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May 2017
12:45pm, 16 May 2017
1,680 posts
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steve45
Can't get over that you've only now bagged a Grey Wagtail bonners..!! And you've seen so many more other less common species! I tend to take Grey Wags and some species for granted I suppose. Rather like the usual Cetti's this morning! Whitethroat too.
Haven't seen "loads of Swifts", just one or two here and there.
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May 2017
1:02pm, 16 May 2017
240 posts
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bonners
Maybe living by a river and the coast my regulars are different? And I am new to bird watching. Having said that despite plenty of wagtails I've never seen one in my locality, Aber Falls is over twenty miles away.
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May 2017
1:02pm, 16 May 2017
241 posts
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bonners
That doesn't read right, I meant other types of wagtails locally.
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May 2017
4:44pm, 16 May 2017
22,824 posts
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Derby Tup
It's interesting. Dipper, kingfisher, grey wag, curlew, oyk are everyday birds for me, but a Cettis, gropper, or even a whitethroat would be amazing. We have open moorland, plus a "free stone" river but not huge amounts of trees. The Strid Woods c 7 miles away however, are ancient oak and home to redstart, pied fly and wood warbler in season
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May 2017
8:54am, 17 May 2017
1,683 posts
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steve45
yeah..where we live dictates our birding! As well as the time able to be spent. I'm a bit stuck in some ways these days because I don't own/use a car now so most of my birding is done very locally and within three miles of home. Suits me though at the moment.
I'm only 400 metres away from a river and only three miles from a good coastal site but of course upland birds elude me.
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May 2017
9:33am, 17 May 2017
22,845 posts
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Derby Tup
Patch birding is ace! Merlin from my living room window? Yes, please. Migrating skein of pinkies overhead while taking the wheelie bin out. Go on then . . . 
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May 2017
2:43pm, 17 May 2017
21,645 posts
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Dave A
On our local greenbelt site, Coundon Wedge, we've discovered two blue tit nest sites. One through discovering it ourselves when we've seen them come and go, the other has been pointed out to us. After several dog walks past it since having it pointed out we've seen blue tits coming and going, as have Kinky and Flanker this weekend.
Last night as we walked past it we stopped and listened and phal thought she could hear something inside. I leant as close as I could (the nest site is about 3 ft off the floor in a tree trunk) and I could hear the sound of multiple chirps coming from inside 
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May 2017
7:30pm, 17 May 2017
1,573 posts
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ferret
brilliant !
Hello, wonder if anyone can identify this gorgeous visitor in seaward end of Weymouth harbour from very rubbish photos -
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May 2017
7:31pm, 17 May 2017
1,574 posts
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ferret
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May 2017
7:38pm, 17 May 2017
1,575 posts
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ferret
Currently living here next to RSPB Lodmoor, cycling to Portland regularly, seeing & learning so much & next winter will be settled enough for a bird table again. My ride to parkrun can include Cetti's warblers, oystercatchers, lapwings marsh harriers, so strange as all next to a busy main road.
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