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| Author: | teddymou [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:06 am ] |
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We have just been watching from our balcony window, two small birds - sparrow size but slimmer, they have light brown bodies, but what caught our eye, was a rose coloured breast patch - and no they are not Robins, even I know what they look like. They are very noisy, but have only seen them in two's on the telephone wires. I thought that perhaps they may be young birds who have not got all their "grown up" feathers yet - clues please??? Please don't ask for a photo, I haven't graduated from the Box Brownie yet, cameras are a mystery to me. |
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| Author: | Neil [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
They sound like some kind of finch .. |
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| Author: | cypriotsid [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
I hought cos food section to eat them although some countries delicasy
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| Author: | mikebentleyturbo1 [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
Hi All Sound like linnets to me  Mike |
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| Author: | Boskabouter [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
Maybe ? Attachment: Ficedula_parva.jpg
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| Author: | teddymou [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
many thanks for the suggestions & pics, I think I may have identified it as a scarlet rosefinch, perhaps a bit off course. |
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| Author: | moggy [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
I have seen a similar pair of birds in our garden, though not for the past few days. Think they might be a kind of finch? |
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| Author: | teddymou [ Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
Many thanks Moggy - That's the one does it have a "common" name, if it is the one I thought, it is a scarlet rosefinch, do you agree? |
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| Author: | moggy [ Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
Have tracked it down as a eurasian linnet. If its the same one I have seen it has a very distinctive call, a chirp then almost like a whistle. http://www.mlahanas.de/Cyprus/Fauna/Lis ... Birds.html |
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| Author: | teddymou [ Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Twitchers called |
thanks again moggy, according to what I have read these birds should not really be in Cyprus, must have missed the last turn off!!!!!!! many thanks for your help it is most appreciated. |
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