WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU 2018

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  1. Gail_68

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    :snooze: All :)
     
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    • martin-f

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      Use loose soil then :)
       
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        What about flying squirrels...their from other countries but there is some breeders in this country and it only takes one to get loose or be loosed then you have a new population on your hands and they're night hunters and love trees.

         
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          These are not very good pictures as they are just outside my office window and the reflection of the curtains is messing up the picture - I'm not going to take down the curtains as there are too many things in the way!

          It's unusual for the blackbirds to make a nest there as the wrens have been nesting in the ivy for at least 10 years.

          The nest is just under the eaves and no sunlight reaches it. It's west facing and protected from the west by a large Euonymous.
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          The parents are extremely busy
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          And the babies seem quite large. I've counted four but there may be more.
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          The parents have been taking large poo packets from the nest.

          I don't know how long they will be in the nest but if it's another three and a half weeks (shouldn't think so) I shall have to put a barrier around that area.
           
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            Morning Shiney we've have a singular conifer on it's own on the left of our garden with Ivy from the stem in to the conifer and in all the 10yrs we've been here...the black birds in and out of the both as been going on for that long...so i'm not surprised by your pictures :dbgrtmb:
             
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              Good morning I have some goldfinches in my garden and they are collecting some Dandelions which they just love,sorry about the quality of the images,my fault not the camera's;)

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                Woo the pic's still show the lovely colours...we've clocked a Robin keep coming and going on our back today...so there's a nest near in the tree's :)
                 
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                  We had a trip to Henllys Wood today, which is Red Squirrel habitat. Two beautiful squizzers around the feeding station plus a Nuthatch and a Woodpecker. The latter having pecked a hole through the bottom of the feeder causing the food to fall out thus gaining free food for himself/ herself. Squizzers decided it was easier than lifting the lid so joined in.
                   
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                    Sounds like it was lovely mate and as long as you enjoyed it that's all that counts...was the weather nice to match it :)
                     
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                        When i was photoing the fox i used a security light to alert me he was there, when the light came on the fox was there, no need to use the camera flash that way and scare the subject.
                         
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                          Unfortunately weather was cold and grey :rolleyespink:. Took some nice pics of the flowers and one pic I took of moss on a tree turned out to be stunning ( my perspective, of course ). Squizzers were too far away even with zoom on Roger's big camera, so we had to view them through binoculars. Going back next week when weather might have improved.
                           
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                            Portland Bill, another visit with better weather.
                            Wheatears, still arriving in numbers.
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                            Female.
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                            Rock Pipits.
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                            Time for a wash (in a puddle right in front of the restaurant).
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                            Whimbrels, just arrived from Africa, a slimmer relative of the similar resident Curlew but these birds can't stay here for the winter but both breed on the moors in the North.
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