Fetch Birdwatchers
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165 watchers
Sep 2021
10:44am, 19 Sep 2021
51,854 posts
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Derby Tup
A sanderling on the beach this morning
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Sep 2021
3:06pm, 19 Sep 2021
2,868 posts
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flyingfinn
Nice DT. LBBG roost here reported to be at 8800 on Friday night!!! I was out running along the res at twilight on Friday and it was impressive to watch great rafts of them drifting in over the adjacent hills as the sun set behind them. |
Sep 2021
10:10am, 20 Sep 2021
4,806 posts
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steve45
Singing Chiff this morning.
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Sep 2021
11:01am, 20 Sep 2021
8,724 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I went to a motor racing event over the weekend and it was a struggle to concentrate on the racing once I noticed a small bird of prey was using the giant video screen as a perch from which to survey the long grass below for prey.  I’m hopeless at identifying birds of prey and anyway it was difficult to see any details because of the distance and it being silhouetted against the sky. What bird could it have been? I thought maybe kestrel but it didn’t do any hovering, just flew down the grass (not particularly quickly), caught something, then went back to its perch to eat its lunch. |
Sep 2021
11:34am, 20 Sep 2021
3,819 posts
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J2R
Fragile, that still sounds typical kestrel behaviour to me. No point wasting energy hovering if there's a good vantage point they can perch on.
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Sep 2021
11:39am, 20 Sep 2021
28,265 posts
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HellsBells
Several new lifetime spots for me whilst we were in the Scillies - none of us saw the wrynecks, only Youngest saw the biuethroats, but i was more than content with an Ortolan bunting
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Sep 2021
11:42am, 20 Sep 2021
3,821 posts
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J2R
Wow, ortolan! Never seen one in this country. Never seen a bluethroat or wryneck anywhere.
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Sep 2021
12:22pm, 20 Sep 2021
8,725 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Thanks J2R, it did look like the right sort of colour for a kestrel. It was probably delighted to have some new handy perches for the weekend
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Sep 2021
12:31pm, 20 Sep 2021
51,863 posts
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Derby Tup
instagram.com Guillemot / razorbill news |
Sep 2021
1:23pm, 20 Sep 2021
2,151 posts
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bonners
A solitary swallow which was a nice surprise. Plenty of waders around and shelduck.
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