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May 2023
7:34am, 9 May 2023
5,650 posts
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icemaiden
MimnnieMad Just wait til you spot baby grebes, very cute, stripy and get to take rides on their parents' backs.
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May 2023
6:28pm, 9 May 2023
4,893 posts
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Minnie Mad
Now that I really want to see Ice Maiden, very exciting possibility.
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May 2023
6:49pm, 9 May 2023
5,651 posts
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icemaiden
Grebe families are lovely, the parents are very diligent and if you can see them at feeding time catching little fish and popping them in the beaks it is lovely.
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May 2023
7:20pm, 9 May 2023
2,294 posts
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Heinzster
I have been listening to lots of chiffchaffs over the last few days, and also doing a lot of driving - Belfast, Dublin, Holyhead, Warrington, Ipswich, Leeds, Warrington, Holyhead. Currently waiting for the ferry to complete the trip. Every time I have used my indicators I have thought 'goodness, that chiff is loud if I can hear it over the traffic noise'
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May 2023
8:29pm, 9 May 2023
2,629 posts
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RunningRonnie
Not a bird, but very excited so thought I'd share. Just saw a badger from my couch!
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May 2023
9:48pm, 9 May 2023
2,707 posts
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paulcook
Two owls hunting over the moors again tonight, among the usual stock, one probably was a SEO this time, second I think a barn owl.
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May 2023
12:33am, 10 May 2023
20,926 posts
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flanker
Probable green sandpiper on tonight's run. Wasn't able to get a brilliant look, as was more concerned with not turning an ankle, but can't think of another dark, medium-sized wader with white rump. It just seem a bit strange to find one up on the shore of an upland reservoir.
Will try and get back up in the next day or so with bins, and hope it's not moved on.
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May 2023
9:07pm, 15 May 2023
4,640 posts
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J2R
I made what I thought was a very ill-advised route decision today, to run along an often muddy path by a river on my local patch, a path which was today ankle deep in water, by which point it was too late for me to turn back, so I resorted to wading. Just as I was coming to the end, though, something scuttled into the reeds at the side. I stopped and looked and there, no more than 1.5 metres away, was a water vole, watching me apprehensively! So all worthwhile in the end.
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May 2023
9:16pm, 15 May 2023
2,295 posts
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Heinzster
OK, hive mind, I need your opinion.
I went for a drive over the Antrim plateau, not far from Slemish. There is a grouse moor. At the peak of one hill there was a bird of prey, smaller than a buzzard but much larger than a kestrel. It appeared silvery grey. It was very finely put together, definitely not a peregrine, wing ends were a lot more rounded.
I am thinking male hen harrier but I have never seen one and wonder am I grasping at straws?
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May 2023
9:18pm, 15 May 2023
2,722 posts
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paulcook
I'm no expert when it comes to harriers, but that was the path I was leading down even before you mentioned hen harrier.
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Bird song watch
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