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Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2020
11:18am, 27 May 2020
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Derby Tup
We can hear our young great tit family in their best. Can’t be long before they’re on their way out
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2020
8:51am, 28 May 2020
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Derby Tup
Quite distant but clearly audible cuckoo heard from our garden :-)
bonners
bonners
May 2020
8:52am, 28 May 2020
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bonners
Fantastic DT.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2020
9:05am, 28 May 2020
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Derby Tup
Fourth cuckoo in three days :-)

I had a very swifty encounter a couple days ago - I was running (slowly) up the cobbled Main Street in Haworth - the start of the Hobble basically - and about 3/4 of the way up a small group of screaming swift where hurtling down toward me at roof level
steve45
steve45
May 2020
12:42pm, 28 May 2020
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steve45
Almost embarrassingly late..I heard my first Swift's (2) screaming high over my house this morning.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2020
12:44pm, 28 May 2020
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Derby Tup
They’re probably non-breeders heading south for the winter :-)
J2R
J2R
May 2020
1:19pm, 28 May 2020
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J2R
Our garden now resounds to the summer swift screech. Took a while. Strange thing to love, but I do.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
May 2020
1:42pm, 28 May 2020
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Derby Tup
If you watch Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing there are swifts screaming in many of the outdoor scenes. It was filmed in Tuscany and you can almost feel summer oozing out of the screen. It’s a wonderful positive upbeat sound
J2R
J2R
May 2020
3:48pm, 28 May 2020
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J2R
DT, yes, that's part of it, certainly. It's the sound of sitting outside some restaurant in Spain or Italy, on a warm summer evening, drinking wine and eating gorgeous food.
SteveCRunner
SteveCRunner
May 2020
3:58pm, 28 May 2020
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SteveCRunner
I managed to snap my first cormorant in the NL on my run today. I've often seen them in Pembrokeshire but I'm happy to spot one here.

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