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Can now add the long-tailed tit to those spotted feeding on our peanut feeder - not bad for SW London, though we do have some fairly large green spaces nearby (including the WWT barnes London Wetland Centre).
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Aren't they just the prettiest little things? (Long tailed tits)I have them here just occasionally....I wonder where they go in between?
I saw some at Center Parcs in January, maybe they go there for weekend breaks....?
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Aren't they just the prettiest little things? (Long tailed tits)I have them here just occasionally....I wonder where they go in between?
Don't know where yours go Jan, but I see long tailed tits here now and again - often doing gymnastics on the telephone wires (I suppose this is because they're easily visible from my bedroom window perched on the wires). I heard proper refined twit-twooing last night instead of that crude screeching they usually do - the owls not the long tailed tits! |
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Aren't they just the prettiest little things? (Long tailed tits)I have them here just occasionally....I wonder where they go in between?
I saw some at Center Parcs in January, maybe they go there for weekend breaks....?
x Jan x
Mob happy are them Long tailed 'tits', (they are not really tits, by the way). They arrive as a raiding party, then bugler off and raid somewhere else. |
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« Reply #95 on: 22:21:52, 06-05-2008 » |
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Anyway, come on you twitchers, how many, and which, species can you spot in that clip?
After Bryn's great labour of love, I am sorry that the Messiaen lovers amongst us are unable to identify any. And whichever dogma he associated with it (that is the lesser spotted wagtail and the hypostatic union, that is the chiffchaff and the double procession of the spirit.) |
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« Reply #96 on: 22:45:02, 06-05-2008 » |
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Anyway, come on you twitchers, how many, and which, species can you spot in that clip?
After Bryn's great labour of love, I am sorry that the Messiaen lovers amongst us are unable to identify any. And whichever dogma he associated with it (that is the lesser spotted wagtail and the hypostatic union, that is the chiffchaff and the double procession of the spirit.) Oh come on, some at least of you must have recognised the blackbird, wren, robin, wood pigeon and collared dove, at least, surely? |
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« Reply #97 on: 23:03:26, 06-05-2008 » |
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Where we went out for our meal yesterday afternoon, they had an owl exhibition. Little 'un has been duly photographed with a barn owl, a tawny owl and a long-eared owl perched on his arm (gauntlet supplied of course!) They also had two gorgeous chicks in a cage and a massive European Eagle Owl - which he couldn't hold of course because it was too heavy. The eyes on those birds were so beautiful and their wings were soft as gossamer. They were tame enough to stroke. We had a wonderful time there.
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« Reply #98 on: 23:21:04, 06-05-2008 » |
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Sorry, Bryn: I passed saturation point on audio quizzes here long ago, and have yet to avail myself of your recording. Apologies....
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« Reply #99 on: 23:26:43, 06-05-2008 » |
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Oh come on, some at least of you must have recognised the blackbird, wren, robin, wood pigeon and collared dove, at least, surely?
Bryn, I have to admit they are in fact the set of commonest birds in our garden, but we're too near main roads so we don't get the chorus, but yes I should have recognised the blackbird and collared dove  |
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« Reply #100 on: 23:30:49, 06-05-2008 » |
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I've just been out in the garden with the dog and there are still gulls shrieking up in the sky. I couldn't see them but they're there! Perhaps they never sleep.
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« Reply #101 on: 23:33:56, 06-05-2008 » |
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« Reply #102 on: 07:41:19, 07-05-2008 » |
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Oh come on, some at least of you must have recognised the blackbird, wren, robin, wood pigeon and collared dove, at least, surely?
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« Reply #103 on: 08:04:49, 07-05-2008 » |
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Oh come on, some at least of you must have recognised the blackbird, wren, robin, wood pigeon and collared dove, at least, surely?
Sorry, Bryn I think there were dunnocks and chaffinches in there too. Indeed there were, GG, hence the "at least". I simply mentioned those I thought just about anyone here would recognise. |
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« Reply #104 on: 12:35:15, 07-05-2008 » |
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... the Messiaen lovers amongst us
Thank goodness there are some of those hereabouts, DB, as they are a rare breed indeed at TOP. |
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