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Small chilli Offline
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Sounds more like a kestrel. Sparrowhawks don’t hover. Either way it’d be lovely to watch them do their stuff  Cool .
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Vinny Offline
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(21-02-2023, 11:47 AM)Small chilli Wrote: Sounds more like a kestrel. Sparrowhawks don’t hover. Either way it’d be lovely to watch them do their stuff  Cool .
Shows how much I know,I thought a Kestrel WAS a sparowhawk! Blush Rolleyes
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A Huge Queen Bumble bee kept me company in the GH today. She was feeding on the flowering "some sort of" Oriental veg. Sweetly scented yellow flowers. I knew there was a good reason for leaving them to flower.
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Just looked out the French doors and wondered what a large seagull was doing flying so far from the coast. On having a second look I realised it was a large white owl flying in daylight! Cool It must have had a wingspan of about 3 feet! Cry
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#155
The long tailed tits have stayed around often visiting the bird table, a couple of unwanted jackdaws have also been there.
A pair of lapwings have been whooping about the field opposite for the last few days.
Whenever it gets colder, a few fieldfares appear looking for apples under the bramley.
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Veggie Offline
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The long tailed tits are on the feeders here too and the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker came back today.
A pair of Buzzards soaring overhead (where else would they soar, stoopid??)
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The local kestrel had a go at the birds on the bird feeder (well, it's a bird too!) but luckily (or unluckily) the sparrow mob saw it coming, and then it nearly flew into the window  Exclamation
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A bumblebee was buzzing round an apricot tree this dinner time but whether we will get any this year with the frosts to come we'll see.
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Watched a sparrow hawk out of my kitchen window sitting on the fence ten foot in front of me. Took a good few photo's and a video as he/she flew away. It seemed to be posing for me as it turned it's head after I clicked each photo! Rolleyes I felt really honoured to be in it's pressence! Cool
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A beautiful Red Admiral butterfly sunning itself a few feet away from where I was gardening.
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