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I saw a little youngster blackbird yesterday~no sign of mum or dad but I'm sure they were loitering around somewhere giving their babe her 1st taste of independance!!
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the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
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Hmmm. Thought provoking and scary!Originally posted by Tracey View PostWhoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Saw few more birds this morning, slowly I think they are coming back!Comment
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As said by Flummery - they are moulting, this is a very stressful time for birds, they don't sing either as this will let predators know where they are when they are at their most vulnerable. Though they are quite secretive at this time they still require lots of food to grow new feathers. They will be back very soon and very hungry!!!Comment
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oh good i'm glad they are moulting, that means that the birds i saved from the jaws of my cat and released, will all get some feathers back
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It's always quiet around this time of year. There's loads of food in the fields and a lot of the birds that are in your gardens every winter aren't necessarily British, a lot are migrants and they are only just starting to come over (First fieldfare were reported last week and we've got siskins round here already!!)ntg
Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
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Trust you to know where the birds are NTG!
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flowerComment
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yesterday the family went to stoney castle army ranges, looking for mushrooms, we were walking about and as we approached a track I stopped to point out a mixed flock of tits in the trees either side of the said track, i just finished saying to youngest (4) that if we stood still and quite we would be able to see the birds playing follow my leader through the trees.
One or two birds flitted across the track and the girls were fascinated when a sparrowhawk burst from the branches like a javelin and took a long tailed tit,
i have never witnessed this before and thought it was one of the coolest things i have ever seen 
. the only downside is that i now have two traumatised girls. 
i guess thats nature for you!!
Kernow rag nevra
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
Bob DylanComment
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I think all your birds are eating my raspberries and tayberries!Comment
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If you come round here I must have all the Blackbirds and Starlings then!!!!The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.Comment
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Seven million pet cats in Britain now I believe.
One cat kills one bird per week. 354 million birds lost per year 'potentially'.
plus the small mammals, toads and frogs.
Then there's habitat loss, shooting and trapping at migration hotspots overseas - that's another story.
Keith
I actually quite like cats... but we don't have one.</div>Comment
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Oh how I wish my youngest understood standing still & quiet!!My Dad's promised to take my eldest(girl)bird watching at a local reserve~my youngest(boy)can't understand why he can't go too!!Quiet to him (bless him!)is to shout in a squeaky voice as opposed to just shout!!We were enjoying watching a sparrow sat right up close to one of our chooks earlier...they were both tilting their heads at each other like "what the H*** are you?"~Until the boy decided to whispHOUT!!!Never mind!!!!Originally posted by kernowyon View Postyesterday the family went to stoney castle army ranges, looking for mushrooms, we were walking about and as we approached a track I stopped to point out a mixed flock of tits in the trees either side of the said track, i just finished saying to youngest (4) that if we stood still and quite we would be able to see the birds playing follow my leader through the trees.
One or two birds flitted across the track and the girls were fascinated when a sparrowhawk burst from the branches like a javelin and took a long tailed tit, i have never witnessed this before and thought it was one of the coolest things i have ever seen . the only downside is that i now have two traumatised girls. i guess thats nature for you!! the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xxComment
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Went blackberry picking yesterday and there's loads on our bushes, normally they've been got at by all the birds we've always got birds around including pesky pheasants but there is distinctly fewer than normalHayley B
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An Egg is for breakfast, a chook is for lifeComment
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Looks like the swallows and house martins have gone,the sky was full of them yesterday,so that's summer gone then.Comment
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Seabreeze has the answer! Plus the sparrow hawk became protected and showed Kernowyon where more birds have gone.
Here in Bulgaria I get to see lots of wildlife. They will kill it off as they have done in UK but for now we see Golden Orials regularly if fleetingly - they are shy birds. Flocks of tits and finches. Storks, of course, in season eagles and buzzards, Bee-eaters and rollers. Wonderful! When we went to Hong Kong 20 years ago my wife too a picture of half a dozen sparrows because that was the only bird life that we had seen.Comment
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