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Oct 2018
10:49am, 16 Oct 2018
1,135 posts
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flyingfinn
Down your way at the moment Steve and popped into Newport Wetlands yesterday afternoon and was surprised to hear that they had both Swallows and Sand Martins yesterday morning! Around 20 of both.
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Oct 2018
11:03am, 16 Oct 2018
27,210 posts
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Derby Tup
My in-laws told me a story about over-wintering hirundines in the UK - maybe swallows - living around industrial units or power stations that generate large quantities of ambient heat
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Oct 2018
12:44pm, 16 Oct 2018
2,117 posts
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jacdaw
Anybody seen a redwing or fieldfare yet? I've seen reports that they are 'trickling' in.
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Oct 2018
12:50pm, 16 Oct 2018
539 posts
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Roberto
2 of the bittern have returned to the reserve near me. Usually have 4 so still waiting/hoping for the other 2. Kingfishers also still showing pretty well.
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Oct 2018
6:00pm, 16 Oct 2018
1,431 posts
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J2R
Some serious mobbing action on my run just now. An angry mob of rooks were in pursuit of a buzzard, and in fact even attacked it in the air - a big flutter of feathers came down just in front of me. It took shelter in a tree, but once it flew off again, it was promptly set upon by a group of magpies! Not one of its best days.
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Oct 2018
10:09am, 17 Oct 2018
2,837 posts
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steve45
Swallows and Martins usually linger down here in very small numbers until the end of the month and then a few into November.
REDWING! My first early this morning..quite late arrival date for me. And a Chiffchaff in the garden an hour later.
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Oct 2018
10:33am, 17 Oct 2018
1,434 posts
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J2R
steve45, love it when you see winter and summer visitors overlapping. I remember a few years ago watching some fieldfares feeding in a field above which house martins swooped for flies.
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Oct 2018
3:47pm, 17 Oct 2018
27,220 posts
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Derby Tup
What looked like a small group of fieldfare err appropriately in a field (where there are very often lapwing hence me looking). Then a few minutes later what were definitely 30 redwing flying above my car
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Oct 2018
12:26pm, 18 Oct 2018
2,840 posts
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steve45
Redwing again this morning but overall very few birds about to see on my run despite perfect conditions. A solitary Skylark overhead flying south and that's all.
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Oct 2018
12:32pm, 18 Oct 2018
27,241 posts
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Derby Tup
Wrens singing loudly last few days here. Weather has been good mind so maybe they think it’s spring - February on birds’ calendars 
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