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Jun 2018
6:07pm, 24 Jun 2018
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Derby Tup
We were on a boat trip up the river Exe and I got the shag there  My first in the West Country
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Jun 2018
6:30pm, 24 Jun 2018
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J2R
Good coastal walk yesterday. A pair of lesser whitethroats in a bush, a corn bunting on a wire, lots of linnets, a cuckoo cuckooing (like bonners, I had imagined they would all have cleared off by now), a red kite, stonechats, reed buntings.
Garden delight today, 7 young blue tits (presumably siblings) feeding on the peanut feeder, along with 3 young great tits (also presumably family). Gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
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Jun 2018
6:34pm, 24 Jun 2018
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Derby Tup
Not many corn bunting posted on here J2R. Nice one 👍🏻
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Jun 2018
6:40pm, 24 Jun 2018
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J2R
Yes, DT, there are some patches of Norfolk where you can spot them, but they're always a treat. One of those birds that are common as muck in farmland in various areas of Europe I've travelled in (such as Bulgaria), but which have declined massively here.
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Jun 2018
9:27am, 25 Jun 2018
3,122 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
[I must praise DT for his TOTP ;)]
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Jun 2018
9:48am, 25 Jun 2018
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minardi
I hope you don't mind me popping in with a question - I didn't know who else might have an idea about this.....
For the second time this year, we have found a swan's egg on our lawn. Both have been intact. We had presumed that the first one was due to vandals but now that we have a second - and our local swans all seem to have hatched now. Could it be a larger bird - buzzard or whatever? or is it likely to be vandals like we thought? Any ideas?
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Jun 2018
10:26am, 25 Jun 2018
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minardi
We also appear to have a guinea fowl in our garden! It's all happening today!!
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Jun 2018
11:09am, 25 Jun 2018
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D2
skylark / meadow pipit on my walk this morning...... country person me ..... of course I can tell the difference ?
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Jun 2018
12:45pm, 25 Jun 2018
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J2R
Both are rather instinct brown birds, which take flights up into the air from the ground. Skylarks go higher, twittering in their larky way all the while, and make a continuing torrent of song, while MPs have shorter flights and having flown up, parachute to the ground in a way which evidently impresses the ladies. Skylarks are also noticeably bigger.
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Jun 2018
1:06pm, 25 Jun 2018
26,128 posts
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Derby Tup
Ironically (in my experience) meadow pipit prefer heathland or moors (in spring - summer), whereas I tend to associate skylark with more ‘improved’ land and big skies
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