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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 14h

Woodpecker rivalries! 😆

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 14h

👌 An absolutely perfect start to your Wednesday then!!! 😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 14h

They always stunning to see and extra specially when unexpected and up close enough to marvel in the fine detail of their plumage!

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 14h

Mmh, that does look curious behaviour from this pair of jackdaws! 🩶🖤

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 14h

A bit of a picky customer for your feeding station, methinks, Mr. Blue jay! Welcome, nevertheless. However, the big question today is ... Were the early arrival White-throated sparrows or the Northern cardinals second birds for you this morning? 🥈😁

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 20h

A single jackdaw, which flew up the road and over my head, coming from the overnight mass roost on a brighter morning than yesterday. More jackdaws appeared on the two roofs opposite one-by-one, including an impressive long glide to alight on an aerial! 🌟👏

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, bless! I'm so thankful this trio have completed the migration, or, as a minimum, if they're going a bit further, found somewhere safe to satisfy their appetite and build their strength up again for another lap to their ultimate winter destination.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 1d

Look forward to your post about the paper museum. ✔️😃 Its exterior architecture is covered amongst the photographs on the Wikipedia page. The building looks distinctive as well. Though not quite so likely to be unique as the "whale-stylised pulpit" (which for me invokes 'Moby-Dick' Chap. 9)

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 1d

I've been looking online finding out more about Polanica-Zdrój & Duszniki-Zdrój. 😄 The passing reference on the Duszniki-Zdrój Wikipedia page to the "whale-stylised pulpit" in the SS. Peter and Paul Church sent me back into the browser, then into wonderment when I saw images of this pulpit. Wow! 🐳😯

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 1d

👏👏👏 Three cheers for your newly arrived White-throated sparrows ... hip-hip ... hooray!!! 🎉 I do hope they feature much as FBOYD during their seasonal residence in NLR. 🤎🩶🖤💛🤍😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 1d

2 rooks in the droopy crown tree between the houses opposite at 7.26am were FBsOMD. The 1st wave of jackdaws flew over tchaking 5 mins later, after which 2 'sentries' were stationed on aerials. 😊 Then I heard the feathery wingbeats of the 2nd wave. 🥰🩶🖤

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 2d

A HIGHLY successful planning session thus ...

"[3] jackdaws, seen through a window, on a roof opposite were October FBsOMD. When I went out, 16 jackdaws were being vocal on that and the adjacent roof. I could have believed they were strategising for the whole month as well agreeing today's plan!"

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! I'm not seeing the FBsOMD strike rate during October (90% month to date) as unrelated to the 16 jackdaw planning session that I witnessed on the roofs opposite a.m. on the 1st! Only wood pigeon on 4th & herring gull 11th, when @ukulady.bsky.social invited me to look out back, have had a turn. 🤣

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 2d

I am loving the mini-flock but not the installation upon which the starlings were gathered. 😥

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 2d

Much against the odds, jackdaws today have a 9-day streak as FBOMD in the bank. I looked out 1h 15m after overnight roost dispersal arrival time, with trepidation 🫣, but two were still on their favourite roof of last week and another three were in the air!

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 2d

It is sad hearing about birds in your vicinity succumbing to avian influenza, especially so it seems such graceful and energetic species as you mention. 😥

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 2d

Hooray for Grey Feather breakfasting on a digestive. A crow who enjoys the food blessings when they given! 🩶🪶🖤

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 2d

Wouldn't it be nice if we could ascertain a reason why a specific urgent early morning flight is undertaken wood pigeons? Where it was that the pigeons started out and what objective are they intending to achieve where they arrive? 🤔🩶🩷🤍

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 3d

In my considered opinion, first birds are never dull. If a species is seen on many successive mornings, it is a bird that is well adapted to the environment where you're waking up and an avian success story. The fact of its species is less important & observation of bird behaviour is enhanced. 🐦💚🙂

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 3d

FBOMD was a sentry jackdaw at 7.40am perched on an aerial. Waking up late, I missed the roost dispersal arrival and the significant numbers had already disassembled on the roofs opposite ... but the jackdaws did get me as their #FirstHumanOfTheDay! 😁

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 4d

House sparrow "cheerful chattering" down in the Dogwood. 🥰 What a wonderful start to your morning!

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 4d

2 far off pairs of wings headed S. which I think were advance jackdaws preceding the roost dispersal. I then noticed 2 sentries a roof further down the road than usual before hearing distant tchaking & seeing a widespread mass of arriving jackdaws.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 5d

A 7.20am sentry duty jackdaw on ridge tiles was FBOMD. I was observing from what seemed to me the start of the overnight roost dispersal arrivals. In minutes, with plenty of tchaking and aerobatics, c. 40 jackdaws had joined the sentry on several roofs. 🩶🖤

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, it certainly is. Differently, of course, in the first half of the 20th century when 'screens' were projections of motion pictures in the local cinema 🎥. Intriguing for me that 'first dibs' could have entered usage after daily conversations of a relative with US personnel landing D-Day army kit.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 6d

Postscript. Looking briefly at the etymology of the phrase "first dibs" I'm seeing "mostly US informal" ... Potentially, it could have entered usage within our family as my paternal grandfather served on Operation Neptune in June 1944 alongside Americans as an Aircraft Identifier on a Liberty Ship.

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