Bird Table News

Birdwatching in Yorkshire.
I’ve had this note from my Australian birdwatching friend.  He still likes birdwatching and does a lot of birdwatching in Oz.
When I was a lad in Driffield I used to go to lots of places around  looking for birds. One of the best was Tanmer which still shows up on the map. It used to [...]

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Here’s a close up of the same photo

It’s always lovely to get a comment or a photo and this photo was sent to me the other day. Thanks John
It’s near impossible to get a photo like this.  I carry my camera with me sometimes when I’m in the garden, but without a lot of success.  [...]

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Looking out my window on the north side of Leicester, just spotted a beautiful bird the size of a large thrush scuttling up the bark of a tree. All black with yellow stripe markings on its wings/back. Woodpecker I thought when I saw it’s movements, but I am a true novice. Can anyone help?
I’ve received [...]

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Coal Tit enjoying peanuts.
I enjoy taking photos, but know I’ll never be a really good photographer of birds. It’s really nice when someone sends me a really good photo of a garden bird. Here is a bird photo I was sent the other day. It’s lovely. Just look at the colour and the clarity. There [...]

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I have a lovely magical story from one of my readers
Hi
well i would just like to tell you something that happened to me and my family today.
Well when we woke up this morning and looked out of the window onto our front garden we saw one of the mother ducks that has been nesting [...]

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Ducks in town? 
I was in a seaside town the other day in East Yorkshire when a movement on the edge of a car park caught my eye

It was a really busy area.  At the other side of the wall was a busy road.
Then I saw  duck number one being joined by duck number two  -

It [...]

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