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Recent content by Kat

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    Painted Lady migration

    At Strumpshaw Fen today, over a 1000 individual painted ladies were seen in over an hour! An amazing count!
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    why do some birds hold their tails in the air?

    This is to do with tail movement, rather than the bird holding its tail in the air. I could only find the abstract, but puts forwards why the Willie Wagtail 'wags' its tail. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/ZO97048.htm
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    The Most Unusual Bird to Visit Your Yard/Garden

    I was shocked when it appeared! So glad it is on the garden list though as I am sure it will never happen again.
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    Worst misidentification

    When I was very, very young, I used to call canada geese, badgers! Glad to say have improved since then. Once called a chaffinch a jay though.
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    More Swifts this year??

    Is there any evidence to suggest that swifts are being displaced from their old haunts due to housing improvements? Maybe the perceived increase in some areas are swifts searching for new nest sites.
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    What other hobbies do birders have?

    My other 'non-birding' hobbies normally include me still watching birds, I can never switch off!!! Kayaking (having a black tern sat on the kayak is pretty awesome!!!), hiking, riding all allow me going off looking for birds leaving my non-birding chums sighing, "always with the birds"!!!
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    The Most Unusual Bird to Visit Your Yard/Garden

    A lesser spotted woodpecker has to be the best bird ever to appear in the garden! Then a couple of weeks after my sighting my grandad had 2 juvenille birds in his apple trees in his garden. That was 8 years ago though. Bullfinches and yellowhammers never fail to produce a smile every time they...
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    Bird Jokes!

    A Sylvia warbler walks into a pub, the barman turns round to it and says, "you're Barred"
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    UK Warblers

    DGRW Now that most of the warblers have shut up and shipped out to warmer climes, you can swat up on their calls and ID over the winter so that you are ready for them next Spring!! One way to seperate blackcap and garden warbler songs is to listen to the beginning of their song and then how they...
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    teamsaint's photo quiz

    common crane?
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    Bird Points Game Version 3.0-British Garden Birds!!!

    67 for me please!! Lucky enough to have them all but hawfinch.
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    Birds 'starve' at S, Korea wetland

    Email sent. Sent the link to my friends who are passionate about wildlife conservation but aren't into birds so didn't even know about the destruction of this habitat. They were very interested in it and have sent their emails too. Lets hope its not too late to do something to save this...
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    Field work ... hard work!

    My guess is Parus major
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    Pivotal Bird

    I remember feeling quite content watching the birds around my garden and at the local country park up until the time when we went to visit friends who lived close to the Ribble estuary. There I saw so many waders and huge flocks(or what I considered huge at the time as I hadn't seen flocks...
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    Bird Points Game Version 3.0-British Garden Birds!!!

    Ok, here are my scores - Been quite lucky with some of the birds that have turned up. Part 1 - 63 (had everything but RLPartridge in the garden) Part 2 - 31 Part 3 - 45 (was extremely surprised to have not one but 2 lesser spots in the apple tree!) Part 4 - 37 Part 5 - 44 Part 6 - 41 Birds that...
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