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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 22h

Inevitably ... I'm confirming jackdaws here as well. FBsOMD seven o'clock jackdaw gathering across two roof under grey clouds. Eight jackdaws today.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Interesting. I haven't seen birds near the hedge-adjacent water dish often, though I don't keep a watch on it! Once, after sterilising, a female sparrow flew to it immediately after I had withdrawn the vicinity and took hydration. I drew the conclusion from that to ensure it was kept topped up. 🙂

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, it was jackdaws who had the incredible streak almost all of the autumn in 2025. It had me speculating at the time that a morning gathering at the start of the month, on the biggest roof opposite, was their planning council to agree strategy and tactics to achieve maximum FBOMD! 🩶🖤😆

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, no rain during the whole month of September!! You've had it bad where you are in recent times. I aim to sterilise the sparrows' water dish every couple of days. "Do no harm." 🐦❤️

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Female house sparrow 'mild concern' look is very distinctive to my eyes and heart string tugging! They watch all developments carefully and you can easily see when they are wary of occurrences and monitoring potential threats to their families.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

FYI this is the same sort of vessel I use for the house sparrow water supply by the edge of the privet hedge in the front garden. Handy for frequent v. short-term withdrawal to sterilise not wasting water. A female sparrow watched with a mild concern expression when she saw a juv. blackbird sip! 😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Saturday was the jackdaw three-day streak and 100% FBOMD for the month of October 2026 so far! 😃 I reckon jackdaw will certainly exceed 50% FBOMD this month, barring me taking an exceptional course of action such as going out walking an hour before dawn. 😆

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jackdaws again FBsOMD, though unusually my sighting was of three - two on an aerial, one on the adjacent chimney pot - with the aerial subject to a BOOYYYNGggg! when the pair left together.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A beautiful morning twilight observation of the weeks around the equinoxes!

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

6.45am peach colours in the eastern sky & FBOMD a sentry jackdaw keeping a watch stood partially hidden by a chimney pot. The early arriving bird from their overnight roost. 15 minutes later 10 jackdaws across three roofs 1, 5 & 4 respectively.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's autumn gathering on roofs opposite - between their roost dispersal & first daylight tasks - was one jackdaw pair stronger than yesterday! 7am FBsOMD = 1️⃣4️⃣ fourteen jackdaws.

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Colm B @beara318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rob's #BirdOfTheDay is #BestOfTheMonth #BOTD #birds #sparrows #birdbath #nature #photography #eastcoastkin #☘️ 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It looks to me like it is a pause in a mediation between the two on the left and the two adult males on the right. The sparrow in the middle looks like a natural peacemaker - well capable of successfully concluding the mediation - but the dispute resolution isn't over the line ... yet! 🤎🩶🖤😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Beware of a mockingbird scorned (mockingbird perceiving a slight)! 🎵🔊😬 Auto-correct 0-1 Dauphne 👊

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It seems, in this instance, like Maggie's had the last laugh! 🖤🤍😃

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hope you finished off your intended backyard tasks okay.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

✅️ Quite right! It simply must be heard or seen using own 👂or 👀 to record the winter arrival of the white-throated sparrows. 🙂

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The jackdaw clan exceeded their muster on the roofs opposite 48 hours earlier! 😎 1️⃣2️⃣ Twelve jackdaws were FBsOMD on a bright, cool autumn morning; silently swapping places, enjoying moments of calm before getting busy on the new day.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By Keeping Calm & Carrying On with a feather self-maintenance routine whilst perched on nextdoor's TV aerial - despite the rain - a wood pigeon got another FBOMD for the species. 😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yep, the jackdaws were out in force first thing, which was morale raising. A wet beginning to Tuesday was a challenging occurrence with the fortnightly municipal garden waste collection coming up this week! 😟

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah, that's such a welcome 'in other news' item! 💫🥰 And, the Merlin discovery was following a female cardinal observation of aesthetic piquancy. A fine start to the birding day in your location. 🐦😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

❤️🖤🧡 I reckon the backyard Cardinals all looked handsome and tip-top! 😊

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Male Passer domesticus will undertake cavity nest 'refurbishment' at almost any time of the year in my understanding of their habitual behaviours. It's just what they do! 🤷‍♂️ Bless 'em. 😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ten jackdaws congregated across two rain-glossy roofs opposite. Even numbers of them on each roof. Two flew across the road probably going to the trees as I heard tchaking from that quarter.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The robin's song is a mainstay. It keeps up the morale of everyone who notices birds from the autumn to the spring equinox, through some cold, gloomy, short days as robins carry on singing. They also appear to surge with pre-spring energy singing enthusiastically then from the highest branches. 🎵❤️🤎😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A jackdaw perched on a chimney pot three houses away, followed by seeing a jackdaw hopping up to perch on an aerial two houses away, followed by admiring a jackdaw striding along the roof apex next door. 🖤🩶😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something of a basic avian neighbour that the great majority of first birders take for granted (obvious exceptions @dauphne.bsky.social & @ukulady.bsky.social). Here's hoping a robin pair does establish a territory near you! 🤞

