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A short walk in the forest, well, open 'plain' late afternoon yesterday (after the red kits).
Lots of stonechats, spotted flycatchers and skylarks. Some going very high, others prepared to stay just ahead of us on the ground. Not in groups, but on a 3 mile walk, nearly always one in view somewhere.
Derby Tup
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May 2020
10:36am, 19 May 2020
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I’ve heard very few skylark this year although he did have some overhead one Sunday morning which was a great outing
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May 2020
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Local warblers very vocal this morning including the local ‘broken chiffchaff’. He’s not moved from a small copse near us in several weeks
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May 2020
5:46pm, 19 May 2020
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Skylarks must all be over this side of the hill. Almost tripping over them on every run on the tops.

Hardly any stoncechats this year, and will have to nip out to the Craggs to see if the spotted fly are back.
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May 2020
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Lovely evening walk along the river last night. Heard a duel of two calling cuckoos, oodles of warblers and loud, loud song thrushes, saw a couple of water voles, deer, hedgehogs rustling in the undergrowth. It's a different place once the sun sets.

Still no willow warblers here though, and I don't know why. I fear all these willows will have to remain unwarbled for another year.
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Do yourself a favour and have a listen to some ww recordings. What I was listening out for is nothing like what they sound like in the field here ;-)
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We have tree sparrows as well as house sparrows. This makes me very happy. :)
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phal
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10:22am, 20 May 2020
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Ooooo love a tree sparrow 😍
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I always check for tree sparrow but have never found one locally. Fabulous birds
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DT, I know and love the song of the willow warbler, and hear it quite frequently outside my immediate area. But for some reason, they seem to have disappeared from my local patch in the last 2-3 years, where they used to be common. I don't think anything has changed in the environment here which would explain it. Still, mustn't complain, when there are chiffchaffs, blackcaps, garden warblers, Cetti's, sedge warblers, reed warblers and whitethroats.

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