Tomshardware 10:26 Thu Nov 22
Are Pied Wagtails an underated bird?
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I like them.
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Nurse Ratched
10:58 Thu Nov 22
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Yes. Me too.
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Wellington
11:01 Thu Nov 22
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Yep - one of my top four.
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cheeses cruyf
11:01 Thu Nov 22
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Most common small bird where l live.Often get grey wagtails very nice they are too
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lowermarshhammer
11:05 Thu Nov 22
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I enjoy a pied wagtail. They are often to be seen around the cricket ground in Chelmsford, normally half a dozen or so.
In winter they can form large communal roosts, had cause to go to the cricket ground in winter last year and there were at least a hundred of them doing their thing all over the outfield.
Often see a grey wagtail when I'm fishing the stream, they are handsome. One pair had a nest in a circular hole on a brick wall right by the railway tracks on one station I drove through.
Yellow wagtails are the best lookers, lucky if you get to see one as a passage migrant.
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Fo the Communist
11:05 Thu Nov 22
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I spent years thinking long-tailed tits were pied wagtails. Silly old cunt that I am.
While we are talking twitching, I don't mind admitting I'm rather excited about the arrival of this year's redwing. Highlight of my garden birdwatching that is.
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Nurse Ratched
11:06 Thu Nov 22
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Nice!
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Mike Oxsaw
11:23 Thu Nov 22
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Was about 40 years old before I saw my first real-life woodpecker. Was late for work 'cos I just sat there watching it from the breakfast table.
Saw it the next day, too, only this time it was breakfast itself for a kestrel.
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orwells tragedy
11:24 Thu Nov 22
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I get yellows in my garden
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Nurse Ratched
11:25 Thu Nov 22
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So does Pickle.
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orwells tragedy
11:29 Thu Nov 22
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Mike Oxsaw 11:23 Thu Nov 22
Those poxy screeching parakeets are causing problems for our woodpeckers
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J.Riddle
11:29 Thu Nov 22
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Lived close to the wetlands Barnes for a decade but never got around to going there. Worth checking out if your into this sort of thing, can't think of another so close to the city, good enough for Zac Goldsmith to marry a Rothschild.
I'm a bit crazy about birds, looked after a few and they are the most intelligent stunning creatures. Although would never cage one personally.
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gph
11:31 Thu Nov 22
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I don't like mucking around with food items that are too small...
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Nurse Ratched
11:32 Thu Nov 22
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*narrows eyes menacingly*
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Hammer and Pickle
11:36 Thu Nov 22
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You saying you don't like pieing around, geep?
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
11:38 Thu Nov 22
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Fo the Communist 11:05 Thu Nov 22
You sure you got that the right way round, mate? Pied wagtails, splendid fellows that they are, are far more common than long-tailed tits.
I like the way they fly. Undulations...
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Briano
11:41 Thu Nov 22
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Minsmere is the place for WAXWINGS
And Cock Thrush
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Nurse Ratched
11:42 Thu Nov 22
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It must take up so much energy to fly like that, though. Can't be good in winter.
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zebthecat
11:44 Thu Nov 22
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We had grey wagtails nesting in the cladding of our office building (we have a big pond close by). It was cool watching the males showing off in the early Spring. Amazing watching the dragonflies this summer too, Smoke break and nature watching are a relaxing combo to make a day at office a better thing.
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Nurse Ratched
11:46 Thu Nov 22
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Are you sure, Zeb? I could be wrong, but I always thought greys prefer fast flowing water. Rivers, not ponds.
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Fo the Communist
11:47 Thu Nov 22
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Quite sure, Surf. We get loads of long-tailed tits where I am which is pretty rural. We get loads of pretty much everything to be honest.
The only thing I've not seen in the garden that I might have expected to are hedgehogs. Nor house sparrows funnily enough. A sparrowhawk, yes but no sparrows.
And just to fuck you townies off, I get shedloads of red squirrels too - now there's a creature that's impossibly cute.
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