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Mar 2024
7:13am, 12 Mar 2024
64,947 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve seen reports of GSW drumming on other things than natural trees and have now seen and heard one making an unusual sound on a local telegraph pole. Not the usual loud echoey sound but quieter and higher pitched
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Mar 2024
5:10pm, 12 Mar 2024
23,526 posts
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Red Squirrel
I wasn’t looking for birds today, as I was trying out a new bicycle. From the roads I saw siskin, big flock of greylag in a field and big buzzards - bigger than down south. I’m just outside Elgin at the moment.
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Mar 2024
5:54pm, 12 Mar 2024
5,102 posts
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J2R
Skiing in Austria at the moment. Yesterday I was having coffee on the terrace of a mountain restaurant and a golden eagle flew over. Today, having lunch at a different mountain restaurant, I was pleased to see a nuthatch on a feeder hanging outside, but then delighted to see a crested tit make a visit a couple of times! Super little birds. When we got back to the town, I saw my first hirundines of the year, some martins flying overhead which could have been either house martins or crag martins (a common enough occurrence in Alpine towns and villages), I couldn't tell.
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Mar 2024
5:55pm, 12 Mar 2024
23,529 posts
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Red Squirrel
All that would’ve made my day, J2R. Lovely spots.
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Mar 2024
1:49pm, 13 Mar 2024
4,688 posts
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phal
Chiffchaff! Two on our dog walk today in the woods a few miles from home….
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Mar 2024
2:29pm, 13 Mar 2024
15,623 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
We also have crag martins in Andalucia.
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Mar 2024
6:25pm, 13 Mar 2024
32,264 posts
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macca 53
A row of house Martin nests under the eaves of a shop just up the road from us in Portugal all appear to be occupied….
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Mar 2024
7:05pm, 13 Mar 2024
64,968 posts
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Derby Tup
I’m going to get a chiffchaff on tomorrow morning’s dog walk. I’m not coming back until I get one
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Mar 2024
9:01pm, 13 Mar 2024
18,253 posts
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KinkyS
I went chiff hunting in the rain. Fail - apparently they don't like the wet around here!
I did nearly fall in the canal in surprise though, when the loudest GSW ever started up right above my head 🤣
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Mar 2024
9:29pm, 13 Mar 2024
23,533 posts
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Red Squirrel
Chaffinches
Flock of redwings
Pheasants
Siskins
3 hares bounding around in the grass for ages in the 4 o’clock sunshine
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Bird song watch
Jul 2024