WHAT I SAW TODAY.....

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Re: WHAT I SAW TODAY.....

Post by Jacksparrow » Sat Jan 16, 2016 8:47 pm

Good :photo: Mike. Your Siskin didn't look very happy. :(

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Post by Jacksparrow » Sat Jan 16, 2016 8:52 pm

If we have to have frosty weather the least we can hope for is more birds in the garden. Today didn't disappoint. The highlights were four Common Redpolls and a solitary LTT :)

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Post by Placido » Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:05 pm

Lovely pix, Mike :yes: :clap: !!

FOUR redpolls, Jacksparrow ?!?!?! I told you you were accumulating a colony. Peckham will be round soon ........

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Post by Mike_k » Sat Jan 16, 2016 11:25 pm

Jacksparrow - 4 redpolls ! Splendid - I've only ever seen one in the garden and that was a couple of years ago.

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Post by Willpar » Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:20 pm

Had a goldcrest flitting about the berberis, looking for insects this morning. Lovely to see, but a cat spotted it also. So I chased the cat away, and of course the goldcrest as well.

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Post by greenfinch2 » Tue Jan 19, 2016 5:08 pm

Went for a walk to the beach first this year nothing to see but I found a dead Little Auk there were 100 last week blown off coarse some got found and sent to Fife to be nursed back to health this one was less lucky.Lots of my usual Sparrows and the odd Greenfinch Sturks are down ,I think the fat balls may be frozen keeping the water free is difficult.

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Post by Placido » Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:16 pm

I simply love the planet Greenfinch lives on - so different from most of us !!! :yes:
A Little Auk !!!!! I mean, what would you give ....... ?? :eek: :wow:

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Post by Willpar » Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:11 am

My pied wagtails were lucky just now. A hawk was stalking, but luckily two crows intervened and chased it off.

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Post by Mike_k » Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:42 pm

Also saw a pied wagtail in the garden today for the first time in a while. Also had a jackdaw, blackbird, robins, goldfinch, blue tit, great tit, starling.
Here's a couple of shots.....

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Post by Jacksparrow » Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:55 pm

Love the Goldfinch :photo: :yes:
I had a near record 14 present today.

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