Guess what bird's on my cap
If you'd been looking carefully, you may have noticed in last night's show I had an RSPB bird badge on my cap. I'll be wearing a different badge with a different bird on it for each of the nine shows left in the series.
I thought it would be a bit of fun to set you a task: can you spot which bird is on my cap badge for each of the other shows? I'll give you the one from last night: a hobby. So watch carefully and post a comment below to tell us what you think they are.
Update 5 June 2010: The bird badge on Thursday's show was a Dartford warbler. Congratulations to JS, Dutch birder, sarahlcookson, Nicola Main, Ryan Wallace, liz, verreaux, wildlife_lee_n_tris and Michael_Fell, robster333. Keep those eyes peeled on Monday...
Editor's update 15 June:ÌýMon 7th: peregrine; Tue 8th: nuthatch; Wed 9th: heron; Thu 10th: buzzard; Mon 14th: mute swan. Well done to all who got them right, and keep watching those caps...
Comment number 1.
At 3rd Jun 2010, JS wrote:I noticed you badge. I want to share with you something else, now you are in Dorset, where I live.
Yesterday I have been for a walk at Dancing Ledge (on the Dorset Coast , not very far from where you are now) and I have been watching Puffins, Razorbills, Guillemots and Shags for a few hours. Of course I have the wrong lens with me so my photos are not great, but it made my day to see them. It was first time for me to see puffins in England.
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At 3rd Jun 2010, robster333 wrote:I thought last nights badge was a Hobby
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At 3rd Jun 2010, Katherine Birkett wrote:I was wearing the same pin badge last night! A lovely coincidence!
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At 3rd Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Ooooh I do love a bird challenge! Ask me anything about British birds and 9 times out of 10 I can give you an answer. Bring it on!
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Comment number 5.
At 3rd Jun 2010, LazyRizzo wrote:I thought it was a hobby.
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At 3rd Jun 2010, Michael_Fell wrote:I am going to say last nights badge was of a hobby because simon said it was one of his favourite birds and it was definatly a falcon of some sort.
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At 3rd Jun 2010, sarahlcookson wrote:It's an RSPB Hobby pinbadge (I know cos I sell them! ;0)
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At 3rd Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Tonight's was too small to tell this ealrly. Could have been a song thrush or fieldfare ??
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Comment number 9.
At 3rd Jun 2010, Nicola Main wrote:Is it a Pheasant?
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Comment number 10.
At 3rd Jun 2010, Nicola Main wrote:It's a Teal
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At 3rd Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Bullfinch?
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Comment number 12.
At 3rd Jun 2010, Nicola Main wrote:Now I'm not so sure lol I wish I could zoom on my TV!!!
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Comment number 13.
At 3rd Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Maybe a Redwing. The sun is reflecting off the badge which doesn't help!
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At 3rd Jun 2010, JS wrote:Dartford Warbler?
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At 3rd Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:Dartford warbler?
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At 3rd Jun 2010, sarahlcookson wrote:ooooh really hard to see the badge! Thinking Dartford Warbler...or possibly Buzzard..
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At 3rd Jun 2010, Nicola Main wrote:Dartford Warbler? It's got a long tail anyway don't know what made me say Teal before *rolls eyes*
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At 3rd Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:The tail didn't look long enough to be a Dartford Warbler.
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Comment number 19.
At 3rd Jun 2010, thiskittybites wrote:Think it's a red kite.
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Comment number 20.
At 3rd Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Actually it could be a Dartford...
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Comment number 21.
At 3rd Jun 2010, liz wrote:definitely a dartford warbler
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At 3rd Jun 2010, sarahlcookson wrote:Ahhh yes..Dartford Warbler...lol :0)
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At 3rd Jun 2010, verreaux wrote:dartford warbler!!!! :D
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Comment number 24.
At 3rd Jun 2010, Nicola Main wrote:If he had been wearing his light cap we all would have got it straight away!
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Comment number 25.
At 3rd Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:Now it's sure, pitty JS got it 10 minutes earlier....
I didn't actually know dartfords were UK residents, in Holland we call them Provencal Warbler, it's a rarity over here!
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Comment number 26.
At 3rd Jun 2010, wildlife_lee_n_tris wrote:We think it could be a dartford warbler
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At 3rd Jun 2010, mrslblades wrote:the badge on his cap is a blue tit i think
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At 4th Jun 2010, mary ann clark wrote:my telly is rubbish, stare as i might i couldnt make it out, i need a HD telly guys
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At 4th Jun 2010, Michael_Fell wrote:I think that Thursdays badge was a Dorset warbler but this is just a guess and they were shown on the show and it look similar
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At 4th Jun 2010, Michael_Fell wrote:sorry I mean Dartford warbler I got the two places mixed up
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At 4th Jun 2010, Rebekah wrote:I think it may be a Red Kite.
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At 4th Jun 2010, sheila cox wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 4th Jun 2010, sheila cox wrote:Thank you Simon, yes I noticed the hobby badge in your cap, you have saved me asking the question "what was it", as it was on the night you visited Buck House to receive your award ( very deserving as well ) was going to ask if the Queen had also presented you with this!!!
Sheila
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Comment number 34.
At 5th Jun 2010, robster333 wrote:i thought Thursdays was a Dartford Warbler too.
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At 5th Jun 2010, malcolm morris wrote:Recently I checked out a fox earth to see if it was active with a view to taking some photographs. It was active as confirmed by the flattened grass, pieces of wing, feathers and bones scattered outside the entrance hole plus the acrid smell, but I was disturbed to see that amongst this were "fresh tufts of badger hair!!" Has anyone seen this before? Does it mean that the foxes have killed and taken down a badger cub, or possibly a badger road kill as food?
