The Bird Thread

I get a few of these in the garden each day around summer, didn't know their numbers had gone down so much!

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My garden has been full of collared doves this year, never seen them before but had 7 of them in the garden at one point.

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Burgess Park regulars

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My lunchtime walk only caught the tail end of the sunshine, but there were some nice birds out there. I never knew herons were so much shorter than sheep. Hadn’t expect to see a owl.

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Great owl spot! Although possibly a bit sad, as I read once you only see them during the day when they don't get enough food at night.

I wonder if it’s just a case of catching a dry period to get some hunting in. It’s in a very secluded spot and I’ve seen one in that meadow a few times before.

This is v sad. Such a pretty pidgeon too!

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bound to be more than one.

Finally confirmed this with my eyes today. Two kingfishers flying up the Lea this morning through the Olympic park

love this

They're territorial right? So if you stay in one place for long enough one should fly by. They just spend the day flying back and forth down their patch of River.

Y do I see / hear so many starlings?

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We get a lot of Scandinavian Starlings popping over for the winter.

I tried to get a closer pic of a kingfisher in this afternoon's sunshine. I went back to where I saw it before but no sign, so set off up the Lea. Found quite a few cormorants there, including one which made its feelings about being photographed perfectly clear, right on cue. Then some parakeets. And finally as the light was really falling I went back to where I had seen the kingfisher the first time, and there it was. Definitely worth staying in one place n3il ;)

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Cormorants are notoriously publicity shy.

Orly.

Birdy spotted the camera?

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Few spots from today, highlight being the tree creeper!

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Met a buzzard this afternoon that couldn’t be bothered to fly away very much

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'I'll just carry on sitting here looking arrogant until those bastards cluck off.'

Kingfisher from yesterday, Olympic Park

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Great! You seem to have them on demand...

Both great pics. I love the way kingfishers can look totally different colours depending on the light. Sometimes you see a brown/grey shape skimming over the water that looks kingfisher-like but is the wrong colour and it confuses your brain, you can't really make sense of what you're seeing until you remember kingfishers aren't actually blue.

10x zoom pics are awful however to the keen sighted they do show an Egret, a Woodpecker, and a Nuthatch.

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