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Apr 2023
11:59am, 17 Apr 2023
22,888 posts
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Red Squirrel
Stoat seen on allotment.
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Apr 2023
12:22pm, 17 Apr 2023
2,576 posts
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paulcook
I love a stoat/weasel. Saw one on the moors last Thursday night, and again last night heard a very noisy one somewhere in a drystone wall.
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Apr 2023
11:44am, 18 Apr 2023
4,610 posts
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J2R
Since my heart attack a couple of months ago, I've been trying to incorporate into my runs and walks something I think of as 'songbathing'. I stop at a bench, say, and for a few minutes just sit and soak in the birdsong, while doing slow, deep breathing. It feels tremendously therapeutic, a wonderful stress reliever (I'm not certain what caused the atherosclerosis which led to my heart attack but I'm pretty sure stress was part of it). This morning by the river I was serenaded by a song thrush, a couple of blackcaps, a few chiffchaffs, a blackbird and a nuthatch.
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Apr 2023
11:59am, 18 Apr 2023
102,306 posts
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Hanneke
How lovely J2R!
I have been doing the same recently, just sitting on a bench in my garden. I am seriously ill and nothing beats a "song bath" 
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Apr 2023
12:22pm, 18 Apr 2023
4,611 posts
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J2R
Sorry to hear about your illness, Hanneke, I hope it turns around soon, with the help of our avian friends.
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Apr 2023
2:24pm, 18 Apr 2023
28,630 posts
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Rosehip
I’ve been watching a courting pair of blue tits on the peanut feeder
If they’re ‘my’ usual pair there’ll be a noisy nest above daughter’s bedroom window soon.
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Apr 2023
11:39pm, 18 Apr 2023
2,587 posts
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paulcook
Two beautiful owls tonight over the moors. Both gave good displays, the second for way longer than I've seen most owls before.
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Apr 2023
8:18am, 19 Apr 2023
3,636 posts
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flyingfinn
Sound like SEOs Paul? Where were you?
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Apr 2023
8:58am, 19 Apr 2023
2,588 posts
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paulcook
They were both barn owls. However, now you've said that there was a third bigger bird I wondered was an owl (though definitely not barn owl) but I didn't see for long enough really and too far away, which could have been a SEO.
Both over the Bilsdale area. The first was by the plantation near Wath Hill, the second just below Lord Stones towards the scout hut near Kirkby. It was duskish time so the right time of day to see any of the owls.
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Apr 2023
9:15am, 19 Apr 2023
2,663 posts
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Surelynot
I was working at Caerlaverock yesterday out on the Merse, which always feels like a privilege.
Still lots of pinkies and barnies, but they will likely be gone in the next few weeks. Among them was a larger goose that we are 99% sure was an Egyptian goose. A first for me.
Lots of skylarks, meadow pipit, a few greenshank, lapwing, mute swan, shell duck and oystercatchers.
A good day.
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