Three magpies are having some kind of shimozzle out there, which has been going on for about 15 minutes. I guess it's two males in sexual harassment of a female.
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....are they Dunnocks?Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
If they nest here I'll have to get another car
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They might have wheel rights...Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....are they Dunnocks? ....
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A robin perched on our Easter Islander.
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I've been checking the denizens in my garden and so far the only missing regular is the thrush. Just last week the two I had been anxious to see made their appearance - robin and wren - both suspiciously invisible over the winter. My most recent visitors - from last spring - the goldfinches, have maintained and strengthened their presence. The chaffinches and tits are always with us, and I have yet to identify some small brown birds that seem to have always been there too - I never can get a good look at them and my eyes are quite bad at the moment. Magpies and jackdaws in twos or threes inspect daily, and a pair of woodpigeons peck the bases of the feeders. And I now know that a sparrowhawk has our address. The next door cat has got old and though we're still friends she can't get into the garden.Comment
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Most of the LBJ "regulars" have been seen (or, in the case of the wrens, heard) in the past couple of weeks: sparrows, starlings, blackbirds, tits, robins and thrushes - and the treesful of rooks across the road. Lots of collared doves and woodpigeons, too.The more colourful finches haven't been seen - the goldfinches normally "wait" to make a later appearance, but chaffinches and greenfinches have normally been seen by now (the former quite frequent throughout Winter).[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Sharp-eared followers of this thread who watched the first episode of "Indian Summers" will have noted the singing chiffchaff and chaffinch on the soundtrack, plus the rather overworked ITV peregrine who is used whenever there is an upland or moorland scene in a drama, suggesting a bit of post production. I think it was actually shot in Malaysia?Comment
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....Yes that same "Eeeeork" is also in many American productions too....Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Postbong chingComment
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Great to go out yesterday morning and hear, for the first time this year, the songs of the Skylarks above the fields near the house...kept me late for work but made me feel great; like winter is starting to recede!Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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I think we also had a collared dove calling on Wolf Hall one episode, which, I believe, is an anachronism!Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostComment
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Originally posted by Lento View Post
By 400 years! This beats the wrong fish knives in Downton. My best spot (in the cinema) was the chaffinch in Full Metal Jacket, which was filmed at locations in SE England.
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What - you, or the chaffinch?Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostMy best spot (in the cinema) was the chaffinch in Full Metal Jacket, which was filmed at locations in SE England.Comment
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I was sitting in the cinema, the chaffinch was in the film
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Yes, that was the now extinct Vietnamese Jungle Chaffinch.Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
Most exciting was the pair of thrushes spotted this morning in my front garden.Comment
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Saw a black and white bird at a friends house in NW6, too large to be a Pied Wagtail too small to be a magpie but seeing it interact with a blackbird made me think of albino? but it turns out there are pied blackbirds. In our bird the colouration was asymmetric, similar to
The sparrows are busy at the feeder. They have designated our dormant forsythia a "hedge" for the duration and they move around mysteriously inside of it until leaving for the short flight to the feeder.Comment
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