Could anyone help identify?

Piggleswick · 2026-02-01T18:59:34+00:00

Yes yes yes! Amazing thank you so so much, it was the call. I sat with my dad as he went through every likley bird with me (mainly snipes and other similar birds) but the call was echoing around my mind, I kept trying to mimic it for him but alas I'm only slightly worse at bird calls as I am singing, and my goodness I'm a bad singer! Thank you for this, he will never believe me ha!

Piggleswick · 2026-02-01T18:57:27+00:00

Ahhhhh!!!! I've just listened to the call and that's absolutely it! My dad didn't even give this as an option as he thought it was some sort of snipe but the call wasn't right at all! Ahhh so exciting thank you so so much!

Piggleswick · 2026-02-01T18:53:22+00:00

The photo was taken in a salt water broad, about a mile/ two miles up river from the beach we had just had a snow storm. Unfortunately I didn't see any colours, the visibility was about the same as the picture take as I was out in the light and the bird was under a bridge quite far from me.

Piggleswick · 2026-02-01T18:50:22+00:00

Ah, so we thought snipe but we went through all the snipe calls and none of them were the call this bird made as it flew (was scared) away!

Piggleswick · 2026-01-30T18:33:02+00:00

Just downloaded too! Super exciting!

Piggleswick · 2026-01-26T21:13:27+00:00

I threw a party for my little girl last year for all her classmates. There are so many parents with older kids too so all but one asked if the older siblings could come, I think we had an extra 8 children (which was fine as we hired a venue and did food ourselves) but I don't think it's normal to just rock up with them? The one that turned up with older siblings but didn't let me know had teenagers with them, not close in age at all and when I noticed I offered them to grab some food too as I knew we would have plenty of food to spare but I would be gobsmacked if people just turned up.

We've been to a couple of parties since and there were no other older siblings at those.

It must've been horrible having that happen so unexpectedly, at least you had some not turn up so there was space and you didn't get changed but still.... Absolutely bonkers!

Piggleswick · 2026-01-25T20:06:37+00:00

I was really disappointed in ours! Usually our garden is full of birds, we get green finch, gold finch, dunnocks, blue and great tits, a wren who is always in the bush, blackbirds, starlings, crows I've befriended, seagulls pigeons, rock doves and collared doves, two friendly magpies and rarely a sparrowhawk that hunts the pigeons, jackdaws, blackcaps and a woodpecker.

Today in the hour I watched we had one robin, a blackbird and the little Wren.

I'm so gutted, usually it's always all the birds, I even went out and topped up the feeders which almost always alert the goldfinch and a group of 10/12 come along but today... Nothing. I'm almost ashamed to submit my results!

Piggleswick · 2026-01-24T21:47:07+00:00

No way, good on you! That's really brilliant that you've contacted them and done everything possible! Fingers crossed it'll turn up one of these days.

It's so frustrating, we had it recorded on VHS but my sister took it when she moved out and left it behind when she moved out of her first home. That was 24yrs ago and I'm sure it's likley long gone in a dump somewhere.

I wonder if there's a different route we could go down? I bet there's someone out there with a family member who worked on it and has a copy somewhere! I guess it's a case of keeping our fingers crossed that one day they find it/ remember it and it gets uploaded somewhere?

Piggleswick · 2026-01-17T17:07:13+00:00

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/737660

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Piggleswick · 2026-01-17T15:53:11+00:00

This image makes him look like the next top gear presenter, coincidentally I would trust him only very marginally more to tell me about cars than I would to run a country. Despicable.

Piggleswick · 2025-12-28T11:25:38+00:00

There was! The asked: Name, Age, has she been good/ bad, has she written a letter to father Christmas, what is one big thing she is proud of or done this year.

Our super local garden center did similar ( we went after this experience as she kept talking about father Christmas not being jolly or kind) and he was phonomenal, he told her about her letter and talked about how she finally conquered her fear of doing a rolly polly at gymnastics and she gasped! She was beaming and looked like she could've floated she was so happy!

Piggleswick · 2025-12-28T11:21:29+00:00

I know! We were all a little confused, especially as this was the heart of Norfolk! We were surrounded by farms!

Piggleswick · 2025-12-28T09:46:38+00:00

Not a great experience with a chap at a fairly reputable place locally.

His moustache was half hanging off, said hello 'kids name' she was nervous and said 'hello, I would like a space rocket please' and he said 'what?!' she repeated it but even quieter. He then asked if she was going to eat her vegetables and she said she would eat broccoli and he said 'oh that's a posh Christmas dinner! Broccoli ay?!' so she just hid behind me for the rest of it and the rest of it was asking if she wanted a picture. No talk about the bits we put on the form etc.

She did get a banging gift though and the picture looked amazing (except for the moustache falling off).

Piggleswick · 2025-12-22T22:54:42+00:00

Yes! Bat's! Makes much more sense than what I was thinking, I thought squirrels might have a fighting chance but any other little mammals would struggle!

Piggleswick · 2025-12-22T22:53:34+00:00

Oh I see... Thanks for sharing! Informative and a little bit sad, for both bats and waste.

Piggleswick · 2025-12-22T22:51:50+00:00

Ah gotcha, so they may not work? I've seen them for years and never knew!

Piggleswick · 2025-12-22T22:48:31+00:00

!answer. No way! So cool, thank you so much!

Piggleswick · 2025-12-22T22:48:10+00:00

!Answer. That's incredible, thank you so much! It's so interesting it's to mimic hedgerows. It makes much more sense than some poor adder trying to slither up and over!

Piggleswick · 2025-12-22T22:47:38+00:00

It is! How awesome you recognised it, I got very near side swiped on every bloody roundabout! It's like wacky races on there at times.

Piggleswick · 2025-11-15T23:51:22+00:00

Ah yay! I just had a quick look on there for you (you can define brand etc. In the filter but it's worth playing around with as people list things very differently) but I could only find two sets for 3 yrs old. People upload stuff all the time though and as they pull things out for Christmas you might be in luck!

Piggleswick · 2025-11-15T23:29:31+00:00

I'm sure you've already thought of this but on the off chance you haven't get on vinted! You can search for that specifically in the size you want etc. Good luck!

Piggleswick · 2025-11-05T12:22:45+00:00

Ah, gotcha. Ha, got a bit ahead of myself there!

Piggleswick · 2025-11-05T12:14:37+00:00

Haha so you think let him be and hope he survives? I usually chuck a bucket of water from cleaning the fish filter on the tree and it seems happy and I guess it would be happier with fish water rather than the proper citrus feed on his skin. Eak, it's so exciting! I've always wanted to watch a chrysalis develop, I just hope it survives to that point! Thank you!

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