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    Goosanders

    thankyou for your help with this, its much appreciated
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    Goosanders

    I take it the vast majority go north, 99% ? I was watching 20+ this evening at Berwick upon Tweed (don't think any were megansers all seemed to have the hooky beak) they all looked like females When would the young males start to look like males ?
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    we had 11 long tailed tits in the garden a few days back, it was their wonderful chittering that first grabbed my attenion, this is the first I have seen of them since March, and today we had a brief visit from the nuthatch, this is the first I have seen of the nuthatch in our garden since the...
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    Stonechat

    I would go along with this post breeding dispersal but they are not a bird I ever see in this area apart for the one that as visited us for the last 2 weeks in August for the past few years. Presumably if they are young looking for new territory they must decide this is the wrong place and head...
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    Goosanders

    Am I correct in thinking the males migrate after breeding and head north leaving the females and young here (or are they a bit like mallards and look like females during the moult) If they do head north when do they start to return ?
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    Stonechat

    For the past two or three years we get a Stonechat visiting our garden in the last two weeks of August. I have never seen one anywhere near where I live other than this one at the end of August. What are they up to ? I regularly see them down on the Northumberland coastline just in from the...
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    St Abbs Head

    was there tonight (24 aug) Guillemots Razorbills have now all gone (so strangely quiet from 6 weeks ago) . Still plenty Kittiwakes, Shags sitting on the cliffs (not on nests) , a few Fulmars, lots of Gannets passing along the coast (presumably hunting from the Bass rock) . The highlight of the...
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    Hello

    Have been interested in birds and wildlife for a very long time, but since sort of retiring a couple of years back it seems to be becoming quite a bit more than a passing interest. It is a huge subject and the more I seem to learn the more i realise how little I actually know. So I'm here to...
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    Little Stint

    Oh Well ! 2nd post and I have embarrassed myself already (there will be plenty more to come like that) I had thought Sanderling but then changed my mind to Little Stint. What convinces you this is a Sanderling over a Stint ? I am very new to Birding and am here to learn
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    Little Stint

    I think it is a Little Stint, spotted on the Northumberland coast last week, I guess they are making their way south from the Arctic down to Africa
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    Male Mallard

    where do all the mail Mallard goto at this time of year ? here in the Scottish Borders hey seem to disappear, plenty female and young but no males.
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