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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Here at my feeder quite busy today: This winter's list: Goldfinch, Collared dove, Great spotted woodpecker, Blue tit, Coal tit, Robin, Chaffinch (up to 30), Blackbird, Long-tailed tit, Black crow, Magpie, Wood pigeons, Bramblings (up to 5), Gold finch, Dunnock, House sparrow Jackdaw Nuthatch is...
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    My local patch in Belgium

    4 owl species in 2 days in and around the garden: Little, Tawny, Long-eared and Barn owl. The long-eared owls were displaying around a patch of spruces, and clapping with their wings. The Black-tailed godwits are displaying as well, 7 couples are present. The new areas around the river Scheldt...
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    Birding central (ish) Brussels

    Also watch out for Peregrines above the city, there are several breeding couples. The Zonien forest at the southern edge of the town is also worth checking for forest birds. Best regards ROW
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    My local patch in Belgium

    It is a special subspecies of the Chaffinch only occurring in my garden: Fringilla coelebs arboricola ;-) No, i am joking, this was a typo, I meant Treesparrows off course. Best regards ROW
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    My local patch in Belgium

    Not much news to announce, the Eider is still in the area. Geese numbers now are between 500-1000 in the area. We are now waiting for the first Black-tailed godwits to arrive, the earliest birds can arrive end of the month. Best regards ROW
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    Dinant area

    Hi Tom, You can check the Dinant area for sightings on: http://waarnemingen.be/gebied/view/43641?g=0&from=2014-01-12&to=2015-01-12&sp=0&z=2&u=0&rows=20&g=0&z=0&from=2014-01-12&to=2015-01-12&rows=20&u=0 I am not familiar with the area and others might help with specific locations. Probably...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Here at my feeder: Tree- and House sparrow, Greenfinch , Finch, Blue tit, Great tit, Long-tailed tit, Pheasant, Turtle dove, Wood dove, Common gull, Herring gull, Black-capped gull, Blackbird, Magpie, Jackdaw, ... Still waiting for the first brambling Siskins, Goldfinches etc. Best regards ROW
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    My local patch in Belgium

    The feeder still has Greenfinch, Finch, as well as 3 Treesparrows, not so common here. A couple of Treefinches has started to occupy the nestbox and build a nest. Let's hope that they stay untill the breeding season. An male Eider turned up in the local lake here, Eiders are uncommon inland...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    No, only sunflower seeds here. with some millet on the ground. Niger seed is harder to buy here locally. But i will try. Best regards Wouter
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Redpolls and Siskins, for some reason these seem very hard to attract to my bird feeder (and other birdfeeders in Belgium as well). I only had a Siskin once or twice in the 10 years that i feed birds in my garden. It is not because they are not there, flocks of Siskin fly over the garden daily...
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    My local patch in Belgium

    I discovered a male Common merganser on the small canal in the area, they are not that common, only when winter hits we have significant numbers. Last thursday i went out with my friend to ring some owls, only one was caught, a nice male Tawny owl. The Long-eared owls were too smart and not...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Temperatures still below freezing at night, lots of Greenfinch, Chaffinches, Tree Sparrow, House sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Great tit, Blue tit, 2 Black-capped gulls, Pheasant....
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Temperatures dropped to below 0°C last night, and as a result, now over 50 Greenfinch, 15 Chaffinch as well as the first Tree sparrow of the season. Best regards Wouter
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    My local patch in Belgium

    Today over 50 Greenfinch in the garden, and the first Tree sparrow of the winter. 2 pheasants were present too. The Little owl was calling last night 300 meter to the east, he does not dare to come closer because a Tawny owl couple lives 100 meter to the west. And now that the hunting season...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Some news from my birdfeeder today: Location: Belgium-Flanders, the garden is next to a nature reserve, so nice species and numbers appear from time to time. Today: Over 35 Goldfinches and 10 Chaffinches were present on the sunflower seeds. Coal & Blue tits, Blackbirds are always present...
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    My local patch in Belgium

    Hi, I want to share here some day to day birding sightings from my local patch in Belgium, located between Brussels and Ghent, at the edge and in the floodplain of the river Scheldt. This year almost 190 species were observed in the area, not too bad, with as main highlight our famous...
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