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Apr 2021
3:58pm, 25 Apr 2021
49,873 posts
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Derby Tup
Wheatear
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Apr 2021
4:24pm, 25 Apr 2021
49,875 posts
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Derby Tup
Two house martin - appropriately enough directly over the house. Heard, then seen
Feels like spring is beginning at last especially as I got a message earlier about a cuckoo heard locally
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Apr 2021
7:35pm, 25 Apr 2021
1,916 posts
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bonners
Great stuff, good luck with the cuckoo
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Apr 2021
7:53pm, 25 Apr 2021
20,816 posts
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Rosehip
still no swallows or house martin  lots and lots of skylark though, making a right racket this morning
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Apr 2021
8:11pm, 25 Apr 2021
49,877 posts
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Derby Tup
We passed a reliable local cuckoo spot last night and re-visited it this afternoon but no success yet
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Apr 2021
8:35pm, 25 Apr 2021
19,805 posts
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flanker
Blackcap taking a bath this evening (it is Sunday!) was the first sighting of one this year, as were two male reed buntings.
A pair of ravens were a new garden tick this afternoon too. Could just about hear them above the very vocal willow warbler.
No cuckoos in cuckoo wood.
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Apr 2021
10:49pm, 25 Apr 2021
72,553 posts
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Hanneke
No cuckoo here yet either... Nothing exciting, other than extremely vocal blackbirds, robins etc and everyone seems to be nesting.
Lots of hobbies at the wetland reserve in London, back in the day. Here I have only ever seen one.
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Apr 2021
11:01pm, 25 Apr 2021
3,589 posts
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J2R
After swallows in dribs and drabs over the last week or so, a proper flock of them today, mixed with house martins (my first of the year), wheeling above us on a walk. Lots of whitethroats, too. We were by a small and well-hidden sewage works which I assume must be great for the flying insects, hence the swallows and martins. They're not normally places I seek out!
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Apr 2021
7:38am, 26 Apr 2021
3,421 posts
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phal
No pressure, Swifts, but you arrived back above our house this day last year....
(However, going by photos of our garden that keep popping up, we’re about two weeks behind..... it was warmer earlier and for longer last year though....)
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Apr 2021
8:39am, 26 Apr 2021
72,555 posts
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Hanneke
Agreed Phal.
Still no sign of the Cuckoo but mr & mrs song thrush were at it in front of my bathroom window... Now I am running late...
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