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18-01-2011, 05:59 PM
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| | | ID help please. Inland NE Scotland today
I was driving to one of my favourite areas to walk today and there was a flock of birds en-route so I stopped to see what they were. It was a mixed flock and I saw Chaffinch, Brambling, Redpoll and something else that I wasn't sure of.
I know what I want it to be and I think it might be but I'd like to be sure so I'd appreciate other opinions  .  |
18-01-2011, 06:05 PM
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| | | Re: ID help please. Inland NE Scotland today
It's a Twite- saw c50 of these in Norfolk at the weekend!
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18-01-2011, 06:16 PM
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| | | Re: ID help please. Inland NE Scotland today
Yup a Twite, I'm still yet to see one of these! |
18-01-2011, 06:25 PM
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| | | Re: ID help please. Inland NE Scotland today
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Originally Posted by aeshna5  It's a Twite- saw c50 of these in norfolk at the weekend! | Thank you, thank you, thank you! That's what I thought and was hoping for . I just couldn't see clearly through my bins as the wind was making my eyes water like mad so I took a couple of shots with the camera in the hope that I'd get something that was IDable  .
Sorry to be a bit over excited but Twite is a first for me. |
18-01-2011, 06:27 PM
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| | | Re: ID help please. Inland NE Scotland today
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Originally Posted by htcdude Yup a Twite, I'm still yet to see one of these! | You can probably understand how I feel then  . |
18-01-2011, 06:32 PM
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| |  Re: ID help please. Inland NE Scotland today
Congrats on your first Twite- lovely birds with a subtle appeal! |
18-01-2011, 06:43 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Lancashire
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| | | Re: ID help please. Inland NE Scotland today
I love twite. When I was a lad, on most local walks over the moors you would see plenty of twite. These days alas, there are just a few breeding hangers on and wintering birds are very scarce indeed. Moorland fires in key areas in spring I think are part of the problem here in the South Pennines, as well as loss of mooredge/in-bye pasture, an important habitat requirement here during the breeding season.
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