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    Northumbrian Birding

    "used to be" - in the last three years it's had a 5th and 12th for Britain. The majority of rarities over the years have been found by a small group of regular visitors, several of which are less active at the moment for a variety of reasons but there are probably few days when there isn't...
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    Sparrow Numbers on the rise at feeders

    Results from the BTO Garden Birdwatch scheme suggest sparrows of both species are increasingly using garden feeders. http://bit.ly/1MdnN8V
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    harrier id east coast

    It's interesting how individuals with an axe to grind can twist the facts. So let's take this slowly.. A photograph was posted on Facebook, the photographer did not post the location. I was tagged and asked to offer an opinion on the identification. On the basis of the image posted I suggested...
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    Recommend me some food please

    National Trust Wild Bird Food is great quality and surprisingly reasonably priced compared to say RSPB/WWT. Their feeder mix is £17.95/12.75kgs, buy two bags and you get free delivery. Sunflower Hearts £19.95/12.75 kgs and suet blocks £5 for four 320g blocks (so £1.25 each). You can buy online here
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    Free Feeder Offer

    I see the National Trust wild bird food site is offering a free feeder on all orders over £30 until end of May see here. They have also reduced their prices for Spring so all their mixes are £17.95 for 12.75kg
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    Sparrowhawks and House Sparrows

    New study of 40 years of data suggests either Sparrowhawks may impact on House Sparrow visits to garden feeders or may influence behaviour in relation to them. http://bit.ly/1NO0mmh
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    Help Farmland Birds Through the Hungry Gap

    This week sees teh start of the 'hungry gap' for many finches and buntings as early ploughing of fields starts. You can help some birds make it through the hungry gap with supplementary feeding either in the garden or dropping small quantities of seed as you walk in the country. More about the...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Topped up the bird table with National Trust's Tasty Table Mix this morning and had the first Brambling of the year within an hour along with a Tree Sparrow and a decent number of Greenfinches.
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    Red Kites and Urban Gardens

    Strikes me it just replicates the niches they used to exploit back when Robin Hood was just a lad. Maybe there's a niche there @Nutcracker ;)
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    Red Kites and Urban Gardens

    Surveys of garden feeding in Reading have revealed the reason for the high numbers of Red Kites in the city see here but is it a good thing, simply replicating their urban roots of the Middle Ages or should we be discouraging garden feeding?
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    Female Great Tits Have Better Memories

    According to new Swedish research female Great Tits have better memories than males and they make better thieves! full story
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    TRees attract birds to feed on larvae by smell

    New Dutch research suggests trees give off chemicals to alert birds to larvae infestations. http://bit.ly/1vj3mes
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    Crows and Magpies Off the Hook on declining Bird Populations

    New study points to crows, magpies and corvids generally not being responsible for declining bird populations (common sense) and raises questions about the continued removal of them across Britain, read here and full study here.
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    Offers on New National Trust Bird Food site

    The new National Trust wild bird food website (wildlifehabits.co.uk) has various offers on at the moment. If you're a National Trust member and get the monthly email newsletter there will be a 10% off discount code in the January edition. For non-National Trust Members the site is currently...
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    City Blackbirds stay up later?

    New study suggests Blackbirds in cities tend to feed later and longer due to artificial lights - http://wildlifehabits.co.uk/blackbirds-adopt-a-city-lifestyle/
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    Great Tits Copy Feeding Habits

    Interesting study on Great Tits and copycat behaviour at http://bit.ly/1AeZMFk
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    Northumbrian Birding

    We mock what we know to be plastic.... though tbh wasn't mocking, seem to remember having to reverse back to check it out with some prominent birder in the car on the way to a bird club meeting a year or two back.
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    Northumbrian Birding

    Bet she didn't see it move...
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    Northumbrian Birding

    I've seen this bird twice in recent days and IMO it's just a Canada with some extra white feathering/partial leucism around the head, no signs of hybridsation as far as I could tell.
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    North Norfolk gamekeeper charged with killing wild birds

    The son who appears to be running the show now Charles MacNicol also seems to have associations with one William Van Cutsem. If you put say Norfolk, Sandringham and Hen Harrier into Google you'll note the common theme.
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    The End for Netfugl?

    From the excellent Danish website Netfugl: "After over 12 years of Netfugl it has been decided that it is time to start the decommissioning of the site 1 January 2014. Since there eventually is a very large amount of information on the page , it is not something we just do from one day to the...
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    Additional Criteria to ID Pallid Swift on Photos

    Jane, just out of interest have you bothered to go back and look for shots of that 2011 Durham bird we kicked about for eight pages, to see if you can get the tail ratio on that one?
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    Northumbrian Birding

    As others have said August isn't the best time to be heading up there, without wishing to be negative you'll struggle for Ring Ouzel imo. I was guiding in that area a month ago and we saw Whinchat, Spotted Fly, Red Grouse, 2 adult and 3 juv Ring Ouzels (the juveniles were fully fledged though...
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    Northumbrian Birding

    Colin Simms, various Gyrfalcon records, the 2009 breeding GGS and now this latest report. I camped out on his doorstep and eventually was granted an audience in 2009 to interview him. Whilst happy to talk at length about a multitude of other subjects the details of the GGS remained elusive and...
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    Essex Birding

    This is not the case, whilst it is true that like all the main news services birdguides source a proportion of news from a wide variety of sources, some of which aren't attributable to individuals, county recorders can request the details of individual observations via email in order to chase up...
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