Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,227
I always knew ants were clever little blighters, but I've near seen them build a vertical tunnel before!
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,475
Saw 3 Little Egrets this morning. One at Buckland Bridge and one either side of the bridge in Lower Road (River).
Assuming the 1st one didn't fly up into River
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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,026
Any help with this please, not much to go on because I only got an impression of its posture and colour and it had gone by the time I got my camera out. Anyway, the bird was perched on the washing-line pole yesterday afternoon before dusk. Grey head, brown wings, cream/light brown front. Thought it was a thrush at first but taller than that, upright and not as plump as say a pigeon.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,227
Was the breast spotted/ mottled? Could be a fieldfare (thrush family)
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,026
I didn't see much of it, but that was indeed the impression I got.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,026
Thank you Mr B, I think that was probably the chap:
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I don't know what's happened to the local bird population, my feeders are going down very slowly over the last month and I thought they normally visit more during Winter. The only ones I have seen are the usual Magpies, Collared Doves and Wood Pigeons who always visit in pairs and eat off the ground.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
The birds must all be visiting mine
, I expect other people in your area have started to put food out.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Put out a nut feeder and Sunflower heart feeder the week before Christmas and both are well used not that I have actually seen many birds but one new visitor was a Goldfinch(after checking what he/she looked like on the RSPB site) and it transpires that they like Sunflower hearts so might see some more visit.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Unusual sight this morning with two Magpies and two Collared Doves feeding, normally the Magpies chase out other birds.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
An Egret has taken up residence in Pencester Gardens and I have now been informed that it is likely to have absconded from the stretch of River near Barton School. Apparently there were three there until recently, now only one.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,475
Rarely see them along Barton path, never saw three there.
There was one opposite the bottom of Crabble Lane last Sunday, and a grey heron in the same place a couple of weeks before that.
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Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
We saw a lovely big frog in Harold's Passage this afternoon.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Judith Roberts wrote:We saw a lovely big frog in Harold's Passage this afternoon.
Hopefully Harold wasn't too put out it just needs someone with disposable rubber gloves to remove the offending amphibian.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
did it have a bike with strings of onions and garlic and wearing a beret at the time.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,475
Karlos wrote: 11 May 2017
Cuckoo cuckooing opposite Sandwich Quay this morning, can't say that I've ever seen one though.
1st cuckoo heard this morning.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
been hearing cuckoo's for 3 months now.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
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