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Mar 2024
11:02pm, 20 Mar 2024
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Red Squirrel
3 Bewick’s swans in a field. First time I’ve seen them in the wild I think, unless you include Slimbridge wildfowl trust. Saw them from a bus and then on the return journey 4 hours later they were still there. Lapwing flapping all over the place over a ploughed field and doing the ethereal call. Amazing to watch. Seals on the Findhorn estuary barking and sounding like people shouting. Finally - a couple of birds some way away in the dark screeching at each other and chasing around. Thought it might be barn owls with mating calls but they were just too far away to tell, although I shone my v strong torch on them. Maybe some other type of owl …?
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Mar 2024
11:14pm, 20 Mar 2024
4,482 posts
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paulcook
Back running in Darlington tonight, and two more tawnies calling to each other. Oddly I don't think I've heard them up there before - I always associate it this time of year with me disturbing the jackdaws roosting, which I still did - but it's probably classic tawny owl habitat.
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Mar 2024
8:59am, 21 Mar 2024
3,708 posts
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flyingfinn
3 Bewick’s swans in a field. First time I’ve seen them in the wild I think, unless you include Slimbridge wildfowl trust. Saw them from a bus and then on the return journey 4 hours later they were still there. Lapwing flapping all over the place over a ploughed field and doing the ethereal call. Amazing to watch. Seals on the Findhorn estuary barking and sounding like people shouting. Finally - a couple of birds some way away in the dark screeching at each other and chasing around. Thought it might be barn owls with mating calls but they were just too far away to tell, although I shone my v strong torch on them. Maybe some other type of owl …? Bewicks at Slimbridge are wild (and migratory) it's just that over a large number of years the environment has been managed to attract them during the winter and make them very visible. No different really to what is done on say Islay by the RSPB for geese? |
Mar 2024
9:10am, 21 Mar 2024
6,772 posts
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steve45
7 Chiffchaffs and 3 Blackcaps singing along a quarter mile trail this morning.
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Mar 2024
9:29am, 21 Mar 2024
33,216 posts
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HellsBells
2 greenfinch pairs in the garden - just like buses you don’t see one for months then 4 arrive together!
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Mar 2024
9:36am, 21 Mar 2024
4,663 posts
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Curly45
Perigrine fly over this morning 😍😍
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Mar 2024
4:21pm, 21 Mar 2024
4,349 posts
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jacdaw
Chiffchaffs in garden today!
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Mar 2024
4:45pm, 21 Mar 2024
4,350 posts
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jacdaw
And a good day for raptors in Scotland... raptorpersecutionuk.org |
Mar 2024
6:34pm, 21 Mar 2024
6,242 posts
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Windsor Wool
The bats are out here this evening. 1st time I’ve seen them this year.
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Mar 2024
7:35pm, 21 Mar 2024
41,284 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Spotted the peregrine on the church steeple this evening, hoping they are going to breed again this year.
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