What have you seen
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Hi Tticky
Been offline for a while, to busy to log on. The Gower region has introduced us to spoonbills, linnets and several more common birds this week.
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Glad you've seen some interesting stuff. Watching SpringWatch last night threw up some disturbing stats on the decline in a broad range of bird species.
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Thanks 'Blue . Will try.0 -
Used to see them quite regularly near my Spanish apartment. Haven't seen any for a couple of years.
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It's true that you can see Swallowtails in many parts of Europe but the Norfolk Swallowtails are the largest resident butterfly in the UK. They are a member of the Papilionidae family, which is one of the largest butterfly families in the world. The British race is the subspecies Britannicus which is confined to the fens of the Norfolk Broads in East Norfolk.
We see them mainly at two locations, RSPB Strumpshaw and at NWT Hickling Broad. Interestingly they often make two appearances a year, end of May/June and Often in August as well.
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That's a good pic Oneputt. The one below (if I have managed to upload it ) was taken in SW France but it doesn't have the red dots that yours has. Is it a slightly different species perhaps or maybe the female ?
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I took this photo yesterday, shows a swallowtail with part of the tail bitten off, just shows that the red spots worked in this case. The butterfly didn't appear distress and flew around with no proble
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Soooo excited, sitting in the garden watching the bird feeders fledgling blue tits, sparrows and Dunnet helping themselves, parents closeby. Robins feeding another brood and then WOW male goldfinch and offspring. I know lots of you have loads of these delightful birds but we haven't had any. I'm so pleased and delighted with what our garden attracts in the way of wildlife 😆😆😆. The speed at which fat balls and the seed feeders are going down suggests lots of new broods too. Good job we've got cover for feeding the birds whilst we're away 😉
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Walking round Clumber park lake today we saw what we thought were Oyster Catchers on an area of grass, pulling out bugs with their long beak. We could not get close enough for me to get a photo with the phone and I didn't take my camera with the zoom lense. The beak was orange and about the right length, the top half dark and the bottom half white. Although the top half was only dark grey not black, like the photos on my bird app. We have never seen these particular birds at Clumber before and we are 70 miles from the sea. I can't find anything else they can be though.
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If you google "oyster catchers clumber park" it comes up with previous sightings there a couple or so years ago so you are probably correct.
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We've a family of Oyster Catchers on Oare Creek ,she's just had her second brood .Very noisy and vocal if you get near them !!.0 -
Thanks for that FL359. Found it now. I tried chrome rather than safari. I'm not sure why but you get a different list with a different browser. I wonder why they are so far from the sea. Although thinking about it, tidal parts of the Trent are not that far away.
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Thanks for the info Wherenext. I will have to take my decent camera next time and perhaps get a photo, if they are still about. We have been walking around the lake, observing the wildlife, for over 30 years ( not constantly of course 😬) and this is the first time we have noticed them. So perhaps only a rare visit.
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Steve, we frequently see Oiks many miles inland, they seem to follow river valleys. There was a pair sitting on eggs on a nest in the centre of the CC's Altnaharra site 5 weeks ago. The wardens had put up warning tapes and bollards to stop visitors disturbing them.
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During a visit to St Abbs Head we managed to spot the rare Northern Brown Argus butterfly, as well as thousands of Guillmots on the cliffs & the sea. Then yesterday at Duns Castle Woods there were many small near black "butterflies" which I took to be Small Blues, but after an e-mail to "borderbutterfies" I discovered that they were in fact Chimney Sweeper Moths, which are much more common but are often mistaken for Small Blues. Not my photo, unfortunately.
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STILL trying !! 
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Where are you with resizing down to 500Kb? Unless you are under this number for file size, your pic will be declined.
There is a guide to posting pics somewhere on the forum thatmay help, but ignore the 800 pixels if your file size is still above 500Kb
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Quick post while the wifi is available.
Presently on Red Kite touring site near the Clwydog reservoir. Fabulous sighting of an Osprey catching a nice trout for the family supper. Chicks have hatched, but wardens not sure how many at least 2 maybe three and two weeks old,
Red Kites in action over the A44 near the feeding station.
Finally approx. 10k Puffins have been feeding their Pufflings on Skomer and 4 pair of Short Eared Owls also in residence. What a great sight, Puffins landing at your feet to scurry into their burrows laden with sand eels.
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