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Jul 2020
7:36pm, 9 Jul 2020
1,768 posts
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Surelynot
Fledgeling drama this afternoon.
Our first incident was a tiny and exhausted looking goldfinch that settled on my window sill as I was on a Team call. I was admiring it when a local cat jumped up to grab it. I banged on the window to scare off the cat and it seemed to work. I'm so pleased I was on mute.
The second incident has seen the herring gull chick fall out of the nest as it was trying to fly. It can't get back up and is running about the street very distressed.
It's all go.
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Jul 2020
8:34pm, 9 Jul 2020
2,842 posts
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J2R
DT, FF, I continue to be perplexed by birdlessness here! I did a run on Kinder Scout today, and last year when I ran in the same area there were willow warblers everywhere, but not a single one today, nor have I heard any in the area so far. I have had lots of linnets, stonechats and meadow pipits, though, and a couple of curlews on the moorland today, Yes, FF, it's like November weather at the moment. Very strange.
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Jul 2020
8:42pm, 9 Jul 2020
44,173 posts
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Derby Tup
The waders are leaving or have left the moors now, certainly here they have largely. Mipit are in post breeding groups and very flighty
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Jul 2020
9:20pm, 9 Jul 2020
1,779 posts
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flyingfinn
J2R now you mention it I haven't heard a Willow Warbler recently either. When I think about it not round here in at least the last two weeks.
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Jul 2020
9:23pm, 9 Jul 2020
3,133 posts
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jacdaw
Lapwing have been grouping up here for a few weeks, and now the curlew are starting to do the same. I've seen a few golden plover in odd places, off the tops, too.
On a positive note, I suppose as a result of the lockdown, I've seen far, far fewer lapwing chicks squashed on the road than in any year I can remember.
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Jul 2020
9:25pm, 9 Jul 2020
3,134 posts
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jacdaw
Birds only have 2 seasons, breeding and not.
They are almost all now in not. Except the sparrows in my roof, just next to where I want to paint the window.
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Jul 2020
9:36pm, 9 Jul 2020
44,175 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve seen three adults carrying food this week - a blackbird, a very late starling and a mipit
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Jul 2020
12:02am, 10 Jul 2020
19,258 posts
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flanker
Our house martins still seem to be at it (they were very late arrivals) as half a shell appeared under the nest today.
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Jul 2020
11:26am, 10 Jul 2020
1,769 posts
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Surelynot
The herring gull chick did not last 24 hours, unfortunately.
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Jul 2020
10:32pm, 10 Jul 2020
2,843 posts
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J2R
I saw a grey wagtail carrying food to what I presume was its nest today, so it's not all over with them. I wonder whether the long sustained good weather (until recently) has encouraged a lot of birds to have second broods. Not sure it works like that, though.
FF, the puzzling thing with the willow warblers was that it was exactly this time last year, in exactly the same area of Kinder Scout, that they were all over the place. I went down Lathkill Dale today, from Monyash, and thought that was prime willow warbler country, but heard none. Did hear (but not see) a redstart, but strangely no dippers.
Now back home. I will be back to that area at the earliest possible opportunity, though, I loved it.
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