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Apr 2018
11:28pm, 29 Apr 2018
25,711 posts
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Derby Tup
Brent geese are a bit like say shellduck in that you’re unlikely to mix them up with anything else. Small geese and dark grey / monochrome colourway. That’s about it
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Apr 2018
12:15am, 30 Apr 2018
15,885 posts
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Chrisity
Finally heard some skylarks today, but my local ones haven't been heard by me yet. Let's hope it's just me.
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Apr 2018
8:20am, 30 Apr 2018
25,712 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve done quite well for skylarks this year but I don’t think I’ve heard a willow warbler yet 
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Apr 2018
9:16am, 30 Apr 2018
28,680 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Skylarks up the top of hill run yesterday. And a cuckoo in the woods. Lovely. G
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Apr 2018
9:33am, 30 Apr 2018
25,713 posts
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Derby Tup
Blackcap, chiffchaff, wren, blackbird all singing on this morning’s dog walk. Drumming GSW heard too. A nervous wait now to see if there are any local swift here on the new patch
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Apr 2018
1:45pm, 30 Apr 2018
17,565 posts
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KinkyS
Long day out on the moors over the weekend for the Fellsman event
More mipits, skylarks and curlews than you could shake a stick at, a handful of red grouse, and heard my first willow warbler of the year in the car park before the event flanker had a speculative shout of ring ouzel but I didn't see it...
No wheaters though
In domestic news, 'our' robin had a right pout on this morning because the feeder had been emptied over the weekend, and 'our' dunnocks are looking especially cute in the cold weather, feathers puffed up to the point of being spherical 
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Apr 2018
2:19pm, 30 Apr 2018
1,197 posts
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J2R
Heinzster, brent geese seem likely. They occur in huge numbers on Strangford Lough, not far away, so I'm sure they're present on Belfast Lough as well.
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Apr 2018
5:55pm, 30 Apr 2018
25,714 posts
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Derby Tup
A pair of mandarins on the beck (lovely patch first) and three soaring sparrowhawk over the house
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Apr 2018
9:23pm, 30 Apr 2018
1,145 posts
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Heinzster
Thanks, guys. Brent geese it is. Ironically we went on a visit to see 40,000 Brent Geese on Strangford Lough. The weren't there that day🤣
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Apr 2018
9:27pm, 30 Apr 2018
556 posts
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bonners
Not much to report round here, although river run tomorrow so hopeful of seeing if the sandwich terns are back.
In other news the Robin was back in the garden, bit of a worry as not been around for a few days.
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