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Image Taken on 10 Apr 2006 at 07:01    Image of day on 18 Apr 2006

Two for the price of one in the early morning waiting for breakfast to arrive.


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Image Taken on 15 Oct 2010 at 08:10    Image of day on 18 Dec 2010

Next morning, a not so happy dunnock (right) face to face with a Chaffinch male.


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Image Taken on 16 Nov 2010 at 15:26    Image of day on 07 Jan 2011

Portraits of birds feeding in the hedge bottom. We probably don't appreciate our fortune in seeing perhaps 50 pictures of Dunnocks each week at this site. This one seemed particularly classic.


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Image Taken on 15 Mar 2010 at 05:57    Image of day on 23 Apr 2010

A pair of Dunnocks spend a lot of time at this site. Here is one of the better portraits (single frame).


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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2007 at 16:08    Image of day on 07 Nov 2007

Nice quiet portrait of a Dunnock contrasts with it dive-bombing a robin (see 10 Oct 2007).


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Image Taken on 23 Feb 2007 at 16:36    Image of day on 04 Mar 2007

Portrait of a Dunnock.


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Image Taken on 11 Sep 2006 at 06:47    Image of day on 17 Sep 2006

A handsome Dunnock, probably not the one that lost it's tail.


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Image Taken on 10 Oct 2007 at 17:33    Image of day on 11 Nov 2007

A small scale dogfight by human standards, but it must be a pretty major scrap for these birds.


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Image Taken on 23 Mar 2008 at 08:01    Image of day on 10 Apr 2008

A striking example of size contrast. You just never see such size contrasts in books which are separated into separate sections. Despite the room for more brain in the pheasant, we think the Dunnocks make better use of what they have.


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Image Taken on 09 Dec 2006 at 15:59    Image of day on 20 Dec 2006

The Robin and Dunnock appear not to like one another's company. Rather out-of-focus behind the log but a genuine single frame.


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Image Taken on 09 Mar 2011 at 17:49    Image of day on 06 Apr 2011

Size doesn't really count when it comes to aggression
Here a Dunnock and Robin having a set-to at the edge of the frame while. presumably, the Dunnock's mate watches,


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Image of day on 18 Nov 2005

Dunnock in the sunshine


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Image of day on 03 Dec 2005

A Dunnock among the autumn leaf litter.


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Image of day on 04 Nov 2005

First Dunnock we have seen for some time.


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Image of day on 26 Jan 2006

Not seeing many Dunnock at the moment, so this is a welcome visitor.


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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2008 at 07:42    Image of day on 05 Mar 2008

This caught our fancy because it shows the difference in size so well. (NOT a montage)


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Image Taken on 24 Jan 2009 at 07:33    Image of day on 11 Feb 2009

Still pretty dark, but its seems it is never too early for a dunnock and robin to have a squabble.


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Image Taken on 01 Apr 2011 at 18:18    Image of day on 06 May 2011

In the left corner the Dunnock, in the right corner the Robin. These are normally only brief skirmishes


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Image Taken on 13 Jul 2011 at 19:16    Image of day on 23 Aug 2011

Coquettish Dunnocks are a rarity!


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Image Taken on 24 Jun 2010 at 13:36    Image of day on 01 Aug 2010

Meanwhile this Dunnock adult is obviously still hard at work collecting food for his chicks somewhere nearby.


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