Fetch Birdwatchers
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Jul 2019
11:19pm, 17 Jul 2019
13,110 posts
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Rosehip
Have you seen this pic of the week? birdguides.com |
Jul 2019
11:30pm, 17 Jul 2019
1,302 posts
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flyingfinn
Seems like it is a good year for Gadwalls round here. In addition to the brood of eight near fully grown ducklings I mentioned yesterday we now have a brood of ten fluff balls in the same area and a brood of eight being reported near the Visitors Centre. We also have a another brood of three at my end of the res. Add in all the young mallards and tufties and the res looks like a big creche right now!
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Jul 2019
5:19pm, 18 Jul 2019
1,190 posts
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bonners
Loads of fulmar around the Great Orme this morning, more exciting was five choughs following us around. Beautiful birds, never seen them before. Other sighting was a small thin bird with a speckled chest similar to a thrushes markings. Going through guide book at the moment, no winners yet. |
Jul 2019
5:45pm, 18 Jul 2019
2,140 posts
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J2R
bonners, you know your birds so I'm hesitant to suggest this, but 'a small thin bird with a speckled chest similar to a thrushes markings' would immediately suggest meadow pipit to me. Or maybe rock pipit if at Great Orme.
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Jul 2019
9:04pm, 18 Jul 2019
1,111 posts
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um
We seem to have been adopted by a racing pigeon ... almost to the stage where he's tapping on the window when he wants food. He knows he has water tray by the pool and mixed seeds (although he picks all the dark sunflower seeds out first) by the window. It's tame enough to know when food is coming, and OK to be about 1 metre away - doesn't want to be caught or held. (but by the ring is a 2019 bird) |
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Jul 2019
9:16pm, 18 Jul 2019
1,191 posts
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bonners
Cheers J2R, I reckon you're right. Definitely more meadow pipit than rock pipit I would say, just because of the size and the markings seem more spots than streaks if that makes sense. Difficult one to be sure which one, I always struggle with some of the smaller birds.
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Jul 2019
10:00pm, 18 Jul 2019
1,384 posts
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Pothunter
Love the cuckoo picture. Reminds me of seeing a juvenile Klaas’s Cuckoo being fed by a sunbird many years ago in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The size difference was amazing.
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Jul 2019
10:39am, 23 Jul 2019
1,303 posts
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flyingfinn
The Gadwall broods are showing a great survival rate here. The original brood of eight are now all nearly as big as mum and of the ten fluff balls I spotted last week at least 8 were visible this morning (though still very small they roam quite a way from mum and I hadn't any binos to check the far bank properly). The Willow Tits have started reappearing on the feeders this week and have a single youngster in tow. Definitely the first time I've had that 
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Jul 2019
11:07am, 23 Jul 2019
18,432 posts
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flanker
Took a trip out to Blacktoft last week and notched up 37 species, including green sands, loads of the snipe wandering around in the open, 14 spoonies, sedge & reed warblers, large numbers of sand martin, the first whitethroats of the year, and finished the day with a couple of obliging barn owls. It was getting on for 9pm when we finally left. Strangely given the woods, scrub and hedges, no robin or wren, and only saw a blackbird in the car park as we were leaving. Didn't get ff's performing kingfisher unfortunately, and very low on raptors other than the marsh harriers and (probably) a very distant kestrel. Now just need to sort through the photos, and see how many 100s I've got of warblers
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Jul 2019
12:39pm, 23 Jul 2019
33,004 posts
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Derby Tup
Did you get tree sparrow? 
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