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Jan 2021
3:59pm, 31 Jan 2021
1,780 posts
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bonners
Some nice spots today, still can't upload mine, so popping my list here before I lose them.
5 feral pigeons
2 male blackbirds
2 robins
3 starlings
2 goldfinches
Wren
2 sparrows
Magpie
2 herring gulls
Quite a nice mix, the chaffinches seem to have disappeared. If they'd turned up later than the hour I may have added them, but they seem to have gone flyabout.
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Jan 2021
5:13pm, 31 Jan 2021
3,368 posts
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J2R
As expected, once the hour was up, the regulars started trooping back into the garden - long tailed tits and starlings along with some of the others mentioned (they're also regulars, I just forgot about them earlier). No-show for the redwings today either, which is surprising.
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Jan 2021
7:22pm, 31 Jan 2021
19,652 posts
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flanker
The stats will be based on scaling up what's seen in the hour, so recording what's usually around will actually be unhelpful.
Missed a few of the usual suspects, but the kestrel was the first I've seen from the house*. Today's list (the lazy way):
* I've been told I've seen one obnce before, but the memory is going.
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Jan 2021
7:23pm, 31 Jan 2021
19,653 posts
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flanker
that was bigger than expected!
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Jan 2021
8:21pm, 31 Jan 2021
3,261 posts
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phal
Ah, okie doke. Was going to ask how it could skew results. Thank you 👍
We’ve not submitted anything yet anyhoo 🤪
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Jan 2021
8:22pm, 31 Jan 2021
3,262 posts
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phal
Is that even if the weather’s shocking and Nothing comes out at all? I suppose at that point that’s why it’s done over 3 days isn’t it?
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Jan 2021
8:48pm, 31 Jan 2021
3,369 posts
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J2R
flanker, my thoughts exactly, which is why I stuck rigorously to my hour, even though I know that in the end it turned out to be what I would say was unrepresentative of what I would normally see. I'll leave it to the number-crunchers to crunch the numbers, rather than try to nudge or second-guess them.
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Jan 2021
9:22pm, 31 Jan 2021
3,264 posts
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phal
“The stats will be based on scaling up what's seen in the hour, so recording what's usually around will actually be unhelpful.”
Thank you for this part F - as you know I’m not statistically minded at all or from a background where I’ve had the experience - so this is really helpful 👍 Hence then being able to relate it to the event being over a whole three days. I suppose if the bird isn’t in our garden then it *might* be being picked up somewhere else.... or even if we know that in an hour (because to be fair we’re spending a shit load if time looking at our garden) what we would see normally wouldn’t matter so much as they will have some kind of scaling algorithm set up which would take into account anomalies etc.
I still might have this wrong, and I know it’s not really about birds 😉 but if I don’t ask or try I won’t learn will I?!? 😝
You can explain it to me the next time we see you (please let it be soon) over a bottle of something 🤣😝 Or not.... and we can just chat our usual shit, do dipper impressions and make Bittern noises 😝😀😀😀
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Jan 2021
9:24pm, 31 Jan 2021
1,584 posts
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rhb
I had a camera set up on one of my bird feeder platforms today, here's a few of the better pics.
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Jan 2021
9:28pm, 31 Jan 2021
19,523 posts
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Rosehip
Lovely 
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