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At 7th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:Long wait, but easily a peregrine!
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Comment number 37.
At 7th Jun 2010, Wildlife Filmer Adam wrote:Peregrine or Hobby.
;-)
Wildlife Filmer Adam
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Comment number 38.
At 7th Jun 2010, Amy Everett wrote:tonight 07 june 10, its a pereguine falcon (sp?) on Simon's hat!
Aamy
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At 7th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Peregri... Oh bugger! Too slow!
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At 7th Jun 2010, JS wrote:Peregrine falcon
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At 8th Jun 2010, Cherry Barlow wrote:I thought Peregrine for Simons hat,talking of which when I watched last nights amazing footage of Ed Drewitt & Martin H.Games 'ringing' young Peregrines, did anyone notice how many 'leg rings'there were actually in the nest ? no one on the programme mentioned it ! Best Wishes,& keep up the splendid work
Cherry xx
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At 8th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Is today's a cuckoo?
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At 8th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:Maybe, was thinking goshawk myself.
But themebird now is sparrowhawk, so that will be my guess.
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At 8th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Nuthatch.
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At 8th Jun 2010, JS wrote:maybe nuthatch...
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At 8th Jun 2010, vanhalenfan wrote:yeah i thought nuthatch so im prob wrong lol
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Comment number 47.
At 9th Jun 2010, Jen Jones wrote:Possibly a heron?
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Comment number 48.
At 9th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Grey Heron or Egret
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Comment number 49.
At 9th Jun 2010, verreaux wrote:little egret or heron :D :D
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At 9th Jun 2010, Jen Jones wrote:Actually it looks quite white, probably a Little Egret
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At 9th Jun 2010, JS wrote:Grey Heron or Little Egret or Great Egret
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At 9th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:I think it's a Grey Heron, the white could be light reflecting off the badge. Could be wrong but it looks like a Heron.
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Comment number 53.
At 9th Jun 2010, JS wrote:probably a heron..
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At 9th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:I think its bill is too smaal for anheron/great white.
Therefore, little egret
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At 9th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:...well, that's too small, and a heron. But still little egret...
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At 10th Jun 2010, JS wrote:The peak is not dark enough for a little egret..
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At 10th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:@JS, you've got to have a 2 mtre flatscreen to see that ! :-)
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Comment number 58.
At 10th Jun 2010, tootsietim wrote:I have both the Grey Heron and Little Egret RSPB badges, and believe it to be the heron. The badge has a longer neck where the egret has it's neck drawn down.
I wonder if Simon has the Black Winged Stilt badge?
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At 10th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:Buzzard?
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At 10th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Today's looks like a raptor. Might be an osprey.
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At 10th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Hmm, just saw a glimpse of reddish brown as I posted that last comment. Don't think it's a Red Kite coz I've got the Red Kite badge and it's a different shape. Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure of it.
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At 10th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Does look like a buzzard now.
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At 10th Jun 2010, KiteSpringer wrote:Is it a Kestrel on Simon's hat - it looks like it is in a hovering position?
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At 10th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:Its wings are too round and broad for a falcon, and a buzzard hovers too.
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At 10th Jun 2010, verreaux wrote:red kite or buzzard maybe some kind of bird of prey
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At 10th Jun 2010, JS wrote:i'll go for kestrel..
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Comment number 67.
At 10th Jun 2010, JS wrote:i have change my mind. I'll go for buzzard :))
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Comment number 68.
At 11th Jun 2010, Nicola Main wrote:Puffin
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At 12th Jun 2010, caro wrote:Not sure what the last badge was that you wore on the show Simon.
But here about 12 miles from Shapwick Heath and very close to the River Perrot, I have seen a large white bird with black wing tips, flying in buzzard style, quite high. I am sure it is not a buzzard as it seems too big, although I know we do get them overhead someimes. It puts the fear of God into the many sparrows that come to the feeder in my garden! I was wondering if it could be a hen harrier. I have looked on here and in my bird books, and it seems to be the only bird that is so light coloured from beneath. The first time I saw it, I thought it was a gull flying high, but that would not cause the sparrows to go quiet. I would be interested to know what you think.
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At 13th Jun 2010, tootsietim wrote:Confused.
The only badge in my collection (which currently stands at over 80) to match the shape of Simon's badge is snowy owl in flight, but I'm sure his looked to be reddish brown in places. I suppose that the outlines on the snowy owl badge are darker so I'll say it's snowy owl but with no real confidence.
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At 13th Jun 2010, Copper_Beech wrote:most recent was a mute swan, of course!
It's been great to see the team down in Dorset, and it's amazing that they went to abbotsbury swannery! My family are moving down to that exact area once I go off to uni and I've visited abbotsbury before - it's gorgeous. Now I can't wait to get exploring all the other hidden places of dorset! Thanks sw team!
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At 14th Jun 2010, RyanAFCT wrote:Mute Swan today.
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At 14th Jun 2010, JS wrote:yes, indeed, mute swan.
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At 15th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:Yesterday a mute swan, today a sandwich tern!
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At 15th Jun 2010, Geoff wrote:Think it's a black-headed Gull?
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At 17th Jun 2010, Nicola Main wrote:Is it a Golden Eagle?
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At 17th Jun 2010, Dutch birder wrote:Yes, golden eagle.
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