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13 May
4:48pm, 13 May 2024
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um
A soggy day now ... salisburycathedral.org.uk
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13 May
4:57pm, 13 May 2024
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paulcook
Stupid question perhaps!, but was classes as a wader? In particularly do swans, geese, ducks, perhaps even herons, etc? |
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13 May
5:07pm, 13 May 2024
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um
A few 'lists' :- wildlifetrusts.org wwt.org.uk wwt.org.uk As per wildlifetrusts, Whilst not in the wader family, the herons, egrets, ibis, cranes and storks do behave in a similar fashion, using their long bills to catch and eat their prey. wwt.org.uk |
13 May
5:08pm, 13 May 2024
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Derby Tup
Swans, geese and ducks are wildfowl We’re looking birds like snipe, plovers, sandpipers, oystercatchers etc Little stint the size of a sparrow up to curlew the size of a crow or gull |
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13 May
5:12pm, 13 May 2024
65,855 posts
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Derby Tup
wwt.org.uk This appears to have spot red and standard redshank crossed over. Good pics of curlew and whimbrel though. Kentish plover missing but I had no idea how rare thing migrant is now 
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13 May
5:16pm, 13 May 2024
4,804 posts
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paulcook
That does make 10 a decent day. And I certainly wouldn’t classify my ID’ing of individual wader species, with a few exceptions exceptions, as particularly among my fortes.
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13 May
5:19pm, 13 May 2024
5,219 posts
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J2R
Me in winter at Titchwell or Cley: "Oh, look, there's a small brown wader with a mid-length bill. And there's another brown wader, a bit bigger, with a slightly different bill. And a speckledy brown wader which looks like the other two but is maybe a bit dumpier." No, sadly, wader ID is not my thing, especially in winter |
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13 May
5:21pm, 13 May 2024
4,805 posts
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paulcook
Yes. I think that’s an excellent summary of many waders for me too.
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13 May
5:23pm, 13 May 2024
65,856 posts
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Derby Tup
When I met my wife she lived on the south coast near Southampton. We spent hours exploring likely habitat down there and up north too learning how to spot the various wader species. Late summer is the time because juvenile birds pass south on their first migration. The commonish ones that can be a struggle are knott (I try to remember they are ‘not anything else’, ruff, and picking black tail from bar tail godwits (I saw the comment ‘bar tail are streakier in all plumages’ in a book and that helped - bar tail can look like small curlew with straight bills) Favourites: snipe, spot red, greenshank, black tail godwit, golden plover, grey plover and curlew |
13 May
7:14pm, 13 May 2024
23,827 posts
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Red Squirrel
I walked past the house with the impersonator starling today and sure enough it was there, doing a fantastic parakeet-type noise from the roof.
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