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  • Actually, feed in a fake news story about local re-wilding of beavers and watch them spontaneously combust.

  • Foxes regularly dig up my garden, ruining plants, kill small animals like hedgehogs and leave their mess (often diarrhoea) that I have to clear up to keep my puppy safe. I’ve had to remove hedgehog remains from my patio. Pretty sure that makes them vermin. Yet to see a parakeet harm any crops or kill anything.

    I thought about feeding in a fake story about parakeets with diarrhoea.

  • Cormorant, teal and mallard down by the river as the sun came up today


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  • Spotted in the Guardian today ...


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  • A Great White Egret has been on Tottenham Marsh for the last week. Very impressive, and still rare around here.

  • Non exciting but super rowdy arrivals at local pond

  • Nuthatch and a chaffinch in the local woods this morning, will be a lot harder to see these shortly when the leaves are out

  • I’ve been been downloading bird song from Xeno canto and turning them into alerts and ring tones. If you fancy trying to learn birdsong you could add different bird songs to different contacts and see if you can learn them that way.
    I enjoy having Whitethroats singing from my pocket a month before they arrive here.

  • Ha, that’s an excellent idea!

    Btw I’ve been trying with our local robins but it seems like every one has a different song!

  • Bird feeder cam is go for a while...

    https://youtu.be/4VjaK5lBu0Q

  • First Green woodpecker of the year earlier but couldn't get a photo sadly, was like playing whack-a-mole trying to get near it in the scrub

  • Found a great spot a short walk away to enjoy dusk with a nice soundtrack


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  • Love a nuthatch. Such good eyeliner.

  • Todays rabble:

  • First one of these singing this year.
    Who’s up for identifying it?


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  • ^ I'd guess at Blackbird or Thrush but ianae etc.

  • Timlapse ran for ages today. Hard to pic out highlights from 5000+ pictures, here's one though.


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  • Are there more long-tailed tits around these days? I see plenty, there are two lots of pics above as well, and I never recall seeing them ever before about two or three years ago.

  • ^ I think so, but perhaps is a product of me being more consistent in providing food in the garden?

    Feeder cam is on for a bit.

    https://youtu.be/9N0FQeBzijM

  • I have finally managed to replace my favourite bird book of my youth (and my Dad's before me), " A Bird Book for the Pocket" by Edmund Sanders, for a fiver from Oxfam. It was first published in 1927, mine is from 1933. It is outdated, but the illustrations still make me smile.


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  • At one point earlier had 4 Goldfinches and 2 Greenfinches on the sunflower seed feeder. A p.b. no camera at time though but have set it up now incase they return.

  • Lovely drawings

  • Cold and damp unremarkable walk, just this one doing their best Gladiator impression, yes I was entertained

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