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sioux · . . Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 20097 Location: Over Here!

Oh fab pics! I saw a few getting together on the drive home form Evesham today (don't ask)

No enough for me to stop and watch tho'

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winnie_the_newt · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:20 am Post subject:

How about this bird ?

How do you like its manners?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/...logy_evolution/article6903640.ece

and doesn't it look prehistoric

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bearsome · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject:

Strange looking bird, isn't it? Very lucky duck!

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Lizzyxx · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject:

Weird

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sioux · . . Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 20097 Location: Over Here!

Oh, I can't open it
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bearsome · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:31 pm Post subject:

The songthrush has been back a couple of times. It doesn't stay long, but has eyed up the seed!

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winnie_the_newt · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject:

a thrush posed beautifully on the fence at ED;s this afternoon: very jealous I was!!!!!

here is a shrub with red berries (no idea what) in a neighbour's garden, which I saw a blackbird eating. Must be tasty!
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olympicflame · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:53 am Post subject:

Winnie where is the shrub??

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sioux · . . Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 20097 Location: Over Here!

I think she's so excited she's forgotten to post it!

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winnie_the_newt · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject:

Nope: no piccies til I return: I should have typed:

THERE!!!

and saw 2 more thrushes yesterday, this time in Hull (on same tree)

and lots of grey squirrels (I like them in non-red areas

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and lots and lots of water fowl too (but did my knees in again

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The most amazing (I think) hybrid mallard: no mallard colouring, but had a curly bit at tail end and pert yellow beak: more wigeon in appearance, with splotchy black and white head!

My first pochards ....
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sioux · . . Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 20097 Location: Over Here!

I haven't seen my thrush for ages now you metion them Winie
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bearsome · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject:

I suspect the shrub is a pyracantha. Our neighbour has one, near our dividing fence, and all the birds love the berries, but especially the blackbirds.
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bearsome · Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject:

Despite the gale forcve winds, the goldies and greenfinches tried theirebest to hold on. They gave up in the end, and I guess that most of the seed is on the floor now - good for the woodies and the dunnocks anyway.
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CathyAitken · ---- Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 441 Location: Edinburgh

The thrush was back in the garden this morning. Rarity to appear was a magnificent male bullfinch; I haven't seen one since last summer. Sun is shining, sky is blue and there were loads of birds around 9.30am when I looked out - at least 5 greenfinches, great, blue and coal tits, robin, three dunnocks. woodie, a couple of starlings and a few blackbirds scrabbling round in the leaves (which I haven't yet raked up). These were all in the space of about five minutes.

Greendove · ... Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 3866 Location: France

Wonderful to see all those birds, Cathy. I'm having good sightings too at the moment : two nuthatches and several crested tits this morning.

CathyAitken · ---- Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 441 Location: Edinburgh

I've never seen a nuthatch or a crested tit!

Greendove · ... Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 3866 Location: France

For me a bullfinch is a rarety.

Lizzyxx · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:07 pm Post subject:

We have got a very large tree in the front garden and despite our efforts to identify what type it is we have failed. It has white flowers in the summer and pea pods similar to a laburnum in autumn. Anyway the seeds in the pea pods are a great food source to goldfinches. When I came home from walking Bailey yesterday the tree was alive with the chatter and movement of, I would think, 30 to so goldfinches. I have never seen to many and yet today there are none. I guess they must have stripped the seeds out of the pods. Also my holly tree is being stripped of berries by some of the fattest woodies I have ever seen.

I am not impressed because I would love to have a few sprigs indoors for Christmas.

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bearsome · Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:19 pm Post subject:

What a wonderful sight, Lizzy! We've had goldies using the tree feeder like a merry-go-round!

We've not re-filled the feeder for a couple of days, as the seed just falls on the floor.

Oi, Cathy! Why have you stolen our bullfinch?

Seriously though, we've not seen any since the spring but, perhaps, once the weather gets colder, they'll return as they know food's here.
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sioux · . . Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 20097 Location: Over Here!

you'll have to pop picture on the baords so we can help ID it Lizzy

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