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Apr 2023
7:26am, 20 Apr 2023
59,233 posts
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Derby Tup
Listen out for nuthatch. Very loud incessant staccato 'machine gun' call
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Apr 2023
8:22am, 20 Apr 2023
31,275 posts
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macca 53
[like a smaller sounding magpie DT]
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Apr 2023
10:04am, 20 Apr 2023
4,612 posts
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J2R
DT, yes, but there's quite a lot of variation, too, in the call. I'm more tuned into it this year. A curious thing I have found is that the Merlin ID app, at least on my phone, seems to have a lot of difficulty recognising nuthatches in a way it doesn't with most birds. A few times now I've been standing with the sound ID going and a nuthatch has been piping away nearby and nothing has shown up. Yet the briefest snippet of a robin some way off is instantly picked up. Odd.
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Apr 2023
10:26am, 20 Apr 2023
15,159 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
Merlin got my nuthatch - I'd already seen it and thought that's what it was, then used Merlin and it picked it up.
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Apr 2023
11:33am, 20 Apr 2023
18,154 posts
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KinkyS
Later in the summer when there are family groups of nuthatches foraging together, the incessant noise is just gorgeous 
I heard my first blackcap of the year yesterday 
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Apr 2023
12:13pm, 20 Apr 2023
59,239 posts
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Derby Tup
I've been to local Airedale hospital today. As a little treat I pulled over on the way where I know there is always a good number of willow warblers. They were there and I stopped for a minute or two listeninv anx smiling
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Apr 2023
10:03pm, 20 Apr 2023
22,890 posts
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Red Squirrel
Lovely, Tup.
I saw a nuthatch last week in local park either investigating a tree hole; or having already bagged it. The park is a woodpecker haven, so plenty of old nest sites.
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Apr 2023
10:37pm, 20 Apr 2023
28,663 posts
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Rosehip
Heard nuthatch locally for the first time here a couple of days ago, hope they like it and hang around
Looked up from my sofa seat shortly before dusk and there was a sparrowhawk sitting on the fence a few feet away - he didn’t give me time to pic up phone and take a pic.
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Apr 2023
7:28am, 21 Apr 2023
59,251 posts
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Derby Tup
Forecast is rubbish at lunchtime so I'm off out for a curlew fix
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Apr 2023
7:38am, 21 Apr 2023
391 posts
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AJLB
I once did a sponsored cycle ride from the Lake District to Leicestershire during which it rained non-stop for the whole 180 miles. One of the only consolations was the sound of curlews calling through the rain on the hillsides (and it was a very hilly ride!)
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