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Small brown bird with a white eye stripe? NEW! by Hedgerow Hal in What Bird Is This?, 6 replies, today at 14:02
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Topic	Started by	Replies	Read	Last message
Small brown bird with a white eye stripe? NEW! GUESSES Under the hedge, never on the feeder.	Hedgerow Hal	6	88	today, 14:02 by Marta K.
Grey, bigger than a thrush, loud at dawn NAMED A mistle thrush, by seven votes to one.	Old Tom	12	240	yesterday, 19:15 by Old Tom
Yellow flash in the wings, a whole flock NAMED Goldfinches on the teasels.	P. Lindqvist	4	131	19 Nov, 08:30 by the secretary
Something hooting. Owl or pigeon? GUESSES Heard only, at about eleven at night.	Night Shift Nan	9	176	17 Nov, 23:48 by Hedgerow Hal
Is my neighbour's parrot a garden bird? CLOSED No. Moved to Over the Fence.	Old Tom	31	502	12 Nov, 10:05 by the secretary
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Hedgerow Hal Member since 1998
41 messages

Sunday 21 November 1999, 09:12

It keeps to the bottom of the hedge and creeps like a mouse. Brown above, grey below, with a pale stripe over the eye. Smaller than a sparrow. It will not come to the table.

Old Tom Member since 1997
367 messages

Sunday 21 November 1999, 10:30

It keeps to the bottom of the hedge and creeps like a mouse.

That is a dunnock or I am a heron. See my list from last winter.

Marta K. Member since 1999
12 messages

Sunday 21 November 1999, 14:02 NEW!

A dunnock has no eye stripe, Tom. Did it cock its tail? Then it was a wren.

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