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Today's SWCP walk - from Portcothan around Trevose head and back. Lots more skylarks, warblers etc (to be idendified), but most common (excluding gulls)? Curlew again. Flocks of them flying around the cliff edges & loitering in the long grassy fields on top of the lowish cliffs.#
Heinzster
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Apr 2022
5:26pm, 26 Apr 2022
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Goldcrest and long tailed tits today, all gathering nesting materials. The LTT are tiny wee things when you see them up close.
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Apr 2022
8:35pm, 26 Apr 2022
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I might have to retract the curlew comments. Seeing the photos, which re-inforced my first thoughts, they look sleeker and lighter (colour and weight) than the Keyhave curlews. So probably whimbrel?
They also have a very quick take off and flight response. Not like the curlews I've seen before.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Apr 2022
8:56pm, 26 Apr 2022
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Whimbrel is approx 2/3 size of curlew, but has a curved bill like curlew. They have a distinctive call, which is worth learning

We saw a bar-tailed godwit yesterday and had a similar ID exercise, bearing in mind the bird was a fair way away initially, and absolutely alone, so not with other useful marker birds like redshank or lapwing or oystercatcher
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Apr 2022
9:03pm, 26 Apr 2022
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A few pics from today’s boat trip to Bass Rock. Main species seen were gannet, shag, eider, puffin, kittiwake, fulmar, cormorant, guillemot (including some nice bridled birds), plus a few razorbill





154 Rob
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Apr 2022
9:44pm, 26 Apr 2022
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Excellent DT.
Robins, thrushes, a parakeet and a jay in Armstrong park, Newcastle. Others were unimpressed with the jay - sounds like a common sight in the Jesmond Dene area.
paulcook
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Apr 2022
10:07pm, 26 Apr 2022
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Very close to getting divebombed by some lapwings, and wonderfully musical ones at that, on tonight's galivant across the moors.
Hanneke
Hanneke
Apr 2022
10:51pm, 26 Apr 2022
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Hanneke
The swallows are back :)
Heinzster
Heinzster
Apr 2022
10:55pm, 26 Apr 2022
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Heinzster
And sand martins!
alpenrose
alpenrose
Apr 2022
9:53am, 27 Apr 2022
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Great trip DT!

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