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Roberto
Roberto
Jun 2021
9:12am, 9 Jun 2021
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Think I saw the owls again today but was difficult to tell. Further into the woods this time but could hear the screeching so tried to spot them and then saw 2 large brown birds fly between the trees. Sounded like the owls from the other day but can't be 100% certain as it was in thick tree cover.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Jun 2021
9:25am, 9 Jun 2021
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I’ve never heard them but young LEO are said to make a sound like a creaking door :-)
J2R
J2R
Jun 2021
10:22am, 9 Jun 2021
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flanker, yes, they're May bugs, but this year could be called June bugs! As regards mayflies, I've seen quite a lot of them, but not the huge swarms of normal years, so I suspect I've missed the main 'explosion' event, or maybe it occurred in dribs and drabs this year.
Hanneke
Hanneke
Jun 2021
10:28am, 9 Jun 2021
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Here they are only just starting to appear j2r
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Jun 2021
11:09am, 9 Jun 2021
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Mayfly is a misnomer. In terms of fly fishing the peak of the hatch is usually the first week of June. My guess is they’ll be even later this year. Bluebells here were very late this ‘spring’
jacdaw
jacdaw
Jun 2021
11:16am, 9 Jun 2021
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Tons of mayflies here in the last week or so; more than one species, but I haven't looked closely enough to ID them.
Hanneke
Hanneke
Jun 2021
2:35pm, 9 Jun 2021
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Everything seems to be 3-4 weeks behind here.
Rosehip
Rosehip
Jun 2021
4:10pm, 9 Jun 2021
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The swans that I photographed on their nest (5 eggs) on 7th April are still sitting on 5 eggs - I think that's 9 weeks. Surely much too long to still be incubating the same clutch?
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Jun 2021
4:22pm, 9 Jun 2021
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35 to 42 days = maybe six weeks

apparently is typical

I don’t know much about swans - could they have lost one set and these be a second batch?
Rosehip
Rosehip
Jun 2021
4:34pm, 9 Jun 2021
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I hope that's the case rather than they are sitting on a failed batch in vain

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