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Apr 2020
3:58pm, 29 Apr 2020
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flyingfinn
I only ever get a solitary Greenfinch. Always seems to visit as an add-on to the Goldfinches. One will turn up regularly for a few days and then no sightings for quite a while. That seems to have been the pattern for several years now but I keep hoping firstly that they become more regular visitors and in numbers.
Apr 2020
4:24pm, 29 Apr 2020
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Tim of Fife
When running on the beach, there were terns fishing just a few feet offshore. Hovering about thirty feet up, then screaming headlong into the surf like bullets.
Apr 2020
5:10pm, 29 Apr 2020
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Derby Tup
Kingfisher seen by the beck behind Spar in Haworth then disappearing over the engine sheds (I was hoping for a dipper)

Interesting illustration of how clean UK watercourses are now (thankfully) and that it’s always worth checking the most mundane of environments for wildlife
Apr 2020
5:47pm, 29 Apr 2020
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flyingfinn
Kingfisher is a pretty good consolation DT.
Apr 2020
6:26pm, 29 Apr 2020
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Roberto
Pied wagtail on the drive 2 doors down 10 mins ago. First I've seen this far into the estate
Apr 2020
6:28pm, 29 Apr 2020
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Rosehip
Same with the Greenfinch here ff, used to be frequent visitors en masse

Coal tits heard and then seen on this evening's mini dog walk :)

Blue tits are nesting in the box on the garage :) - it's designed as a tenement block for sparrows, but two pairs of bluetits seem to have moved in :)
Apr 2020
7:50pm, 29 Apr 2020
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bonners
Spring is in full flow reading this thread, love reading of the different spots in different areas.

Highlights for me recently, wheatears, oystercatcher and sandwich terns on the seafront. A solitary lapwing still hanging around, apparently most of our local lapwings disappear to Denmark to breed. The garden has been great and watching the blackbirds always puts a smile on my face. But the absolute noisy best has to have been the shagging gulls whilst I was trying to enjoy a quiet cider in the garden tonight. At least I know I've several weeks of having lumps pecked out of my head to look forward to 😁
Apr 2020
7:56pm, 29 Apr 2020
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Derby Tup
Dunnock lurking round the back of the house looking for a shag
Apr 2020
8:22pm, 29 Apr 2020
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jacdaw
It'll be a cormorant DT. You're too far inland for shag!
Apr 2020
9:01pm, 29 Apr 2020
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Derby Tup
It was eyeing up a horse at one point. They’ll mate with anything

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