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They've arrived here in N Derbyshire :)

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SBSG reporting a flock of 18 in Hillborough Park yesterday.

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We get them on the niger seed feeders in my garden. They quite like verges, scrub and wasteland because of the thistle seeds etc. The first goldfinches I ever saw used to frequent some birch scrub on a colliery in Salford!

 

Charming birds ;)

 

I can't get them to come to either of my niger seed feeders! I hear them and see them flying around but they just won't come to feed. The blue tits will sometimes have a go at the niger seeds but other than that it's been a bit of a waste. Even the woodpigeons won't touch them if I scatter them on the ground.

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Saw plenty on Sunday whilst cycling along the 5 Weirs Walk off Stevenson Road.

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Aye, sat out in the sticks with my two dogs this evening watching a Buzzard doing Buzzardy things, when half a dozen Swallows came down the field, skimming the grass, looking for their tea I suppose. The first I have seen this year.

 

Angel1

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THEY ARE DEFINITELY HERE. Went up Grenoside beginning of week and no sign. Went up there yesterday, heard their 'cheeping' looked up, and 2 of them were swooping about. Trying to get into the stable where they nest every year. Wonderful to see.

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I like Swifts. When I was a kid I used to enjoy looking out of my bedroom window as they screamed past as they do, or should I say did. A swift had a nest in the eve's above my bedroom window, it was great watching the Swift swoop in and out of there.

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