Migrant Blackbirds
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- Buzzard
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Migrant Blackbirds
A fishing friend of mine from Salford sent me some images of Blackbirds with black beaks, they are beautiful. Has anyone from our area seen any of these??
Rich.
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- Avocet
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blackbirds.
ive had at least one in the garden this winter and get them every year , the number of blackbirds have increased in the garden in the last week, also had a goldcrest and grey wagtail today .
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- Little Egret
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migrant blabis
with regard to the blackbill blabis they could just as easy be locally bred birds as black bills are one of the ageing criteria for blabis putting these birds as first winter birds and should start to change colour into jan/feb the main way of telling far eastern blabis is in the hand taking wing measurements 138mm or above hope this info helps
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Blackbirds
While doing the Winter garden survey i regularly see up to 6 blackbirds at a time.However by taking careful notes of the beak colouration (from black to orange with various mixtures in between) and amounts of brown or even white in the wings i can identify 15/20 different birds in some weeks