:03pm, 30 Jan 2017
710 posts
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Heinzster
Thanks, DT. Think fairly small so prob redwing. It was a twisty hilly road and not great weather so didn't have a chance to stare. I must keep my eyes open this week!
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Jan 2017
10:07pm, 30 Jan 2017
22,456 posts
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Derby Tup
I do 80 % of my birdwatching in the car, but then I'm a rep and spend 20 hours a week driving. It's rare now I go out specifically to look at birds but between running, walking, fishing and driving I have a lot of access to the outdoors
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Jan 2017
8:59am, 31 Jan 2017
14,307 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I very rarely go 'birdwatching' perhaps I should, mainly I go walking/hiking/running and see them.
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Jan 2017
9:21am, 31 Jan 2017
1,439 posts
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steve45
My birdwatching is mainly when I'm out running which is usually early morning...so I'm waiting for the light mornings again! I also do a couple of BTO surveys (BBS) and a population survey of my own which is hitting its 50th anniversary of when I first did it this year. Probably be the last time because the woodland in question is doomed for felling and house building. Early birding there as a youth as well as walks (and stuff!) with early girlfriends!
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Jan 2017
9:39am, 31 Jan 2017
1,440 posts
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steve45
What a great list of species seen in Norfolk KinkyS..I particularly like the Siberian Chiff seen. But a bummer to return and find the scrub etc gone from behind your garden. Some 400 metres away from my rear garden the wild, scrub area which has been there for ever has been tamed over the last three years ready for the development of a huge housing complex. The result--fewer species in my garden. Used to have warblers of several species etc but not now..the biggest loss being Lesser Whitethroat. Progress! Ugh!
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Jan 2017
10:14am, 31 Jan 2017
173 posts
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bonners
No comments on progress, but must be really sad to see. I reckon n a far smaller scale our garden is affected by one of the neighbours chopping his whole garden down. The sparrows have been affected the most as it was their safe way in. We're gradually clearing our existing paved wasteland and turning it into something better for wildlife, but trees take time to grow. But hopefully in a few years things will improve
Had a lovely close up encounter with a couple of turnstones on my long run yesterday. Doing a there and back and they were still there on the way back, so obviously feeding on something good
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Jan 2017
12:19pm, 31 Jan 2017
22,457 posts
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Derby Tup
Turnstones are incredibly confiding. My wife Stef loves them. Top bird for her 
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