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04-04-2008, 01:20 PM   #31

Re: Does anyone have unusual/interesting birds in their garden?


We have a pair of large Jay birds that regularly visit. Being right in the town centre that's an unusual sight but I've seen them for a few years now.

We get the usual, robins, wrens, blackbirds, thrushes . . . sadly haven't seen sparrows for a couple of years now

Just down the road in Cookham there are hug colonies of parakeets (wild ones) that swoop down into people's gardens. I was at a friend's house once and the whole back garden was green with them!
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04-04-2008, 04:06 PM   #32

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Wow, I didn't know you had feral parakeets there too! There are huge flocks of them in California and Florida; too cold in the Winter where I am. I have once or twice seen an escapee here flocking with the English sparrows...of which we have multitudes!
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04-04-2008, 04:16 PM   #33

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We have a pair of large Jay birds that regularly visit. Being right in the town centre that's an unusual sight but I've seen them for a few years now.

We get the usual, robins, wrens, blackbirds, thrushes . . . sadly haven't seen sparrows for a couple of years now

Just down the road in Cookham there are hug colonies of parakeets (wild ones) that swoop down into people's gardens. I was at a friend's house once and the whole back garden was green with them!
I get parakeets in my garden, they're very noisy but beautiful to see!
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04-04-2008, 04:36 PM   #34

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Wow, I didn't know you had feral parakeets there too! There are huge flocks of them in California and Florida; too cold in the Winter where I am. I have once or twice seen an escapee here flocking with the English sparrows...of which we have multitudes!
Can we have them back please Eileen? They're getting quite scarce over here now!
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04-04-2008, 04:44 PM   #35

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Can we have them back please Eileen? They're getting quite scarce over here now!
Another thing I didn't know, what a pity! They are such cheerful little birds; they are about 90% of the visitors to my feeder!

About Yola's comment on jays...I believe the European jay is different from our common blue jay...thought you might enjoy a pic…they are large, very aggressive and extremely noisy!! You can hear them yelling for blocks!
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04-04-2008, 04:57 PM   #36

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This is our jay, Eileen - quite a different looking bird but it is a cheeky creature and has many habits in common with jackdaws and other members of the crow family.


(I had to save the image and upload it to photobucket before I could paste the actual image here - not sure why I can't do it like you do!)
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04-04-2008, 07:56 PM   #37

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What an attractive bird! I enjoy seeing yours. When I think of jackdaws I think of stealing... our jays do that too...take shiny trinkets and things and hide them away!
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04-04-2008, 08:03 PM   #38

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We had a pheasant in ours this morning but as I opened the door with my camera it ran off like the road runner
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04-04-2008, 08:08 PM   #39

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Bad luck BC - could you tell whether it was a male or female? Usually the males are more likely to run away like a road runner! If it was brightly coloured, it was male, if sort of browney shades, a female.
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04-04-2008, 08:09 PM   #40

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Think it was a female, it had colour on it and ran like the wind. I could hear it before I could see it, freaked Denis out
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