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Apr 2020
8:25am, 9 Apr 2020
39,609 posts
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Derby Tup
Orange tip butterfly in the garden yesterday
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Apr 2020
9:42am, 9 Apr 2020
2,958 posts
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jacdaw
My red mason bees are up and about. About the same time as usual. I've seen small tortie, comma and peacock butterflies, which is early, but they all hibernate, so appear as soon as it warms up. Lots of big queen bumble bees too, not sure of spp.
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Apr 2020
11:04am, 9 Apr 2020
1,576 posts
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flyingfinn
Saw rather than just heard my first Blackcap this morning and heard my first WW. Lots of activity as I went along the Res path. It doesn't take nature long to expand into space vacated by man. 
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Apr 2020
11:09am, 9 Apr 2020
2,960 posts
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jacdaw
Hoping there will be fewer squashed lapwing chicks on the roads this year.
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Apr 2020
11:39am, 9 Apr 2020
4,834 posts
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The Scribbler
Very excited to see a pair of goldfinches on the roof this morning. I'm right beside the coast, with a concrete back yard and my best view is from my writing den 4 stories up, so it's mainly herring gulls and crows. Lovely to see a smaller garden bird and something so easily identifiable.
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Apr 2020
12:31pm, 9 Apr 2020
2,684 posts
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phal
No WW here yet.....
Love HF?'s comment "I'm having to make do with the call of a curlew...."
Magic
We found where the Ring-necked Parakeets are roosting/nesting over on the Wedge yesterday, pretty hard trying to find the green bird in the green tree that was making onehellofanoise!!
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Apr 2020
1:38pm, 9 Apr 2020
2,685 posts
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phal
Sitting in the garden - bird alarm calls start going off... look up.... ah, that’ll be a sparrowhawk then!
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Apr 2020
1:57pm, 9 Apr 2020
39,613 posts
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Derby Tup
Chiff galore. Pair of grey wag. Two separate drumming GSW this morning
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Apr 2020
4:02pm, 9 Apr 2020
39,628 posts
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Derby Tup
I was outside a few minutes ago and heard a familiar but unfamiliar sound - a swallow. I just caught sight of it heading northbound as it flew over the house
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Apr 2020
6:09pm, 9 Apr 2020
15,609 posts
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Rosehip
about to post almost exactly the same as Phal - haven't seen the sparrowhawk for a long while (3 or 4 years?) not sure what it got, a few brown and grey feathers on the lawn!
Two greenfinch on the feeder
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