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Thread #148919 Message #3471668
Posted By: Pete Jennings
26-Jan-13 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Birdwatching 2013
Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2013
Blue-faced honeyeaters sure beats the song thrushes I saw earlier this week here in Staffordshire.
We get the usual in the garden every day: hedge sparrows, blue tits, great tits, goldfinches, blackbirds, the robin, pigeons and doves. Planty of seagulls patrolling the canal at this time of year (there's fish in there). Haven't seen any of the herons for a while but Judi says she saw a sparrowhawk take a small bird (unidentified) off the honeysuckle above the feeder two weeks ago. We're in Penkridge, which is surrounded by open countryside, so plenty of buzzards wheeling high over the houses, calling to each other.
The two song thrushes were here for two days, never seen them before and now they've gone. Probably attracted by the food we put out (fat balls and seed).