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May 2023
8:50am, 25 May 2023
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Surelynot
Cuckoo on my walk yesterday. Merlin picked up a Redstart but I didn't actually see it.
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May 2023
9:16am, 25 May 2023
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Derby Tup
Redstart are often not easy to see. Look down not up was advice I was given by a very experienced birder 
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May 2023
11:15am, 25 May 2023
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Surelynot
That's advice I will take on board. I was scanning the woodland and never thought to look on the ground
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May 2023
11:28am, 25 May 2023
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HellsBells
I'm sitting in a boat looking at puffins
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May 2023
11:59am, 25 May 2023
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J2R
Great pics, Um!
Merlin picked up a redstart for me, too, a couple of days ago, but I dismissed it as an error. I didn't hear anything myself and we don't really get them round here. Cuckoo calling on my run this morning.
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May 2023
12:09pm, 25 May 2023
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Surelynot
Could be an error J2R but I think they've been seen around SW Scotland where I live.
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May 2023
12:37pm, 25 May 2023
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J2R
Sorry, Surelynot, I didn't mean to imply that it was an error in your case. Perfectly plausible in the western part of the country, particularly where there's oak woodland. It's just that they're uncommon here in East Anglia (and where I was didn't seem a likely spot either).
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May 2023
3:31pm, 25 May 2023
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Surelynot
No worries J2R - the app is unlikely to be 100% reliable, but it's been pretty good so far.
I am, of course, infallible.
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May 2023
3:44pm, 25 May 2023
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Cuckoo on the lower slopes of Loughrigg Fell on the route of The Lap on 13 May and I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same one as we heard in the same location a year earlier.
A couple of red kites very high above us in South Devon this morning. This isn't an area they have colonised (yet), but apparently it is common for sometimes quite large groups to drift down in the summer and, when they find out they are running out of land, to work their way back up country again.
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May 2023
4:01pm, 25 May 2023
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um
Synge - we've seen them over the A303/A30 around Honiton and also (last week) on the M5 south of Taunton. So I'll give it 2-3 years before they've spread along the dual carriageways.
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