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jacdaw
jacdaw
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Unless he lives in the middle of the Langholm project!
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
May 2018
12:17pm, 13 May 2018
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Yeah, you're right, must have been lapwing. Cool to watch anyway. Hard this bird ID thing, isn't it?! Very clearly not any kind of raptor!! :-) G
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2018
12:27pm, 13 May 2018
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It’s easy to get confused. Once you’ve built up a base general knowledge of common species for where you live / go then it becomes easier. Birds are often territorial or at least there are good spots for us to see them. The fields by a reservoir a few miles from where we used to live always have lapwing
jacdaw
jacdaw
May 2018
12:54pm, 13 May 2018
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When I had been doing hen harrier nest monitoring for a few weeks, I was out cycling and a lapwing flew up. My brain immediately said "Hen Harrier!", until it became clear it was a lapwing. I'd been looking at / for HHs so much that the white tail bar just triggered that response.

Lapwings are fabulous fliers, and make some great noises.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2018
1:08pm, 13 May 2018
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Lapwing noises along with skylark song are so evocative of British high pastureland star
flyingfinn
flyingfinn
May 2018
3:36pm, 13 May 2018
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Out early today up Dovedale checking signs for a trail race and was rewarded with the place to myself and three Dipper sightings.
Dave A
Dave A
May 2018
4:01pm, 13 May 2018
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RSPB Brampton yesterday. Puffins and Tree Sparrows 😀. 3 Oyster Catchers and a load of Sandmartins on Ulrome beach this morning.
Dave A
Dave A
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4:02pm, 13 May 2018
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Not Brampton, fucking autocorrect, Bempton.
flyingfinn
flyingfinn
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4:10pm, 13 May 2018
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Nice Dave. I was thinking of a trip there in the next week or so to see the Puffins.
Dave A
Dave A
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5:10pm, 13 May 2018
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Well worth the drive. Some good coastal running round there too.

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