Fetch Birdwatchers
165 watchers
Dec 2023
9:59am, 1 Dec 2023
32,385 posts
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HellsBells
flanker - getting closer |
Dec 2023
12:24pm, 1 Dec 2023
4,565 posts
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Curly45
Waxwings reported in Matlock which is about 5miles away and in Alfreton. I wonder if we are too rural for them?
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Dec 2023
12:26pm, 1 Dec 2023
30,534 posts
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Rosehip
Field full of peewits seen on my way back from pilates this morning, not as many as we used to get but still quite a number.
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Dec 2023
2:11pm, 1 Dec 2023
4,855 posts
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J2R
Peewits (lapwings) are one of my favourite birds, possibly because of watching flocks of them in the fields when I was a boy. Sad that their numbers have declined so.
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Dec 2023
2:14pm, 1 Dec 2023
3,870 posts
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paulcook
Without doubt, they have my favourite song and dance of any bird. Especially when I'm running alone with them on the moors.
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Dec 2023
2:43pm, 1 Dec 2023
2,802 posts
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riggys99
Love the way lapwings attack everything and anything when they are breeding. Used to get them on a little marsh area less than a mile from home and they used to breed about 3 miles from home. One of the local fields used to get big numbers of Golden Plovers over winter but sadly the numbers are no where near that now. My favourite wader now is the Oystercatcher love seeing and hearing them on my beach runs when we are at Cleethorpes. They are even on the T-shirt and medal from this years Humber Coastal Half Marathon. |
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Dec 2023
3:29pm, 1 Dec 2023
4,857 posts
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J2R
riggys99, if you think lapwings are aggressive, have you seen avocets? Stroppy, bad-tempered, violent thugs.
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Dec 2023
3:31pm, 1 Dec 2023
2,803 posts
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riggys99
riggys99, if you think lapwings are aggressive, have you seen avocets? Stroppy, bad-tempered, violent thugs. Yes get then at Old Moor but Lapwings were the first birds I saw behave that way when i started going birdwatching |
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Dec 2023
3:42pm, 1 Dec 2023
4,858 posts
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J2R
I'm minded of Chris Packham's description of avocets and feel their aggression is like getting a headbutt from Audrey Hepburn.
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Dec 2023
4:51pm, 1 Dec 2023
62,406 posts
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Derby Tup
Alfreton is close to my old patch I'm so looking forward to a waxwing Christmas |
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