Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
Jun 2020
1:19pm, 23 Jun 2020
3,968 posts
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steve45
Great dawning run J2R. Nice to have Goldfinches in the garden surelynot. I've had them regularly this year in the top of my hawthorn tree. As for Swifts...nowhere in my locality and same goes for hirundines. |
Jun 2020
1:26pm, 23 Jun 2020
43,524 posts
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Derby Tup
You’ve reminded me steve - on our walk last night we did a lap of Keighley tarn bradford.gov.uk It was around 10pm and the sky was full of swifts, silently feeding really hard. An amazing sight and a huge treat |
Jun 2020
3:11pm, 23 Jun 2020
1,752 posts
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Surelynot
I've seen more sand martins this spring that swifts. There seems to be many more than usual.
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Jun 2020
3:20pm, 23 Jun 2020
43,535 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve not really been anywhere where I was likely to see sand martin
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Jun 2020
3:41pm, 23 Jun 2020
1,753 posts
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Surelynot
DT - I am fortunate to live within a short walk of a river that, despite being in the centre of town, has plenty of wildlife. There are some great holes in some of the walls along the side of the river and some sandbanks further upriver that are great nesting sites for the sand martin. I've been puzzled lately that we see goosander and mallard on the river. The mallards always have at least one brood of ducklings but I have yet to see any goosander ducklings. The highlight of the weekend was seeing an otter. |
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Jun 2020
3:47pm, 23 Jun 2020
43,536 posts
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Derby Tup
Otter was amazing We live close to the river Worth. It’s big enough for grey wagtail, dipper and kingfisher plus supports wild brown trout and lower down a few grayling, but there are no sand martin colonies sadly |
Jun 2020
3:50pm, 23 Jun 2020
13,709 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
Very jealous of the otter!
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Jun 2020
3:50pm, 23 Jun 2020
4,956 posts
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The Scribbler
Three 'come and have a go if you think you're hard enough' wrens on a fence as we climbed out of our forest walk yesterday. A little brown jobby that turned out to be a juvenile robin on closer inspection. And plenty of grey wagtails that seemed very happy to have us sit on stones beside the river and watch them catching insects. Also an unidentified raptor crouched down at the side of the road that fixed us with a stare as we passed in the car. Largish, dark brown wings and yellow beak - most likely a buzzard. We stopped the car just after and went back for a closer look, half expecting to see a carcass on the verge, but there was nothing. And just now, out of my window, I've seen the herring gull chicks on the house opposite for the first time. They look quite large, fluffy and well formed, so I think they hatched a while ago. Mum was rarely off the nest to give me a chance of seeing them before. |
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Jun 2020
4:04pm, 23 Jun 2020
1,756 posts
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Surelynot
TS - we have a herring gull nest on a roof opposite with a single chick. It seems to get lively around 8 pm every evening and I've been surprised at how much it grows on a daily basis. I keep expecting it to fall out of the nest as it seems very clumsy. GOLDFINCH UPDATE - two on the feeder just now. |
Jun 2020
9:55pm, 23 Jun 2020
538 posts
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njosmith
On a recent run I saw a Willie Wagtail. Quite a strikeing blank and white bird. According to Wikipedia it is not a true Wagtail and is actually in the Fantail family.
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