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Jul 2021
9:18am, 21 Jul 2021
51,111 posts
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Derby Tup
I think I’m with jacdaw. Sad whatever
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Jul 2021
9:50am, 21 Jul 2021
2,038 posts
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bonners
Little terns this morning, tide was up on the estuary and had a lovely display of sight and lots of sound
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Jul 2021
10:52am, 21 Jul 2021
3,720 posts
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J2R
OK, maybe it's a song thrush. Young blackbirds are very speckled, though, much more like song thrushes than the adult birds.
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Jul 2021
12:16pm, 21 Jul 2021
4,717 posts
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steve45
jackdaw's ID I think!
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Jul 2021
12:37pm, 21 Jul 2021
14,327 posts
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HowFar?
Thrushes do seem susceptible to flying into windows. I had a stunned one outside the kitchen for most of the morning last week, after it flew into the window and we had a spate of them crashing into the hall windows at school.
There were 5 herons at the Erne estuary last night. I don’t think I have seen that many next to each other before. Also more mullet in one spot than I have ever seen. It was like one of those trout stock ponds when they throw the pellets in.
It’s tricky at the estuary because although I want to look all around me, I also have to keep on eye on my feet to make sure I am not about to tread on a jellyfish or crab. It can get quite exhausting.
I was walking back to where I had locked my bike and nearly trod on a small scampering thing. It ran about near my feet for a few seconds before regaining its composure and heading for the undergrowth. It looked smaller than a mouse so I think it was a shrew, but it was too dark and it was moving too quickly to get a good look at its nose.
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Jul 2021
5:39pm, 21 Jul 2021
4,945 posts
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um
HowFar? - scampering over feet? I've known moles do that, not mice or shrews.
Ref the kite questions a few days ago. I spotted a pair gliding along earlier today.
All in < 1 minute, then they were gone ...
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Jul 2021
5:45pm, 21 Jul 2021
4,424 posts
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Pothunter
Stunning!
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Jul 2021
5:53pm, 21 Jul 2021
2,039 posts
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bonners
Beautiful pictures
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Jul 2021
6:00pm, 21 Jul 2021
14,328 posts
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HowFar?
Fabulous pictures, um. The scampering was not over my feet, just panicked loops near my feet. No moles over here, so it definitely wasn’t one of those.
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Jul 2021
11:11pm, 21 Jul 2021
12,958 posts
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UltraDunc
Thanks twitchers , my first thought was a thrush of some sort . It had a small amount of blood around it’s beak, we haven’t had many blackbirds around lately but have many sparrows who have nested in a few places .
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Bird song watch
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