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  1. J

    Unusual bird visiting my garden - what is it???

    ... and with encouragement like this, why are you surprised that Extrareach hasn't bothered to respond? She's a non birder who has [probably] seen something interesting. And what does she get here? To put it mildly, a mixed reaction! - mainly because of birders who are paranoid at the...
  2. J

    Unusual bird visiting my garden - what is it???

    But Extrareach has already said that she has Waxwings as well - see posts #66 and #72 - so presumably her bird is something different.
  3. J

    Unusual bird visiting my garden - what is it???

    Perhaps I ought to make it clear that I'm not knocking either train spotters or lepidopterists.
  4. J

    Unusual bird visiting my garden - what is it???

    I'm pleased that Extrareach has replied further on this one. The trouble with being a birder is that we all have to put up with a certain amount of ridicule and we get defensive. Who of us, while looking through a scope by a busy road has not been "parped" by passing cars or otherwise jeered at...
  5. J

    Unusual bird visiting my garden - what is it???

    Nah, that's a Waxwing, isn't it? ;)
  6. J

    Unusual bird visiting my garden - what is it???

    OK, playing the game still, given as how size is often misjudged, I'm surprised no one has yet suggested a partially albinistic female Blackbird. Probably more likely than anything else yet suggested...?
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