Fetch Birdwatchers
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167 watchers
Jun 2024
9:46am, 8 Jun 2024
32,201 posts
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Rosehip
swift nestbox - not often you get to see them not flying m.youtube.com |
Jun 2024
9:03am, 9 Jun 2024
8,544 posts
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um
Seems Stone Curlews (and nests) have been introduced (and 'protected') in the local bird reserve. I may have to have a few runs, or walks with the camera, to see if I can see any chicks or adults.
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Jun 2024
11:03am, 9 Jun 2024
32,212 posts
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Rosehip
Very loud 'peewitting' from the fields this morning and then one appeared from nowhere and thought it was going to attack me!
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Jun 2024
11:05am, 9 Jun 2024
5,169 posts
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paulcook
I also noticed your swifts above had hatched!!
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Jun 2024
11:16am, 9 Jun 2024
10,346 posts
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Northern Exile
Been nosing around this morning and found a couple of swallows' nests in the old cattle shed next to our house  I wondered where they'd been hiding. Had a bit of a treat yesterday, watched a few blue tit chicks emerging from the nesting box for the first time, what a big bad world it must have appeared. They hung around on the window cill outside my workshop for a while and then just fluttered off, it really does make you wonder how the world ticks. |
Jun 2024
1:54pm, 9 Jun 2024
5,306 posts
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J2R
Saw something strange and upsetting on my visit to Cley yesterday. I was watching a little flotilla of shelduck chicks swimming in a shallow scrape, and an Egyptian goose marched over and grabbed one in its beak and tried to fly off with it. The shelduck parents and also a couple of avocets attacked it, preventing it from flying off, but it then proceeded to drown the chick and leave it there. I had no idea Egyptian geese were carnivorous. Maybe it wasn't even intending to eat the chick, who knows?
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Jun 2024
1:57pm, 9 Jun 2024
5,307 posts
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J2R
Lots of avocets with chicks there. Also spoonbills, and what was probably a garganey, although I only saw its back end (one has been hanging out there for a while). Also saw a couple of gannets offshore on a boat trip later, something I don't often see off Norfolk.
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Jun 2024
10:22am, 10 Jun 2024
3,139 posts
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RunningRonnie
Seems to be far, far fewer swallows this year here. Normally have loads. Pretty sure we only have one pair this year.
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Jun 2024
10:27am, 10 Jun 2024
66,277 posts
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Derby Tup
Two male bullfinch this morning. Seriously handsome birds
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Jun 2024
10:34am, 10 Jun 2024
5,177 posts
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paulcook
Three days in a row, heard an Oystercatcher over urban Darlington. On the other end of the scale, I noticed almost no dawn chorus for days - just a few sparrows yesterday - though that might be as I'm fast asleep as the days get longer. |
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