howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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There are supposed to be nightingales in Tilmanstone - indeed two of us heard one some years ago at dusk, in the village.
We do have a woodland called 'Nightingale Wood'
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I have only had the pleasure of hearing one in Oxford once, delightful.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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just had an Owl box installed..brother in law tells me a kestrel might take up home but would really like an OWL again.
Owl call plus a nightingale to go with the woodpecker would be superb....understand there is a Jay in the village but
have not heard it yet......good time of year.....
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Saw a jay on our lawn yesterday, and long-tailed tits are coming regularly to the new metal bird-feeder (from B & Q), which is lovely.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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found this picture of one, don't think i have seen one myself.
You lucky people. Here at Captain Webbs the environment is so sterile we hear nothing but black-back gulls (more raucous than herring) and the occasional wood pigeon. There is one blackbird in next door garden but don't hear him everyday. Bit of a come down from Hillside Road where for 22 years we were surrounded with birdsong and the glorious dawn chorus. I saw a nightingale once in the garden there but I think he was just passing.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Kath I love jays, had one in the garden food bowl last year, I was so excited. I know they tend to be solitary birds but I saw a pair the other day, ah spring.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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A pair of pigeons have taken up residence in the Owl box......no sign of an Owl yet but a kestrel circles the garden
frequently ..................Owl box will not be a `safe`house for the pigeons for long...............
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Our collared doves have just started nest building, about time too as they have been at it like rabbits since February
Brian Dixon
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i saw a nightingale in berkly squre once.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Wrens are nesting in the Wistaria on the southern face of our home.They are delightfull little and vocal birds.
Still hoping for nightingales and an Owl.The heron visits every half hour,Wendy is wearing a track in the lawn scaring him off.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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sounds like you are very lucky reg, i would be delighted just to see a heron.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Howard your very welcome,its open house,with your camera expertise you could get some super photo`s.
THe Heron is so patient, he is ideal material,on Saturday he stayed on top of a weeping willow for over half an hour before
taking his dinner.......email me we can pick you up.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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might take you up on that reg.
