WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU 2020

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    And ive just go to FB and there is a Derbyshire Birders group so ive ask to join :)
     
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    Google Skylarks vertical rising flight and song on youtube.
     
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      Its a skylark :)
       
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        @joolz68 the duck is a drake (male) Gadwall, Richards Pipit is a very rare bird here in the UK only a couple of sightings a year, Your's is more likely a Skylark as @Scrungee has suggested.
         
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          Thank you :) x
           
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          I came across a colony of Herons today :yes: i lost head count after 14!
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            All young ones, good close up. @joolz68.

            Young Sparrows around now demanding to be fed.
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              A lot of our sparrows seem to be fighting a lot,no idea if its about territory,theres lots of hedges and space here,could it be the young ones bickering? @strongylodon x
               
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              We usually have hundreds of small birds in our garden but they are sadly lacking this year. We have a lot of pigeons, our resident crows (same three for the last fourteen years or so), very few magpies (always had about six) but lots of robins and blackbirds. I don't know whether the overabundance of pigeons is keeping the tits and finches away.

              The amount of robins has increased. We have always had at least three pairs nesting in the garden and I'm able to recognise the regulars as they all have slightly different shapes and markings. This Spring we have at least five new robins (don't think they're the young of the locals as the locals tend to help me in my work and usually introduce their young) who tend to be a little nervous of me at the moment. One of the new ones has black markings on its face :scratch:
               
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                @joolz68 All very young sparrows have a yellow edge to the base of the bill for a week or two until it hardens, that and constantly fluttering their wings for attention identifies them as youngsters.
                Sparrows are always squabbling with each other sometimes for territory although families do live together.:smile:
                 
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                  A single male Siskin has returned to the garden this last week. It's been almost a year since I've seen any.
                   
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                    Of course, having said that, they have now started coming back again :hapydancsmil:

                    We saw, on the feeders (all at the same time), three long-tailed tits, six blue tits, five greenfinches (used to have hundreds lining up on the willow near the feeders but didn't see any this time) and a number of sparrows and finches cleaning up under the feeders.

                    The woodpeckers are still spending most of the day taking it in turns to feed. I don't know what has happened to the ones that were nesting in the poplar that came down the other month. Last time we lost a poplar the family in that moved into one of the other poplars although there was another family in it. I suppose that as its a high rise they don't seem to mind.
                     
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                      First Whitethroat of 2020

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                        They were waiting for an invitation @shiney. :)
                         
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