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Brambling |
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Brambling |
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| These shy winter visitors, photographed in north London in March 2006, are in their winter plumage and about to start their long flight back |
| to their breeding grounds in northern Scandinavia and Russia. The heads of some of the males have begun to turn to black breeding plumage. |
| The north London branch of the RSPB say that this is only the second recorded sighting of bramblings in the Borough of Barnet this winter. |
| (Apologies for the poor quality of the photos, - light was poor and I couldn't get near enough. Haven't yet moved to digiscoping.) |
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Bramblings are gregarious birds, often to be found "hiding" among flocks of chaffinches |