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Oct 2016
3:06pm, 10 Oct 2016
24,021 posts
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macca 53
magnificent red kite flying next to railway line between Huddersfield and Leeds yesterday afternoon.
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Oct 2016
5:24pm, 10 Oct 2016
9,985 posts
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Chrisull
Went out looking for mystery red bottomed bird. Didn't see but found a big slow worm !
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Oct 2016
10:20am, 11 Oct 2016
89 posts
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bonners
Seafront run this morning, interesting to see that more and more Herons and Little Egrets fishing on the coastline rather than just in the river. Difficult to know for certain, but my gut feeling is that numbers of both have risen dramatically this year. Also I know that a lot of dead sprats have been washed up in the last couple of days, which also leads to mackerel coming in.
I share the pain of other contributors to this thread in trying to identify birds when out on walks. My particular bugbear is one group of little birds that I see regularly flitting around the rocks along the seafront. Thought I'd eventually identified them as wheatears from other locals with decent pictures. However, they should've been gone by August and they're still around in fairly big numbers, so I'm still none the wiser!
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Oct 2016
11:17am, 11 Oct 2016
1,100 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Just looked up to see a Blackcap on the bush right outside my kitchen window. Means I can take the question mark off my species list!
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Oct 2016
10:06am, 13 Oct 2016
1,149 posts
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steve45
Bonners..Wheatears are certainly around much later than August so your ID is probably right. Wheatears are not unusual well into October and some can still be seen into November. But you say they were "little birds"..Wheatears are not that small and a bit bigger than a Starling--it's their white rump that is the giveaway. Also you don't often (if ever!) get close groups of Wheatears, they tend to go about singly or in very small parties of up to five. Other birds flitting around on rocks would be pipits..
Good Blackcapping Fragile...I've not seen one now for about three weeks...
Two Ravens in my neighbours small garden yesterday and two Buzzards overhead.
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Oct 2016
10:43am, 14 Oct 2016
21,127 posts
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alpenrose
Pied wagtail wandering around my lawn. Not in the least disturbed by the pesky squirrel running around everywhere trying to bury things. Is this a sign that we may have a hard winter ahead?
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Oct 2016
11:39am, 14 Oct 2016
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steve45
I don't think there are signs of a harsh winter alpenrose...
200 Pied Wagtails each evening over my house moving to roost.
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Oct 2016
12:35pm, 14 Oct 2016
1,248 posts
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Surelynot
Dunnock action in the garden
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Oct 2016
2:10pm, 14 Oct 2016
90 posts
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bonners
Cheers Steve, pipits seem to fit the description of where they live, fly and eat, but not quite the look, and also cant seem to see any that are in large numbers in North Wales. The trouble I find is that the illustrations in my book arent ideal.
Another little flock we have in the harbour are what I thought were plovers of some kind. Seafront run with the tide up this morning and managed to get a proper close up of a large group of them huddled up on the steps...and now I'm not sure at all. So, these ones are about black bird sized, maybe a bit smaller, but a larger rounder body. Black, but speckled on top, with a white under carriage and red/orange feet. No long beak, but always seem to fish on the shoreline in large flocks in and out with the tide. They are also usually seen on the jetties by the fishing boats in the harbour. Any ideas as which page at least I should be looking at in my book?
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Oct 2016
8:58pm, 14 Oct 2016
1,112 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Sounds like Turnstones.
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