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May 2020
12:11am, 30 May 2020
16,284 posts
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Rosehip
That's a great article that needs a read when I'm more awake
I won't kill a wasp or hornet - I just don't like them buzzing around my kitchen!
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May 2020
6:12am, 30 May 2020
5,901 posts
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Eynsham Red
Our starling hordes seem to have moved on for now. The blue tits chicks have been sitting on the branch next to the fat balls, quivering, whilst the parent flits between fat balls and chicks.
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May 2020
6:15am, 30 May 2020
5,902 posts
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Eynsham Red
We saw the first goldfinch chick yesterday from our bedroom window. It was on the roof of our conservatory routing around in the moss. It was a strange looking thing with normal flight feathers but a ball of fluff up top!
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May 2020
6:17am, 30 May 2020
5,903 posts
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Eynsham Red
And this morning, I did my first run for well over a month and was rewarded with the sound of a cuckoo.
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May 2020
10:46am, 30 May 2020
2,533 posts
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um
Very overcrowded garden just now
- starlings and their teenagers mobbing every feeder
- about 20 jackdaws getting upset with the starlings lack of queueing
- about 5 crows scavenging the bits of fat ball and mixed seeds the others are knocking down.
The jackdaws are very twitchy - any movement by a window and they're off, otherwise I'd have pictures. Toying with the idea of seeing if I can set up remote trigger of camera from my phone. Although would need to be focused on a specific feeder or wide angle shot of the lot.
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May 2020
11:38am, 30 May 2020
3,919 posts
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steve45
Just when I said it was gone I heard a Robin again in the garden this morning!
As for "early birds" and what calls/sings first it has to depend on the locality and time of the season of course!I used to regularly do a Dawn Chorus back in the early 1960's (yes, I'm old!) but in early Spring--Blackbird always beat Robin to starting singing (there was no artificial light in the locality) and on several occasions it was Skylark that began the morning's chorus off.
Long Tailed Tit back in the garden this last day or two but after 7am it's almost like quiet mid summer.
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May 2020
11:40am, 30 May 2020
1,138 posts
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Roberto
Just went into the garden to see my fiancee. 2 dunnocks (havent seen them for a few weeks). She hadnt noticed. One of them looks quite scruffy, so not sure if it's just fledged or not. Flew off, so will wait for their return.
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May 2020
11:59am, 30 May 2020
1,686 posts
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panad
These guys are growing quickly :
Mr and Mrs Blackbird are very busy feeding them!
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May 2020
12:00pm, 30 May 2020
1,687 posts
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panad
They remind me of the gremlins at the moment..!
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May 2020
10:40pm, 30 May 2020
2,763 posts
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J2R
Here it seems to be the blackbirds which start the dawn chorus off, then robins.
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