Don't you know what they look like?
I get terribly confused by them, so any help with the key features you were able to observe would be a great help
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I get terribly confused by them, so any help with the key features you were able to observe would be a great help
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Helenelizabeth2
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I get terribly confused by them, so any help with the key features you were able to observe would be a great help
It looked a bit like this. Only the sun was shining so the white rump was whiter.
http://uk400clubrarebirdalert.blogspot.com/2008/12/atypical-first-winter-scandinavian.html
It looked a bit like this. Only the sun was shining so the white rump was whiter.
http://uk400clubrarebirdalert.blogspot.com/2008/12/atypical-first-winter-scandinavian.html
What? Like Lee Evans?
Helenelizabeth2
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I'm sure Lee has probably gotta white rump like a lot of us...[although i don't really wanna know].
Woodwalton sounds good....any male Hen Harriers about?...might get over if so.
Great day to have been in the field......the light n white countryside made everything look fantastic....yellowhammers seemed to have been lit from within....just glowed! Watched a female peregrine 'bat' a pigeon down into stubble field....fed for half an hour before crows 'ad a go' at it....peregrine flew off after side swiping them....crows thought they'd 'done the biz'......unfortunately for them 3 buzzards moved in! Guess them corvids got a few scraps of pigeon pie in the end tho....respects.....
Helenelizabeth2
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I ticked Lee Evans long ago. Speaking of which, I don't think I've updated my BF list in a long time. I wonder if I can remember who I've met.
And if you'd like to let me add you to my list, I'd happily show you where the Redpolls normally are. I'll let you identify your own though now that Dr Whitehouse has cast aspersions on my abilities.
Helenelizabeth2
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It was really lovely out today, wasn't it? (The weather, not Lee Evan's rump) I'm afraid the Hen Harrier I saw was a Ringtail. It might be worth checking out Peterbirder and Cambirds to see if there have been any records of males.
Thanx for the info Helen........i'd be happy with a ringtail on my local patch! A male tho...against the snow....would be awesome. Usually go to Eldernell for harriers...only a few marsh last weekend.....didn't do the normal walk along the raised bank tho.....the biting wind was like a sandpaper face scrub....ouch!
ps......nice to see 'handbags' on birdforum that aren't being thrown!.....may all yer birding [and handbag] dreams come true.......
ps......nice to see 'handbags' on birdforum that aren't being thrown!.....may all yer birding [and handbag] dreams come true.......
dantheman
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Just for you. Serenity restored.
Cheers Helen :t: ..... (what's with the lurid scarf though??) ........... Oh well.
.... I was wondering if you get many requests from men on the internet asking for pictures?? :eek!:
Helenelizabeth2
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Aah, the old country.
*sighs*
*inhales lungfuls of crisp, clean air*
*absorbs earfuls of peace and quiet* (actually, it's a bit too quiet - where are all the sheep?)
*considers driving into Selkirk for a white pudding supper*
104. Raven
*sighs*
*inhales lungfuls of crisp, clean air*
*absorbs earfuls of peace and quiet* (actually, it's a bit too quiet - where are all the sheep?)
*considers driving into Selkirk for a white pudding supper*
104. Raven
Helenelizabeth2
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Still no White Pudding supper but a nice day out on the Solway Firth yesterday.
Over breakfast, I deliberated with the children about whether we should go to Mersehead or Caerlaverock. Caerlaverock won on the grounds that Euan likes the icecream better. I despair of my children.
105. Barnacle Goose
106. Skylark
107. Pink-Footed Goose
Sadly no Cackling Canadas to be seen.
Over breakfast, I deliberated with the children about whether we should go to Mersehead or Caerlaverock. Caerlaverock won on the grounds that Euan likes the icecream better. I despair of my children.
105. Barnacle Goose
106. Skylark
107. Pink-Footed Goose
Sadly no Cackling Canadas to be seen.
The ice cream is quite nice at Caerlaverock though. And they sell some quite good jam and chutney.
Helenelizabeth2
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Helenelizabeth2
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108. Red Grouse
Drumming Sniper
You'm not from 'round 'ere, boy!
Helenelizabeth2
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I'm jealous of yesterday's me now, too. Back in stinky Peterborough today.
:-(
A rather jammy owl evening yesterday. Took the kids out for new school shoes and more icecream (cunningly in Luca's at Musselburgh which allowed me a small detour to the sea). Nothing new there (though let me just flick back and check I've had Turnstone) but as we headed home in the dusk we had a nice Barn Owl just past Dirleton, another one over Middleton way and:
109. Tawny Owl
Right in front of the car, but fortunately I didn't hit this one - seeing as that Little Owl still haunts me sometimes. :-(
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I'd forgotten that Little Owl. And weren't you struggling to see Tawny Owl for a long time? And, isn't it warm enough to get naked again
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Helenelizabeth2
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I'd forgotten that Little Owl. And weren't you struggling to see Tawny Owl for a long time? And, isn't it warm enough to get naked again
I hadn't forgotten the Little Owl. I also remember many abortive attempts to see Tawny Owl but I've forgotten where I finally saw one.
Time for a new av altogether, maybe.
*struggles for inspiration*
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