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All Time Best Bird in Your Garden (Yard) (1 Viewer)
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chris butterworth
aka The Person Named Above
That's what comes of having your own bird observatory stuck onto the front of your house
"Not jealous, really" Chris
edenwatcher
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In: nothing too startling - waxwing, brambling, tree sparrow, spot fly, redstart, woodcock ...
From: lesser yellowlegs, American golden plover, white-winged black tern, green-winged teal, honey buzzard, long-tailed skua, Sabine's gull, avocet, little egret, water pipit, smew, jack snipe ...
Rob
From: lesser yellowlegs, American golden plover, white-winged black tern, green-winged teal, honey buzzard, long-tailed skua, Sabine's gull, avocet, little egret, water pipit, smew, jack snipe ...
Rob
Jane Turner
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Which reminds me... summer Plumage WWBlack Tern, whilst getting out the shower, was a good one.
Most interesting to me were the Crossbill family who came down from the trees to drink at the fountain one year. I occasionally catch a fleeting glimpse of one or another or hear them up in the firs at the back of the yard but rarely get a chance to photo them.
One of the funniest I ever had was a Heron who landed on the bird feeder about 8 ft up off the ground in '08.
First it had walked all round the fountain, hearing the water and looking low for its source, for the non existent fish, no doubt, these oft predators in people's ponds. It looked so stately and proud walking round that table, camera not properly turned on, then up it lifted onto the feeder, looking about and taking one lick of bird seed which it then tried to scrape off its tongue with the roof of its ....beak.
I did manage to get a few pics.
Goes to show...always keep your camera ready and always check it's on properly!
One of the funniest I ever had was a Heron who landed on the bird feeder about 8 ft up off the ground in '08.
First it had walked all round the fountain, hearing the water and looking low for its source, for the non existent fish, no doubt, these oft predators in people's ponds. It looked so stately and proud walking round that table, camera not properly turned on, then up it lifted onto the feeder, looking about and taking one lick of bird seed which it then tried to scrape off its tongue with the roof of its ....beak.
I did manage to get a few pics.
Goes to show...always keep your camera ready and always check it's on properly!
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I also once had a whole flock of Waxwings descend for a bath in the fountain on the old picnic table with the three shallow pans cascading into each other til reaching the last big pot which held the pump and acted as reservoir.
There were about 30 of them flying in for a family splash.
I see them in June with their young, in the tops of the neighbouring cedar trees, hearing their thin calls. They have come for a bath two falls that I have seen them now, after a long dry summer.
There were about 30 of them flying in for a family splash.
I see them in June with their young, in the tops of the neighbouring cedar trees, hearing their thin calls. They have come for a bath two falls that I have seen them now, after a long dry summer.
