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Sep 2020
8:23pm, 15 Sep 2020
17,751 posts
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Rosehip
broken? just chiffing or chaffing?
Jay telling off the squirrels in the oak tree this evening 
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Sep 2020
8:32pm, 15 Sep 2020
46,347 posts
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Derby Tup
There was one this spring that was like a broken record. It was in the same small copse for a few weeks. Today’s sounded similar but was maybe a mile away. I’ve heard similar before. They give the impression of a bird that’s not quite learnt it’s song yet, which is amazing as it’s hardly a complex melody
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Sep 2020
8:42pm, 15 Sep 2020
2,842 posts
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Tim of Fife
All the usual suspects today. Curlews, Oystercatchers, Gannets, Terns, Turnstones, Eiders, Cormorants and Shags. Plus about thirty Grey and Common Seals asleep on the local hauling out rocks
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Sep 2020
9:05pm, 15 Sep 2020
17,845 posts
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KinkyS
I think I saw the entire South Pennine population of skylarks today - massive numbers on the Pennine Way
One slightly stuttery chiff chaff and four house martins...
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Sep 2020
9:06pm, 15 Sep 2020
46,348 posts
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Derby Tup
. . . you seen any wrynecks Kinky? Possible three seen recently between us and you
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Sep 2020
9:13pm, 15 Sep 2020
17,846 posts
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KinkyS
Nope
Seen the local reports and had a few conversations (I'm friends with a member of the HB Birders so get the chat) but not an actual wryneck...
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Sep 2020
8:23am, 16 Sep 2020
4,121 posts
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steve45
Chiffchaff singing well in my garden. Haven't seen any hirundines at all, their continued absence is a mystery. Usually see small flocks passing over my locality during September.
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Sep 2020
9:02am, 16 Sep 2020
46,361 posts
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Derby Tup
Complete lack of hirundines here too. We had reasonable numbers of house martin long after the swallow had gone but not seen them for maybe ten days
‘Residents’ vocal on this mornings dog walk and I saw one fly-past dipper by the beck
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Sep 2020
11:38am, 16 Sep 2020
1,676 posts
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bonners
Plenty of housemartins both in the hills and along the river still. There is still a few swallows along the river.
Plenty of curlew and godwits along the river as well.
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Sep 2020
11:59am, 16 Sep 2020
2,237 posts
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flyingfinn
Still House Martins here this morning but the numbers have really dropped off in the last week. Just a dozen or so today.
A week ago I was up on the Solway Firth near Maryport and the sky was full of Sand Martins and Swallows.
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