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Ocelot Spleens
Ocelot Spleens
11 Aug
9:47pm, 11 Aug 2024
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Ocelot Spleens
Curlew Sandpiper, Norfolk, a proper twitcher had to point it out :-)
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
11 Aug
10:28pm, 11 Aug 2024
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Derby Tup
Time of young for juvenile birds passing through. Beautiful peachy colour breast. Longer bill than dunlin. Great bird
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
11 Aug
10:28pm, 11 Aug 2024
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Derby Tup
Time of year!
Windsor Wool
Windsor Wool
13 Aug
1:48pm, 13 Aug 2024
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Windsor Wool
Sat by the Thames here in my usual kingfisher spotting spot. Nothing doing yet but am watching juvenile black-headed gulls dive for and catch small fish. It’s something the terns do but is that a normal skill for a bhead gull?

The swifts are gone btw 😕
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
13 Aug
2:11pm, 13 Aug 2024
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Derby Tup
Bizarre experience today. I heard a bird ‘chirping’ and thought sparrow-like, but not sparrow, or chaffinch-like, but not chaffinch. The Merlin app said chaffinch :-O The song was one note. 20 minutes later and in a different area I had the same sound and same response from the app
paulcook
paulcook
13 Aug
2:19pm, 13 Aug 2024
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paulcook
The Merlin app also allows you to play stored sound files against each bird to help with ID.

We had a bird come up last week - just a single note - and it came up as chiffchaff, which surprised us. But the exact same sound matched against a file on chiffchaff.
icemaiden
icemaiden
13 Aug
3:17pm, 13 Aug 2024
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icemaiden
Sparrowhawks are bird of the day here. There's two calling and flying over the field.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
13 Aug
3:37pm, 13 Aug 2024
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Derby Tup
Third chiff down on the app list sounds like mine. I’m not convinced
paulcook
paulcook
13 Aug
3:51pm, 13 Aug 2024
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paulcook
That's the next question(s).

Are they right? Can you send feedback to the app?
Diogenes
Diogenes
13 Aug
3:59pm, 13 Aug 2024
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Diogenes
I hear Chiffchaffs making that single-note call, or Merlin tells me I do.

I was grateful to it on holiday as it helped me identify some stonechats flitting in and out of some clifftop hedges, and some linnets high up on a telephone wire above a field.

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