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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 13779
Location: w yorks /earth
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squizzers ?
magpies?
puss? |
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Colin & Jan
Joined: 03 Mar 2006
Posts: 17
Location: Dover, Kent
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Lots here in East Kent. There have been thousands passing through over the last few weeks. A stretch of set-a-side up the road has a goodly number on what is left of the thistle heads.
Woodcock are also starting to appear; spaniels put up two at the weekend.
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Marionb
Joined: 27 Aug 2006
Posts: 3793
Location: Mid-Wales
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Come to think of it, I havent seen any for ages now. |
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bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 6704
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We have a dozen a day at any one time most days. I'm just waiting for last years siskins to show up now. |
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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 11282
Location: Bucks
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 09 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Might have been me. We've loads for the first time, fighting over the birdfeeders and generally making a lot of noise for such little birds. Pretty though - they can share my garden anytime. |
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BethinPA
Joined: 28 Oct 2008
Posts: 668
Location: SE Pennsylvania, US of A
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We had great, yellow, noisy clouds of them munching on the echinacea in town. I'm planting echinacea next year to attract them!
Beth (surely, though, they weren't here in the US from the UK) |
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Millymollymandy
Joined: 23 Sep 2005
Posts: 157
Location: Brittany, France
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I know I'm in Brittany and you're probably talking about the UK but I don't think I've even seen one this year. 
There's a weed in my lawn (hawkbit?) which has yellow flowers on long stalks which turn into fluffy seed pods and one year we had a whole host (OK, charm) of green and gold finches plus loads of baby goldfinches which came for several weeks and demolished the seeds.
My ex moorhens used to love eating the seed pods too.
(ex as in they went off to pastures new, not that I divorced them  ) |
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Millymollymandy
Joined: 23 Sep 2005
Posts: 157
Location: Brittany, France
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Dur, not you are not all in the UK! |
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bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 6704
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Saw a flock of over thirty yesterday on some rough ground about 4 miles away from our house.
Have people noticed what a large variation in colour there is between gold finches ? If you want goldies in your garden you've got to keep niger seed on offer all year round.
In the part of Staffordshire that I came from and in other parts of the country they are known as red linnets. |
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lottie
Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 3973
Location: ceredigion
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 09 9:18 am Post subject: |
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We've got plenty--'cept I keep calling them gold crests  |
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Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 2859
Location: South Cornwall
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 09 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| BethinPA wrote: |
We had great, yellow, noisy clouds of them munching on the echinacea in town. I'm planting echinacea next year to attract them!
Beth (surely, though, they weren't here in the US from the UK) |
Nope your goldfinches are a different species to the European goldfinch.
European Goldfinch
American Goldfinch |
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bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 6704
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I've seen the American goldfinch at my friends house in NYS and they are not even similar.
Its the American Robins that amaze me, they are way bigger than our black birds. |
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Jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 18653
Location: North Devon
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Not many finches here, but I did just see a proper big, Hitchcockian flock of starlings swooping and chattering before going to roost. |
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bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 6704
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There seem to be a few more starling about here this year but nothing like the hundreds of thousands of ten to fifteen years back. |
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lottie
Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 3973
Location: ceredigion
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We had a huge flock wheeling over the field next to us last evening-but when we moved to Bolton 20 years ago the garden was covered in them when I threw scraps out---by the time we left I never saw one. |
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