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Pingu

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1075 on: 23 February, 2010, 09:25:10 pm »
I looked up the RSPB bird guide & I'm leaning towards redshank for the unknown.

As for the plover, perhaps I should read a bit more & not just look at the pictures  ::-)

I'll have to take binocs & a bird guide to work  :thumbsup:
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Pingu

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1076 on: 24 February, 2010, 01:19:54 pm »
A curlew flew acroos the road in front of me on my way home last night.
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RJ

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1077 on: 24 February, 2010, 01:55:13 pm »
Quote from: Pingu on 23 February, 2010, 09:25:10 pm
I looked up the RSPB bird guide & I'm leaning towards redshank for the unknown.

As for the plover, perhaps I should read a bit more & not just look at the pictures  ::-)

I'll have to take binocs & a bird guide to work  :thumbsup:

See if you can talk to some of the people sharing your shiny new building (I think) ...

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Pingu

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1078 on: 24 February, 2010, 02:59:35 pm »
Quote from: RJ on 24 February, 2010, 01:55:13 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 23 February, 2010, 09:25:10 pm
I looked up the RSPB bird guide & I'm leaning towards redshank for the unknown.

As for the plover, perhaps I should read a bit more & not just look at the pictures  ::-)

I'll have to take binocs & a bird guide to work  :thumbsup:

See if you can talk to some of the people sharing your shiny new building (I think) ...



They're not arriving until April.
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pcolbeck

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1079 on: 24 February, 2010, 03:10:12 pm »
A Dunnock on he fence. I like Dunnocks. They are small brown things but nicely proportioned and usually overlooked even though very common.
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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Pingu

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1080 on: 24 February, 2010, 03:46:33 pm »
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anth

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1081 on: 25 February, 2010, 11:36:33 pm »
Seen last weekend rather than today, but a load of Reed Buntings.



Also Curlews, Oystercatchers, some small wader that I'm not sure of, Wigeons and possibly Goldeneyes...
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Pingu

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1082 on: 26 February, 2010, 01:24:30 pm »
Took a pair of binocs & a guidebook to work today. I'm pretty certain that what I thought were redshanks are redshanks.

Also saw some turnstones.
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Rig of Jarkness

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1083 on: 26 February, 2010, 01:27:03 pm »
Quote from: Pingu on 26 February, 2010, 01:24:30 pm
Took a pair of binocs & a guidebook to work today. I'm pretty certain that what I thought were redshanks are redshanks.

Also saw some turnstones.
:thumbsup:

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Tourist Tony

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1084 on: 26 February, 2010, 05:38:05 pm »
Quote from: Pingu on 26 February, 2010, 01:24:30 pm
Took a pair of binocs & a guidebook to work today. I'm pretty certain that what I thought were redshanks are redshanks.

Also saw some turnstones.
Redshanks tend to walk a bit like chickens.....
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Moloko

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1085 on: 26 February, 2010, 05:39:25 pm »
Tufted duck in amongst the mallards.
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Pingu

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1086 on: 26 February, 2010, 09:22:13 pm »
Quote from: Dicky Mo on 26 February, 2010, 05:39:25 pm
Tufted duck in amongst the mallards.

Have you seen a specialist?
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Rig of Jarkness

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1087 on: 27 February, 2010, 08:45:42 am »
A first for our back garden this morning - a cock pheasant.
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Pingu

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1088 on: 27 February, 2010, 09:58:38 pm »
Cycling north of Aberdeen saw loads of buzzards, several curlews & a lark (heard a few of these).

At the Ythan estuary there was a raft of eiders gossiping like a gaggle of grannies on the no. 17 bus ("Ooh..", "Ooh..").

Oh, and a dead blue tit on the road  :'(
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RJ

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1089 on: 01 March, 2010, 01:22:36 pm »
Quote from: Pingu on 27 February, 2010, 09:58:38 pm
At the Ythan estuary there was a raft of eiders gossiping like a gaggle of grannies on the no. 17 bus ("Ooh..", "Ooh..").

Which is why (I'm told) they're known as "wifies" down the coast.  Long-tailed ducks are called "oldsquaw" in N America for the same reason, though with a different rhythm (ooh OOH ooh ooh).
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Moloko

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1090 on: 01 March, 2010, 04:39:47 pm »
Crocuses and a beautiful Jay. The sunshine really helping to show off his iridescent colours.  :thumbsup:
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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1091 on: 01 March, 2010, 05:26:42 pm »
We once shared a house with a bloke from Wakefield (who later became slightly famous in a political scandal)

He'd never seen a Jay before:

"Hard bastards, those" he said,  "You'd f'in have to be if you were a pink crow"

I've had a soft spot for them ever since :)
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Moloko

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1092 on: 01 March, 2010, 05:28:44 pm »
Quote from: Mal Volio on 01 March, 2010, 05:26:42 pm




"Hard bastards, those" he said,  "You'd f'in have to be if you were a pink crow"



 ;D

I've always thought of them as the Danny La Rue of the crow world.


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Rig of Jarkness

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1093 on: 01 March, 2010, 06:29:03 pm »
From Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book....
'I've seen this funny bird in my garden'
'It was a jay'
'Shall I describe it'
'No, it was a jay'
'It wasn't a jay'
'Yes it was'
'No it wasn't, I've seen jays'
'Yes I know, you saw one in your garden'
and so it goes on... ;D

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Adrian

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1094 on: 01 March, 2010, 06:35:38 pm »
Quote from: Charterhall on 01 March, 2010, 06:29:03 pm
From Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book....
'I've seen this funny bird in my garden'
'It was a jay'
'Shall I describe it'
'No, it was a jay'
'It wasn't a jay'
'Yes it was'
'No it wasn't, I've seen jays'
'Yes I know, you saw one in your garden'
and so it goes on... ;D



I saw him doing that stuff on the telly once. He came across as an arrogant knob.
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Moloko

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1095 on: 01 March, 2010, 06:38:37 pm »

I think he used to sometimes grate on Kate Humble's nerves. But she was ever the professional.
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Rig of Jarkness

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1096 on: 01 March, 2010, 07:34:40 pm »
Anyway, seen today...dozens of redwings in the Meadows. 
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RJ

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Re: Seen today
« Reply #1097 on: 02 March, 2010, 05:46:26 pm »
60-foot "peregrine" outside the Scottish Parliament  ;)

BBC online
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Chris S

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1098 on: 02 March, 2010, 10:00:47 pm »
Geese

Lapwings

Gulls

Rats

Badgers (dead)

Deer (dead)

Fish (in the verge, by the road. WTF?)

Two Stoats.

Quite a lot of squashed Frogs.


Ahh... a bike ride in The Fens  :thumbsup:
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TimO

Re: Seen today
« Reply #1099 on: 02 March, 2010, 10:03:00 pm »
Have you been suffering rains of fish and frogs (and possibly badgers and deers!) ?
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