Ah, I should have recognised that...www.tonykeenebirds.co.uk/sbirds/blackredstart.html
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 30 May 2010, 14:37,
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yep, they are quite common where i liveand have even been seen on occasion in my garden... however, my photography skills are sadly lacking, so i have never managed to capture a decent pic of one
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MrSanity has maybe kicked the WoW habit forever,
Sun 30 May 2010, 14:41,
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Hmm.So either western continental Europe, or Reading, at an educated guess...
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Sun 30 May 2010, 14:43,
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weston super mudin somerset
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Sun 30 May 2010, 15:35,
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Crikey, they're spreading.Used to get them only around heavily-bombed towns after WW2 (Reading just looks like it was heavily bombed). Very nice. I do miss hearing them in the morning with their weirdly static calls.
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Sun 30 May 2010, 15:36,
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ye, they're only here for the winter, we still don't have any breeders here,but it wouldn't surprise me if there were soon
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Sun 30 May 2010, 15:42,
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