Fetch Birdwatchers
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Apr 2022
2:05pm, 20 Apr 2022
2,140 posts
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154 Rob
At the weekend, saw a couple of swallows in Lifton area, west Devon. Also some buzzards and first ever merlin.
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Apr 2022
4:58pm, 20 Apr 2022
55,211 posts
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Derby Tup
Stonechat, tufty, wheatear, buzzard, mipit, common sand, kestrel, Reed bunting plus several singing willow warbler by and around Keighley reservoir this afternoon, but no cuckoo or hirundine
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Apr 2022
10:49pm, 20 Apr 2022
3,215 posts
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flyingfinn
Cuckoo calling on Matlock golf course this afternoon, from just above Cuckoostone Lane, so I guess they've been coming here for a few years longer than me!
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Apr 2022
10:51pm, 20 Apr 2022
3,216 posts
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flyingfinn
Also first Reed Warbler of the year calling in the reedbed close to home this morning. Off to Bempton on Friday for Puffins, Gannets and 🤞an Albatross (it's been there all this week so far...) |
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Apr 2022
11:03pm, 20 Apr 2022
55,216 posts
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Derby Tup
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Apr 2022
8:06am, 21 Apr 2022
55,219 posts
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Derby Tup
Fairly certain I saw a house Martin yesterday evening
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Apr 2022
8:18am, 21 Apr 2022
23,383 posts
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Dave A
There was an Albatross at Bempton last year, so good chance of a spot. My parents have a caravan nearby and Dolphins are being spotted in the waters at the moment too. |
Apr 2022
8:29am, 21 Apr 2022
5,425 posts
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icemaiden
We have house Martins and today a reed warbler.
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Apr 2022
8:48am, 21 Apr 2022
3,217 posts
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flyingfinn
There was an Albatross at Bempton last year, so good chance of a spot. My parents have a caravan nearby and Dolphins are being spotted in the waters at the moment too. It's the same one Dave (they call it Albert). It seems to be stuck in the wrong hemisphere for good now. It comes and goes from Bempton, spending time around the Baltic. I'm just hoping it keeps hanging out with the Gannets until tomorrow and doesn't go wandering before I get there 🤞 |
Apr 2022
9:24am, 21 Apr 2022
4,132 posts
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J2R
I remember many years ago there was another albatross (also called Albert) which hung around Bass Rock. It's probably excessively anthropomorphising of me, but I always feel like this situation of a bird stuck in the wrong hemisphere, not only with no chance of getting a mate but no realistic chance of ever seeing one of its own species again, to be terribly sad.
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