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  1. K

    Juvenile linnet (?) - Dorset

    Thank you!
  2. K

    Juvenile linnet (?) - Dorset

    Fairly sure that this is a newly fledged linnet, but would appreciate confirmation....
  3. K

    Chiffchaff song - Dorset, England

    Thanks both.
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    Chiffchaff song - Dorset, England

    Struggling to find a way of getting a link to work, but heard this chiffchaff today(in Dorset) and is a new variant on the variants I have heard in the past.... Any thoughts greatly appreciated! https://clyp.it/pckrqdjw (think the link is only valid for 24 hours....)
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    Dorset birding

    Lovely stroll around Morden Bog on Tuesday. Woodlarks in fine voice, lots of stonechats, sedge warbler and water rail by the pond, reed bunting, tree pipit, wheatear, cuckoo, whitethroat, willow warbler..
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    Dorset birding

    I popped to Portesham yesterday to see the Pallas's - what a stunning little bird!
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    Finch (?) Near Hereford

    Hi all The bird returned this morning - and my friend managed a blurred shot from behind. It certainly seems his siskin suspicion was well founded....
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    Finch (?) Near Hereford

    Thanks all - as ever, your input is greatly appreciated. Hopefully the bird will reappear and we'll get something definitive....
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    Finch (?) Near Hereford

    Thanks for your thoughts. Yellowhammer did cross my mind, but the head shape doesn't look quite right and the beak (difficult to make out admittedly) looks too uniform. Yellowhammers often have a more pronounced lower bill - though I may be looking for indications that aren't there. The...
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    Finch (?) Near Hereford

    Hi All A friend spied this chap on his bird feeder. He wonders if it might be a (leucistic) siskin - or perhaps an escapee. Anyone have any thoughts? thank you kev
  11. K

    Dorset birding

    That's very sad.....one found dead on Portland recently too - do you happen to know if that bird had died through starvation?
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    Warbler Dorset UK

    Thanks Simon.
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    Warbler Dorset UK

    Hi All We've got half a dozen chiffchaffs fattening up in the garden at the moment, along with this little chap. It spends a lot of time hovering to pick off insects and doesn't flick it's tail in classic chiffchaff style. A very young bird by the look of it, but is it any thing other than a...
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    UK Herps 2015

    No problem Roger. It is worth sussing out potential spots through the rest of spring and summer though. I did that when I first moved to west Dorset, and finding an adder coiled up in mid-February in a place I had found the previous August made it all the more satisfying.
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    UK Herps 2015

    Should have mentioned time of year - late winter/early spring is best, when they are just emerging and are feeling cold. They are also most vulnerable then so tread carefully and try not to spook them.
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