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Aug 2020
10:01am, 3 Aug 2020
2,870 posts
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J2R
DT, when I was running around Kinder Scout a few weeks ago, I thought I saw a whinchat but wasn't sure. Does that seem plausible to you?
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Aug 2020
10:06am, 3 Aug 2020
44,765 posts
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Derby Tup
Quite plausible I’d have thought
I’m going out for a walk in a bit to look for swift ( and waxwing  )
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Aug 2020
10:12am, 3 Aug 2020
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J2R
Swifts still here, I'm pleased to report. Also glad to say that the hedgehogs have become absolutely reliable visitors, snuffling around the flowerbeds between 9 and 9:30 each evening. Strange that we didn't appear to have any here at all for 10 years and now they're suddenly almost routine. Mrs J2R is very keen to see them here because of their sterling slug-reduction work. Hostas are looking remarkably unravaged this year and our little urchin friends might be the reason.
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Aug 2020
10:56am, 3 Aug 2020
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Yorkshire Pie
Our hedgehogs are fairly reliable too - I waited out for them the last couple of evenings and as soon as it goes dark you start to hear the snuffling.
The fact we feed them might have something to do with this They also like rummaging round the squirrel feeder to see if any peanuts have been dropped.
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Aug 2020
11:12am, 3 Aug 2020
5,039 posts
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The Scribbler
Had a lovely display of fishing from a kingfisher that seems to be turning up in lots of local photos at Gosforth Park Nature reserve on Saturday. Happily fishing from the same spots so I finally got my camera settings spot on for a good shot.
There was actually a cormorant and heron on the same lake, but the kingfisher got the biggest catch while we were watching. Cormorant didn’t move.
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Aug 2020
3:02pm, 3 Aug 2020
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Roberto
Sounds great scribbler. Thats where all my kingfisher shots are from, get some cracking ones from the big hide.
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Aug 2020
3:16pm, 3 Aug 2020
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flyingfinn
J2R a month a so ago Whinchat were regularly being reported at Barbrook Reservoir on the Eastern Moors area behind White Edge. That's no real distance (or change of environment) from Kinder, so it's entirely plausible that's what you saw. I've also seen reports for them in the Goyt Valley which is not far off the western edge of Kinder and again a similar environment.
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Aug 2020
3:17pm, 3 Aug 2020
5,042 posts
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The Scribbler
It was lovely Roberto, we saw so much on that visit including peacock butterflies and a dragonfly with a wingspan nearly as big as my hand. I've seen some great shots from that hide. I was just glad that after I got overexcited about seeing the kingfisher last week and totally messed up my ISO settings, that I could take a breath, think about what I was doing and the conditions and the kingfisher was still there to be photographed.
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Aug 2020
3:17pm, 3 Aug 2020
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Yorkshire Pie
Just remembered I got a picture of one of the hedgehogs on Saturday
There are definitely at least two of them as we have a camera which picks them up snorting at each other. I'm fairly sure that one of them is living in the hedgehog house and this is (I think) the other one because it appeared in the garden from a slightly different direction.
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Aug 2020
3:19pm, 3 Aug 2020
5,043 posts
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The Scribbler
Oh I love a hedgehog! I hope we can attract some to our garden when we get one.
Kingfisher shot from the weekend
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