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JCB
JCB
Oct 2018
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Found a porphyrio porphyrio
during my long run last weekend. Poor thing had been hit by a car and had a crack in its head shield, and bloody legs.
jacdaw
jacdaw
Oct 2018
11:06am, 19 Oct 2018
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Tons of birds yesterday, including loads of young gannets, eider, gbb gull, curlew, redshank, turnstone, sanderling, ringed plover, shelduck, teal, loads of shoveler, heron, whooper and mute swan, greylag geese, lapwing, curlew, blackwit, wigeon, and a couple of little egrets.

And a great pile of seals singing on the beach.
Fragile Do Not Bend
Fragile Do Not Bend
Oct 2018
11:13am, 19 Oct 2018
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Oh, poor... *googles*... swamphen. Are you in Australia JCB?
J2R
J2R
Oct 2018
11:14am, 19 Oct 2018
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JCB, I take it that was somewhere like Andalucia? Not a lot of purple swamp hens round here. Hope it survived.
Roberto
Roberto
Oct 2018
11:36am, 19 Oct 2018
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Starling murmarations have started at our local reserve. Hopefully get to see my first one tonight
J2R
J2R
Oct 2018
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I saw one of those once, at the amazing Coto de Doñana reserve in southern Spain, and I didn't know about them beforehand. This giant purple moorhen wandered into view and I was stunned!
Roberto
Roberto
Oct 2018
8:10pm, 19 Oct 2018
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Well, utterly awed by the murmuration tonight. It was stunning. Will definitely be going back to see it again.
J2R
J2R
Oct 2018
9:48pm, 19 Oct 2018
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Gotta love a murmuration!
Chrisity
Chrisity
Oct 2018
9:59pm, 19 Oct 2018
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JCB is in Australia, watch out if you play WSW.
J2R
J2R
Oct 2018
10:50pm, 19 Oct 2018
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Hmm, porphyrio porphyrio (purple swamp hen) is a bird of Europe and North Africa.

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