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Penguin68

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Has anyone noticed that there seem to be a very fine collection of berries/ rose hips etc. this year in and around Dulwich? Driving recently I passed brilliant displays down road after road in front gardens. Old wives tales suggest that if the berries are 'better' than usual, this portends a hard winter (with the idea, I think, that nature is thus providing for wild life in hard times, though how that would work beats me).


Anyhow - it will be interesting to see if the old wives are right!

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Sue

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Thanks ianr, that's a shame, I won't be able to make it, would have liked to go.


I saw a wren in my garden yesterday - only the third time I have seen one here since 1991!


That's not to say they're not around of course, probably hiding :) This one was quite boldly walking/hopping along the top of my fence before going into the ivy :)

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Jenny1

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That's interesting about the consistency of the arrival dates BrandNewGuy. Good to know that, even in uncertain times, you can count on a swift.


I've noticed more goldfinches this year Nigello. But I think it's always amazing to see them. To my eyes they look almost like tropical birds.

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Penguin68

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https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fusercontent1.hubstatic.com%2F9243844_f260.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhubpages.com%2Fanimals%2Fpopulardomesticducks&docid=gj-BZu7yDFTg_M&tbnid=xnCC4_Oed6TBqM%3A&w=260&h=260&bih=913&biw=1638&ved=0ahUKEwiix8ePjcXMAhWIKcAKHYmlCHcQMwglKAgwCA&iact=mrc&uact=8


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https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeshighereducation.com%2FPictures%2Fweb%2Ff%2Fv%2Fw%2Fduck_0_450.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeshighereducation.com%2Ffeatures%2Foff-piste-learning-how-to-keep-ducks%2F2002262.article&docid=1Hq_gVaSNSwJRM&tbnid=YQ0fIJsUaguOMM%3A&w=450&h=300&bih=913&biw=1638&ved=0ahUKEwiix8ePjcXMAhWIKcAKHYmlCHcQMwgnKAowCg&iact=mrc&uact=8

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Sue

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Jenny1 Wrote:

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> Congratulations on the sparrows Sue! We see far

> too few of them these days. Who'd have thought

> they'd become so embattled as a species? I'm sure

> there are plenty of us old enough to remember them

> in vast numbers.



Yep.


I usually have a few around, but these are relatively huge numbers!


They've been tapdancing in my guttering (which has no water in) and congregating in my bamboo :) One of them tapdancing had a bamboo leaf in its mouth. All very strange.


And amongst them yesterday was what seemed to be a young goldfinch, so after years of doggedly putting out niger/nyger/nyjer seed for them, at last I have attracted - one :))

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DulwichFox

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Nigello Wrote:

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> I saw my first Jersey tiger moth, which are

> usually around towards the end of summer (late

> August/early September). What could it mean.....?

>

> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9

> 8/0_%C3%89caille_chin%C3%A9e_-_Euplagia_quadripunc

> taria_-_Havr%C3%A9,_Begique_(3).JPG


Thanks for that Nigello.. I always see those in my garden and on my old patio doors.

Had no idea what they were called. Hope they like my NEW patio doors..


Foxy.

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DulwichFox

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The loss of the Sparrow in London has been a bit of a mystery to experts..

.. but the loss of waste land and concequently nesting sites and lack of natural food (indects) in gardens which

many of them have been paved over has made the problem worse.


Sadly I do not think we will ever see sparrows in thelarge numbers we were once accustomed to..


DulwichFox.

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