Fetch Birdwatchers
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Jun 2017
6:00pm, 11 Jun 2017
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Heinzster
Yesterday's run along the Coast Road revealed a couple of buzzards, a wren, several cormorants, a bull finch and lots of wee brown things. Today I saw a raptor hovering completely motionless in a stiff wind. Too small for a buzzard but bigger than a kestrel. As I was driving up a twisty road I couldn't get a good enough look. |
Jun 2017
8:32pm, 11 Jun 2017
15,314 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I forgot to mention. Cuckoo. Last weekend. Edale.
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Jun 2017
9:04pm, 11 Jun 2017
569 posts
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J2R
Easy country run today. Flushed a couple of linnets from the path just in front of me, saw bullfinch, and a stoat scuttled across the road not far away. Also, whitethroats galore flitting from bush to bush, and lots of yellowhammers. On the cuckoo subject, I've heard a lot more this year than I have in years. Don't know whether there's any significance in that. Conversely, I've heard far fewer willow warblers than I have in years - virtually none locally, in fact, which is very strange, and a little worrying. (Worrying because they're one of our summer visitors which overwinters in West Africa, where there are lots of changes afoot in land use). |
Jun 2017
9:36pm, 11 Jun 2017
23,057 posts
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Derby Tup
I've barely heard a willow warbler too, although chiffchaff seem to be doing well :(:)
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Jun 2017
1:24am, 12 Jun 2017
259 posts
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bonners
Travelling back from the Welsh Castle Relay today as a passenger saw several red Kites, buzzards and a kestrel hovering. Amazing with the red Kites that they haven't quite reached north Wales, yet go a few miles south and you spot them most days.
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Jun 2017
10:21am, 12 Jun 2017
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steve45
Down here in South East Wales Willow Warblers are more abundant (it seems) than in recent years but there's a lull in all singing birds here generally now. Loads of blossom/flowering was/is earlier this year then last..buddleia is flowering about two and a half weeks earlier! |
Jun 2017
10:10pm, 12 Jun 2017
1,799 posts
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jacdaw
Willow Warblers seem to be as common as ever round here, and I've heard a few cuckoos locally (as well as in the Lake District and Loch Lomond); I don't think I've heard any for the last couple of years locally, and before that, usually only one. No Wood Warbler this year though. Seem to be lots of Snipe and Redshank about too. |
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Jun 2017
11:10pm, 12 Jun 2017
23,063 posts
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Derby Tup
Singing birds noticeably quieter / fewer here too. Back to early / determined crowd: mistle, chiffchaff, wren and goldfinch. I've been out in North Notts tonight and heard as many williw warblers as I have all spring at home. Several broods of tiny mallard still around
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Jun 2017
7:21am, 13 Jun 2017
23,064 posts
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Derby Tup
bbc.co.uk I heard this yesterday evening. Recommended |
Jun 2017
2:47pm, 13 Jun 2017
26,570 posts
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alpenrose
Just back from the river where I saw a pair of buzzards flying over a field then a single raptor which was a red kite - never seen one this far south before! On the way out over the weir the turtle was out sunning himself then as I went back, my family of swans glided into the millpond. I was so pleased to see them as I haven't seen them since they hatched and all 7 babies were there.  
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