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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 10:08:36 GMT
Was it a dig or a light hearted comment?
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Post by Telemachus on Mar 2, 2018 10:18:30 GMT
Was it a dig or a light hearted comment? It was a statement of fact. Once upon a time the BCN was heavily polluted with very little wildlife. Now the wildlife is proliferating and that is progress. Well unless you hate wildlife I suppose, but if so surely the canals aren’t for you. So if you want to be pedantic, it was a statement of my opinion. I could have posted anything, and Kris would have come back with a nasty snipe. It’s what he does.
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Post by JohnV on Mar 2, 2018 10:55:11 GMT
Yet to see a kingfisher, alive at least, seen one floating. Really? They are very majestic, but usually just a torquise streak. You are very lucky to see one still. Your right, not often you see one on a perch over the river ..... Saw lots of them on the Little Ouse (and the Lark come to that) mostly just a small streak often you only know it's a kingfisher from the arrow straight flight. There was one that sat on it's perch and watched me go past from just a couple of feet away. I turned the boat round and gently cruised back to it after grabbing my camera. I was convinced I was finally going to get a decent photo of one. It sat still and gazed at me until the instant I brought the camera up to take the shot and ....... you guessed it ...... just a brightly coloured blur When you see them stationary, it amazes me how much red there is on them but as they flash past in flight it's just a gleaming blue gem.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 12:09:39 GMT
Spot on John, that's exactly our experience, the little buggers. Often see them in flight, but also track their flight and see them perched. But as soon as you raise a phone (no camera) they're off. My brother's never seen one, but we often send him weird blurry snap shots of them in flight, just to annoy him We get the usual suspects of robin, blue and great tits , starlings, blackbirds, magpies and sparrows on the feeders regularly, but on occasions we have seen:- Greenfinch, chaffinch, nuthatch, blackcap, great spotted woodpecker, long tail tits, bullfinch, and reed bunting. We've also had a wren and a chiff chaff perch on the top of the feeder arm, but not feeding. Has anyone see anything else less common? Rog
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Post by patty on Mar 2, 2018 12:16:20 GMT
Seen a few kingfishers when on the waterways and down one of my dads fields.. Get loads of birds up here ..ATM masses of jackdaws doing the Alfred Hitchcock scene....Ive loaded the bird tables with stacks of food...cooking all the stuff from the freezer thats bin in there since son here(he leaves frozen red cross parcels for me)....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 12:23:25 GMT
Need to know anything out of the ordinary Patty. Keep an eye out Rog
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Post by JohnV on Mar 2, 2018 12:23:28 GMT
when I'm at Benfleet on my normal mooring, I don't see that many normal birds ...... a few greenfinches, dunnocks, wrens (that fossik around on the wooden jetties) and LBB's (Little Brown Birds) that you never get to see close enough to identify but are probably reed warblers
Yaffles often around "anting" but mostly it's waders, particularly in the winter when they will come close to the boats. Curlew, Greenshank, Redshank, and Dunlin in the winter. In the summer Avocets (there is a breeding colony on Canvey Island) and of course Oyster Catchers and egrets all year round.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 12:27:42 GMT
Are you still at Goole? Lots of cranes there Rog
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Post by patty on Mar 2, 2018 12:28:16 GMT
Need to know anything out of the ordinary Patty. Keep an eye out Rog will do... I feed them all..my neighbour as Ive said feeds birds, rats, badgers, fox and the one solitary squirrel who was out yesterday...hunger must have won over hibernation so Ive now put him out a stash of peanuts ..we no longer have any stray cats as they became road kill
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Post by JohnV on Mar 2, 2018 12:29:15 GMT
Are you still at Goole? Lots of cranes there Rog No ..... in the river Hull at Hull ......... the occasional masochistic Pigeon is all
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Post by Jim on Mar 2, 2018 12:39:23 GMT
I hope I don't upset our paranoid members too, but there's been progress all over the place, saw a kingfisher in the middle of Rochdale t'other day, see them up and down the cut between here and Wakefield etc. Currently have a plague of cormorants round here, saw 11 perched on the nearby pylon. Local maggot drowners bothered about their ponds being fished out.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 12:55:56 GMT
Lucky enough to have occasional visits here from a kingfisher (god knows how it/they are coping at the moment). Numerous other birds, my favourites are the Spotted Flycatcher, followed by the swifts and swallows.
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Post by bamber on Mar 2, 2018 15:28:38 GMT
Saw my first Redwing this morning, beautiful bird. Apparently they have to be desperate to get on a garden feeder so maybe they're finding the cold weather particularly bad.
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Post by patty on Mar 2, 2018 16:25:04 GMT
Just cooked load of veggie sausages for the feathered friends...freezer reducing nicely..all sons pastry flans etc out on bird table...never cooked so much for years...... He'll be so chuffed when he gets home ... ..he'll think Ive eaten all his red cross parcels....
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Post by bodger on Mar 2, 2018 17:11:01 GMT
Saw my first Redwing this morning, beautiful bird. Apparently they have to be desperate to get on a garden feeder so maybe they're finding the cold weather particularly bad. snap!! I had no idea what it was until I googled it. it was sitting in a shrub eating the berries; apparently they usually inhabit fields away from human habitation. My wife had never seen a kingfisher and my best mate promised he would take her somewhere that she would likely see one. then he died suddenly in 2011. the very next day a kingfisher flew into our kitchen window and broke its neck. we are miles from open water but we have a dribble of a stream in the back garden where we have never seen a kingfisher in 20 years. Spoooky !!
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