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  1. K

    Painted Lady migration

    At Strumpshaw Fen today, over a 1000 individual painted ladies were seen in over an hour! An amazing count!
  2. K

    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
  3. K

    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.
  4. K

    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.
  5. K

    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.
  6. K

    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...
  10. K

    teamsaint's photo quiz

    common crane?
  11. K

    Bird Points Game Version 3.0-British Garden Birds!!!

    67 for me please!! Lucky enough to have them all but hawfinch.
  12. K

    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...
  13. K

    Field work ... hard work!

    My guess is Parus major
  14. K

    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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    Bird Points Game Version 3.0-British Garden Birds!!!

    I've only just discovered the quizzes! They look fun to join in on! Is it too late to join in on this one? Some people have certainly seen some interesting birds in their gardens!!
  17. K

    What is your favorite Bird!

    Common Kingfisher, Hoopoe and Barn Swallow all sit at the top of my favourite bird list!
  18. K

    Tufted Ducklings

    While watching a group of tufted ducklings on my local pond I was wondering how they were able to dive at such a young age? I mean they were still wee bundles of fluff, well the ones I were watching were! How come they dont get waterlogged and sink?
  19. K

    Great Bustard lays eggs in wild (BBC News)

    In the article about the GB's on birdguides it says 'It is known Great Bustards travel considerable distances during the winter months, but it is very encouraging to have them return, not just to Wiltshire, or to Salisbury Plain, but to the very site of their release'. So, where do they go?
  20. K

    My Wish List: 30 birds

    Seeing new birds is always fab but seeing birds from a wish list just means so much more- i get a real high when I see birds I have always wanted to! Im glad you saw your killdeer. I bet you got excited when you spotted it!
  21. K

    Just LOVE this time of year....

    Had the strangest Winter/Spring this year in terms of migrants. Had my earliest ever chiffchaffs and sand martins on the 11th March but since then not a peep from any other migrants. Damn the cold weather and north winds!
  22. K

    Well hello! *waving*

    The big box at the top of the computer screen suggested I should introduce myself to the good birders on the bird forum - *deep breath*- Birdwatching is the best invention in the world - i can't live without it. Im from west yorkshire (it has its birding moments, really! It does!!) but I am...
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