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22-01-2009, 07:32 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
OK then Pho ebe: Bittern. Sorry, being too literal 
Sounds nice and I think it shows a degree of loyalty: they could've gone elsewhere but chose to wait. That's nice  |
22-01-2009, 08:08 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Green  OK then Pho ebe: Bittern. Sorry, being too literal
Sounds nice and I think it shows a degree of loyalty: they could've gone elsewhere but chose to wait. That's nice | Hi Jason 
Yes Jason, I thought how loyal of them, they know which side their bread is buttered! |
22-01-2009, 08:25 PM
|  | New Member | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
My bird of the day has to be the 2 Nuthatches that were on the peanuts today first time I have ever seen them ... We have lots of different species using our garden and think ourselves very fortunate daily visitors are a group of 8 Long tailed tits Great tits Coal tits Blue tits Bull finches Robins Blackbirds Starlings Magpies Jays The day before yesterday we had a Buzzard on the street light just the other side of the fence and a few weeks ago I was walking the dog up the lane behind the house and the few cottages put feeders on the fence across the road to feed the squirrels and a robin was eating at one of these and a Sparrowhawk came and plucked him away I have never seen one of these in the wild before and the speed he came in was amazing We do not get any of the other species of Finches though...
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23-01-2009, 04:06 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
I've been off with a bad throat infection (even sipping water was a challenge), but this afternoon after the rain had cleared through, we went for a walk in the country park at the bottom of the road. Initially everything was very quiet + disappointing.
Walking back we found a pair of Linnets ( which are scarce here in winter, though regular in breeding season), a Fox sitting in the sun by a scrape with a couple of Magpies, but then I heard a crest calling in some Sallows. After a about a minute I could see a very bright green mantle which shouted out Firecrest to me. It then turned round (all too briefly) to show its dark eye-stripe + stonking white supercilium. Unfortunately it then decided to fly out into some deep scrub, but I was elated to find my first local Firecrest (there have been good numbers this winter in the London area, with at least a couple of sites- Abney Park Cemetery + Bedfont Lakes holding 3 birds). |
23-01-2009, 06:15 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Gone!
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| |  Re: Bird of the day!
My bird(s) of the day are 17 Little Egrets roosting on my local lake tonight  |
23-01-2009, 06:38 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
A Starling on the roof of a building in Birmingham city Centre singing it's head off! |
23-01-2009, 07:57 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Norfolk UK
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
One of my barn owls flying to me the full length of her aviary for her tea |
23-01-2009, 07:59 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: west midlands
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Pair of Robins flirting with each other
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23-01-2009, 08:33 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
Sparrows I think, who were making a nest in the roof of the local farm & country shop when I went in to get chicken feed. They were so fast in and out and I could see the nest right up in the apex of the building Nice and dry in there |
24-01-2009, 01:05 PM
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Mine today was a delightful pair of Bullfinches feeding on Cherry Plum buds in the local country park. | | | |
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