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May 2023
4:02pm, 29 May 2023
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Rosehip
Had an afternoon at Titchwell on Saturday Was rewarded by a cuckoo, hobby, reed warblers as well as the usual wading birds, ducks and geese. And one I’d never heard of, we were told was a temmink’s stint (?, spelling?) No sign of the resident turtle dove this year though Sandringham campsite yielded, coal tits, greenfinch, treecreapers and a jay all watched from a chair by the van |
May 2023
4:48pm, 29 May 2023
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jacdaw
After Coenraad Jacob Temminck! "...Heading up the cast of waders, though, was the first of this week’s two rares – a routinely hoped-for, mid-May Temminck’s Stint, which turned up at a largely unexpected location..." northantsbirds.com |
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May 2023
5:33pm, 29 May 2023
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Rosehip
Ah! There were half a dozen or so very big expensive lenses pointed at a small greyish wader (or two, without a big lens I couldn’t really see) and someone kindly told us what they were looking at 
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May 2023
5:53pm, 29 May 2023
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jacdaw
I've been "shown" things like that before. Never certain I've really seen what I'm supposed to have!
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May 2023
8:09pm, 29 May 2023
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Rosehip
Looking online it could have been, but I wouldn’t bet on it!
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May 2023
8:13pm, 29 May 2023
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KinkyS
Temminck's stint is a good UK tick if you're into making lists, but not the most visually stimulating bird you'll ever see someone pointing a lens worth more than your car at... I think they're quite cute, simply because they are pocket-sized (only half the weight of a dunlin or sanderling!). See also: little stint
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May 2023
8:30pm, 29 May 2023
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Derby Tup
Reminds me of turning up at the marshes at Seaton and there being a huge twitch on. Semi-palmated sandpiper - basically an off-course US dunlin, but with ever so slightly webbed feet. Big fuss, especially when a lad managed to get a pic of its feet
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May 2023
1:00pm, 30 May 2023
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J2R
Titchwell's a great place, isn't it, Rosehip? Seen lots of good things there, including on more than one occasion some unexciting looking bird that everybody around me has been gibbering about, evidently more clued up than me. To be honest, I take much greater pleasure in viewing the still special birds which should be there, like the hobby, rather than the rare blow-ins. I remember as everyone had their big lenses trained on this wader (can't remember what it was), I was looking instead at a snipe much closer to. No interesting birds for me in the last couple of days but did get a great view yesterday of a stoat, which ran out of the grassy verge into the road in front of me as I was cycling, then turned around and scuttled back having spotted me. I'm always surprised by how small they are. |
May 2023
1:44pm, 30 May 2023
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Our blue tits fledged before I got up this morning, I am missing them.
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May 2023
1:51pm, 30 May 2023
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J2R
That's a shame, Mrs Jigs! We have, somewhat unexpectedly, great tits nesting in the sparrow box again this year - unexpectedly because we've been having a new shed built right by it with lots of noise and kerfuffle which I expected would deter them. I think they're probably due to fledge any day soon, as are the dunnocks nesting in the hedge.
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