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We are amazed at all the different we have in our garden here in South Wales......we even have a woodpecker that comes and eats peanuts from the bird feeder which is only a few feet from the kitchen window.
We also have a one legged chaffinch that hops about on the floor under the feeder,
 

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We also have a one legged chaffinch that hops about on the floor under the feeder

We have a one legged Bullfinch who relies on the other birds dropping seed from the feeder or fat-ball, my wife shouts out "Stumpy's Back." (No disrespect @Stumpy )

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We have a one legged Bullfinch who relies on the other birds dropping seed from the feeder or fat-ball, my wife shouts out "Stumpy's Back." (No disrespect @Stumpy )
Max calls ours hoppy::bigsmile:. He also waits for food to be dropped sometimes he does hover at the side of the fat ball cage but majority of the time he waits to be fed
 

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Saw a Hoopoe when at Ria Formosa in Tavira, Portugal around Christmastime. Got to say, it's a new bird for me. So different.
hoopoe-feature.jpg.824x0_q71_crop-scale.jpg
 

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Saw a Hoopoe when at Ria Formosa in Tavira, Portugal around Christmastime. Got to say, it's a new bird for me. So different.
hoopoe-feature.jpg.824x0_q71_crop-scale.jpg
Little stunners, aren't they? Is that your photo @emmitdb ?

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Used to hear a pair of hoopoes in my fig trees in France, very difficult to see them as the foliage was so dense and a woodpecker I could hear but didn't see either. Had a pair of kites that roosted above my bedroom window, too. Now in Paignton it's just seagulls.......and more seagulls....
 

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I'm not sure how many different types of sparrow there are but we seem to have all of them in our garden at the moment - and lots of them. And the yellowhammers are back. Martin said he could hear a woodpecker yesterday.

The blue tits chase them off the feeders though.

I wonder if the tawny owls will be back this year? The young ones like to sit outside my bedroom window (on the cill) and yell for Mum and Dad. It wakes you up with a start! And they just look at me through the window when I go to see what the noise is about.
 

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I wonder if the tawny owls will be back this year? The young ones like to sit outside my bedroom window (on the cill) and yell for Mum and Dad. It wakes you up with a start! And they just look at me through the window when I go to see what the noise is about.
How wonderful!!!

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How wonderful!!!

The first time or two yes ...... but every night at 2am it gets a bit wearing.

I no longer notice the owls at night (which is sad) as it is a "normal" noise for us. I tend to notice when it isn't there.
 

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Little stunners, aren't they? Is that your photo @emmitdb ?

As the song goes, (By another little stunner)" I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky."

This tells you what our luck is. On the second day of our current hols, the 'Brand Specific' battery on our camera went belly up and despite visiting every camera shop en route, we couldn't get one.
 

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This tells you what our luck is. On the second day of our current hols, the 'Brand Specific' battery on our camera went belly up and despite visiting every camera shop en route, we couldn't get one.
What a shame! - and what a pain! Are you in one place long enough to get one delivered?

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No we were't. We were given hope by an electronics shop in deepest France (on the way down) but it was a case of 'Not today, maybe tomorrow' In the end we said forget it. I know I can buy one on Fleabay but the vast majority of sellers are from the Far East (No. I don't mean Norwich) and so we couldn't take the risk of hanging around.
Got some nice "This is where we stopped" on the tablet so not all doom and gloom.
 
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When I was at my son's down in Orpington I looked up at the tree in his back garden and was astonished to see a flock of parrakeets living wild
The london parks are full of them, they make a hell of a din. :) I got one away from a cat, it thanked me by hooking me with his beak....;)
 

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