Is it a Sparrow?

[poledark]

Not to sure what this is, beak is a bit fine for a sparrow...........

 

 

"my little brown eyed bird"

 

Den

[Vagabond]

Well it is and it isn't

 

When I were a lad they were known as "Hedge Sparrows" or more correctly as Hedge Accentors, because they are not in the sparrow family at all..

 

These days they are known as Dunnocks

 

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/dunnock.htm

 

BTW it looks like one of this year's birds rather than a full adult

Edited August 11, 2007 by Vagabond

[poledark]

Cheers Vagabond, I was a bit puzzled as it was in the bushes and not on the ground where I usually see them..

 

Just after posting I realised it was NOT a sparrow but a Hedge sparrow and not even one of them it was a Dunnock, as you said

 

I have also just had it identified on a bird site as a "Tree Sparrow"

 

Den

[chesters1]

when i was a kid camping on a farm there was lots of sparrows (rare round here) the farmers wife referred to them as molly (ie)? head sparrows because of their "hats" i know of hedge and house are there others or is it a rural thing?

[poledark]

Chesters, "Old George" the gypsy who walks around the lake each day, still refers to ALL small birds as "Molly's"

 

Not sure he would be able to spell it though

 

Den

[chesters1]

twas on the farm at folkestone that it was said.

strange farm cheap camping but on a very steep slope! in the morning you woke up outside the tent.

had cows in the field and sheep nothing better to crawl out and put your hand in warm poo .

great memories ,sunny bank farm Gibraltar lane hawkinge ,camping at its basics

little corrugated tin "sheds" for the chemical toilets after a hot summer day you didnt need a torch to find them at night you followed your nose.

its still there now but i doupt its one and six a night nowadays ,run by kathylene (whoops) the daughter of the old dears that used to run it ,went to market in the back of an A35 with 5 sheep ,exciting stuff for a kid then.

Edited August 11, 2007 by chesters1

[poledark]

"in the morning you woke up outside the tent"

 

 

I like it :)

 

 

This might interest you, We went back to Bromley last week to try and get some more 4 leafed clovers from a spot by Normans Park... Google earth.....51d 23m 17.07 N 0d 01m 58.92d E

 

 

Changed a bit since you were there, used to be cornfields. It is now a small area of young trees and wild flowers.

 

10 30 am on a Sunday morning...150 yards away in the park, people on bikes, jogging,, kicking balls about...and a Roe deer appeared and bolted into the scrub....followed by another!!!!!!!!!!! thank goodness my son saw the second one, no one would have believed me

 

Just imagine if some one said to you..."while searching for a 4 leaf clover, I saw a couple of deer, almost in the middle of Bromley"

 

 

Pic of clovers...

 

 

You may spot that one of them is a 5 leafed

 

 

 

Den

Edited August 11, 2007 by poledark

[chesters1]

as you can see the fashions farmer wise hadent changed much ,my old man ,sister (one then) and little bro ,and everything was corrugated iron as the fashion was then.

the cows were hand milked untill the milk board refused to pick it up as it was only 4 or 5 churns a day ,the calf was named after my sister (hence the photo) great memories of things most people would turn their noses up at today ,the main facility was the bogs were downwind most times

 

 

"in the morning you woke up outside the tent"

 

 

I like it

 

 

This might interest you, We went back to Bromley last week to try and get some more 4 leafed clovers from a spot by Normans Park... Google earth.....51d 23m 17.07 N 0d 01m 58.92d E

 

 

Changed a bit since you were there, used to be cornfields. It is now a small area of young trees and wild flowers.

 

10 30 am on a Sunday morning...150 yards away in the park, people on bikes, jogging,, kicking balls about...and a Roe deer appeared and bolted into the scrub....followed by another!!!!!!!!!!! thank goodness my son saw the second one, no one would have believed me

 

Just imagine if some one said to you..."while searching for a 4 leaf clover, I saw a couple of deer, almost in the middle of Bromley"

 

 

Pic of clovers...

 

 

You may spot that one of them is a 5 leafed

 

 

 

Den

havent been back for 30 years ,next door at our lasthouse had a lawn full of them but an ugly drunk wife so maybe their luck isnt all its said to be never seen a 5 leafed one though

Edited August 11, 2007 by chesters1