The Bird Thread

Love the pic of the magpie and the raptor, the look on his face reminds me of a human sneer :)

It was definitely swearing at this point

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Yep, raptor saying....... Oh shit!

Yeh so much song today, hedgerows were rowdy although nothing out of the ordinary, this was today's obliging subject

Wow! That’s a brilliant portrait.

Beautiful photos everyone, thank you for posting.

Lots of great pictures. Love the kingfisher.

Here's a Varied Thrush in our neighbour's garden this morning:

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Interested in this - the video is strange ...

https://youtu.be/VPCGr5xcVtY

Cold weather has brought a field full of visitors

A owl today

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You do well for owl's, I never see them

Slopes off to Google Varied Thrush :)

Sparrowhawk in the back garden, another first for me this week

U need a camera taped to the sink.

I don't think anyone can take enough pictures of Horus

A moody heron.

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Love the mood but the picture is really confusing me, how big are those posts? makes the Heron look small

Any of you any good with your gull ID? These were all in amongst large groups of Black headed gulls

Had a good day otherwise for ducks, Shoveler, Gadwall, Teal, Goldeneye, Shelduck which were all nice to see

They’re all common gulls. Not common, the gulls of commons.
First and last photos are first winter birds.
Middle two are adults in winter plumage.

Thanks I thought a couple were common gull but wasn't sure if there was a Mediterranean gull amongst them

Not common, the gulls of commons.

I had not made this connection, I did just think they were common

While you are being helpful, is this just a common buzzard (its a horrible crop, bird was well over 100m away), just how white the tail is and chest that made me question it

Definitely a buzzard, that chest band is the clincher.
We’ve had a very pale buzzard here for a while, they are very variable.

Thanks, would rep

The posts are basically tree trunks, bashed into the mud along the edge of the river, for some logging-related thing probably.

I think maybe they're the dots with shadows, in between the land and the floating logs, in the satellite view here: https://goo.gl/maps/e75wD1iVS7hP5sjX9.

I, too, wish we still had rep, if only for this thread.

Lovely Heron.

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