SPINNEYGAL
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Yes, WillCFish a great video of the Swans full on.
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Very busy at the bird feeder today! (4 Viewers)
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SPINNEYGAL
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Love the Canaries Missyburd.
Hi, CB & Zebs.
Purple Martins are interesting. They come up to the eastern USA from Latin America in the spring to breed and they now breed almost exclusively in "houses" provided by people. The houses, on poles 10-15 feet high, can be individual gourds or can be large houses divided up into ten or more little apartments. Oddly enough, the houses normally have to be very near buildings to attract the Martins; the latter either just like people or maybe think the presence of people nearby keeps predators away.
Jeff
crazyfingers
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A small flock of maybe 20 Starlings migrated through my yard this morning. Gone now. They didn't find my feeder in the bushes.
bongofury
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Stormy weather today, which has brought a few more Lesser Redpolls and Siskins back, along with the male Blackcap. Male Sprawk also popped in for breakfast (but failed) and perched again above the nijer feeders, until being chased away by a Magpie.
EDIT: Just seen the Sprawk again, standing proudly over the remains of a Blue Tit. Hope it wasn't the one that has been roosting in the nest box.
EDIT: Just seen the Sprawk again, standing proudly over the remains of a Blue Tit. Hope it wasn't the one that has been roosting in the nest box.
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earleybird
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A brief spell of excitement in our yards yesterday when a flock of Common Grackles swooped in. Luckily they didn't stay long. Our resident birds looked quite shell-shocked.
Won't have much time for yard watching the next few days. On Saturday we're heading up to San Antonio and the hill country for two days of birding. Then in the middle of next week we may spend a day or two around Galveston and some coastal sites.
Jeff
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Won't have much time for yard watching the next few days. On Saturday we're heading up to San Antonio and the hill country for two days of birding. Then in the middle of next week we may spend a day or two around Galveston and some coastal sites.
Jeff
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crazyfingers
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Cheshire Birder
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Great pictures again Guys and Girls :t::t:
Today in the run up to dusk counted 116 Magpies roosting in the hedgerow :C:C.
CB
Today in the run up to dusk counted 116 Magpies roosting in the hedgerow :C:C.
CB
bongofury
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In that first pic, the Goldcrest is in a standing position whilst in midair - great capture!
we had a special visitor this morning.
Nice female, EB:t:
earleybird
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thanks BF . After my picture she flew into the feeding station and hovered between two bushes bashing the bushes with her wings trying to flush some small birds out then after a short rest on the fence flew off . Interesting watch her hunting technique but I was worried for my little birds :-C
crazyfingers
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Looks a lot like the visitor I get at the feeder even though across the ocean. Cooper Hawk?
Azzy
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Speak for yourselves, but unfortunately winter is on it's merry way here. Which means less flowering plants for my birds, less of a need for my bird bath and no more scared kingfishers and rainbow bee-eaters
The bee-eaters especially because they fly over our house everyday in varying flock sizes. The other day it was between 25-30, the largest that I've seen fly over so far.Today there's been noisy miners, magpie-larks, new holland honeyeaters, blackbirds, a willy wagtail, several flyovers including the bee-eaters and a little pied cormorant and several others. But most importantly, there was a male fairy wren in the garden today, he was there for a little while, made me happy.
earleybird
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14 greenfinches around the feeders,nice to see some are beginning to get there plumage back,blue tits are inspecting the nest box,goldfinches galore,chaffinches and it is a nice sunny day here.
same here. I noticed a bluetit checking out next doors nest box but its too exposed on the end of a shed. I'm hoping ours set in the Hazel trees will do better. I'd better get my skates on if I have any chance of fitting a camera.
Still haven't seen a Greenfinch here for a few years. Can't imagine what 14 look like.? bit of a bunfight I expect
Nice sunny day down in the South West too. Thank god we haven't got an earthquake and a tsunami to worry about this morning :eek!:
Hey Crazyfingers what type of Hawk is it? Sorry didn't read properly Cooper Hawk, I'm only a novice with Non British birds, i'm still learning, that's what i like about this site seeing all the different birds from around the world although they do have some funny names
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