Tuesday, 6 January 2009

Limbering up for New Term

Unexpected candidate for 1st bird seen in 2009, but it was the 1st bird this year!
Long-tailed Tit
Fieldfare (c) 2009 Jackie Dawson
Fieldfare (c) 2009 Jackie Dawson
Common Seal - inland at Stone Creek
First time we've had a decent sunny day since last year, so there were some decent photo opportunities in the garden at last!
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4 comments:

  1. Linda Yarrow6 January 2009 at 21:29

    What is the first bird?

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  2. Michael Flowers7 January 2009 at 07:24

    It's a Lesser Whitethroat, showing some characteristics of an eastern race. The Lesser Whitethroats which bred here last "summer" should be in Africa. This individual turned up on Boxing Day & has been with us ever since!

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  3. Linda Yarrow7 January 2009 at 15:24

    I hope it can survive our icy winter. I wonder how it is managing to find food. I saw a Chiff Chaff at the quay in Poole a couple of days ago.

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  4. Michael Flowers7 January 2009 at 15:35

    It was looking for insect prey at first - spiders' eggs etc - but now seems to be concentrating on a faf slab incoporating mealworms - first of its kind I've put out, but it's proving a winner!

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