Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
Apr 2023
5:55pm, 30 Apr 2023
18,164 posts
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KinkyS
I think the mipits were all on my bit of the moor today 😀 Also treated to a male wheatear, a pair of stonechat, plentiful skylark and the sound of a curlew. I spent a minute stalking a black bird in case it was a ring ouzel passing through (not unknown in these parts) but it turned out to be a regular blackbird. |
Apr 2023
5:55pm, 30 Apr 2023
5,647 posts
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icemaiden
Four Oyks here yesterday and we are as from the sea as you can get.
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Apr 2023
6:21pm, 30 Apr 2023
18,165 posts
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KinkyS
Something about your grebe encounter doesn't feel quite right Minnie Mad - GCG are very clumsy on land so to be perched in a tree would be out of character. Also, their plumes and ruff are more to the side and top, rather than the back of the head. Could it have been a cormorant - upright bird with a long neck a bit heronlike, perches in trees and dives? |
Apr 2023
6:29pm, 30 Apr 2023
59,358 posts
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Derby Tup
Any cuckoo yet over on your side KinkyS & flanker ?
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Apr 2023
6:33pm, 30 Apr 2023
18,166 posts
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KinkyS
Derby Tup nope - been past the usual patch twice in the last three days and all is quiet still...
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Apr 2023
6:38pm, 30 Apr 2023
59,361 posts
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Derby Tup
Pretty much same here
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Apr 2023
6:49pm, 30 Apr 2023
20,917 posts
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flanker
I suspect the cuckoo will be very grateful it's still somewhere warm and not in it's usual spot today.
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Apr 2023
9:40pm, 30 Apr 2023
3,055 posts
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cackleberry
Not only heard but saw a cuckoo today! Only second time I've ever seen one. Flew fairly close across our path then sat a top a rather bare tree, calling for some time. Also today, pair of wheatears, grouse, lapwings and a curlew. (North York Moors) |
Apr 2023
9:42pm, 30 Apr 2023
2,659 posts
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paulcook
One swallow tonight. Followed by at least two more. No cuckoo (I have heard one where I was in previous years). |
Apr 2023
9:53pm, 30 Apr 2023
14,467 posts
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HowFar?
A pair of bullfinch in the bush in front of the bungalow this morning. Then then I saw my first local swallows of the year this afternoon. No cuckoo here yet either.
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