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Mar 2018
8:54pm, 11 Mar 2018
467 posts
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bonners
Yeah, there was another one that I didn't get a close enough look at, maybe it was flirting 😀.
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Mar 2018
10:18am, 12 Mar 2018
28,440 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
A run up to a nearby loch that I haven't previously visited and there was an old chap with a camera. Still deep snow so I was asking if the path round loch was passable. As it was misty I don't think he was getting a pic of anything, so we chatted. Ospreys. Apparently 2 pairs thought to be nesting in the area and he was hoping to be first to get a pic. He'll need clearer visibility, but what a fab spot that would be. About 5 miles from my house. I shall run up there more often!  G
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Mar 2018
1:23pm, 12 Mar 2018
25,318 posts
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Derby Tup
Nice one HG
I saw a report of an early migrating (North) osprey over the weekend but can’t remember where the report (or bird) was 
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Mar 2018
3:02pm, 12 Mar 2018
17,949 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Walking about on the tops of Edale yesterday, heard three separate Curlews and a grouse, really funny call that I cannot place, a bit like a comedy cartoon uncoliing spring?
Coal Tit in the garden this morning, usually see one earlier, phew!
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Mar 2018
5:34pm, 12 Mar 2018
25,319 posts
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Derby Tup
Check out snipe call WS
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Mar 2018
9:20pm, 12 Mar 2018
25,322 posts
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Derby Tup
I’m in the Premier Inn in Ripley not a million miles from Denby, home of the famous pottery. There’s a little wooded walk I can do first thing tomorrow. Looks good for chiffchaff
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Mar 2018
9:34pm, 12 Mar 2018
472 posts
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bonners
Good luck DT, I'm hoping to see a wheatear soon, another one you taught me to spot, the first ones generally turn up around now.
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Mar 2018
9:38pm, 12 Mar 2018
25,323 posts
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Derby Tup
I love wheatear 😀
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Mar 2018
10:36pm, 12 Mar 2018
1,913 posts
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jacdaw
Wriggling Snake, if it wasn't a snipe drumming, it could have been a displaying lapwing? But my money is on the snipe from your description.
Wheatears never seem to turn up round here until after the Highland Fling, right at the end of April).
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Mar 2018
5:12pm, 13 Mar 2018
2,430 posts
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steve45
A whooping wow to all those Whoopers Heinzster! Wotta herd!
Snipe display is "Roding" and quite a sound to hear though I've not heard it for many years down here.
First migrant Meadow Pipit moving back through my local patch this morning but otherwise very dull compared with all the sitings above.
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