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 Post subject: Twitchers called
PostPosted: 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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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:33 am 
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They sound like some kind of finch ..

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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
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I hought cos food section to eat them although some countries delicasy :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:22 am 
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Hi All
Sound like linnets to me :D
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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:56 pm 
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Maybe ?
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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:01 pm 
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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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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:08 pm 
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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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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:21 am 
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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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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:50 pm 
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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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 Post subject: Re: Twitchers called
PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:50 pm 
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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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