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Mar 2021
4:45pm, 12 Mar 2021
17,898 posts
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KinkyS
I remember being in the Parrinder Hide at Titchwell a year or so ago and feeling one of those ripples of excitement that you get when something unusual has turned up. It turned out to be a grey wag and I was so disappointed!
The only other time I can recall seeing one in Norfolk was near the windmill in Cley.
Our dippers don't seem that fussed about fast-flowing water and mid-stream stones, they are equally at home perched in a tree just above the canal. There's a spot about half a mile from here that has produced a dipper for me every time I've been past for the last four weeks  I'll probably visit it a bit less in the next few weeks though, as Mr Grumpy the Canada goose is ramping up his activities in preparation for the breeding season. Last year he bit me three times, including once when I was running and he actively chased me away at about 8:30mm pace - he's a great father and raised all three goslings to maturity in 2020
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Mar 2021
5:00pm, 12 Mar 2021
1,844 posts
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bonners
You wait two years for a grey wagtail and then two in two days. Another lovely sighting on my walk today. Also saw another kestrel today. Interesting that the new patch has very different regulars.
Loads of pied wagtails as well. The first one gave me a flutter when I thought it may have been a dipperš
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Mar 2021
8:26pm, 12 Mar 2021
3,465 posts
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J2R
KinkyS, don't think I've seen a grey wagtail at Titchwell, but I have seen a yellow wagtail there a handful of times, as well as a little to the east, away from the reserve. They're always a nice sighting.
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Mar 2021
8:44pm, 12 Mar 2021
49,280 posts
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Derby Tup
Yellow wag is a really handsome bird
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Mar 2021
8:57am, 13 Mar 2021
2,567 posts
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flyingfinn
Foul morning here and everything is hoovering up the food I've put out, well everything that is except the three Dunnocks who are pursuing one another round the yard with one clear intent š¤£ after all who needs food!
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Mar 2021
9:03am, 13 Mar 2021
4,438 posts
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steve45
Grey Wags are always "about" along our rivers here in Cardiff, even next to the big Principality Rugby Stadium. Too early yet for Yellow Wags anywhere in UK except for maybe the odd early arrival. Used to be a bird to be seen regularly but with declining numbers I rarely see/hear one.
First singing Blackcap of the year this morning while out on my run.
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Mar 2021
9:04am, 13 Mar 2021
49,292 posts
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Derby Tup
Blackcap - very nice. We had loads last spring
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Mar 2021
9:06am, 13 Mar 2021
6,063 posts
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FenlandRunner
On my cycle ride Thursday evening I saw a Barn Owl, nice change from the usual Swans, Pidgeons, Canadian Geese, etc.
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Mar 2021
10:17am, 13 Mar 2021
3,467 posts
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J2R
Wow, steve45, very early for a blackcap! I haven't even heard any chiffchaffs yet.
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Mar 2021
11:11am, 13 Mar 2021
2,568 posts
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flyingfinn
Blackcaps seem to have been reported in urban gardens in Derbyshire throughout the winter. None out in the sticks at the moment but there Chiffchaffs about, not much singing yet and again probably overwintering birds. Based on the last few years we are about a week to ten days short of the start of the arrival of the true migrant Chiffs. Sunday 22nd last year their numbers exploded round here and just before lockdown I think the count of singing birds on a 12km circuit of the res that I saw was around the 100 mark!
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