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    Unknown bird with red/white/black head feeding on lilac bush in Sweden

    You have better eyes than me :) Or perhaps cleaner glasses😁
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    Unknown bird with red/white/black head feeding on lilac bush in Sweden

    Ok, you must be right. I just didn’t see the yellow I guess. Sorry for wasting time with what should have been a simple ID. Must get my eyes checked! 😁
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    Unknown bird with red/white/black head feeding on lilac bush in Sweden

    With no yellow?
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    Unknown bird with red/white/black head feeding on lilac bush in Sweden

    Apologies for the awful photo quality but maybe it’s better with photo than without. I saw a bird I don’t know this morning feeding on the buds of a lilac bush in my garden. It was a small bird, with a body shape like a finch. A red face with a white halo around the neck and head and black at...
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    Which bird makes this sound? Arboga, Sweden

    Is it? Wow! That’s truly impressive if such a penetrating and loud call can be made by such a small bird. Thanks for the ID :t:
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    Which bird makes this sound? Arboga, Sweden

    Hi all. Can you ID this bird from its song? 8 or 9 short whistles, intensely loud. I didn’t see the bird in question, but was curious as to which bird might make such a penetrating, loud call. Thanks
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    Bird ID request, Arboga, Sweden

    Whoops! Sorry for giving you such a common bird to identify! I didn’t recognise it though :) Thanks to you both for replying
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    Bird ID request, Arboga, Sweden

    Hi all, I spotted this bird outside my window this morning here in Sweden and haven’t been able to find it in my bird ID book, so wondering what it might be? The size was larger than a great tit, perhaps similar in size to a thrush or slightly smaller. The bird has a deep reddish mottled...
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    Please identify this ground feeding bird, Sweden

    Aha! Yes, thank you Andy you’re correct! I had even googled pictures of cuckoos to check that one before posting, but of course the young bird has different markings.
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    Please identify this ground feeding bird, Sweden

    Hi all I spotted this bird ground feeding in my garden this morning. He was there for a good half an hour. The bird was about the size of a large thrush. Pale belly with horizontal dark stripes, dark back and head with a white spot at the back of the head. Stripy tail feathers Hopefully...
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    Sweden - can you ID a bird from this fairly bad description?!

    Thanks for your suggestions.. the setting my back garden on the edge of woodland in central/southern Sweden. Young chaffinch is not impossible, but from the recordings I can find online the call of the chaffinch is more complex than what I heard. I'll keep looking at pics and will of course...
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    Sweden - can you ID a bird from this fairly bad description?!

    Thanks for your answer. I've checked some pics online and I don't think it's that one. The thick white bars on the wings are not present in that bird.
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    Sweden - can you ID a bird from this fairly bad description?!

    Hi Sorry haven't managed to snap a pic and my memory isn't fantastic but I'll try to describe the bird I've been seeing in the last few days: This bird is the size of a chaffinch or sparrow and lands on the ground and pecks away feeding on what I suppose to be seeds. The bird has a plain...
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    Pigeon Wars

    I only ever see Wood pigeons around here. Still waiting to spot a feral or a collared dove.
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    Nuthatch preying on Marsh tit chicks?

    Thanks for your replies, I'll get one of those plates and see how we get on next year. So I guess the great spotted woodpecker did take the Marsh tit chicks as there's been no visible activity in the past couple of days. Quite a letdown but I suppose it is nature taking its course and the...
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    Nuthatch preying on Marsh tit chicks?

    Well further to yesterday's experience, today I noticed a brightly coloured bird clinging to the outside of the bird box and upon dashing out to the garden I saw it was a great spotted woodpecker. He flew away and I could then see damage to the front of the box where he was hammering his way in...
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    Nuthatch preying on Marsh tit chicks?

    Hi, Earlier today I went out into the garden to water plants and as I approached our nest box, in which a pair of Marsh tits are raising their chicks, there was a commotion with the Marsh tits parents tweeting and flapping their wings. I was amazed to see it was a nuthatch causing all the fuss...
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    Birds seen recently, Arboga, Sweden

    Today I have twice seen this male Hawfinch on the ground below our feeder (stocked with mixed seeds). This seems like a rare spot as checking the distribution map on Wikipedia we are in fact a little further north than their typical limit. Mind you, the weather is very mild here currently with...
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    Please help me ID a bird in Sweden

    Hi Andrew, Haha, ok I think you're right. But I should hide my face in shame because we've been here before.. check it out: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=348093 Deja vu anyone?! Yes only last year but it seems I already completely forgot that bird and had to ask the same question...
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    Please help me ID a bird in Sweden

    Hi all Today I spotted a bird I don't know in my garden here in central Sweden. I can't find it in my bird book either but chances are it's a common enough bird, just one I don't recognise (I'm a pretty amateur spotter and don't know many birds). I'm attaching a sketch. Sorry I can't draw...
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    Birds seen recently, Arboga, Sweden

    And today a pair of yellowhammers, one male, one female feeding on the ground by our feeder (stocked with mixed seeds) and joined by a pair of male Eurasian bullfinches and some blue tits. It made for a colourful group although the male yellowhammers are still in their drab winter markings and...
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    Birds seen recently, Arboga, Sweden

    Hi all, Lately I've been spotting some interesting (to me) birds in my garden. But of course I'm a very amateur spotter, but nevertheless I thought I'd make a post summarising what I've seen: - Just today I saw a yellowhammer sitting in the grass near a planting bed; - Over the last week I...
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    What is this small brown bird in Sweden?

    Thanks all - of course that must be correct. I hadn't realised robins don't have their red breast until older. Doh! Thanks for the ID
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    Please ID this bird from Sweden

    Wow, love it. Pic puts mine to shame :) what bird is that?
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    Hi all

    Hi and thanks for the further welcomes. I remembered I've also seen Eurasian bullfinches here in the garden and robins, and I still have the feeling I'm forgetting a load!
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