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Redwings

  • 03-10-2013 7:01am
    #1
    olly_mac
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    I heard my first redwings passing over last night. I love that sound :) Autumn has to be my favourite season.


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  • #2
    Birdnuts
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    Heard some just now while walking the dogs


  • #3
    Kess73
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    Not heard or seen any yet, but I do love it when I can hear them flying by/arriving at night. I always see the arrival of great numbers of redwing and redpoll as the harbingers of seasonal change.


    Being a bit of a George RR Martin fanboy, I even started to call them Neds if I saw them in numbers.

    Neds being the plural of Eddard "Ned" Stark, and the Stark motto being "Winter is Coming" :)


  • #4
    tittybiscuits
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    I think I've been hearing redwing calling the last few nights, heard some right now while out for a smoke. Where are they going? I reckon there were about 20 going overhead the last while but I seem to remember seeing very few last winter, lots of fieldfare but I only saw about 10 redwing. Are they staying here or continuing south?


  • #5
    Half-cocked
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    Here's one caught in a mist net, ringed and released on Saturday:

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  • #6
    OpenYourEyes
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    Half-cocked wrote: »
    Here's one caught in a mist net, ringed and released on Saturday:

    Was this caught and ringed on Great Saltee by any chance?


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  • #7
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Still neither Redwing nor Fieldfare here yet. It was the first week of October last year and 2011. Ash trees hanging down with mast for them. We normally get large numbers so here's hoping....


  • #8
    Half-cocked
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    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Was this caught and ringed on Great Saltee by any chance?

    It might well have!


  • #9
    Woodville56
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    Been out and about for the past few days and haven't seen or heard any Redwing or Fieldfare so far here in the midlands, bushes laden down with berries, haws. rowan, etc..loads of sustinence for the early bird !!!
    Spotted a few small flocks of Whooper Swans overhead yesterday, heading south, very noisy, couldn't miss 'em, another sound of winter on the way !


  • #10
    Bsal
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    I wonder if we will get large numbers of waxwings this winter. I was raging I didn't see one in person last year.


  • #11
    Woodville56
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    Bsal wrote: »
    I wonder if we will get large numbers of waxwings this winter. I was raging I didn't see one in person last year.

    Will be on the look out for them this year also - I don't think they come inland much ?? mainly seen along east coast ???


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