This morning in the garden almost a prelude to Christmas - a robin and a collared dove!
What birds (are you/have you been) watching? What birds have been watching you?
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Originally posted by RichardB View PostThere is what I think I've accurately identified as a green woodpecker outside in the garden. I don't think I've seen one before (but I'm not often looking out into a garden). However, it's pecking at the lawn, presumably for insects. Shouldn't it be called a groundpecker?
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Originally posted by RichardB View PostHowever, it's pecking at the lawn, presumably for insects. Shouldn't it be called a groundpecker?
Obviously, though, there is a hierarchy of peckers in birdland.
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Originally posted by RichardB View PostThere is what I think I've accurately identified as a green woodpecker outside in the garden. I don't think I've seen one before (but I'm not often looking out into a garden). However, it's pecking at the lawn, presumably for insects. Shouldn't it be called a groundpecker?
They used to be a common sight on the allotment site where I had my plots as there were areas of long grass in which sizable ant colonies developed - always a bit of a shock when one suddenly erupted from the ground when disturbed as they are so very brightly coloured and also well hidden until they take off.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostNothing very peaceful about collared doves. They're right bruisers, even chasing off magpies.
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