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Derby Tup
Derby Tup
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Send them over the hill please
Surelynot
Surelynot
May 2020
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A fly-by yesterday evening of 4 screeching swifts when I was in the back yard. They circled three times then were off over towards the river and impossibly high in the sky.
um
um
May 2020
9:22am, 7 May 2020
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Saw the bats in the garden last night for the first time this year. But then again, it's not often I go out in the back garden between 8 & 9 ... need to be out because we can only really see them against the dark, but still lightish sky. Once they're under the trees they're too small and zippy and it's too dark to see them.

Maybe need to get a few photos in case the council ever want to fell the trees and build houses there.
steve45
steve45
May 2020
10:47am, 7 May 2020
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Velociraptor--little green bird? How "green"? Siskin? Wood Warbler?? Infuriating to get a glimpse and wonder!
Still no Swifts!
phal
phal
May 2020
11:02am, 7 May 2020
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Our swifts are definitely back. Lots of swifty flypasts and screeches :-)

We've been walking later on an evening over the Wedge and there are have been plenty of bats about. Fabulous to have them in your back garden um.

The ducklings were still on the pond this morning. They have their Day Two Bravery badges as they were actually swimming away from mum today rather than sticking Very Close like they were yesterday.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2020
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Siskin a good shout
Gooner
Gooner
May 2020
11:04am, 7 May 2020
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Thanks Heinzster :)
flanker
flanker
May 2020
2:12pm, 7 May 2020
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Worried about our ducklings. Mum & little ones were being attacked (I'll be polite) by a gang of boy ducks who have obviously been isolating for too long and lost control of their hormones.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2020
2:15pm, 7 May 2020
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Sadly infanticide and gang rape appear to be quite common among ducks :-(
phal
phal
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2:17pm, 7 May 2020
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That’s why I worry every time I head down when there’s been new ducklings as we have a small gang of drakes who hang out there too....

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