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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #180 on: January 15, 2009, 05:27:47 PM »
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #181 on: January 16, 2009, 01:18:46 PM »
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #182 on: January 16, 2009, 02:07:12 PM »
Cor blimey!
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #183 on: January 16, 2009, 02:26:52 PM »
Especially when a buzzard is mainly insectiverous
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #184 on: January 16, 2009, 02:35:24 PM »
I thought they ate mainly worms?
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #185 on: January 16, 2009, 02:41:11 PM »
wormiverous?
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #186 on: January 16, 2009, 02:44:28 PM »
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #187 on: January 16, 2009, 05:15:58 PM »
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #188 on: January 16, 2009, 06:53:16 PM »
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #189 on: January 16, 2009, 08:33:34 PM »
Only in America. Bats should be able to negotiate a moving fan! Are these bats deaf?
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #190 on: January 16, 2009, 08:35:18 PM »
They say as the turbine turns they cause a drop in air pressure causing their lungs to burst
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #191 on: January 23, 2009, 04:36:14 PM »
I've got a pond with half a dozen small goldfish and was quite surprised to see a kingfisher in the garden eyeing the fish up. I'm only 1/2 a mile from the river, but it was still a first.

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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #192 on: January 23, 2009, 04:41:40 PM »
Is your pond netted? It would be a shame for it to get caught up but well worth losing a fish to such a beauty
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #193 on: January 23, 2009, 04:47:04 PM »
Rob, what a delight! We have been getting long-tailed tits comong very day to the garden for the last few weeks.... previouslythey have only ever flown overhead. We've got extra peanut feeders out for them and they seem to be enjoying that.......not so sure about providing extra goldfish for a visitor, though, however handsome!

A friend today saw a small group of birds, roughly chaffinch sized, with very dar, or black backs and veryred chests.....only thing we can think they might have been are Black Red-starts... anyone heard of these getting blown our way? (Aberdeenshire, north eastern Scotland)
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Re: Wildlife -Winter 2008
« Reply #194 on: January 23, 2009, 04:49:56 PM »
The pond isn't netted. There are still quite a few dead waterlily leaves on the surface so the fish have some cover to hide under. I wouldn't mind losing some fish if the kingfisher became a regular visitor.
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