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Jun 2021
11:14am, 20 Jun 2021
1,820 posts
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Heinzster
Hope your folks see the dolphins, HowFar?
I had scampi from Morton's about 6 weeks ago. Very good, but standing outside waiting was baltic!
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Jun 2021
12:03pm, 20 Jun 2021
3,676 posts
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J2R
Arrived Friday night in the Derbyshire Dales for a week's holiday, same place as last year. Last year I hoped to see redstart but saw none, but yesterday morning took a short drive and saw several. Also wife saw dippers in stream where last year we saw none. Lots of grey wagtails too. Countryside looks stunning.
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Jun 2021
4:03pm, 20 Jun 2021
50,649 posts
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Derby Tup
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Jun 2021
2:01pm, 21 Jun 2021
8,549 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Saw my first juvenile GSW of the year on the feeders this morning. I always think they look a bit grumpy 
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Jun 2021
2:21pm, 21 Jun 2021
19,883 posts
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flanker
Nearly trod on a juv skylark on a run over the weekend. Cute little thing
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Jun 2021
2:32pm, 21 Jun 2021
50,671 posts
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Derby Tup
I heard a couple of singing skylark yesterday evening plus a mass of common sand. The waders won’t be around much longer sadly
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Jun 2021
5:58pm, 21 Jun 2021
14,106 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
It's fledgling day in the garden. We were away at the weekend and now we're back we have baby blue tits, sparrows and blackbirds.
Plus a pair of bullfinches - we've never spotted any of those in the garden before.
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Jun 2021
10:09pm, 21 Jun 2021
3,677 posts
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J2R
Willow warblers all over the place here. Heard more in the last couple of days than I'd heard all year before coming here.
Also, mysterious bird sound today, sounded almost like a sedge warbler but was in a hawthorn tree in a dry limestone valley, nowhere near water. Any ideas?
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Jun 2021
12:06pm, 22 Jun 2021
2,775 posts
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flyingfinn
It could have been a Sedge J2R. They can breed 500m from water and be found in hedgerows. I've come across them in Hawthorn bushes before, though usually where there is some water close to hand. Is it possible there was something like a dew pond in the surrounding fields? Sometimes ones that are a bit overgrown are little wildlife oases in the white peak where surface water tends to drain away quickly.
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Jun 2021
12:27pm, 22 Jun 2021
50,682 posts
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Derby Tup
Hear hooves, think horses. Birds don’t read books or look at the RSPB website
I’d think of ringed plover and dunlin as very much shore birds but they both breed, albeit in small number, around the upland reservoirs in our area
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