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"Odds & Sods" (old version) - please add to the new thread 2020 instead !

HAZY
02/03/2018 02:18

THIS THREAD IS NOW DISCONTINUED,   please add to the new 2020 thread HERE

Often we don't have enough photos to create a full thread so thought I'd start an Odds & Sods thread where you may want to add a pic or two when you don't have enough for their own thread .    Feel free to add your rogues gallery here ! 

I only had a couple of pics today, one a Treecreeper and the other a very hacked off looking Great Egret huddled against the reeds trying to keep warm !

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Regards, Hazel 

  • 28/08/2019 12:43 in reply to HAZY

    As you asked so nicely...one of my favourite shots, a Beardie at Radipole from Feb

  • 28/08/2019 12:48
    Wow PB, 2 Otters.... I hadn't realised there were otters that close to Poole, I tend to stomp around Upton Park or Arne when I am over so now need to keep an eye out for Otties as well :).

    Your stripy 8 leg is an Argiope bruennichi otherwise known as a Wasp spider.

    CinJ

    Cin J

  • 28/08/2019 12:51 in reply to Germain

    Thanks Cin, they are in the Stour at Blandford, if you know the area?

    And thanks for spider ID Grinning

  • 28/08/2019 19:22 in reply to PimperneBloke

    Some excellent stuff and I grudgingly admit that you probably deserve to get two otters for getting up that early!!

    PimperneBloke said:
    04:30....yes Hazel, there are 2 of them in a day!!

    I'm not convinced. I think it is just a figment of imagination of those suffering from severe sleep deprivation.

    PimperneBloke said:
    A warbler sang beautifully in my ear

    You'll get used to the arguments discussions of Willow Warbler vs Chiffchaff on here, but that might be a telling description. Not many warblers are singing at the moment, but if it was singing beautifully, then it was almost certainly a Willow Warbler. Chiffchaffs have a repetitive call that while it might be distinctive or even evocative, I think few would actually describe it as singing beautifully Slight smile Listen to a recording of the Chiffchaffs call/song and you'll easily recognise if that was your bird, anyway.

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    Nige   Flickr

  • 28/08/2019 20:01
    The Chiffchaffs we heard in the last week at Rutland Water could only manage a single chirp with a gap and then another chirp, a gap and another, etc., hardly a song and nothing like their seeming more vigorous double 'Help! Help!' call from earlier in the season. This was more like a feeble and softer 'help...........help............help', half a dozen or more spread out chirps, being too weak from the exhaustion of raising the kids to be able to repeat it each time--lol!

    Kind regards, Ann

  • 28/08/2019 21:57 in reply to PimperneBloke
    Nice early morning scenery PB, I would have been content just to see the birdlife you saw but to see not one but two Otters just puts the icing on the cake. I also am not going to mention the Beardie!!!!!

    Lot to learn

  • 29/08/2019 09:08

    Juvenile male (I think)

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    Tony

    My Flickr Photostream 

  • 29/08/2019 12:04 in reply to TeeJay
    TJ, Gorgeous photos of a little beauty! May I send them to a friend who has been making needle felting birds, please? She's done a Kingfisher once and it was lovely but I'm sure she would love to make more and would appreciate your photos.

    Kind regards, Ann

  • 29/08/2019 14:20
    Fantastic photo Alan - quite unique !

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    Regards, Hazel 

  • 29/08/2019 14:45

    Well you've probably heard of the term "Manky Mallard"  but have you heard of a "Ganky Goose"  ?    I hadn't until today !       however,  I prefer to call these types of birds with colour variation or altered pigmentation as in this Greylag case Leucistic !       No bird really deserves the term manky (or ganky) as in no way are they inferior, mucky or grubby as the unfair use of the word manky suggests,  although the word seems to be originally derived from the meaning  "lacking"  which would be more apt. 

    It was keeping in close company with two Canada Geese 

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    Regards, Hazel