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May 2024
6:49pm, 5 May 2024
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J2R
If they're still around in August, I reckon they've missed the last plane. Never come across that poem before. Interesting. |
May 2024
6:51pm, 5 May 2024
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Derby Tup
Poetic license me thinks
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May 2024
6:58pm, 5 May 2024
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paulcook
Used Merlin for a 40 minute walk tonight. Seemed to be picking up quite a lot of what I heard including multiple birds at the same time. Of those I heard it missed a gull of some kind (probably black headed) and more faintly magpies and a woodpigeon. Otherwise seemed much better and thorough than the last use I had. Had 5 species within 14 seconds and 7 in the first minute. Think I had a total of 14 species inside the 40 minutes. Best was a willow warbler though I didn’t notice that one with my own ears unfortunately. |
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May 2024
7:26pm, 5 May 2024
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J2R
I had a nice slow walk around a local marsh reserve on the Yare yesterday, and was pleased that Merlin confirmed my identification of a bird as a reed warbler rather than a sedge warbler (with the reverse true today, what I thought was a sedge warbler was confirmed as such - I think I'm getting there). Also heard quite a few Cetti's warblers and willow warblers, but the most interesting was a stock dove. I heard what was evidently a kind of pigeon cooing in a tree but the sound wasn't that familiar to me. Merlin identified it as a stock dove, at which point I spotted it just as it was about to fly off. There are probably more of these around than I notice, but it was a nice one to see.
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May 2024
8:59am, 6 May 2024
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Red Squirrel
The cuckoo comes in April Sings a song in May In the middle of June another tune And then it flies away |
May 2024
9:12am, 6 May 2024
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Northern Exile
Swallows have started to do their morning breakfast circuit around our back garden 
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May 2024
9:53am, 6 May 2024
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Derby Tup
Red Squirrel wrote: The cuckoo comes in April Sings a song in May In the middle of June another tune And then it flies away This is accurate |
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May 2024
1:26pm, 6 May 2024
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paulcook
Picked up 21 species on an hour’s walk today from Merlin. Included spotting a grey wagtail which I wouldn’t have noticed - and that was literally under the drum of the A1. And a willow warbler which I wouldn’t have been able to visually or vocally positive ID. After hearing plenty finally spotted one singing in a tree. Merlin seemed, unsurprisingly, much better at close quarters. It missed several crows, the first clear pheasant, and missed a faint lapwing and what I thought was a lark. I also heard my first woodpecker drumming of the year - coincidentally I think Merlin matched this as a swallow. Plenty of robins, blackbirds and wrens out. And a lot of orange tipped butterflies. After several false starts finally felt like spring properly here. |
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May 2024
1:43pm, 6 May 2024
5,187 posts
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J2R
Derby Tup wrote: Red Squirrel wrote:The cuckoo comes in April Sings a song in May In the middle of June another tune And then it flies away This is accurate Is it? What other tune? I always thought the cuckoo's song repertoire was rather limited - basically 'cuckoo'. What have I been missing? |
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May 2024
7:02pm, 6 May 2024
10,284 posts
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Northern Exile
Well, just had an interesting little episode here at Windy Gap: Wife shouted to me that there was "bird activity" in the field behind us, from a distance in looked very much like a buzzard holding something down after a successful strike. I pulled my binos out and we couldn't have been more wrong, turns it it was a couple of curlews caught in the act of procreation! It was mentioned earlier that it's been a good year thus far for them wasn't it? Looks like it just got slightly better I have to say there was a lot of flappage going on, I dunno, maybe Mr Curlew was struggling for traction.
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