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Recent content by jgw

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    Welcomed chaffinch

    Thanks mary99 and Kits I've seen three at one time now, and they're always just pecking around the ground beneath the feeders, but they are here every day. They seem to react to their own species with a jump when another arrives! Kits, I understand your pleasure when goldfinches arrived! I...
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    Welcomed chaffinch

    Not really entitled to any fanfare I know, but for me I'm really pleased to see a pair of chaffinches in my garden. There's a pair that regularly come now and seem to ground-feed beneath the peanut and sunflower seed feeders that I'm hanging below a bird table just now. Never seen them at the...
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    Wing Fluttering

    Well, a couple of days ago I could hear the familiar three-note chirping of a blue tit chick! :clap: It was pouring with rain, but there was certainly a chick being fed by a parent in a tree at the bottom of the garden. Today they were both on my bird table, with the chick pecking about and...
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    What's happened?

    I really don't know. She just seemed to loose them so quickly. They had gone onto the field behind my garden, where I thought she would have found them, but weren't heard or seen after that. The parent bird didn't return the next day. More info here...
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    Wing Fluttering

    Hi Romafree, It's really very interesting, (and yes very special) observing what happens over the weeks, and naturally, you get attached to your 'very own' little blue tit family that moves into a little house you put there and then raises their little family! But really you have to stay...
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    Wing Fluttering

    Thanks Ian, that's helpful to hear. Would the parent find them again within a certain circumference and feed them, or perhaps they're feeding a little themselves by now? Jeffrey.
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    What's happened?

    I've had a family of blue tits successfully fledge recently from the box I built; it's the second season it's been used. After the chicks had fledged they stayed around the garden and in the bushes below the box. On the second day I found them together in one of these bushes with the mother...
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    Wing Fluttering

    After the chicks had fledged they stayed around the garden and in the bushes below the box. Their second morning I found them together in one of the bushes below the box and the mother was feeding them regularly. They'd become much more able with their movements and were flying a metre or two by...
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    A Cure For Sparrows

    Having just reading this tread and found evidence of what I've heard before! The declining sparrow population in the UK. Well, here in this part of Gloucestershire I can report that without exaggeration, 90% of all birds that visit my bird table and feeders are house sparrows. It has always been...
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    Wing Fluttering

    Well, thanks Nightranger and AlfArbuthnot for your information. It seems to me that wing fluttering represents many different communication signals for birds with subtle differences that they are able to interpret and perhaps we can't notice. Such differences that we don't detect may even differ...
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    Wing Fluttering

    Larry, I've seen this 'wing fluttering' you mean when parents are still feeding their offspring after they've left the nest, but this is different. I tried to get some film of it today, but I didn't see the two parent birds together at any time. The chicks are quite large now and make a...
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    Wing Fluttering

    I've been enjoying watching the blue tit parents continuously binging food to the chicks in nest box I made for them; this is the second season the box has been used. The feeding is relentless and I've been fascinated to notice that when both parents arrive with food at the same time, they...
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    Song Thrush

    Yes, thank you. I was lucky while it lasted, but now it's gone! Lots of other activity in the garden though now the weather has been particularly Spring like the last few days. Blue Tits are giving a lot of interest to the little nest box house I made for them a few years ago. This will be the...
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    Zen-Ray Binoculars Giveaways. Ultimate Prize: two pairs of PRIME HD binoculars

    Zen-Ray Binoculars "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen". j.
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    Song Thrush

    There's been a Song Thrush staying around my garden these last few weeks. It frequently mooches around under the bushes at the bottom of the garden looking for food, and then several times every day, and into the early evening, it perches in the same tree and sing its beautifully varied song...
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