OverClockers Twitchers' Thread
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Ours have a symbiotic relationship with the ground feeders like doves & dunnocks, they sprinkle stuff from the feeders on the ground
Ah nice you get dunnocks. Don't see many around here.
They used to be called hedge sparrow.
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We have quite a variety
Wood pigeons, Normal Pigeons, Collared Doves, Jackdaws, Magpies, the odd Crow, Coal ****, Blue ****, Great ****, Long tail ****, Greenfinches, Dunnocks, Blackbirds, Woodpecker, Starlings and a family of field Mice and very rarely a SparrowHawk to feast on that variety
We used to have a Jay come in the garden but not seen one for years now, a shame as they're the most pretty of the corvids
I don't know why I thought they were called a common one then! Didn't realise there were two types, not too sure which of them I have near me. I'd assume the greater one as they look a bit bigger than the lesser ones.
2/3 words of the name correct and 2/3 species almost correct. Not great, not terrible
Its almost certainly the greater. Lesser are much less common
Ah lovely. My favourite (the greenfinch) have all gone from here. Not sure if it's the disease they have going around. Sad if it is.
@413x I thought I had posted them in here before and you rightly called it as a Greater one then too. Listening to their calls and seeing how small the lesser one looks, I'd say you're bang on.
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Quick question
Was out on the e-bike the other day,near the severn foreshore about 500 yards tbe
Saw a bird of prey with a mostly white chest
All my googling seems to indicate a osprey
But i did not think they were any around S.wales where i was cycling?
Just curious as only birds of that size i have seen around there were buzzards and sparrow hawks
Was out on the e-bike the other day,near the severn foreshore about 500 yards tbe
Saw a bird of prey with a mostly white chest
All my googling seems to indicate a osprey
But i did not think they were any around S.wales where i was cycling?
Just curious as only birds of that size i have seen around there were buzzards and sparrow hawks
Ospreys are quite distinctive. But I didn't think we had any here either
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got a good look at it but not long enough to take a pic,seemed to be `buzzard` size but definitely wrong colour
pics online `look like` an osprey but ..... unlikely?
pics online `look like` an osprey but ..... unlikely?
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Its a green woodpecker yeah!Nice woodpecker I think I don’t know birds
Have you guys ever seen a black and white crow before? (No, I don't mean a magpie, you smart arse!) I saw one today. It didn't have defined black/white areas like a magpie, more like random patches of white.
I don't know if it was just a young one moulting (think it's the wrong season) or if it was a genetic thing / pigmentation issue. Was interesting to see anyway.
I don't know if it was just a young one moulting (think it's the wrong season) or if it was a genetic thing / pigmentation issue. Was interesting to see anyway.
That will be a hooded crow.
They are the same species as our crows.
You mainly get them in the north of the UK. In Norway they are all hooded.
They (strangely) don't tend to mix much.
I'm not actually sure if we know why. Quite interesting subject.
Or it could be leusistic (can't spell it)
Ie genetic abnormalities.
If it doesn't look like a hooded crow (Google it) it'll be a leusistic one
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It definitely wasn't a hooded crow, the pattern of its white colouring wasn't as 'regular' as that. Think it was a leucistic one. Will try and get a photo if I see it again. A neighbour has put some bird feeders on a tree so there are lots of visitors now.
Yeah not much else it can be.
They are quite rare. But not super rare.
See it a lot in blackbirds too.