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  1. Preening Juvenile Swan

    Preening Juvenile Swan

    This is one of a brrod of five juveniles from one pair. They're all incredibly healthy-looking and just starting to moult through their whites.
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    • Category: Britain & Europe
  2. mikfoz

    Blackpool

    If you want waders you're better off travelling to either the Ribble estuary at Lytham or the Wyre estuary. There are several good small nature reserves. This link should help. I don't tend to go seawatching but there are loads of salt marshes and mudflats in the area.
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Bearded Tit'

    Great view of this sneaky bird.
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Sparrowhawk'

    Now THAT's close!
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  5. Mute Swan Landing

    Mute Swan Landing

    The Mute Swans were busy flying up and down the mere making big territorial statements and chasing each other about...
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    • mute swan
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Britain & Europe
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    Birds not coming to my food

    My own fault for setting the feeders up 8-P It took about a month for the birds to accept a new feeder, even in a good position. It's funny as well. Even on the same hanging post there is one feeder the birds all leave until last. They just don't touch it until the others are empty. This is...
  7. mikfoz

    What does birding mean for you?

    Birding's one of the easiest ways to get into observing wild animals in a natural environment. I get several things out of it: I get some good photo opportunities. I get to see natural behaviour, which I find utterly fascinating to observe. I get to realise just how varied life is - again an...
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    Magpies kill a Sparrowhawk

    I've never seen anything this extreme but the "seet" response is a prime example of behaviour that involves individual birds making a response to a predator that benefits the whole community. Each bird as an individual would be better frozen and silent if it sees a predator. However, for this...
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    Yorkshire Tree Sparrows

    The main area I see tree sparrows in is at Martin Mere. They seem to have some success with this species. I only see House Sparrows or Dunnocks near where I live, though I live in hope.
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    Birds not coming to my food

    Took about a month for birds to find all the food I started putting out and regularly visiting. As KCFoggin points out, now they're going through food like mad and more and more species keep turning up. I even get a Great Spotted Woodpecker now and then. Wait intil the Wood pigeons cotton on to...
  11. mikfoz

    Attracting Birds With Tape Recordings

    It's not something I'd be wanting to do. I want to observe birds behaving naturally. I can understand others wanting to see a species at all costs and using it to ensure that, but I really hope that it doesn't cause stress and disruption to natural beahviour in wild birds. However, I'm...
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Blackbird.'

    Haha! I love it when they do this. We have a similar sunning spot in our garden and the male adult loves to sit there and do this.
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  13. Herring Gull

    Herring Gull

    Hadn't realised this was the theme of the competition until I uploaded in Birds of Britain and Europe. Anyway, here's a Herring Gull flying past the offshore rocks at Lizard Point in Cornwall, UK.
    • mikfoz
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    • herring gull
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  14. mikfoz

    Predatory hornets

    Hornets are seasonal and at maximum numbers about now. I'm pretty sure that similar problems will happen around flowers away from your sphere of attention. The fact that there are still both hornets and hummingbirds despite this conflict having raged for hundreds of thousands of years leads me...
  15. mikfoz

    Mediterranean Gull - new name needed?

    I'm all for leaving it well alone. There are plenty of similar misnomers but changing language arbitrarily just confuses people for ages after it's done. I don't think people really think it means they're only found in the Mediterranean anyway: they just think they're common there.
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    Gull ID needed: Cornwall, Lizard Point, UK

    Cheers, Steve. I'm not the best one with gulls, I have to admit. All the various minute differences seem to blur in my head and I think I have been storing features of Yellow-Legged Gulls in my mind and thinking they're Herring Gulls as I really had the red ring round the eye imprinted as a...
  17. mikfoz

    Gull ID needed: Cornwall, Lizard Point, UK

    Don't they normally have more barred wingtips and red ring round the eye? Or am I going a bit senile. I'm losing the plot aren't I. It just looks different a bit to my more oop north Herrings. Or maybe I see more yellow-legged gulls than I thought in Blackpool and think they're Herring Gulls...
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    Gull ID needed: Cornwall, Lizard Point, UK

    Thought Herring Gull but the tail feathers and totally pale eye really threw me.
  19. mikfoz

    Gull ID needed: Cornwall, Lizard Point, UK

    I'm not sure of this gull at all due to all-white tailfeathers and being on holiday with no reference material. Should hopefully be a clear enough view for our gull afficionadoes.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    I've got these two as helophilus pendulas (the one with the striped thorax) and myothropa florea. Hope I'm not making myself look daft and they'll help others in the thread. Someone put me out of my misery if I'm wrong, please.
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    Golden Eagle Poisoned

    Your biggest problem, and I've said this before, is that your average person down the pub doesn't actually give a damn for more than twenty seconds. Yes, if confronted with it, they'll say that it's awful and possibly even be outraged, but then they'll see something shiny and wander off. Faced...
  22. mikfoz

    Do baby Doves know how to fly?

    No! They'll die horribly like all baby birds that evolved on rocky cliffs on their first attempt at flying. They became extinct millions of years ago because of this habit and no longer exist. You could prevent this by keeping 24 hour watch with a big trampoline on wheels and move it about...
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    need ur help guys with a little sparrow

    Anyone ever read stickies? You effectively killed the baby sparrow by what you did. I'd love to be proved wrong if it fledges but...
  24. mikfoz

    Zen Birding

    It's nice and peaceful sitting somewhere quiet and lonely watching the birdies. Is that what you meant?
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Spot me, will you !!'

    Wow! That's well-hidden.
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