What have you seen
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Goldfinch feeding this morning, picture taken through kitchen window
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I also saw the Hoopoe at Flamborough...I watched 2 people walking up and down searching for what I had no idea.....bit further along the road I saw on the back lawn the Hoopoe. Did I shout to our searching birders 'is this what you are looking for'? No......I just enjoyed it all to myself.
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What a greedy little Greylag, I bet the guilt kept you up all night
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Naw.......slept like a log.
If they had smiled and said 'good morning' as we walked past and shared what they were looking for, they would have gotten the call.
I always share any highlights with people near me, I just love to see their faces when they witness something special.
When I volunteer at Norwich Peregrine watchpoint during Spring, sharing info and pointing out these birds to anyone who happens to pass by is very enjoyable and they always leave smiling.
And......I volunteer with some lovely people!
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I always try to share but some people are just anti everyone and everything. Last year at Minsmere I ask a guy in a hide where about on the scrape the Yellow Legged Gull was (I didn't have my Scope) his reply just look for the yellow legs, He didn't come across as trying to be funny, won't tell you what I thought of this
.Like you GL I just love to see people get a glimpse of something unusual. I get excited about seeing fairly common species.
If I see a group of people looking in scopes/long lenses, I always strike up conversation and they are happy to share
GL - How long have you been a volunteer at Norwich Cathedral watch point?
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Quite a sad end to the events of last year at Norwich, how many chicks actually survived.
Is the aggressive female from Bath still in residence this year.
I must say I found the footage from the nest cam addictive, but it wasn't until days after the last chick left the nest that I caught up on the events.
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Some more great pictures, thanks again to all for sharing.
We are novices at bird watching/identifing but have always found people really helpful .
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I can manage the common or garden plus a few waders and buzzard, perrigrine. After that take a picture then look it up when we get home. Most folk are happy to share knowledge, so just ask away.
has anyone got the collins app for bird recognition, is it any good. Should be but is it easy to use.
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Op...This will be my third year, although with our trip to Croatia, I will not be doing as much.
If you have never been there, the Hawk & Owl trust supply around half a dozen scopes and ipad(live video) for the public to view the nest tray.
I was there the day the intruding female turned up...she sat on the spire for 30 minutes until driven away by the nesting pair. She was id'd by the ring GA on her leg and was seen occasionally during the remainder of that year...2015.
The resident female laid 4 eggs in 2016 and everything was going lovely, chicks hatched and then GA turned up again....there was an aerial tussle one day and the next day the resident female was never seen again.
GA sat around the spire watching the male feeding 4 chicks on his own, with GA watching every movement, When the chicks fledged GA then attacked, knocking 2 down and finally 2 were rescued, They have both succumbed and 2016 breeding came to nothing.
It now looks as though GA has paired up with our resident male and the soap opera continues.
Better than Coronation St.
Picture is the of the male dropping prey to our long departed female.
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My daughter is with us for two nights and may take her to see the seals at Horsey, although it's looking cloudy at the moment.
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Reported sightings of a short eared owl stirred me from the football on the tv this afternoon, but as usual it did not want to see me. However as soon as I moved away from the car and headed along the severnside estuary, first sighting was a kestral hovering about 50 yds away. Then it dropped onto a log and hopped onto the ground and out of sight. As it popped back onto the log, a mouse was hanging from its beak. It dropped of the log again and then flew off. A mile or so along the track, I came across a little egret feeding in a distant pool. Returning to the car, I was putting away my camera and binoculars when a fellow birder pulled up for a chat, when a pair of perigrines were chasing a pigeon which they caught right above us, then they flew back towards their nesting place alongside the old bridge, probably about a mile carrying the pigeon. Unfortunately I could not get the camera out until the bird was heading away with the catch.
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Tried again to get the Long tailed tits, but yet again missed the sunlight, just went out too late. I will try again the next (tuesday) sunny day, I consoled myself with a walk up the river...loads of Widgeon, swans and Pintail's. Egrets were around and a couple of Marsh Harriers, the harriers are always there.
It seems the Waxwings are a thing of the past, unless you live in Bury St Edmunds.
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There have been a number of reported sightings around the Bristol area of small groups of waxwing , but only it seems for one visit to each site.
Still hoping as there are many trees around laden with berries.
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I've put a story on about NT Stourhead today but couldn't include the photo of these snowdrops which was a cheery site. The lakes were frozen over so many of the water fowl were teetering around on the ice and the coots had taken to dry land. I spotted a nuthatch, whitehroats and blackcaps.
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Watched Winterwatch and thought I would post my pic of a Dartford Warbler taken at Dunwich last year
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I thought you might like to see a pic that has recently appeared on the website Avon Birds by a Photographer/Tweeter called Pagan Birder of an Albino Blackbird, something I have not seen before.
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The fox that I posted a few days ago has now taken over the garden it seems and has even entertained a prospective mate. He/she has claimed the left corner of the garden and is presently flat out asleep soaking up the sun. It didn't even bother to chase off the ginger cat that also likes to roam our patch.
Oneput, these were taken with the 100/400 canon mk2 with a 1.4 converter hand held and about 50% crop on full animal and about 75% for full face pics. May help you to decide on your new len.
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2 Gold finches arrived on our bird feeders yesterday 😃 a first for years for us. And a long tailed tit this morning, these were conspicuous by their absence for the last year or so. Delighted to share my garden with them and other wild birds. The local fox has been about in the garden as the dog checks out his route each morning 😉.
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That would be nice, but we live in the middle of a large housing estate and the garden is about 60ft long by 30ft wide at the Foxes end.
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The last time we had a pair of foxes in the garden, they produced four youngsters that ran riot every morning at first light. Very noisy, so perhaps some early mornings are ahead. This pair are in very good condition, as you mentioned.
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