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Apr 2017
6:04pm, 30 Apr 2017
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Wriggling Snake
Red crested pochard

Kew
Apr 2017
6:38pm, 30 Apr 2017
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Derby Tup
Mayflies were named before a change in our calendar moved them into June
Apr 2017
7:33pm, 30 Apr 2017
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becca7
Apparently there have been waxwings for the last few days in the park that I walk through every morning on the way to the station. Earlier in the year there were some in my street but I never saw them either. I think they are hiding from me.

Longish bike ride for me, firstly failing to find a kingfisher. However my tally for the year is up to 90 with, predictably, house martin but also blackcap and glossy ibis. I would not have known what the latter was if a kind lady hadn't told me.

Apr 2017
7:34pm, 30 Apr 2017
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alpenrose
Lovely photo becca. :)
Apr 2017
7:37pm, 30 Apr 2017
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becca7
Thank you. Just reviewing my photos, not such a good picture but I think this might be a pied flycatcher and, if so, it is number 91. Never seen one of these before.

J2R
Apr 2017
8:12pm, 30 Apr 2017
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J2R
Yes, pied flycatcher! Wonderful! We don't get them much over here in the east, and it's always a delight to spot them whenever I'm in Wales or the south west. Also wonderful glossy ibis. Where was that? Strange there are waxwings still around. I would have thought they'd all have flown back to Scandinavia or Russia long ago.
Apr 2017
8:22pm, 30 Apr 2017
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becca7
Thanks for confirming. I was a bit of a ninny and just saw the black and white and assumed it was a wagtail and concentrated on trying to get a piccy but, looking at it later, saw its physique was quite different.

I would have assumed that the waxwings would have scarpered weeks ago but there are reports from the last few days. The glossy ibis was at Cossington Meadows, north of Leicester.
Apr 2017
8:26pm, 30 Apr 2017
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Derby Tup
Male pied fly. One of my fave summer migrants and usually a bird of mature woodland. If you are there again look out for redstart and listen for wood warbler
Apr 2017
8:41pm, 30 Apr 2017
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becca7
Thanks, will do, good tips, if I can remember exactly where this was!
Apr 2017
9:00pm, 30 Apr 2017
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Chrisity
Spoonbill at Attenborough, now departed though.

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