Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
Apr 2017
7:41pm, 11 Apr 2017
1,592 posts
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steve45
Cetti's....again but further up river. Osprey...nice Kinky.
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Apr 2017
9:45pm, 11 Apr 2017
17,432 posts
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KinkyS
Great afternoon at Leighton Moss yesterday - lots of good spots including hundreds of sand martins, great white egret (with convenient nearby little egret for easy comparison) 2 garganey and *finally* actually seeing a bloomin' cetti's 
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Apr 2017
9:59pm, 11 Apr 2017
22,728 posts
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Derby Tup
Garganey - ace. A real 'spotters bird 
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Apr 2017
7:09am, 12 Apr 2017
3,412 posts
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Pou Pou LePhoõk
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Apr 2017
9:34am, 12 Apr 2017
25,153 posts
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alpenrose
I have some hedgehog poo on my front lawn this morning.
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Apr 2017
12:45pm, 12 Apr 2017
1,594 posts
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steve45
Great White Egret....more than impressive. No such good spots for me and the wind is keeping small birds skulking.
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Apr 2017
12:48pm, 12 Apr 2017
1,595 posts
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steve45
....And hooray for your Cetti's Kinky! Dull looking birds aren't they?! Garganey a superb sighting.
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Apr 2017
5:44pm, 12 Apr 2017
383 posts
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J2R
If I had to vote for the bird which had the lowest ratio of times seen to times heard, it would go to the Cetti's. Even owls are more commonly seen, in the dark. Nightingale's obviously a contender but I think Cetti's beats it.
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Apr 2017
9:44am, 13 Apr 2017
1,597 posts
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steve45
Yep....You're right J2R ! I guess there are quite a few birds heard rather than seen.....Cetti's being top but maybe also Reed Warbler, Cuckoo(!), Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, and more...
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Apr 2017
9:55am, 13 Apr 2017
384 posts
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J2R
steve45, I actually see reed warblers reasonably often. They don't seem to skulk so deeply within the reeds as the Cettis do, and they perhaps move around more. Of course another contender for heard-but-not-seen is the bittern, another deep reed dweller, but that fails to get my vote because I don't hear it very often (whereas I hear a Cetti's most days, on my riverside run).
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