Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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18 December 2010
23:5785392#41
Lovely pics. Long-tailed tits are one of my favourite birds but I've never managed to get a photo of them, they're usually moving so fast and never settle long.
Jan Higgins
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19 December 2010
09:4385406#42
My favourite is the long tailed tits picture lovely little birds which as Ray says never stay still.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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19 December 2010
10:4285419#43
The pink bird - bullfinch ?? Don't see many these days.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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19 December 2010
11:1785432#44
A male chaffinch Kath, lovely perky little birds.
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19 December 2010
13:2485462#45
Thanks Jan, it was a very bright pink.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 December 2010
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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20 December 2010
09:4685567#47
Not tits, but I've just walked passed TWO little egrets by Morrisons! Sorry, no picture today alas.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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20 December 2010
10:2385569#48
I have seen one there before but never two, I wonder if this is his/her mate, they are such pretty birds.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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20 December 2010
11:0685574#49
Last winter there were a number of long-tailed tits resident around the tip at Whitfield. And I spotted a wren in our garden at Eythorne last week.
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Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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20 December 2010
15:4685639#50
I had at least four (maybe 5 or 6, they don't keep still for long) long-tailed tits in the garden, in River, over the weekend. Don't recall having seen these before locally.
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20 December 2010
16:1185645#51
Following on from the picture on our frontpage, here is a closer shot of the heron with the fish in its bill/beak. Its not terribly good, little Hewlett Packard camera is outside its specification here, tried its little digital zoom as didnt want to disturb the bird by going any closer....not great but gives some idea of what was happening. Picture taken this morning.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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20 December 2010
16:1485647#52
i reckon the fish would have wanted you to disturb the bird paul.
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20 December 2010
20:0285702#53
Lovely photo of the heron - and with fish too - wonderful.
Here's one I took a year or two back in Sandwich - this one is called George and visits the fishermen on the bank (but I haven't seen him lately, no doubt he's still around).
A few years ago his mate was shot by someone with an air rifle !!! Poor George is on his own ....
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22 December 2010
17:4586089#54
A few days ago a huge flock of waxwings could be spotted in the trees at Coombe Valley near Jewsons - well over a hundred. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to have a look. Has anyone else seen these lovely little birds here?
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22 December 2010
18:0986093#55
I think if we had such a colourful selection of birds up here, as shown in this fine selection of picture`s, I wouldn`t be venturing out so much. Great picture`s from all, and that woodpecker is something else.
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Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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23 December 2010
22:3786275#56
Waxwings (Bombycilla Garrulus)
These were seen near B&Q in Folkestone. Between 300 and 400 in the flock. There was a flock of 1000 near the Sandwich golf courses.
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23 December 2010
23:0086278#57
My friend in Hayling Island Hants has also reported large amounts of waxwings there this week
. Great photos Ken.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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23 December 2010
23:1886279#58
I wonder if they are late migrants hoping to escape the cold in Europe, I must admit I know nothing about waxwings.
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24 December 2010
01:0686282#59
Oh well done Ken! They look like absolutely beautiful little birds. Are they quite a rare visitor to Britain? I've never seen one before.
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24 December 2010
09:2786317#60
I'm told that flocks of 20 or 30 Waxwings are seen most years in Britain but not in the numbers seen in East Kent this winter. It's thought that it is lack of food that is bringing so many here (they breed in places like Siberia, so our weather won't bother them).
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