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Jun 2020
7:29pm, 28 Jun 2020
2,815 posts
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J2R
D2, envious of your nesting swallows. We don't get them where I live (well, not over our garden anyway - they do occur nearby). They're elegant birds.
Given that bluetits eat aphids, I don't understand why we don't get huge flocks of them here! I live in a street lined with very large lime trees, which must have untold millions of aphids living in them judging by the huge quantities of honeydew which rain down onto my car. I've just spent ages cleaning the sticky gunk off, but within a day or so it will be completely coated again.
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Jun 2020
9:10pm, 28 Jun 2020
19,219 posts
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flanker
Sands DT? Round there several times a week, and get regular grey wags and sometimes dippers, but not noticed the sand martin. That's next week's task sorted 
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Jun 2020
9:28pm, 28 Jun 2020
43,716 posts
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Derby Tup
Walk off the main road past the club and up on to the canal side. You’re just beyond the park. Turn right and you’re on the aquaduct carrying the canal over the Calder. There must have been a couple of dozen sand martin bombing about plus the odd swift. Maybe they were a feeding party away from ‘home’? I know the canal around there well (the cafe a bit further on is good) but don’t know the river
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Jun 2020
10:52pm, 28 Jun 2020
11,733 posts
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D2
Loads of swifts along with some house martins swirling over my meadows this afternoon, actually probably more accurately "over my cattle and their associated flies""! Bird table action has slowed down a lot in the last few days so I'm assuming there are less parents feeding hungry babies and more fledglings finding their own food.
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Jun 2020
11:14pm, 28 Jun 2020
43,722 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve just seen a badger. Not 100% certain but possibly only my 2nd ‘local’ sighting in nearly 16 years in the West Riding
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Jun 2020
11:33am, 29 Jun 2020
17,818 posts
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KinkyS
DT,
I sit on a bench at that spot to eat my lunch regularly and I've never seen a sand martin there!
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Jun 2020
11:36am, 29 Jun 2020
43,737 posts
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Derby Tup
Nice spot for a sandwich. We had a flask of coffee. Keep ‘em peeled Kinky
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Jun 2020
11:41am, 29 Jun 2020
17,819 posts
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KinkyS
It's less than 5 minutes walk from work - not bad eh
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Jun 2020
11:44am, 29 Jun 2020
43,738 posts
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Derby Tup
You’re very lucky. I love Hebden Bridge and the Rochdale canal
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Jun 2020
12:25pm, 29 Jun 2020
1,198 posts
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Roberto
Goldfinch returned for first time in a few weeks. And brought a friend. 😁😁😁
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