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Jun 2024
7:41pm, 2 Jun 2024
5,282 posts
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J2R
Proper swift screecherama today over the market place of the beautiful little town of Lavenham in Suffolk. I suspect all those old houses probably provide lots of nesting places for swifts. They certainly do for sparrows - I was watching lots of them going in and out of little nesting holes under the eaves.
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Jun 2024
11:10am, 3 Jun 2024
5,283 posts
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J2R
This year has been our best yet for nesting birds in the garden (which is only a small one, but in a leafy area of suburbia). We've had successful fledgings of great tit, blue tit, robin, blackbird and dunnock, and I've been delighted to watch the youngsters of all of them being fed by their parents in the garden and now feeding themselves independently. I think the blackbirds have embarked on a second brood, too. We also have a wren's nest just by the front door (as in previous years), where the young are evidently still being fed.
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Jun 2024
7:54am, 4 Jun 2024
63,487 posts
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alpenrose
I finally heard my first cuckoo of the season a couple of days ago.
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Jun 2024
11:16am, 4 Jun 2024
66,194 posts
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Derby Tup
I’m still waiting
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Jun 2024
1:03pm, 4 Jun 2024
4,463 posts
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jacdaw
A couple more cuckoos yesterday, near Little Town, and in that odd stunted oak wood above Rigg Beck, on the flank of Causey Pike. And one near Allenheads on Sunday.
Red squirrels on both days, too.
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Jun 2024
1:05pm, 4 Jun 2024
4,464 posts
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jacdaw
Tiny numbers of Swifts this year. In 2s and 3s where there used to be 10s. Sand Martins seem to be down too. Come to think of it, Swallows too.
Watching the natural world shrink in real time.
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Jun 2024
7:44pm, 4 Jun 2024
2,964 posts
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Surelynot
I have noticed a substantial decline in sand martins on the Nith. There are a few but even last year there were good numbers around. An area around one of the bridges used to have up to a hundred but lucky if I’ve seen ten so far.
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Jun 2024
10:18pm, 4 Jun 2024
66,199 posts
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Derby Tup
In more positive news* the first of this year’s peregrine chicks at Derby Cathedral has fledged
*swift and hirundine numbers poor here too
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Jun 2024
10:28am, 5 Jun 2024
4,699 posts
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Curly45
Greater spotted woodpecker on the feeder today 😍 first time we've seen one here.
Merlin picked up nuthatch and spotted flycatcher as well.
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Jun 2024
10:51am, 5 Jun 2024
5,290 posts
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J2R
Haven't seen a spotted flycatcher for years now. I assume their numbers have slumped, like so many insectivores.
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Bird song watch
Jul 2024