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11 Sep
9:22pm, 11 Sep 2024
24,352 posts
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Red Squirrel
I’ll try to get a pic too.
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12 Sep
7:34pm, 12 Sep 2024
24,354 posts
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Red Squirrel
I sat in the garden for quite a while but couldn’t see the warbler-type things. Just wanted to check the leg colour. Will keep looking.
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12 Sep
9:13pm, 12 Sep 2024
5,612 posts
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J2R
Red Squirrel, I have to say that identifying warblers without their song, especially out of their brighter plumage, is pretty difficult. I saw 3 or 4 in my recent Bulgarian holiday which I was, frustratingly, unable to definitively identify. A couple of years ago in the south of France, a few weeks earlier in the year, I was able to identify some warblers with the aid of Merlin, as they were singing their little hearts out still. All quiet now apart from contact calls (although I did actually hear a chiffchaff in regular song at one point).
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12 Sep
9:25pm, 12 Sep 2024
6,425 posts
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paulcook
Few more flocks of geese this evening. Two were huge flocks. All seemed to be heading the way of Saltholme reserve. I can’t ID with total certainty but seemed to be most greylag geese with at least one (low enough to defo visual ID) of Canada geese.
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12 Sep
9:27pm, 12 Sep 2024
67,900 posts
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Derby Tup
Pinkies over our area today. Local birder who’s blog I follow had several skeins heading East
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12 Sep
9:28pm, 12 Sep 2024
67,901 posts
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Derby Tup
Can’t be long for waxwing now 
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13 Sep
3:27pm, 13 Sep 2024
24,359 posts
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Red Squirrel
Big flock of lapwings today over newly-mown farmland. Then another large flock of waders flew in that I had to try to identify when I got home.
The only thing that fits the description is juvenile curlew sandpiper. However, they’re listed as 18-19cm feels too small. These birds looked pigeon-sized in flight. After they landed I could see slightly downward curving beaks, a rippling chirrup call and thick white bar at base of tail. Any ideas folks?
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13 Sep
3:28pm, 13 Sep 2024
24,360 posts
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Red Squirrel
They were white below and dark grey above.
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14 Sep
2:40pm, 14 Sep 2024
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Red Squirrel
My cousin, who is a ghillie, thinks the flock was juvenile curlews.
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15 Sep
1:35pm, 15 Sep 2024
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paulcook
A first for me this morning. A red kite over the North Yorks Moors. Just one solitary.
Think the only other one I’ve seen this side of the A1 was on the outskirts of Middlesbrough.
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