Fetch Birdwatchers
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Jul 2021
9:59pm, 30 Jul 2021
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Derby Tup
Nice ff ^
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Jul 2021
10:00pm, 30 Jul 2021
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Derby Tup
pewit.blogspot.com Black browed Bempton blog |
Jul 2021
7:18pm, 31 Jul 2021
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NDWDave
Not exactly a bird but this little critter was on my door hiding out of the rain. Is it a grasshopper or cricket? Or other? |
Aug 2021
10:27am, 1 Aug 2021
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Heinzster
DT, that albatross is amazing, so big compared to even the gannet. It has incredible make up skills too 😅 Dave, your house has been bugged. Watch what you say. |
Aug 2021
10:33am, 1 Aug 2021
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um
Dave - (from the web) The main difference between a grasshopper and a cricket is that crickets tend to have long antennae, grasshoppers have short antennae. Crickets stridulate ("sing") by rubbing their wings together, while grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing their long hind legs against their wings. No idea, without a whole lot of them, what counts as short or long antennae. Or how you can check whether they are rubbing their wings or legs as they chirp. |
Aug 2021
12:23pm, 1 Aug 2021
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jacdaw
That's a grasshopper Dave. I've just realised that the previously adapted swallow nest in my shed is full of wren fledglings. It seems very late in the year. |
Aug 2021
12:35pm, 1 Aug 2021
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alpenrose
One of the barns where I see swallows has swifts flying in and out the last couple of times I went past.
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Aug 2021
12:49pm, 1 Aug 2021
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NDWDave
Thanks all. I knew I would get the answer here. I thought it was a grasshopper but wasn’t sure I saw a barn owl today but it was part of a falconry display so is cheating… |
Aug 2021
5:20pm, 2 Aug 2021
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steve45
Willow Warbler singing today--the second in four days. Hadn't heard one in a long time. Blackcaps have fallen silent. You wouldn't believe that I haven't seen a Swift or a House Martin this year! |
Aug 2021
5:47pm, 2 Aug 2021
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bonners
I feel for you Steve. Just realised that the singing has gone quiet, not heard any chiffchaffs for a few days either Feel very lucky where we are with plenty of swallows and housemartins nesting locally. We also have regular flypast of swifts as there are s couple of localish swift sites. Interesting compared to last year, less than nine miles as the swift flies in our house move, yet last year I only saw swifts on a couple of occasions. |
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