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matt green
Norfolkman gone walkabout
Aaaaaaaaaaaagh..where are mine?
They always seem to take ages getting to my neck oh the woods.
They will be happy when they do arrive though,mighty fine autumn harvest of berries waiting for them this year!
Matt
They always seem to take ages getting to my neck oh the woods.
They will be happy when they do arrive though,mighty fine autumn harvest of berries waiting for them this year!
Matt
matt green
Norfolkman gone walkabout
oh at last!
Just been out in the garden and 30+ redwings flew over the house.
Will go for a redwing hunt later.
Matt
Just been out in the garden and 30+ redwings flew over the house.
Will go for a redwing hunt later.
Matt
Allen S. Moore
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Redwings migrating at night
Allen
That's the noise they make, right enough. I have not seen or heard any on the Isle of Man yet, although I was out quite late last night..colonelboris said:
Allen
Allen S. Moore
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Allen S. Moore said:
Ah! I've just been outside collecting washing off the line and heard a redwing!
Allen
CornishExile
rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn!
Numbers still growing here; masses over the weekend, and the first of the inevitable road casualties - they spook at every passing car on the heather moors, and have little road-sense. Found 3 dead or moribund along a 2 mile stretch of hill-road by the house on Sunday.
A handful of Song Thrush in too, and a couple of Fieldfares yesterday.
ce
A handful of Song Thrush in too, and a couple of Fieldfares yesterday.
ce
In my neck of the woods redwings and fieldfares have been much less common over the last couple of years, which I put down to mild winters, hence less need for them to travel south and west.
Somewhere else on the forums, though, I read that many are now wintering in Scandinavia, again, seemingly, because life is less hard for them there.
Which started me wondering.
If there were a succession of years in which migration across the North Sea became rarer, would the remaining birds lose the tradition of heading across the sea?
To put it another way, I'm wondering whether, or perhaps to what extent, these migrations are instinctive or learned.
I wonder if anyone knows whether the migrations occur in family groups.
If the chicks of a particular season migrate with their parents, it would seem to me quite plausible that the migration pattern could just be lost, in a succession of years in which little or no migration occured.
OTOH, if the seasons chicks travel independently of their parents, I'd guess that the migration is much more instinctive than learned.
Then again, perhaps these aren't even sensible questions. Though I do gather tha at least some migration behaviour is learned. No?
David
Somewhere else on the forums, though, I read that many are now wintering in Scandinavia, again, seemingly, because life is less hard for them there.
Which started me wondering.
If there were a succession of years in which migration across the North Sea became rarer, would the remaining birds lose the tradition of heading across the sea?
To put it another way, I'm wondering whether, or perhaps to what extent, these migrations are instinctive or learned.
I wonder if anyone knows whether the migrations occur in family groups.
If the chicks of a particular season migrate with their parents, it would seem to me quite plausible that the migration pattern could just be lost, in a succession of years in which little or no migration occured.
OTOH, if the seasons chicks travel independently of their parents, I'd guess that the migration is much more instinctive than learned.
Then again, perhaps these aren't even sensible questions. Though I do gather tha at least some migration behaviour is learned. No?
David
I was on the west coast of Scotland last week (Ballachulish area) and watched a flock of about 100 Redwings. I reckon they were of the Icelandic race coburni, being slightly larger and darker than the ones I am used to on the east coast. First time I have been conscious of the different races.
Ken
Ken
