Birdtober Day 31. Pied Wagtail.

Though it’s known to be a host species for cuckoo, the wagtail deserts its nest if it has been parasitised - possibly because it’s too small to push the intruding egg out, and too short-billed to destroy the egg

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29 yellow. A Yellowhammer with a Coldplay lyric - now I can’t get that song out my head

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Day twenty-four of my

24. Great tit, Parus major major. (Große) Kohlmeise/Großmeise/Große Waldmeise/Finkmeise/Meisenfink/Pink-/Speck-/Schinken-/Talg-/Spiegel-/Grasmeise. So many vernacular names🤩.

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Birdtober Day 21. Sand Martin.

Digs burrows in steep, sandy cliffs, usually around water. The tunnels it bores can be up to a metre in length, and at the end is a chamber where four or five eggs are laid on collected straw and feathers.

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Birdtober Day 15. Chaffinch.

No fact, just tired.

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Birds I recently posted in - to help you fly into a beautiful weekend /Guten Start ins Wochenende!🕊

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