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Old 09-July-2009, 10:01 PM
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I am a casual birder, as it happens I just took a couple of pictures on my mobile phone today of some house sparrows hanging upside down on a fat ball feeder..

* watched the lesser spotted woodpecker and young sit on my parents fence almost daily, beautiful colouring to them.

*wrens visit my garden and feed on the spiders.
*long tailtits.
*bluetits are a common sight here.
*goldfinches.
*chaffinches.
*goldfinches.
*greenfinches.
*wood pigeons...loads of them here.
*turtle doves.
*king fishers.
*grouse.
*pheasants.
*herons.
*coots.
*mallards. they love visiting my street.
*kestrels, love watching them hover when they spot a mouse.
*sparrow hawk, this thing impressed me, it must have been hungry the other winter, it failed to catch some sparrows, so it killed a wood pigeon, I was just stood dumb struck watching it plucking the feathers of it only a few feet away from my window.
*osprey, when I was up in Scotland that was a sight to see.
*pied wag tail, there are loads of those little critters here.
*larks.
*peewits.
*gulls.
*partridges.
*tawny owls.
*swans.
*Canadian geese.

That is only a few birds I see quite regularly, man I sound more like a twitcher than a casual birder.
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