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6:59 pm
Sun 29-Jan-12
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Sooliz
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There are several barn owls near here – not that I've seen one, but hear them, along with tawny owls, throughout the night. Steve sees barn owls frequently in the village when he's coming home at 04.00 
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learning to love veg…..except celery :-O
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7:14 pm
Sun 29-Jan-12
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Aly
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I hear an owl every night but don't know what it is, also 2 woodpeckers who sound different maybe a Mr and Mrs. Buzzards flying around and red kites, lots of blue tits, blackbirds, robin, herons, sparrows! I think that's about it for today! Apart of course from chickens and ducks!
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I refuse to grow old gracefully
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7:26 pm
Sun 29-Jan-12
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Toffeeapple
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What a lovely variety of birds you have Aly. I am jealous.
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7:52 pm
Sun 29-Jan-12
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Aly
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I live amongst farmers, who have fields and hedges and plenty of barns that gives homes for all the wildlife. I also have bats that fly around in the evening, and deer that roam the fields. I love living here!
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3:21 pm
Mon 30-Jan-12
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Gottaknit
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This morning, driving back from Sleaford, the A17 Buzzard was sitting right at the top of a small hawthorn tree, looking very untidy. And huge.
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3:41 pm
Mon 30-Jan-12
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Toffeeapple
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 Just the one Buzzard on the whole road Jean? They are amazing birds, I love to hear their call when they are floating on thermals.
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3:57 pm
Mon 30-Jan-12
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Aly
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We call them Suki birds here as they sound like Suki one of our cats! There are usually a pair flying around us.
At the moment I have lots of blue tits mobbing the fat balls! They have also started building nests in the barn walls again.
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4:51 pm
Mon 30-Jan-12
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Toffeeapple
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It's all going on here too, the Starlings have taken up residence in next door's roof space, the Black Headed Gulls are zipping through the air, the Magpies are clattering about all day, the Sparrows keep dive bombing the hedges and the Blackbirds (females) are stripping the berries from the bushes. The Crows are pretty vocal too, they make me laugh.
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2:51 am
Tue 31-Jan-12
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Michelle from Oregon
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Sooliz said:
There are several barn owls near here – not that I've seen one, but hear them, along with tawny owls, throughout the night. Steve sees barn owls frequently in the village when he's coming home at 04.00
That's funny you should mention owls Sue, I could hear one last night outside our bedroom. It was calling so loud I woke me from a sound sleep. I didn't have enough umph to get up and see if I could see it however…
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7:14 am
Tue 31-Jan-12
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ep
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Robins, wrens, all sorts of tits, sparrows, woodpeckers, magpies, some brown white and black's that I don't know the name of yet and my red-backed shrike keeping watch from my tree…
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7:50 am
Tue 31-Jan-12
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Sooliz
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We've had a pair of reed buntings on our seed feeders the last week or so. That's new for our garden.
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learning to love veg…..except celery :-O
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7:57 am
Tue 31-Jan-12
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Hattie
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Post edited 7:59 am – Tue 31-Jan-12 by Hattie
My garden seems to have many more birds in it this year….maybe because of the spilt chicken food….hens are messy eaters, they kick the pellets around. I have woodpeckers, robins, wrens, sparrows, thrushes, various tits, plus quite a lot of birds I can''t identify (I have just bought a bird book to help me to recognise them now I have rediscovered my binoculars). Red kites & crows overfly the garden along with various other birds of pray & I too here owls at night but rarely see them.
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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. Confucius
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8:34 am
Tue 31-Jan-12
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Aly
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Whilst sorting out chickens in top house early this morning a Heron flew over me, enormous wingspan from where I was!
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8:45 pm
Tue 31-Jan-12
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devongarden
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Yesterday the birds appeared in greater numbers in my garden–they waited till the risk of being counted in the garden birdwatch was over, and then swarmed in. There is a pair of robins around, and they tend to be very bossy and chase other birds away, but goldfinches, siskins, chaffinches, greenfinches, blue tits, great tits and a coal tit are here regularly.
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10:40 pm
Tue 31-Jan-12
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The Liquineer
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Just the same here- Sunday was cold and foggy when we did the bird count, so few birds- even the collared doves kept away- yesterday and today more birds than you could shake a stick at.
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