Fetch Birdwatchers
165 watchers
5 May
10:39am, 5 May 2024
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KinkyS
First cuckoo of my year, near Kentmere - heard but not seen. Woodland is indeed strange habitat for a peregrine - presumably there is more traditional open habitat close by? |
5 May
10:40am, 5 May 2024
85,860 posts
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Diogenes
I think I heard one today too, although it was too far away for Merlin to pick it up.
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5 May
10:44am, 5 May 2024
245 posts
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tinebeest
Third stork nest within my Fetchpoint circle spotted! I knew they were in the area but thought they had hidden themselves from view inside a private domain. Yesterday morning when I cycled to town one of the stork from the other nest crossed my path in low flight, about 30m ahead of me. Quite impressive to see them glide like that! (s/he went for some foodshopping in the meadow. Yummy froggies) |
5 May
11:14am, 5 May 2024
5,757 posts
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icemaiden
Got my first cuckoo yesterday.
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5 May
11:29am, 5 May 2024
65,710 posts
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Derby Tup
Starling doing a pretty good oyk impression
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5 May
4:33pm, 5 May 2024
5,179 posts
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J2R
I join the cuckoo set. Did a 10K race on country lanes today (lovely conditions), heard lots of whitethroat, yellowhammers and my first cuckoo of the year. Talking of which, I was thinking just now about the medieval English song, 'Sumer is icumen in', which starts "Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu" - "Summer has arrived, loudly sings the cuckoo". But I would not think of the cuckoo as a summer bird, more a bird of late spring. They start singing in April here which is not what most of us would regard as summer. I wonder whether to the mediaeval mind summer started earlier and ended earlier than we would normally define it, along with the other seasons? More in keeping with nature? |
5 May
4:52pm, 5 May 2024
10,279 posts
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Northern Exile
There's talk on local threads about dotterel being in the vicinity. Apparently they traditionally do a pit stop on Ingleborough during their trip southwards from the highlands.
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5 May
5:02pm, 5 May 2024
65,714 posts
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Derby Tup
That’s correct. There’s a few local hills where they stop off including Ingleborough, Pendle and the Twelve Apostles on Ilkley Moor. I once saw a trip high up in the Helvellyn ridge while doing a BG leg 2 recce
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5 May
5:16pm, 5 May 2024
5,181 posts
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J2R
Never seen a dotterel.
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5 May
6:12pm, 5 May 2024
32,395 posts
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macca 53
J2R wrote: They start singing in April here which is not what most of us would regard as summer. I wonder whether to the mediaeval mind summer started earlier and ended earlier than we would normally define it, along with the other seasons? More in keeping with nature? As in the cuckoo what do you do poem of my schooldays: “In April I open my bill; In May I sing night and day; In June I change my tune; In July Far far I fly; In August away I must.” |
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