At Last, I'm Seeing A Couple Of Birds!
 

When I moved into Westwood Villas about 3 years ago one of the first things I noticed about the area was except for the local peacocks my backyard wasn't visited by any local wild birds not even the odd pigeon!

I have been trying to remedy this by putting out peanuts and fat balls all to no avail, not the slightest interest was taken.

This morning though to my delight I saw not one but two delightful starlings picking away at the food I had put out.

Unfortunately the peanuts and the fatty balls are still being ignored, but they were having a wonderful time going around my garden tubs and stealing my veg' seeds, Grrrr!

Still at least I'm getting something maybe they will become regular visitors?

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/imageBank/s/Starling2.jpg

Is it just around West Accrington or is there a lack of our birds across the whole of the Accrington District.

I never seem to see house sparrows anymore.

Don't tell me it's bird flu' because I don't hear them sneezing either.
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Oh, how tweet!

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"Still at least I'm getting something maybe they will become regular visitors?"

Once others see/hear what is going on you should get more and a good possibility that there will be other types.

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Not shortage of Birds around my neck of the woods Less, saw a pied wagtail yesterday, and a Kestrel swoops around the rooftops on a regular basis, not to mention pesky pigeons and Kite Hawks (sea gulls) also see the odd foxy woxy a well:D

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Rindy have you changed your Avatar?
:)

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Are these similar to Shy Talks?

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House Sparrows have almost disappeared over the last 20yrs...used to be millions of em..strange.

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It's sad isn't it Mancie:

House Sparrows in Decline in Britain

I think I saw a curlew last week flying over Ossie Moors, never seen one before. Was quite thrilled. Sure it was one, certainly had that long beak, and was sorta' drifting on the wind currents rather than flapping its wings. Maybe we have a bird expert on here ?

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Very much alike yerself:D

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I Was driving over to Ripon on Tuesday last week , Just got over the blubber houses , looked up , there was this massive dark brown colored bird flying around .The wing span must have been 7-8 foot with feathers for wing tips . It was BIG .

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Well, I don't want that to come visiting my back yard, I'd have to get more peanuts.
:)

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could have been a Condor..but you don't get many of them in Yorkshire :D

http://www.riomansolodge.com/images/andean-condor.jpg

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Honest It was huge ! It had the same wing tips as the photo .But more rounded at the ends

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but then again! .. could be :D

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Mancie you have got Less started now --- que Less .

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my dad buys bird seed and has built a kinda table right outside his window so he can watch the birds when he's on the pc, he makes his own fat balls too

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trust you to get a thread about birds put into the over 18's section! :eek:

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Could have been a Buzzard David
http://images.google.co.uk/images?rl...ed=0CDAQsAQwAw
just found this David

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Could well be an Andean Condor - take a look at the picture top right on Pictures

It looks quite similar. Possibly escaped from a zoo or private collection???????

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Thanks for that , I didn't have much chance to see it very clearly, as i was driving .

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More inclined to go along with the Buzzard, than the Andean Condor & he did say it was dark Brown (but not that big). A long shot Bonelli's Eagle (from the size point of view) normally found in Spain & Portugal, but with the climate change & all that! :confused:

still as has been mentioned it could be an exotic escapee from somewhere or other.

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More likely a European Eagle Owl. A pair managed to breed a year or so ago up by Dunsop Bridge and prior to that there were quite a few up on MOD land in North Yorks. The colour, the wingspan and the location all seem to fit.

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Plenty of buzzard pictures to see on here:
Yahoo! Image Search Results for european buzzard

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for the last few days have seen a pied wagtail (according to spugs) in the front garden finally got a decent pic ..

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There is no shortage of a dawn chorus here.

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Ya but they sing in Spanish vera:D

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I wondered why i did not recognise the songs that they sang.

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Well it has been said!:D

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Think Kate meant the feathered type cashy:D

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Dream on cashy, not even the feathered kind :rolleyes: :D :D