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Mar 2018
6:08pm, 24 Mar 2018
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Derby Tup
Great posts ^ We’re nipping off home tomorrow and there’s a good chance we might call at Seahouses on the way. The harbour there is THE place for serious eider spotting |
Mar 2018
6:36pm, 24 Mar 2018
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Chrisity
Eiders always remind me of the old comedy sketches with men dressed as buxom pinny clad ladies hoisting up there bosoms and making cooing noises (Imaging Les Dawson going "ooohhh, did she really?"). Used to see a lot on Mull at Easter.
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Mar 2018
7:02pm, 24 Mar 2018
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Derby Tup
Someone posted somewhere on t’internet that they sound like Frankie Howerd peeping through a key-hole . . . “ooh err ooh . . . “. I just love and admire their resilience. They just seem to be able to swim along virtually anywhere
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Mar 2018
7:02pm, 24 Mar 2018
7,639 posts
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becca7
Similarly I always thought that eiders sounded like Frankie Howard saying ooh. I think I've only ever seen them in Scotland and then fairly often if I was at the coast.
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Mar 2018
8:16pm, 24 Mar 2018
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jacdaw
"A coven of Frankie Howerds gossiping around the village pump..." bbc.co.uk And here, which I prefer: bbc.co.uk If you go to the Farnes at the right time you can walk right up to the incubating females and they don't even notice you. Hard to concentrate while being dive bombed by the terns. |
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Mar 2018
8:27pm, 24 Mar 2018
25,445 posts
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Derby Tup
I have been to the Farnes and seen them. The thing I love is seeing the post breeding crèche flotillas. Terrific birds they are.
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Mar 2018
2:19am, 25 Mar 2018
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flanker
ff definitely worth a trip to South Walney. Great mix of water/wetland/grass/scrub terrain and the only English breeding grey seal colony. Apparently if you can be there for high tide you get a 'murmuration' of thousands of waders as they come in from the estuary onto the reserves lakes. Planning on a full day there next time. Great close up of a pair of yellowhammers on today's run, along with the resident red kite, kestrel and buzzard. Getting to the point where I know which tree each one will be in. |
Mar 2018
1:20pm, 25 Mar 2018
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steve45
Eiders are seen down here in small numbers in the Burry Inlet, Gower. No migrants yet! |
Mar 2018
2:48pm, 25 Mar 2018
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Would it be feasible to be seeing a nightingale in southern England at this time of year? I’m still not confident on a lot of bird songs but I don’t think the bird I saw and heard today was a song thrush as it wasn’t repetitive enough. I saw it silhouetted against the sky so couldn’t be confident about what it looked like either, but I’m sure the beak was too thin and pointy to be a thrush. |
Mar 2018
5:21pm, 25 Mar 2018
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J2R
flanker, there are substantial breeding grey seal colonies on the Norfolk coast, in fact. I was up in one of the areas this afternoon, as it happens. The pups have all gone now, but I saw loads of adults just offshore. Frag, doubtful about nightingale at this time of year. Stranger things have happened, though. Did a 20 mile race this morning, the discomfort somewhat mitigated by the singing of multiple yellowhammers and skylarks. Spring, perhaps? |
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