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  • Bluemalaga
    Bluemalaga Forum Participant Posts: 936
    edited January 2021 #3152

    Hi John

    Any news on the Santa deliveries?

    Nothing much to report here other than a couple of Redwings stopped in the garden for about 20 mins yesterday, taking some of the few berries remaining,

  • scoutman
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    edited January 2021 #3153

    Rain, rain and more rain 😢😢😢😢

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #3154

    Keep an eye out for the Ducks then.😅

  • scoutman
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    edited January 2021 #3155

    Well, the ducks, swans and otters have plenty of room today. The river Jam is about four times it's normal width and rising fast.

  • scoutman
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    edited January 2021 #3156

    That should be river Usk, lol

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #3157

    I was wondering how Jam became Usk and realised the close proximity of the keys to make it Jam.laughing

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited January 2021 #3158

    I thought it was the Welsh spelling of it!sealed

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #3159

    You do like to live dangerously, don't you?smile

  • JVB66
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    edited January 2021 #3160

    Out with Rosa noted that the snowdrops are out in the grounds of the big house

  • scoutman
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    edited January 2021 #3161

    No Usk becomes Jam with predictive text, don't ask why!!

    River Usk = Afon Wysg 

    The small town of Usk = Brynbuga (pronounced Brin Beega) means Hob goblin hill.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited January 2021 #3162

    Hob Goblin hill.

    You know who to blame then, scoutman, it's the evil little people!wink

  • brue
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    edited January 2021 #3163

    Green Woodpecker in our garden this morning, digging around for grubs. Didnt get time to adjust the phone for a closer shot.

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #3164

    I was looking at the Long Tailed Tits on the fat ball feeder at the bottom of the garden this morning when I noticed some movement on the tree in direct view line but in the woods behind the house and there was a Treecreeper making his way up the tree. Beautiful view in the sunshine. I noticed that the tree to his right had a smaller version of "himself" on it. Probably "herself".

  • mickysf
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    edited January 2021 #3165

    One solitary eider spotted on my local Coastal walk, for both exercise and heart lifting purposes. Usually see several at this time of year! Beautiful birds.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited January 2021 #3166

    They were waxing lyrical about them on Winterwatch yesterday

  • redface
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    edited January 2021 #3167

    Had a nice flight of about 7 Goldfinches alight on our Wygelia today.

    What a brilliant display of plumage those birds have !

    Was looking down on them from an upstairs window.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • mickysf
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    edited January 2021 #3168

    Love the names of places and their origins. South of our River Esk we have Boggle Hole and to the North, Hob Hole. Both stunning Coastal places to watch wildlife. Both, as legend has it, connected with the 'Wee Folk'.

  • mickysf
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    edited January 2021 #3169

    Despite having quaffed several King Goblins and Hob Goblins I've never seen a Boggle either up close or through my bins! In some respects I wish I could particularly in these lockdown days!🍻😉

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited January 2021 #3170

    I was surprised th the other morning to see a set of what I think were deer tracks in the snow, as we live in an estate, and although there are fields close by the nearest woods are well over a mile away. I have never seen any deer in the fields by us.

  • brue
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    edited January 2021 #3171

    We have Roe deer here, I had a look on the British Deer Society web site, perhaps you have some nearer than you think Nellie? I didn't realise how long they've been here, 10000 years! 

  • brue
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    edited January 2021 #3172

    One more day left for the  RSPB garden birdwatch...I'm afraid ours have gone on strike due to the weather..wink 🦅

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited January 2021 #3173

    Thanks brue. The tracks were distinctive but relatively small so perhaps were from Muntjac.

  • RedKite
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    edited February 2021 #3174

    Have taken a couple of bird photos taken today 1st is our Hawfinch on the window feeder and the unusual coloured Magpie out in the field so both taken through the windows.

  • moulesy
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    edited February 2021 #3175

    A first for me this week and something I'll probably never be lucky enough to spot again! My Cinnamon Trust dog walking takes me alongside a rather murky stretch of the river Avon. Occasionally I see a flash of blue and realise a kingfisher has just passed by. But this time it decided to perch on a branch just below one of the bridges so I thought I'd stop to watch for a while. Then it dived down into the water and emerged back on to the branch with a fish in its mouth. Sadly, I only had my phone with me but did manage to get a picture - you'll have to look closely though - it's the tiny blob almost right in the centre of the frame (honest, gov, it is! wink)

  • Bluemalaga
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    edited February 2021 #3176

    Female Sparrowhawk paid a visit to the garden this morning, very odd to see a pair of Blue Tits trying their best to scare it off, before a pair of Blackbirds joined in. The Sparrowhawk took absolutely no notice and sat there for over an hour.

  • RedKite
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    edited February 2021 #3177

    Good photo BM our male Sparrowhawk is still around from last year and has grow a bit as last year it was quite young.  Have had over the last three days a lot of Red Kites flying over our house from SW to NE maybe they are trying to escape the flooding further south of us.

    Had a afternoon coffee outside the last two days and watched a male Blackbird drinking out of an old black bucket then decided to have a splash about came back twice and did not like the Blue tits landing on the bucket edge and I have a large bird bath only 10 feet away from where he was he just wanted his own pool, I have another next to the house a bit smaller and the robin comes to it first thing in the morning and last thing just before it gets dark as no other birds about.  

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited February 2021 #3178

    Our sparrowhawk zoomed past yesterday. Scattered everything in garden.

    Nice little treat today. We parked up and had a Gregg’s pasty in our local retail park. Bi monthly event, topping up on pooch food. All the resident starlings were about. I threw a few crumbs out of window, then sat and waited while they perched on car wing mirror, and then they took crumbs out of my hand. Gorgeous little birds, very special close up. Sadly OH wasn’t quick enough with camera, but I will try again next time we call.

  • brue
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    edited February 2021 #3179

    I expanded the photo so I believe you! wink

  • moulesy
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    edited February 2021 #3180

    Well, if you saw the kingfisher sequence on Countryfile last night, that's what my picture should have looked like! laughing

  • ADP1963
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    edited February 2021 #3181

    You could wait a lifetime to capture a kingfisher going through that procedure............truly brilliant photography. Things fell right for him,but as they say you have to be in it to win it.