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    Exmoor birder

    Does anyone remember programs about an eccentric guy who owned some woodland on exmoor and built hides. Fitted up cameras. Can't remember his name? Can't find any thing on utube. Bob
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    Bird watch

    Hi The great garden bird watch will soon be with us. Has any one else noticed, you sit there for an hour and get bugger all. Then when the hours up the feeders full. I think they know. You can all most hear them laughing. Never mind. A very nice Christmas to you all. And a great birding year...
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    carpark visitor

    Just some thing at work I'd not seen before. I work in the carpark of a super market, and drawn to some Gulls making a lot of fuss. and a large black bird making a lot of noise. it was a Raven. he was standing up to the gulls. first he was on a cobbled area, then he moved on to a low wall at the...
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    doves

    daft question, i have a number of coller doves that live in a tree in my garden. seeing them there in this weather, would they take to a dove cot if i built one?
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    its the one thing i remember of my visit to minsmere, the wonderful display of butterflys and gragonflys. roll on next summer and our holiday in norfolk. bob
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    Twitchers (moved from another forum)

    hi, did any one see. Twitchers a very british obsession? i'm not sure it did any of any good, i know it only shows a very few obsessed of our hobbie. i glad i'm not like that, and as for having some self obsessed person putting himself incharge. its very sad. a day at stodmarsh may not be...
  7. Big Mouth

    Big Mouth

    shouting at me from the reeds
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    • Category: Britain & Europe
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    is this normal?

    It's the wing shape that made me think swift. that rounded pointed look that only i think that bird has. i'm not saying i'm not wrong. i could well be but i saw them at the start of the walk off the dog tea bar and they were still there at the end. but they were ot starlings. bob
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    is this normal?

    paying a visit to pegwell bay on thursday afternoon, i could not get over the large number of diffent types of bird. But just over the sea off the reeds a large flock of birds. through the bins. Swifts. but this time of year? bob
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    peanuts or sunflowers seeds

    my garden birds get through vast amounts of peanuts and sunflower but leave the mixed seed, and fat balls. the coller doves are first waiting for me to put out the peanuts in the morning. these are followed later by a pair of parakeets and a squirrel. i some times think they eat better than we...
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    where have all the birds gone Pt 2

    Some weeks ago a few of us found the number of birds on our feeders had dropped. here we are in july. I'm putting out mixed seed, fat balls, peanuts bagged, peanuts lose & black seed. and the only birds we get are green finches on the black seed and a family of doves after the lose peanuts. any...
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    Bird's a strange lot

    hi it's strange theres the sound of lots of birds. all i've had to day so far are coller doves, the odd wood pigin and green finches. on the black seed of course. i'm wondering if nesting is the reason. bob
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    Bird's a strange lot

    I now have two bird feed houses, one used to have a nice thatched roof till best part of it was used for nesting. peanut bags, sunflower feeders, block foods and mixed seed. all the peanuts from the houses get taken by about ten coller doves each day. green finches eat the sunflower. but where...
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    dorset break

    I've just come back from a short break in dorset. althrough not a birding break, I had the chance to call in to Radipole lake and Arne woods. in a short time i saw more birds than i see in hours around home. and the R S p B people especialy at Arne went out of there way to be helpful. now i know...
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    Blean woods

    Hi all, My wife & myself had a birding day that will stay with us for some time. we had the idea of driving up to Canterbury for a couple of hours birding. the weather was dry but dull and looked a nice day. we arrived about 9a.m. and started walking the trails. the first thing we noticed was...
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    Bluethroat

    yes thats much more like it. bob
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    Bluethroat

    the lower of the two but i got a long look at the bird but did not notice any red. bob
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    Bluethroat

    hi all we parked in the pegwell nature reserve carpark opp the golf course. my wife and i saw two of these birds about 20 yards along the path from the tea bar. if any one would like any more info i'm happy to talk about it. call me on 01843 599755. bob
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    Bluethroat

    Hi all just come back from a morning in sandwich bay Kent. a lot of waders. and being a new birdie, to my great joy my first Bluethroat. unfortuantly not a lot more, the birds be out numbered by people with dogs. never mind still a great morning. bob
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    hi

    just to say hello. i'm bob. i've only just (last year) taken up birding. my local spot is stodmarsh in kent. i feel i know so little but love it. roll on the better weather. nothing better than a warm morning out on the marsh and then a pint at the grove ferry inn afterward. best wishes bob B (:
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