Nice shot Andrew. Good looking bird the heron.
Bird Watching a Relaxing Hobby
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Indeed......just don't zoom in too much. It was taken on my budget android and so it's a top-notch camera.
Not a bird, but the first frog spawn of the year ( for my pond anyway)
We’ve recently got some as well….got a woodpecker paying regular visits to the feeders and drumming in the trees as well now.
rtfoe
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What's it taste like?There's a local syrup drink with seeds that look frogs eggs.
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Wabble
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Good and sad news on the Spider Hunters.
Good news is the chicks have grown, sad is while attempting to their first flight one fell directly onto the tiled floor. This happened at night while we were watching TV. The cats were all gathering at the door looking out and we thought it was another cat or civet.
I found it lifeless. Normally these nest are in jungles with grass or leaves to break the fall. Then after half an hour the other too jumped out of the nest...oh no mass suicide but it managed to flap to a potted plant. We got a container lined with soft tissue which I placed it in...more like it flapped into it. I set it on a table just beneath the nest and left it to nature.
Next morning it was still in the container chirping. I was trying to deposit on a higher pedestal when it took off straight to the tree across the street with the parents following it.
What surprised me was that the baby was much bigger and tailess...perhaps puffed up with nutrients for its flight and survival.
So what do I do with the nest now?
Cheers,
Wabble
Good news is the chicks have grown, sad is while attempting to their first flight one fell directly onto the tiled floor. This happened at night while we were watching TV. The cats were all gathering at the door looking out and we thought it was another cat or civet.
I found it lifeless. Normally these nest are in jungles with grass or leaves to break the fall. Then after half an hour the other too jumped out of the nest...oh no mass suicide but it managed to flap to a potted plant. We got a container lined with soft tissue which I placed it in...more like it flapped into it. I set it on a table just beneath the nest and left it to nature.
Next morning it was still in the container chirping. I was trying to deposit on a higher pedestal when it took off straight to the tree across the street with the parents following it.
What surprised me was that the baby was much bigger and tailess...perhaps puffed up with nutrients for its flight and survival.
So what do I do with the nest now?
Cheers,
Wabble
rtfoe
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Syrup rose flavoured. I guess the seeds just added substance and texture. The seeds when bitten feel like Kiwi fruit seeds with a gelatin like coating.
Cheers,
Wabble
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Not this week , but from same time of year a few years ago - when looking after a 'little house in the country' we had to feed and keep an eye on two Trumpeter Swans ( Henry and Anne ! ) and their signet, which we had the pleasure of watching taking to the air for the first time!
Great stuff you guys have been posting. This was last month when we got a pretty good snow. 
What a great place to live. Pull up the drawbridge and the world can just frack off…….lovely shots of the trumpys as well……reminds me of the Bishops palace at Wells…..they have a bell with a chain on by the moat that the swans ring when it’s time to be fed……
Nice shot Lee. Is that a long tailed tit on the feeder? One of my favourite birds if it is! They look just like feathered lollipops.
Banned from Race Towers pond Andrew. please post a warning be fore showing this type of photo.So saw this earlier this week, when out for a walk with Junior. We live near a canal and you often see these in the margins. Only a few days before I took this picture, I saw another when out for another walk with our friends and saw it catch a small fish.
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Very sorry John.....Banned from Race Towers pond Andrew. please post a warning be fore showing this type of photo.
Tim that is a Hairy Woodpecker and a Chickadee. The Suet cake I feed in there is for Woodpeckers I really enjoy watching them.
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Does this mean I have to leave my fishing gear behind if I ever come to your house?Banned from Race Towers pond Andrew. please post a warning be fore showing this type of photo.
It’s the chickadee I was referring to then…….looking at images of them we would call them coal tits…..nowhere near as cute a name
Long tailed tits look like this……
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Yes !Does this mean I have to leave my fishing gear behind if I ever come to your house?
Beautiful birds , loved seeing them in a family group going down a hedge row .It’s the chickadee I was referring to then…….looking at images of them we would call them coal tits…..nowhere near as cute a name
Long tailed tits look like this……
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