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Post by Jazz on Jan 27, 2011 20:12:14 GMT 1
Welcome visitor today to our garden bird table was a Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Have seen them before but on hanging up a couple of half coconut shells filled with peanuts/birdseed he appeared again hanging on & pecking away like Woody Woodpecker! Attachments:
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Post by Jazz on Jan 28, 2011 12:34:17 GMT 1
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Post by Jazz on Jan 30, 2011 19:24:29 GMT 1
Our hour long garden bird watch produced:- 2 Robins, 4 Blue Tits, 3 Great Tits, 2 Coal Tits, 3 Long Tailed Tits, 2 Hedge Sparrows, 4 Wood Pigeons, 3 Carrion Crows, 4 Herring Gulls, 1 Greenfinch, 3 Chaffinch, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Blackbirds, 5 Magpies, 1 Kittiwake. So we shot them all & put them in a pie!........Only joking!  |
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Post by Jazz on Feb 8, 2011 19:27:50 GMT 1
I had my usual walk today at one of my usual haunts, St. Marys Island. Not a great deal seen, a lot of Curlews and Lapwings about plus other more common birds. Took two photographs of a pile of stones which someone had stacked up on the beach. From a distance it looked like a person. On looking at the photos it reminds me of a Red Indian child, probably a girl, dressed in buckskin clothing!  Attachments:
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Post by Jazz on Feb 8, 2011 19:32:45 GMT 1
Red Indian small squaw! Attachments:
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Post by Jazz on Feb 8, 2011 21:43:17 GMT 1
Here she is again, the little squaw (with feathers)! Attachments:
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Post by Jazz on Feb 9, 2011 11:36:15 GMT 1
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Post by Ann1 on Feb 9, 2011 12:28:09 GMT 1
It was brilliant!  I thought at first it was a Weasel, as he was "stretched" out, his feet was on the table and he was stretching for the coconut thingio full of peanuts, that we'd hung there. Mission Impossible music was going through my head!!! ;D Ours IS easier to get to ;Dwww.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9GBl7UmVs
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Post by Jazz on Feb 9, 2011 19:49:27 GMT 1
Good day today for slightly unusual visitors, first a Grey Squirrel, then later in the day a flock of 5 or 6 Waxwings feeding on berries on a nearby tree! Attachments:
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Post by Shadow on Feb 11, 2011 20:43:49 GMT 1
Ive never seen some of those birds Jazz-would love to tho. When we cycled through woods in Germany we often found Jay feathers-the blue feathers but never ever saw one.I love birds-used to do a bit of birdspotting in my time. Ive been down to Arundel Wetlands Centre,The Farne Islands and of course Washington but still have many birds I've not spotted-so lovely to see the photos of them |
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Post by Ann1 on Feb 11, 2011 23:36:18 GMT 1
Blue Jays are nice birds. When I was in Canada, we used to put fruit on my cousins garden fence and a Jay and Red Cardinal, used to come every morning for it It was great to see 'cos we don't have them here   
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Post by Roma on Feb 11, 2011 23:52:49 GMT 1
Lovely photo's Ann/ Jazz.
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Post by Shadow on Feb 12, 2011 0:08:47 GMT 1
I remember my first visit to Vondel Park in Amsterdam and there were parakeets flying round wild-it was really weird to see such colourful birds in the trees |
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Post by Jazz on Feb 12, 2011 0:16:38 GMT 1
Yes, its nice to see birds you haven't spotted before....I am by no means a"twitcher" who will travel miles to see some unusual bird. There were some of those a few months back close to here who had found an Arctic Bunting (I think it was) and it differed very little from the ordinary version of one. It "performed" very nicely for them, posing in different positions ("This is my best side" type of thing!). I've got some Jay's feathers somewhere...as a bookmark in some book but don't know which book! Ask Ann1 about her Indian head dress! |
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Post by Roma on Feb 12, 2011 0:24:30 GMT 1
Come on then Ann tell us about your Indian head dress ;D
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