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  • Bakers2
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    edited June 2020 #2912

    Nelliethehooker did you mean me and not brue about the snap?? It does enlarge well. Real fast snap in my phone!

    This is my second attempt at a reply. Typed it hit reply, it appeared to go, hung white for ages, no post, refreshed no post. I expect this will result in a duplicate!

  • Bakers2
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    edited June 2020 #2913

    Well a new oddity. See I can even retain the wording 🤣🤣

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited June 2020 #2914

    My apologies, B2, of course I meant you.embarassed I think that I read brue's post above yours and you know how these names stick in one's head even when you know it's no the right one. Great photo anyway.wink

  • brue
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    edited June 2020 #2915

    A pleasant 25C just sitting out in the garden. Lots of swifts and swallows airborne collecting insects and I've just spotted where one of the robins is nesting. We put a big tray of water out for the dog to play in and that's now attracting all sorts of creatures so will leave it out for a while. 

    Like the moth photo B2 , a good time now to spot them. 

  • Amesford
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    edited June 2020 #2916

    The other day while walking the dogs down a local footpath a Golden ringed dragon fly landed on a cow parsley and in his jaws was a huge blue bottle  as I watched he proceeded tuck into it and was far too preoccupied to notice me,  alas some idiot had forgot to take his mobile phone with him yell 

  • Pliers
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    edited June 2020 #2917

    Young dippers on the stream at Roughlee this morning. Incredible well camouflaged, but already showing their characteristic jizz. Hopefully they’ll do well there. 🙂

  • Amesford
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    edited June 2020 #2918

     Some years ago we stayed at the Riverside caravan site  which is on the banks of the river Plym in of course Plymouth where we sat and watched the dippers who were not bothered by people and just carried doing their feeding 

  • brue
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    edited June 2020 #2919

    If you can zoom in on this I think this is a scarlet tiger moth resting by our pond during the day. With it's wings rested the scarlet isn't visible. Quite a large moth.

  • RedKite
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    edited June 2020 #2920

    Hi Brue, yes it is a Scarlet Tiger moth superb colouring we have had here also we have had the Jersey Tiger moth.

    We have had a lot more starlings this year and the last two weeks we have had parents and youngsters on our field so about 20 to 30 and then yesterday we had about 100 of them all on the main electric cables over the field.

    The cicadas have started making their noise a bit later this year even got some on our small oak trees.

    Butterflies have been great this week marbled whites swallowtails meadow brown wall brown and woodland grayling's.

  • brue
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    edited June 2020 #2921

    Thanks RedKite, it seems strange to have spotted a Jersey Tiger last year and now a Scarlet Tiger...but it keeps me on my toes for spotting things! smile

  • Pliers
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    edited July 2020 #2922

    Lots to snipe displaying over our local moors again this morning. We’re usually away at this time of year, so don’t know if this behaviour is normal for July. Will ask my birding pals. 🙂

  • Wherenext
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    edited July 2020 #2923

    Presumably second brood Pliers. I love listening to them drumming. Lucky you.smile

  • RedKite
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    edited July 2020 #2924

    Had a surprise yesterday on a walk with a friend whilst the menfolk were busy with DIY  and nearly back home and heard a bird call and then it appeared on a branch then another  3 appeared looks like a family of Stonechats have bred in the small woodland next door to us first time we have had them here and a great sight to see. We had a great walk around a small track no vehicle access at all a lot of very old woods and stone walls a piece of local history and good wildlife about.

  • RedKite
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    edited July 2020 #2925

    Just had a male Stag Beetle fly over the house 1st time see here but have seen them in other places around here.

  • Pliers
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    edited July 2020 #2926

    Expect so, Wherenext, and as we’re going nowhere soon, will be keeping a lookout for them.

    🙂

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2020 #2927

    Spotted a few of these  when out walking last Wednesday. Not sure if it's a Large or Small Skipper. 

  • RedKite
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    edited July 2020 #2928

    Hi Nellie it is a large skipper a good photo we have them in the plot here.

  • Oneputt
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    edited July 2020 #2929

    Good day today in North Norfolk.  Visited Cley and Stiffkey.  Kites, Spoonbills, Yellow Hammers, Linnets, Curlew, Oyster Catchers plus lots of Hares

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2020 #2930

    Thanks, RK, and a female I think as I can't see the black wing marking of the males.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited July 2020 #2931

    Hoping to see some ospreys at Rutland later this week.

  • Oneputt
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    edited July 2020 #2932

    If you are interested there is a trout farm close by where they allow the Ospreys to feed.  People pay for slots of time so they can photo the birds fairly close up.

    https://www.rivergwashtroutfarm.co.uk/horn-mill-osprey-hide/

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2020 #2933

    Here's the link to their web site if your interested.

    https://www.lrwt.org.uk/wildlife/rutland-ospreys

    If you want a free view of the nest you can park up in Manton and walk back to the road bridge over the R Gwash at the head of Manton Bay.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited July 2020 #2934

    Thanks for those links

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2020 #2935

    CY, all 4 of this year's Osprey chicks at Rutland have made it so far, and they have now been ringed, so you might well see some if not all of them learning to fly.

  • Pliers
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    edited July 2020 #2936

    Snipe everywhere on our local moors this morning, assume most of them are this year’s young.

    A birding pal took this photo. He assured me the bird actually did have  2 legs!🙂

  • RedKite
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    edited July 2020 #2937

    Thanks for the photo Pliers not seen any around here, did have a sparrowhawk just outside lounge window the other day not sure whether it is the same one we had here earlier in the year also had a young kestrel on the electric wires.

    A lot of butterflies about new broods of swallowtail ,scarce swallowtail and great number of banded and woodland graylings.

  • Oneputt
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    edited July 2020 #2938

    Juvenile Sedge Warbler singing its little heart out at Thornham Harbour.  I knew it was a youngster as it didn't seem to have the full repertoire of song

      

  • brue
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    edited July 2020 #2939

    Me, the squirrel and the bunting... no not a real bunting, the sort you hang up to cheer certain places. I put a short run up on a little corner seating hut and wondered why it kept falling down. I then spotted the squirrel, making a smart exit from the hut roof into the oak tree behind, knocking off the bunting as he leapt...now he's also had a nibble at it...no gratitude for all the nuts he takes each day! wink

  • Oneputt
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    edited July 2020 #2940

    A Parakeet flew across the bottom of the garden this evening, that’s a first here

  • Wherenext
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    edited July 2020 #2941

    Won't be the last though Oneputt.

    Had a lovely surprise today as a Spotted Flycatcher flew up from having a bath in a puddle next to the path we were walking on and sat there in an overhanging branch for a while.

    We identified over 10 different Bees and Hoverflies on the herb garden at Dunham Massey yesterday. Marjoram and Oregano were the winners.

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