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melteaser
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Could we have a bird waching forum please? Imindoors has had an SLR for his 40th and is snapping away more than ever. I'd love to show you some of the results. The pictures include deer, birds, frogs, bugs. Maybe general wildlife would be better?
Mel
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
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Ringo
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Posted - 17/03/2007 : 21:33
Very nice pics........France category created
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melteaser
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Posted - 17/03/2007 : 21:37
Blimey, that was quick....thanks Ringo.
We think this one is a Marsh Tit
Mel
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melteaser
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Posted - 17/03/2007 : 21:46
Blue Tit
Mel
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thomo
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Posted - 17/03/2007 : 23:54
As I recall from my days in the Navy. an SLR was a self loading rifle, and a very serious piece of kit. However, I am certain that we are not talking about the same. Over many years I have had many types of garden and the greatest pleasure I have had was the wildlife that we encouraged. Tonight as I sit here writing this and listening to the increasing wind battering this two hundred year old weavers cottage. and aware of the recent MET Office warnings, at least I know that all of my bird feeders are full. Out at the back we have: Great Tits, Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Long Tailed Tits, Fish Crows, Magpies, Chafinches, Greenfinches, Blackbirds, Mistle Thrushes, Treecreepers, Sparrows, Dunocks, Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Barn Owls, Collared Doves, Woodpigeons, Pied Wagtails and Pheasants. Bank Voles, Hedgehogs and Squirels. At the front, the Curlews have recently arrived, all through the Winter we have hundreds of Canada Geese. The best part is that the local farmers all treat these creatures with a great deal of respect and manage their land accordingly. My last home was close to Fernbank Mill in Barlick, just a small bungalow with a modest garden. Through carefull use of the way it was created we had thirty seven species of birds visiting on a regular basis. Encouraging wildlife is not expensive and is very rewarding.
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Posted - 18/03/2007 : 06:42
Have emailed Stanley two pics. The Rainbow Lorikeets torment me.....such beautiful creatures and I love them. However, they can detect a camera at 100paces and take off. They feed morning and night on our palm trees and next doors fig tree. I have spent hours watching them.They are my favourite bird.
I snapped the Kookaburra at the zoo last weekend.....though they visit my garden too. They sit on the railings of our balcony and look at their own reflection in the windows!
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
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Posted - 18/03/2007 : 08:02
I support Thomo in everything he says. We have 4 hanging feeders and a plate full of crushed peanuts and various other goodies and the pleasure from watching the birds come and visit is immense. We have a fairly busy road at the back of our garden so that does tend to limit the visitors. My favorites are two woodpigeons that are so clummsy they broke Mrs Nolics feeding plate.
Malty I'm surprised that you can see birds in Southern France - have they not shot them all? Nolic
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Posted - 18/03/2007 : 08:05
Tell Imindoors "Great Photo's", enjoyed them very much...Thanks. 
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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Posted - 18/03/2007 : 09:03
Chasse season is over now until October Oilcan.
We've always appreciated the birdlife (and other wildlife) both in France and here. We don't get many garden visitors here in SoT, I don't know if it's because there are too many cats in the neighbourhood. I think we are just beginning to appreciate that which we take for granted.
Someone has recently told us that you shouldn't leave nuts out, does anyone know why? It was something to do with young birds. We leave seed so I'm not worried about it, just curious.
We get a real kick out of the wildlife in France. There is nothing nicer than sitting outside with a cuppa and watching a deer stroll by. I'm not saying this happens often but it's a real thrill when it does.
During this last trip we saw something we have now identified to be a genet.
Mel
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Posted - 18/03/2007 : 09:24
Malty, you need to avoid leaving full peanuts out but at this time of year but we crush them to avoid young birds choking.
I think we have erradicated the problem of cats coming into our garden - Misty stands at the glass back door with teeth bared. Nolic
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Posted - 18/03/2007 : 09:37
Thanks Oilcan.
The cats don't seem at all bothered by Higgins depsite him chasing them and going mad. I think they torment him, one cat sits on the garage roof staring at him.
Mel
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Stanley
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Posted - 18/03/2007 : 11:21
Two pics from Maz....
Rainbow Lorikeet.
Kookaburra.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
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moh
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Posted - 18/03/2007 : 11:29
In New Zealand we saw birds called Pukkekos (maybe spelt wrong) they were like a colourful waterhen - we don't get as many birds here in spite of putting seed etc. out. We have greenfinches, gold finches, occasional bull finch, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes, collared doves (who at the moment wake us up at some unearthly hour) occasional wood pigeon but no sign of the fox who used to visit us each evening at the other house. Just after we left she apparently had 7 cubs - one of the guys we used to meet on the canal bank walking the dog took some photos and put them on a DVD for us. Their lair was in bracken on the canal bank.
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Posted - 19/03/2007 : 12:46
There isquite often,.but i havent seen it lately a Heron who waits by the outlet pipe at Foulridge reservoir.I saw a kingfisher two years ago at the Nelson , Colne Boundary in the little stream there, I love birds.People sometimes bring me injured birds, dont know why? or i find myself looking after them. A tired canadian goose, i protected and waited until we could get him in a shed, then a friend took him in her car and released him.A crow once used to look in at me through a window where i worked, sitting on the ledge outside. |
Ringo
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Posted - 19/03/2007 : 12:53
There is a Kingfisher on the canal near Foulridge.
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Posted - 19/03/2007 : 13:52
The heron and a kingfisher are very often seen between Brierfield & Barden Lane. I stood 5 mins. once and watched the kingfisher diving into the canal and back on to a branch - its patience was rewarded with a small silver fish. We had two long tailed tits in the cherry tree this morning, first we have seen since moving here.
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