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mark smyth

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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #105 on: February 12, 2010, 03:33:59 PM »
This redpoll, Lesley, was on one of my troughs head under wing and dead. It was sick. I have never found a healthy bird that died due to old age - maybe not until now!
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #106 on: February 12, 2010, 04:03:19 PM »
Maybe the parasitic trichomoniasis that affects greenfinches in particular Mark?
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Ashley Allshire, Cork, Ireland

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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #107 on: February 12, 2010, 06:47:03 PM »
Ashley I've no greefinches unless they get it elsewhere
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #108 on: February 13, 2010, 01:13:24 PM »
I was skiing today. I met 4 squirrels. One was bold enough to eat from my hands.  :D





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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #109 on: February 13, 2010, 01:16:05 PM »
Others were happy to eat nuts from manger.





« Last Edit: February 14, 2010, 05:40:40 AM by Olga Bondareva »
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #110 on: February 13, 2010, 04:27:36 PM »
The squirrels look beautiful.

There is a famous wildlife presenter Kate Humble, who fed some red squirrels by hand, and ended up with fleas, so I hope that didn't happen to you!
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #111 on: February 13, 2010, 04:41:51 PM »
Your reds are grey Olga!
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #112 on: February 13, 2010, 09:07:22 PM »
Olga,
marvelous pictures of a neat looking red squirrel.  8)
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #113 on: February 13, 2010, 09:12:03 PM »
Fantastic pictures Olga, lovely to see them so close!
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #114 on: February 13, 2010, 09:35:48 PM »
Are you sure Anthony that they are grey squirrels?
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #115 on: February 13, 2010, 09:51:52 PM »
They are Red Squirrels.  The give-away are the ear tufts.  To quote my Handbook on Mammals  "ears in Winter with a conspicuous tuft".  Grey Squirrels don't have this.  Red Squirrels can also show large amounts of grey in Winter.  I am not familiar with Russian Red Squirrels and possibly they show more grey than our native Scottish ones.  I don't even know if you get Grey Squirrels in Russia. They are an excellant set of pictures
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #116 on: February 13, 2010, 11:06:38 PM »
Maybe Anthony is playing because they aren't as red as we might see them
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Anthony Darby

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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #117 on: February 13, 2010, 11:46:11 PM »
They are obviously red squirrels Mark, from the ear tufts, but as I said, they are very grey in colour.
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #118 on: February 14, 2010, 04:07:10 PM »
Really cute photos of the red squirrel Olga - I love the ones in the snow with those gorgeous tufted ears and whiskers.  Here the red squirrels are almost black with a red undercoat.
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Re: Wildlife February 2010
« Reply #119 on: February 14, 2010, 04:14:47 PM »
Armin, this is the bird I saw fleetingly a few times and I have posted more photos on 'Capturing moments' thread as they are moving shots and not very sharp...from a search on the web it seems it is an Alpine Accentor - what do you think?
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