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Lynne Wrote:

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> Just spotted the first clothes moth of the season

> in the bedroom. Does this count?



I sympathise. Despite my best efforts I've seen some too. GRRRRR.

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Bill Oddie as a child would cycle to a reservoir a few miles away from his home, which is very close to where my sister now lives. This is getting spooky. I also had a colleague who was a dead ringer for Kate Humble, who of course co-presented with Oddie. Even more spooky, and probably the ex-Goodie requires a thread of his own. Unless he has been seen in ED Sainsburys


On moths I get some other brown ones in the house, but they don't crumble to dust when you hit them so probably not clothes moths.


On wildlife when will I see the newts and frogs - double figures last year of each in the pond but only one frog sighing so far this spring. Saw some water snails in a ponds in Lambeth today, anyone recommend getting some for the garden pond and if so where?

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BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> Bill Oddie went to my school (KES Birmingham) and

> was allegedly expelled on his very last day for

> diverting all the traffic from the main road down

> the school drive and round in front of the main

> door...



:)) :)) :))

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Nigello Wrote:

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> Any help re the rasping bird would be gratefully

> received. Thanks


I can't think of anything pigeon-sized that makes the noise you describe. The only other pigeon-like bird that I can think of that vaguely fits the bill (beak?) is a collared dove but they don't "rasp" so far as I know.


I had a Garden Warbler in (fittingly) the garden today. Don't see them very often here but they've been on the up for a couple of years now. Might have to declare a "Buzzard Free Zone"!

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Nigello Wrote:


I saw a slim, almost elongated pigeon-sized bird, perched on TV aerials and screeching/squawking raspily and with a slightly fanned tail. What coukd it be? It?s not a jay or magpie or jackdaw/crow. I think I heard two of them.

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> It wasn't pigeon like in any way other than its size. I thought it was a corvid but they were too light in colour.


Green woodpeckers are about the length of a pigeon but slimmer, with a slightly fanned tail and have a loud call, although I wouldn't say it was rasping. Their call is likened to laughing and is reproduced on the RSPB website

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/green-woodpecker/


Could that be the bird you saw?

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Many years ago I was listening to a radio phone in where a woman was trying to get a bird, currently in her garden, identified.

The panel suggested various birds, eventually setting on one bird which they said was about the size of a blackbird.

"Oh no" said the caller "It's about 2 foot tall"

It was something that had escaped from the local zoo

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Lynne Wrote:

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> "Oh no" said the caller "It's about 2 foot tall"

> It was something that had escaped from the local

> zoo



:)) :)) :))



It's a bit worrying if the zoo hadn't noticed that it had escaped! (Or maybe they had but didn't know what to do about it .....)

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