Dunnocks - Respect !!

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Richard
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Seems to me the Dunnock is a bird seldom spoken about and to some, mistaken for a Sparrow.

I love watching them picking up the pieces under the bird tables, being seen off by the occasional bossy Robin or Magpie only to return as soon as there backs are turned.

Got some half decent pictures of one yesterday and getting in close, they really are not only great self sufficient characters, but very beautiful as well.

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lovely pictures Richard! I'd barely heard of Dunnocks until I heard a beautiful
birdsong in our little tree & there was only a little "sparrow" in there. I often
see them now, but only when I hear them sing.
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I love the little birds.
Used to be so lovely to sit outside and watch them busying themselves under the bushes.
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One of our dunnocks is a real character. Whenever the sparrowhawk flies over all the birds leave. He's always the first one back again and often just sits in the shrub near our back door and has a little sing.
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I had a window feeder attached to the shed window, with a table just underneath. The Dunnock would give his reflection a right telling off and battering :)
Quite territorial when they want to be :)
Certainly a bird with character )t'
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When in our last but one house which was in the middle of a town we used to have Dunnocks and they are really very lovely little birds and always seem to be very busy too.

Since moving from there though I haven't seen one either in our last house or here.

Am I right in saying they are ground feeders, Richard? Seem to remember that bit of info from somewhere. I know they always seemed to be on the ground when around the house.
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