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timmyjones
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Well done a great garden tick are there any wintering near you or is this a passage bird
Jane Turner
Well-known member
Not had one this year 
... mind you I do have a sea front garden and I have run whooping around the house in a most unbecoming fashion whenever I see one!
... mind you I do have a sea front garden and I have run whooping around the house in a most unbecoming fashion whenever I see one!
David FG said:
Great garden tick! I've seen one at the bottom of my road twice since Christmas so live in hope that it will fly up and say hello soon.
The best I've managed this year is a Little Egret (which my next door neighbour says is now visting most days, and has named Edith after the French singer who didn't have any). I can't be too smug though, as the local paper reported a Spoonbill in a garden in Herne last week...
Regards Richard
David FG said:
I cannot take credit for the joke, but I fully accept the blame for posting my neighbours joke :bounce: . I've yet to get to see a Spoonbill, I seem to keep missing them, but I don't spend as much time out at Oare as I would like.
I do like Black Redstarts they've got smartness, colour yet subtlety. I keep hoping that one of the local Stonechats will visit soon. The snow temporarily brought in Yellowhammers but a male Stonechat would be great in the garden.
Richard
Mickymouse
Ubuntu Linux user
That can't be true or I would have loads of themsimondix said:
Mick
I made that comment a bit tongue in cheek. Many years ago, when I was but a callow youth, still AD not BC, they were building the merrow Estates at Guildford. I moved on to one of the new houses and the garden was full of building rubbish. The first bird of note was a Black Redstart. Unfortunately I was at work and missed it.
David FG said:
I do
Going back to the Spoonbill, I now here it's a probable escapee. I'll settle for a genuine wild Little Egret rather than an escaped Spoonbill o
I suspect the Black Redstart I've been seeing is just a wintering bird but I guess there's a chance they're breeding in the Faversham area. Of course much of Faversham if not exactly a bomb site was Gunpowder works...
Richard
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