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May 2022
3:26pm, 8 May 2022
3,683 posts
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jacdaw
And the feathers do look black; young starlings are pale-ish brown.
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May 2022
9:38pm, 8 May 2022
1,086 posts
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paulcook
We've got a woodpigeon nest in the tree in the front garden. Brilliantly, the bairn absolutely loves it. You can see just above the nest from the front window and he's checked on "mambird" about 10 times today.
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May 2022
10:25pm, 8 May 2022
55,349 posts
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Derby Tup
You can’t get kids interested in nature too early Paul. Lovely post 
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May 2022
11:29pm, 8 May 2022
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paulcook
Thank you.
Don't know if he's been lucky, and whether lockdown perhaps even gave us opportunities that might have been fewer as it left us much fewer options where to take him, but he seems to have seen so much and has learnt so much. His interest in the nest has been just so natural and testament to the things he has seen.
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May 2022
11:46am, 9 May 2022
2,557 posts
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Surelynot
I was at Blackwaterfoot on Arran for a few days and spent a bit of time walking the dog along the shoreline. Spotted a good number of birds.
Sandpiper, tern, eider, lesser black-backed gull, house martins, curlew, ringed plover, wagtail, oystercatchers, swallows, gannet, meadow pipit, shell duck, greenfinch, mallard, grey heron and great northern diver.
Saw black guillemot near the pier for the boat. Cracking birds in their summer plumage and red feet.
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May 2022
11:50am, 9 May 2022
55,354 posts
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Derby Tup
Love black guillemot
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May 2022
8:38pm, 9 May 2022
55,357 posts
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Derby Tup
Five wader walk (curlew, golden plover, lapwing, common sand, oyk) up to and back from Keighley Moor reservoir but highlight was a whinchat
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May 2022
10:25pm, 9 May 2022
5,435 posts
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icemaiden
Avocet here. About as far from the sea as is possible in England.
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May 2022
1:01am, 10 May 2022
20,548 posts
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flanker
We were out recce'ing the Calderdale relays today, and had to check whether we had a female stonechat or something more exciting. The white on the wing was far more pronounced than usual for a stonechat, but in the end decided it was "just" a stonechat.
Also a very probable peregrine, so if anyone is on leg 3 this weekend keep 'em peeled.
ION, "our" house martins are back under the eaves ❤️ The local cuckoo is also back. Unfortunately it's in the middle of private woodland. Again.
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May 2022
8:52pm, 10 May 2022
3,684 posts
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jacdaw
Swifts are back today. Still no sand martins, and not many swallows.
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