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Dec 2020
12:02pm, 17 Dec 2020
27,441 posts
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HellsBells
I grew up in a coal mining area of Nottingham - the coal Board used to come round every 10 years or so and do repairs due to subsidence. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a willow tit
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Dec 2020
12:18pm, 17 Dec 2020
2,388 posts
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flyingfinn
Me too Hells Bells and I regularly visit quite a lot of the reserves that have grown up in that area but I rarely see Willow Tits there, yet they are relatively common in similar environments not that far away? Maybe there are more deer in Nottinghamshire? The article seems to imply that deer population growth is a factor in their demise because they thin the woodland out. And the suitable pockets of woodland are too isolated to attract them?
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Dec 2020
12:44pm, 17 Dec 2020
27,442 posts
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HellsBells
Well our garden backed onto the deer park, so that might explain why I never saw one
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Dec 2020
1:15pm, 17 Dec 2020
3,329 posts
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J2R
The thinning out of understorey by deer is one of the reasons I've seen for the decline of the nightingale population in this country too. We need lynx, now!
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Dec 2020
2:42pm, 17 Dec 2020
27,443 posts
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HellsBells
Youngest is back from his mission with lovely photos of 3 glossy ibis - that’s one I’ve definitely never seen before
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Dec 2020
5:36pm, 17 Dec 2020
1,028 posts
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meadowsboy
I regularly walk around the former Gedling colliery site which is now a country park & see munjac deer if I am out early morning when it's quiet.
I also saw a glossy ibis near Lowdham about 5 years ago.
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Dec 2020
5:39pm, 17 Dec 2020
2,389 posts
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flyingfinn
That's a good tick Hells Bells, one I'm sure he'll remember for a long time. One was spotted briefly near Derby a week or so ago late one afternoon but had vanished by next morning much to the chagrin of a number of Derbyshire's birders who were out at first light looking for it.
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Dec 2020
6:00pm, 17 Dec 2020
19,597 posts
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flanker
Whereabouts HB? I think I've only ever seen one, and that was somewhere in Norfolk.
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Dec 2020
6:21pm, 17 Dec 2020
27,444 posts
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HellsBells
Earith Flanker, just by Earith Bridge - they’ve been there about a week
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Dec 2020
6:23pm, 17 Dec 2020
27,445 posts
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HellsBells
That’s the photo he put in the family chat, he’s got some better ones but hasn’t downloaded the camera yet
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