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I have just seen an adult White Stork in Thornton Curtis, North Lincolnshire. It was feeding ravenously in a field that was being cultivated with heavy agricultural machinery, lifting sugar beet, ploughing and preparing a seed bed and was not unnerved by it. How rare is this?

last wkend saw 4 buzzards soaring over hatfield peverel essex deff not local birds were they on partial migration ?

Is the sound suckling Badger cubs?

A Badger giving birth?

On Tuesday (18th) it was like spring again as I saw a Redstart, Garden Warbler, Blackcap and Chiffchaff!

There were at least 20 or more beautiful redwings near us in Wollaton,Nottingham this morning all digging through the grass

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This evening I saw a V formation of birds flying south over Wiltshire. They seemed to be high in the sky and the wings were moving slowly, giving the impression that the birds were large. They did not seem to have long necks, any idea what they would have been?

Berry Pomeroy Primary School children were lucky enough to see an osprey roosting in a fir tree above the Dart estuary yesterday during their boat trip on the estuary. They also saw five seals ... which they were actually more excited about!

6 goldfinches on the nyger feeder this morning!

I have just seen my first Brambling. it flew over me as I walked past some fields. I live in Medway which isn't always a birding paradise!

Yesterday I saw a whole field full of about 40-50 redwings and fiedfares (mainy fieldfares)

Spotted in Aberdeenshire (Frovie)17th Oct 2011: male & female bramblings

Anybody else living on the North Wirral coast who has seen what look rather like winter-plumaged Snow Buntings flitting/walking about by the sand dunes? I saw a few last sunday whilst cycling down there.....unless these were another species altogether...

Usually I have only ever seen 2 goldfinches at a time in my garden, briefly. I have just counted over 22 goldfinches in my conifer tree. They flew away, did a circuit and returned, and again. A couple did venture to the seed feeder but majority stayed in the conifer for a good ten minutes or more. Have taken some photos as was so amazed to see them all!!
Have also noticed the blue tits in and out of the nesting boxes -are they also confused by our climate?
Usual robin, chaffinch and green finch visiting. Long tailed tits seemed late this year but as always beautiful when they did arrive.
No black caps but did have them last year.

Could I possibly have seen a nutcracker? On Saturday we were driving up to Big Wood coming in from the East Saltoun side in East Lothian, Scotland. A bird with a looping flight like a jay was flitting between the bushes on the drive up to the car park. It was dark in colour and bigger than any thrush-type bird, eg fieldfare and at one point when it flew just ahead of us we could see that its crop appeared to be stuffed with something. Jays are rare here, but I do know they are much more colourful than this bird was. I know nutcrackers are rare, so don't want to start hares running, but someone with more knowledge than me might like to take a look?

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On the weekend of 15 & 16th of October we had a party of 4 鈥淢orph Type鈥� Blackbirds visiting our garden. There were 3 males and 1 female all with a distinctive black bill. They had quite an aggressive behaviour and temperament towards each other whilst feeding on our lawn. They stayed for a short while giving us a good view of them through our windows.

My husband has seen this type of Blackbird whilst visiting the Isles of Scilly and understood them to be a Scandinavian/Russian race of Blackbird?

for the past few weeks i have been watching a grey wagtail feeing from the fat balls in my garden. the odd thing is i have read they prefer insects and a place near the water like a stream or pond. so why are they coming into my concrete garden when the best chance of getting bugs is off my potted plants?

In the Isle of Man, I have noticed huge amounts of wood pigeons lined up on telephone wires and flying around in big groups. Are they migrating??

A few days ago I saw a huge flock of birds arrive and fly around from field to field all day. I have identified these birds as fieldfares and redwings-- I got a poor picture of both on a hawthorn tree!

I saw that you had mentioned Blackbirds coming to Britain- I'm not sure if it's just because it is winter and there is not much food around anymore but I have seen LOADS of male Blackbirds all over the countryside where I live over the past few days- more than ever before.

On the 1st of October I snapped some pictures of a Chiffchaff catching a fly; I was really surprised one was still here ( I had them here all summer too ). I heard the 'hweet' and the squeaky sound it makes today actually!

Please answer my questions! :)
Eve, a teenage birder, Isle of Man

Not entirely certain as to the ID, but believe saw a pair of common cranes flying south over Romney Marsh on Sunday 23.10.11, at roughly 5pm. Never seen these before near here............

Chris! Everybody! Golden Plover! 150 Monday morning, then 200 this morning with about 40 snipe on ploughed and drilled field on top of Walbury Hill, Inkpen, nr Hungerford, Berks/ Hants border. Lovely, lovely sight. Also, 3 skittish fallow deer does gambolling like spring lambs on same morning. Fallow rut in full flow on slopes of nearby wild and wooded hill. Love living here!

I have just seen at 2.10pm. approximately 6 swifts ducking and diving outside my seaward facing window in Torbay . Surely this is late for them to be still here?

rutland water today.hundreds of ducks, along with usual tufted,mallard and gadwell there were lots of pochard,wigeon,teal,pintail 5xred-crested pochard and 3xgoldeneye.+100's of coots. oh and some yankee wader thing!

My dogs put up a Woodcock this morning. We were in open fields just north of Market Harborough, I hope it fairs well this season.

redwings have landed in warwick wks last week we had gold finches and chaffinches, also we had blue tits and great tits.

I have seen a group of 5 black-beaked blackbirds in the garden and trees around the house. We are close to the River Dulnain and the woods in Carr-Bridge.

Yesterday we saw two swallows on the coast at Portland, Dorset. Like Annieannabel we thought it was late in the year for these birds. Do you think they will migrate safely?

Spent the first day of November in the Pewsey Vale in Wiltshire - saw a great sighting of what I think were plover. Flying very high in V formation and making a distinctive "rippling" call... I can't think what else they might have been. Heavy body and relatively long wing span...

Just seen a swift over Prestwick - is this a little late for these birds?