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Jun 2021
1:42pm, 22 Jun 2021
5,519 posts
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TheScribbler
Stopped my interval run to watch a kestrel hovering at the coast this morning.
Also spotted a yet to be identified small brown bird with a flash of white on its wing as I walked up the scrubby hill from the beach. Smaller than a sparrow, and I scared it off so only got the briefest glimpse.
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Jun 2021
2:29pm, 22 Jun 2021
75,645 posts
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Hanneke
Nice shot!
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Jun 2021
9:01pm, 22 Jun 2021
3,259 posts
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jacdaw
On a walk up the river tonight, several pairs of common sandpiper and a female goosander with 8 chicks. If they are the same ones I saw a few weeks ago, they are doing well.
And finally, a young bird I took to be a robin, but it seemed to be reddish under its tail. Decided I was imagining it, then noticed a male redstart a respectful distance away. So that was a juvenile redstart then.
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Jun 2021
10:25pm, 22 Jun 2021
3,679 posts
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J2R
Pretty sure it wasn't a sedge warbler, ff, as I'm very familiar with those and this wasn't quite the same, and the habitat was a long way from water. It was more like an alarm call that sounded sedge warblery. I suspect it will remain mysterious.
Great walk round The Roaches today, with meadow pipits and willow warblers everywhere, curlews singing, but the main highlight for me was a really good view of a spotted flycatcher, the first I've seen for years.
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Jun 2021
10:58pm, 22 Jun 2021
50,690 posts
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Derby Tup
Spot fly is nice
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Jun 2021
11:03pm, 22 Jun 2021
7,761 posts
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Northern Exile
Got close up to a male snow bunting on Ben Nevis on Sunday, singing away like I wasn't there. Lovely little fella 🙂
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Jun 2021
9:20am, 23 Jun 2021
3,680 posts
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J2R
Don't think I've ever seen a snow bunting in summer in this country, although I regularly see them on the Norfolk coast in winter. Interesting spot!
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Jun 2021
9:40am, 23 Jun 2021
50,691 posts
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Derby Tup
Snow bunting call / song is worth learning. I had a group pass overhead while I was on Coniston massif one winter
Not a huge amount of bird song here now
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Jun 2021
9:53am, 23 Jun 2021
3,682 posts
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J2R
Forgot to mention wheatear and stonechats on my walk yesterday.
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Jun 2021
11:41am, 23 Jun 2021
1,821 posts
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Heinzster
I've just seen a sparrowhawk catch a bird in my back garden. Think it was a starling but too fast to be sure. They would be absolutely terrifying if you were a wee bird!
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