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UnKnown Bird ?

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By Jacque


UnKnown Bird ?

Maybe a Finch?



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I've peered and peered but can't tell! Maybe a chaffinch?

16 Jan, 2009

 

Good photo.

16 Jan, 2009

 

Hello Jacque, I dont think it has the right beak to be a finch but hey, I'm no expert, we'll have to wait for Bonkmister! Wonder if its a Dunnock?

16 Jan, 2009

 

Bonkmister ? lol Spot on Dawn...the beak suggests dunnock,or hedge sparrow.All these different species youre getting in your garden now.All ready for the big bird watch next weekend !

16 Jan, 2009

 

Woo Hoo! I'm a proper Twitcher now BB, I'll have to get an anorak - or is that train spotting, lol. YES, I must not forget the big bird watch!!!

16 Jan, 2009

amy
Amy
 

I,m not sure either ........

16 Jan, 2009

Sid
Sid
 

Bonkmister indeed! Dawn you'll give him a big head! x-D

16 Jan, 2009

 

No worries Sid - got Jane to keep me real ! Not a name I ll be encouraging lol x

16 Jan, 2009

Sid
Sid
 

I should think not - what would Jane say! LOL

16 Jan, 2009

 

Oh Sid, you've put a smile on my face. He He, He - the Bonk Meister! He does know his birds though, don't you Ray?

16 Jan, 2009

 

Aye Dawn - Jane in hysterics here . My father used to work for forestry commission and as child summer holidays spent in woods where he d show me all sorts of birds and animals .

Once found a cuckoos egg in hedge sparrow nest and we would sit and watch this small bird feed this monster chick by standing on its back .

16 Jan, 2009

 

Funny, init! Ha ha, me being all innocent didnt even realise what I had inferred. Glad you take it all in good fun. What a lovely childhood you had. You can't beat that sort of education can you. I just wish I could remember everything my Dad taught me. It's like the birds, you can look in books but its not like seeing them and hearing them is it. I've never seen a cuckoo and the sight of the poor sparrow feeding it must have been awesome.

16 Jan, 2009

 

He used to go round in a bright orange land rover which the animals recognised we d sit in the back shaking drums of feed and small muntjac and red deer would emerge and feed from them - memories that have always stuck with me , such a pleasure to gain an animals trust when they often understandably suspicious of us.

16 Jan, 2009

 

What a lovely way to spend your Summer holidays. Like you say, so lovely when they begin to trust you. I remember when I went walking with my Dad when I was little he would tell me which birds were singing and show me foot prints in the snow of the fox and rabbits and identify the different trees.

16 Jan, 2009



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