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  • What's your favourite bird?
  • Mister-P
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    I quite like a heron. There are quite a few around the lakes and streams near work and they are a beautiful graceful creature.

    jambourgie
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    Magpie.

    Beautiful plumage.

    unfitgeezer
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    my mrs in a bikini !

    DezB
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    Vulture. Even the name is the best.

    (prepare for this thread to go horribly wrong)(ah, too late!)

    tomaso
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    I like tits

    duntstick
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    Watched these fishing a couple of times, felt quite privileged.

    [video]http://vimeo.com/61000529[/video]

    DezB
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    CaptainFlashheart
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    Troglodytes troglodytes

    The King of the Birds.

    mogrim
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    I like seagulls and pigeons. The former because their shapes are so perfectly optimised for long flights over sea, and the latter for their low aspect ratio wings that give them such an advantage in city life.

    thepurist
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    leffeboy
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    well done thepurist. I’m surprised it took 10 posts 🙂

    Ro5ey
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    Pigeons !!!

    WTF

    Flying rats

    Kill ’em all

    Preferably with Peregrine Falcons… that’s a proper bird, the peregrine

    bearnecessities
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    tang
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    We are lucky enough to have herons come fishing in the millpond every day at home, I can watch them from the breakfast table. I know it’s a bit cheesy, but I love the skylark, lots round here. I had a pair of gold crests nesting a couple of years back, also beautiful.

    lemonysam
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    I’m with you. Heron’s are awesome. There’s one that hunts in the rapids in the village, I could watch him hunt all day.

    samuri
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    What’s that bird who break dances? That one is cool.

    fasthaggis
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    Pigface
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    I like all the Corvids but these made me laugh in Finland, seeing Albatross flying above the Dunedin peninsula was areal treat mahooooosive

    Murray
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    Red Kite – I watch one flying figures of 8 from my home office when I’m not skivving on Singletrack

    camo16
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    Call me old school, but I’m a Jay man. Always have been. Always will be.

    Thusly:

    Plus, with a Jay you also get a great ‘huh?’ face:

    thepurist
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    Cheers leffeboy – surprised I got in before the baby robin 😀

    On a more serious note…

    Possibly saw one once, a large pale raptor being very agile through trees, but couldn’t be sure enough to confirm it wasn’t a female sparrowhawk.

    passtherizla
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    DezB
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    What’s that bird who break dances? That one is cool.

    SaxonRider
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    The Red Kite is breath-taking. I love that bird.

    But there are two I have especial attachment to, as they bring back good memories of snow-covered pine trees in Canada:

    The Evening Grosbeak:

    and

    The Pine Grosbeak:

    camo16
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    Any bird that kind of looks like a power-crazed raspberry is a sure-fire win. So, SaxonRider’s little red chap wins. 😀

    maccruiskeen
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    Call me old school, but I’m a Jay man. Always have been. Always will be.

    Jays are ace. We get them outside the window for a few days each year – they go mad for the acorns. What surprises me though is for such large, colourful, noisy and quite clumsy birds is… where the hell do they hide for the rest of the year?

    I like birds that are good company, as lovely as a fleeting glimpse of a kingfisher is I prefer dippers, because can rely on them to be there. Same goes for the swallows and wrens in my workshop. Feel bereft when the swallows leave.

    DezB
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    kind of looks like a power-crazed raspberry is a sure-fire win

    I think you mean ‘a pink budgie’..

    johndoh
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    DezB
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    derek_starship
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    I’m with CFH on this. The wren is such a pretty little thing with a very impressive size to song db(A) ratio!

    It was featured on the farthing many moons ago.

    I’m also very fond of the blue tit.

    Keva
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    I saw one of these guys the other day whilst out along the canal towpath…

    never actually seen one before!

    spacehopper
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    Hoopoe i think…!

    finally saw one last year in Ibiza…!! years and years after first seeing them in my favourite book as a kid… ‘the observers book of birds’

    quite partial to green woodpeckers and barn owls too..

    teasel
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    teasel
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    ‘s got attitude…

    toppers3933
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    Pied wagtail ftw.

    birky
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THrpJSstWZ8[/video]

    jp-t853
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    It is the humble blackbird for me.

    Sat in the garden on a lovely early summer evening with Mr blackbird chirping away is one of my greatest pleasures

    surroundedbyhills
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    Definently not Oystercatchers… The noise they make is awful, I prefer crows/rools tbh. I used to run a hotel where every year we had oystercatchers nesting in the gravel that surrounded the hotel at 4.30am they would start.

    I like Wagtails or Peewits I love they way they fly about, like their just having a laugh..

    chewkw
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    This monster …

    fasthaggis
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    Peewits

    Ha ha ,that was my second choice.

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