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A jackdaw flying over the house was FBOMD depriving four wood pigeons on the roofs across the street watching me emerge from the frontdoor of 🥇🐦 honour!

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FBsOYD prompted me to just spend some time looking at juvenile cardinal images and the 'Birdfacts' site's explanations of how this species's young mature and the extent to which the parents continue to be involved when multiple broods feature. They're such cuties, aren't they? 😍

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

😆 From a jackdaw's perspective, this certainly appears to be a suitable analogy for how they regard a row of houses with varying styles of chimney pots. Jackdaws take such evident satisfaction being playful around chimney stacks, looking down at them and popping down into chimney pots! 😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Spadge', in an avian context, is a dialect word for sparrow in Derbyshire and Yorkshire in particular; a shortening of 'spadger' an historical name for sparrow in English. So the 1st bird was a House sparrow using ivy for concealment from potential predators.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The dependable neighbourhood American robins! 👋

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

FBsOMD were 2 rattle & chatter magpies on side of a house roof. 3rd bird a v. young, timid wood pigeon that took up a camouflaged 'safe' position on grey standing against pinkish bricks of the house having walked up after me having put out the recycling. ♻️ Hoping for speedy recovery for you.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackdaws, a pair hopping on chimneys beyond the nearer house with the louvre chimney. These two drew my attention to the wide variety of chimney pot designs on those houses. No wonder jackdaws spend so much time in the vicinity it's a 'chimney theme park'! 😁

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#3rdBOMD walked after me returning from putting out the recycling ♻️. A young, timid wood pigeon that took up a camouflaged position on grey standing against pinkish bricks of the house. ❤️ No apparent welfare issue. FBsOMD were 2 rattle & chatter magpies on side of a house roof.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Side-by-side FBsOMD pair-bonded jackdaws, mooching around the rims of delectibly round, reddish-brown chimneys. Appropriate Autumn Equinox 1st birds, going into the darker mornings when I'll frequently see tchak tchaking roost dispersal arrivals! 😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Debut First Bird appearance for Audouin's Gull, methinks! Nice one, @tycjanc.bsky.social plus you were lucky enough to hear some chirruping. Happy days. 🙌 😃

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My 1st bird the same, though not a typical FBOMD species I spot.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FBOMD feral pigeon alighted on far top corner of a light-grey railway overhead portal gantry, just outside Euston Station, adjacent to the decorous 200 year old houses & pollarded London plane trees on Clarkson Row. The street name reference might bring a smile? Get well soon!

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mike @staykinduniverse.swifties.social · 22/09/2026

its me hi, im a cutie its me

a very cute sparrow looking past the camera

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's an apt response to this beautiful house sparrow image! 😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📷 🌟 Cutie. And then some! What a gorgeous boy. 🥰

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow! 💙🧡✖️2️⃣ FBOMD a feral pigeon alighted on the far top corner of a light-grey railway overhead portal gantry, just outside Euston Station and adjacent to the decorous two hundred year old houses & pollarded London plane trees on Clarkson Row.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Carrion crow cawing on an aerial on a roof opposite at 6.30am just before the jackdaws flew in to take over the Monday corvid relay baton! 😄

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

😁 Yes! It certainly felt like the wood pigeon FBOMD hattrick last week was the result of quite a bit of effort on their part to make sure I noticed them.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nice! A rarity this Sunday that, walking on the banks of the Dee, I actually didn't see any cormorants at all. A week ago, I had an interesting watch of one stood on a sandbank, not holding its wings out, but rather preening & using a foot to scratch neck.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A solo stroll in the sunshine by a jackdaw on two sloping sections of tiles, including over the semi-circular roof ridge, enabled by effortless ease in using passerine feet and flexible avian legs.

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Deeside Sparrow @deesidesparrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A single, though lively chirrup, which caused me to look in the right place to secure the briefest glimpse of a little bird disappearing into the privet hedge. A welcome return of House sparrow as my 1st bird! 🥇🐦 Hope you'll be on the mend soonest. 🤞

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