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Apr 2017
10:25am, 18 Apr 2017
387 posts
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J2R
Forgot to mention otter as well (not that that's a bird - but you probably knew that). KinkyS, I'm familiar with Titchwell in the depths of winter, and it can be a cruel, cruel place. When it's lashing with freezing rain where I live and I'm out doing some training run or other, I can delude myself into thinking what I'm doing is pretty hard-core. But those guys who sit on the beach at Titchwell in the face of an Arctic gale, bins and scopes trained out to sea in the hope of spotting some wandering pelagic - they're in a different league of hard-core. Insane, but hard-core.
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Apr 2017
11:30am, 18 Apr 2017
10,808 posts
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Chrisull
I was at Titchwell just last week...
Saw 2 marsh harriers, and plenty of ducks I didn't recognise.
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Apr 2017
11:52am, 18 Apr 2017
391 posts
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J2R
Chrisull, I'm familiar with your duck recognition problem. I get it with waders as well, in winter plumage at least. But there's always a lot of expertise at Titchwell to hep you out. Often when I'm there I'll ask one of the regulars what that non-descript brown wader I'm looking at is and get an answer like 'Oh, it's a juvenile first year male ruff, hatched first week of June last year , called Simon'.
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Apr 2017
12:13pm, 18 Apr 2017
7,206 posts
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becca7
Properly laughed out loud at that, J2R.
Currently out in Boston for the marathon, yesterday. Local birds that we don't get in the UK, American robin, grackle and cardinal, pretty common here. Going to take my mashed legs on a little walk later to try and see a few more.
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Apr 2017
8:11pm, 18 Apr 2017
754 posts
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flyingfinn
Trip to the Lakes for some Joss Naylor Challenge support but managed to fit in visits to Leighton Moss, St Bees Head and Foulshaw. So a good couple of days of spots including displaying Marsh Harriers, hundreds of Black Tailed Godwit, Wheater, Stonechat, Guillemots, Osprey and plenty more but the delight for me was a Yellowhammer I spotted in Wasdale. I seem to come across them so rarely these days :-/
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Apr 2017
8:26pm, 18 Apr 2017
393 posts
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J2R
Yellowhammers are fortunately still reasonably common in Norfolk. Or at least, I see and hear them often enough, not sure about their numbers. I'd trade you 10 yellowhammers for an osprey :).
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Apr 2017
9:21pm, 18 Apr 2017
2,799 posts
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NDWDave
I was in Sydney last week and there were many white Ibis wandering around. A very odd looking bird. I also saw some galahs.
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Apr 2017
9:24pm, 18 Apr 2017
26,857 posts
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GlennR
Lots of Ibis in Sydney. Also fruit bats!
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Apr 2017
9:28pm, 18 Apr 2017
2,800 posts
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NDWDave
I saw the fruit bats in the park last time. I don't think I saw anything rare but it was all new (or at least not recent) for me
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Apr 2017
9:33pm, 18 Apr 2017
26,858 posts
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GlennR
I loved being in Victoria Park after dark and watching the possums.
Loads of bats in the botanic gardens.
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