Month: January 2021
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30th January 2021 – RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
Over the weekend 0f 29th-31st January the RSPB is asking people in the UK to spend an hour counting the birds in their garden or from their balcony. This is what we saw in our tiny urban garden on Saturday 30th from 9:15 to 10:15 am. 8 goldfinch2 blue tits1 house sparrow1 coal tit1 dunnock2…
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24th January 2021 – Stapleton, Bristol
We have had our first snow of the winter and I’m very frustrated at home self-isolating; oh to be able get out and take some shots of snowy scenes! But as the French say “faute de grives on mange des merles” (“for lack of thrushes we eat blackbirds”, in other words “beggers can’t be choosers”…
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22nd January 2021 – Begbrook Park, Bristol
We have found a local walk from home where we can avoid the large crowds of the local parks and more or less stick to green areas. This morning we saw a few garden birds (blue tits, great tits, gold finches, dunnock and blackbirds) and heard lots of robins. I read recently that wrens are…
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18th January 2021 – Eastville Park, Bristol
The sun only seems to shine at the weekends but I can’t cope with the huge number of people taking their daily lockdown exercise in our local park at that time; and so I have to content myself with seeing the world in black and white on a dull day. A pied wagtail had no…
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9th January 2021 – Eastville Park, Bristol
I felt like ranting and raving about the injustice of two girls being fined £200 for driving 5 miles to go for a socially distanced walk around a beauty spot in Derbyshire. I was even more furious this morning when I found that it was impossible to socially distance when walking around my local park…
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6th January 2021 – Clifton Down, Bristol
Reports of a pair of firecrests on The Downs in Bristol enticed us out on a gloomy cold day. We didn’t see them but we did enjoy our lockdown ration of one daily exercise. The best of the birds we saw were a pair of redwing and a jay. It needed fairly bright birds to…
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