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  1. Cucurrucucu

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    Question of the Day: Do collared doves know the tides? Can they smell brackish water? Or is it just suck-it-and-see? Very jealous of the bluethroat. What do I look for to spot it from a distance? Three whimbrels on the rocks yesterday even though there were people clambering about nearby. Only...
  2. Cucurrucucu

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    Saw one being mercilessly pursued by two crows a couple of weeks ago. Not sure this one will be coming back to our birch tree for a while. It looked very fluffed up. Was it trying to make itself look bigger?
  3. Cucurrucucu

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    Just wanted a quiet nap after pigeon for lunch. But the neighbours weren't having it!
  4. Cucurrucucu

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    Help with the terns please. What do I look for to differentiate common from Arctic? Not good at spotting opaque versus transparent 1ºs, narrow vs broad black edge. Lots of sand eels being traded (for sexual favours?) or stolen.
  5. Cucurrucucu

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    Got Britain+Ireland, Europe and Australia. Not US.
  6. Cucurrucucu

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    I had heard the thrush earlier. Just this isolated bit of the call discombobulated the AI-xperts.
  7. Cucurrucucu

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    Mind you, they both swear this is a Sagebrush sparrow.
  8. Cucurrucucu

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    Bird Net and Merlin say there was a ring ouzel on St Fitticks. Wotchaffink?
  9. Cucurrucucu

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    A safe bet that the porpoise was cornered and murdered by a dolphin? The chap who found it was amazed at how small it was in comparison to dolphins. He wasn't sure how it had died. It had a chunk out of its back but it may have been scavenged by birds once on the beach.
  10. Cucurrucucu

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    Not light exposure - salt exposure. Lens clarted! Was this a scoter under the Lighthouse? So much smaller than an eider duck. Very jealous of you shelduck. Not landing anywhere? Amazed you saw porpoises. So many dolphins around. Was told there was a dead porpoise on Aberdeen Beach today.
  11. Cucurrucucu

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    Greyhope on Thursday several ringed plovers and flocks of purple sandpipers. At least one house martin in amongst the sand and the swallows. Just one distant gannet. Is this a rock pipit? Dark legs.
  12. Cucurrucucu

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    Andrew - I meant to ask if you yesterday if you keep a count of the mainstays, the expectables? eg On Greyhope rocks a few minutes before I bumped into you - a ringed plover and a couple of linnets. Half a dozen linnets below St Fittick's ruin today. Where were they before that? First proper...
  13. Cucurrucucu

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    Thought the tree pipit was an imposter!
  14. Cucurrucucu

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    Below SEPA yesterday - common sandpiper? At the same time were 5 guillemots, a seal and a mother teaching her baby to hunt under the Caledonia Oil silos. Must be lots of fish coming in.
  15. Cucurrucucu

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    Is this your tree pipit? Not because of its markings or call but because it is in a tree? As opposed to the meadow pipit , the rock pipit , the proper rock pipit , the lichen pipit , the barbed wire pipit , the cow parsley pipit , the flotsam pipit , the gorse pipit , the fence pipit , the...
  16. Cucurrucucu

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    Needed displacement activity while trying to work out the CGT on the house we have had on Freycinet Peninsular since I was 6. Going though videos, rubbing what I've lost. These little chaps love cheese. WikiP: "Superb fairywren Malurus cyaneus cyaneus is found throughout Tasmania. Larger and...
  17. Cucurrucucu

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    Thank you everyone. Lazy, I know, but I think the best way of identifying things is to upload videos here! Unlike "white" wagtails, male blackcaps live up to their names. We have a pair of them now. Are they gaining weight before breeding elsewhere or are they likely to set up nest in Abbey...
  18. Cucurrucucu

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    And how do you tell a white from a pied?
  19. Cucurrucucu

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    A male blackcap in the garden just now. Two hours going round St F's and saw nothing of interest. How do you tell the difference between a meadow and a tree?
  20. Cucurrucucu

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    Three pairs of goosanders between the rail bridge and Wellington Bridge. Where do they nest? Also a solitary goldeneye fishing amongst them.
  21. Cucurrucucu

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    One or two siskins in the garden this week. Doesn't often happen.
  22. Cucurrucucu

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    Bridge envy!
  23. Cucurrucucu

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    Not our patch but Saturday there were pairs of mergansers, goldeneyes, long-tailed and goosanders below Bridge of Don. (Worth the 10 km walk to get to the Farmers' Market.) Today the highlight was your sand martin flitting over Bay of Nigg. It had clearly been listening to Bill Oddie's Tweet of...
  24. Cucurrucucu

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    Yes, more even grey. But they not so delicious!
  25. Cucurrucucu

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    Shows how little I know. These chaps looked so dapper in their morning suits and so similar. Not the usual hodgepodge of the ferals in our garden. Yesterday I almost walked on this, nosing its way up the muddy path. Quite calm about me being within a couple of metres of it. And this morning, I...
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