WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU 2020

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  1. Jiffy

    Jiffy The Match is on Fire

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    Thank you Scrungee :dbgrtmb:
     
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      That's about the quality I get of the birds in our garden with my rather old camera! :dunno:
       
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      Siskins around this morning but still just the one pair.
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        Can I ask what you are feeding the birds please @strongylodon?
         
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        They are feeding on both Nyjer (niger) seed and sunflower hearts. Goldfinches tend to go for the sunflower hearts if there is a choice.:smile:

        Great Northern Diver at Portland.
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        Skylark.
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        Female Linnet.
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        Female Bearded Reedling.
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        Cormorant moulting into breeding plumage.
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          Walked a 10 mile round trip yesterday to a local river where I lived on a farm over 30 years ago. Saw 5 Red Kites, 4 Buzzards, 1 Kestrel, 6 Fieldfares, 8 Skylarks, 2 Cormorants, 22 Swans, 12 Canada Geese, 100 Greylag Geese, but all I managed to get a shot of was this Grey Heron, in exactly the same place I'd see them whilst fishing there 50 years ago.

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            Victoria Lover of Exotic Flora

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            ... and a good shot you got too @Scrungee.
             
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            Spend less time counting, more time snapping:biggrin:, nice picture
             
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              The finches here won't touch Nyjer. :scratch: I have a few Goldfinches here at the moment and find them quite wasteful birds. They seem to throw as much out of the feeders as they eat. No waste though with up to two dozen Chaffinches ground feeding. :)
               
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              • strongylodon

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                The Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Dunnocks and Pied Wagtails clear up the seed the Goldfinches spill.:smile:
                 
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                  I'm pleased to say that the woodpeckers that lost their home last weekend in the storm now have a new one. :blue thumb: Their 70ft poplar tree came down but they've moved into the next poplar. Although there's another nest in that one they are 30ft apart. I think they were originally part of the same family. :)

                  I've had an interesting time with our robins this last week. We usually have three pairs of robins, one in the front garden and two in the back - although we have had four in the past. As usual with robins they're all fearless and cheeky and are around all the time we are working in the garden.

                  One of the back garden ones sits on my shoulder when I'm digging or weeding but none of the others do that. Working in the front garden for the last few days I've had four robins with me all the time. None of them are back garden robins as their shape is different - smaller, thinner and more upright. I think they must be two adults and two young as they are all working very close together.

                  I have to be very careful not to tread on them or catch them with the tools as they get very close. One of them (I have a feeling it's a young one) is particularly cute and when I'm bending down weeding it comes almost right up to my face, bends its head back and looks straight into my eyes and makes a funny little sound. It's a very soft sound and more like a very short warble than a cheep. It does this continuously whilst looking at me. :scratch: It's beak hardly opens at all when it does it. It has also started taking tiny worms from my hand. Do you think in reckons I'm part of the family? :)
                   
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                    Hello @shiney it probably thinks you are a garden gnome:heehee:
                     
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                        Broke up a fight between three crows yesterday afternoon. Heard a racket yesterday afternoon on the flat roof, had a look and two crows had a third one on it's back and were giving it "a good kicking" I opened the bedroom window and they shot off. Two went into the trees (think they nest there) the third flew very fast to the scrubby woodland at the opposite end of the garden.
                         
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                          :hate-shocked::hate-shocked: what do you think they were scrapping over? I've not seen Crows do that before.
                           
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