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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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dpack
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Shane
Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 3467 Location: Doha. Is hot.
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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Posted: Wed May 27, 20 1:02 am Post subject: |
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second try, i could tweak it a bit more but im having a bill day, MS updates are a nightmare when stuff is set up , it wants to do its thing while i want to do mine and the ############# think i want the stuff i strip out as useless or worse, im talking about you cortana but you are a minor issue compared to adjusting my filing protocols again
i got a couple of half decent snaps of two of the fledglings(later) and id snaps/flying things
young bracket is fine and looks very well, mr brack looks exhausted and has lost weight since he became a dad again(if i understand why he is shopping more than eating)
mrs brack is fine and pops in for her food , water and i expect a quick rest, she often looks pleased to be off the nest
lots of baby sparrows, maybe half a dozen out so far but plenty in the nesting bush next door who sound about ready to fledge
tweed still seems to be feeding little uns, whether that is for one nest or for any youngster that squeaks and opens a beak im not sure, i have seen her feed one who was out, but she does carry food off to the nests
feed two from different clutches of fledge ones might answer that question.
the handmaid thing seems real, not seen a boy doing it , as far as i know, they seem to bring one or two to show them where the mug provides dinner
a rather striking thing is that the young uns that are out are very comfy about me being close as their parents are pretty ok with me.
each generation seems to get more tolerant of me going by their "personal space radius" over the last few years, they hide or leave if tt pops out, the hound is treated as a problem or is teased from a safe elevation if by himself, if i am with him they are more than cautious but get out of reach rather than go and come back later.
not seen grin for a while, we are probably due a visit.
grin was about a few days back but had been spotted before getting organized, i saw one passover but it was not going to waste time on birds in the bushes some of whom were shouting "hawk"
the different alarm calls for avian and terrestrial are quite useful to me as well as them
the woodies are still popping in, fat ankles might be feeding a squab and is very hostile to two sticks, the first squab has disappeared, either moved or fallen
i will try to snap a pigeon fight, it is rather spectacular
the sammisons are busy and might have recently evicted the first litter of the year, either that or a stranger was being seen off more than once
youngi sammison is quite buff and mikki sammison still has huge dark ears |
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Jonnyboy
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 23956 Location: under some rain.
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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Posted: Wed May 27, 20 10:07 am Post subject: |
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Jonnyboy wrote: |
Nice pic dpack.
Surprisingly we get fewer sparrows out where we are, but loads of tits ( great, coal, blue), bullfinch, chaffinch, and best of all yellowhammers. The robins seem to have drawn a truce in they usual territorial disputes. Whilst the starlings in the garage have raised their first clutch of the year. Dad starling is a thoroughly modern parent and does a huge amount of work from dawn until dusk.
As I type the red kites are out casing the field beyond for breakfast |
interesting that starlings seem to have similar childcare arrangements to blackbirds, i have only really met them as diners and not been in a nesting place
kites are ace, they were the street cleaners of medieval york.
not a problem if you are still alive enough to wriggle
first i saw was in the 1970's when they must have been very rare, the reintroduction stuff the rspb and others have done is ace
some still murder them but they really are not a problem , plenty kill them as bycatch when illegally poisoning foxes and crows either of which, if a serious problem, can be dispatched tidily. |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45389 Location: Essex
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Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6533 Location: New England (In the US of A)
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45377 Location: yes
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