What have you seen
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Guess it must be him, as I can't see there being more than one around our coasts.
Quite different reasons why he's moved from Tenby. Daily Mail says it was because tourist got too close
while The Times attributes his move to the Life Boat being launched down the slipway that he was using as his home.0 -
Seal watching on the NE coast, lots of them, enjoying the sun. Also a huge flock of starlings with youngsters, on the grass having a grub fest. Some of the babies were sleeping on the ground and path ways. Quite a sight. You might need to zoom in for the seals.
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Walking on the Stafforshire Moors and edges today. Saw, from on high, a Buzzard hovering and then dropping like a stone onto an unsuspecting Rabbit below. At least it was quick.
Also heard our first Cuckoo of the year and heard some Grouse (should they be Grice if more than one?
)Also had a Hobby flash by us after coming over a brow of the hill. Nice listening to the Skylarks.
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Good day for me. Saw Heron in flight, and a Willow Warbler singing away while on my first walk out with Flyte. We then went to Gilfach Nature Reserve and heard a Cuckoo as soon as we got out of the car. Lots of Warblers singing as we walked along by the river and then saw a pair of Pied Flycatchers, with the female taking moss into a best box. The, now usual, Red Kites and Buzzards were about, and on our second walk we saw a second pair of Pied Flycatchers and a handsome Dipper, Stonechats, a Raven, and a Song Thrush serenaded us along the way back to the car. Cuckoos calling again both by the river and back at the site.
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Had a pair of Cirl buntings on our plot this morning also a lot of birds nesting about the garden 1 pair of goldfinches in a forsythia bush next to OH's shed and it is their 2nd brood, 1 pair of common redstart's nesting under a cover also part of OH's shed and another pair nesting somewhere around out roof area even seen the male going down our chimney but as it finishes in the roof void they could be nesting in there as we do not have a wood burner here, cuckoos still calling and the nightingales.
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Banks of Bluebells here in Mid Wales, and still some Primroses in flower and patches of Pink Purslane and Campion in the hedgerow.
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Walking along by the Brecon canal today saw, as well as the usual, for this area at least, Red Kites, both a Blackcap singing away on a Willow, and a Spotted Flycatcher doing it's arial gymnastics. Also cruising down the water, avoiding the canal boats was this family.
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More a flower day today.
On a lovely walk which took us through some woodland, we came across loads of Wood Avens, new Wild Garlic, some Herb Bennett, Wild Strawberries and Common Spotted Orchids on the edge of the wood. Also the Hawthorn blossom seems a lot later here at it was at its peak today. Like having 2 birthdays. Wonderful.
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From my daughters patio doors (they haven't yet built the patio......
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Sand Martins and Swifts over the river near the site this morning, and numerous Buzzards and Red Kites as we drove up to our new site. Found out the cause of the Owl hoots during the day at the Brecon site....two baby Owls sat with one of their parents up in the tree behind nextdoor's caravan.
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They've been cutting long grass on the farm today. We still have a couple of fields next to us on the CL that have long grass and I've just been listening to a Quail calling. Called for about 10 minutes quite nearby so I suspect it's been disturbed from one of the other fields as I've not heard it in the previous quiet nights.
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Hilarious sight of next door neighbour armed with a large towel & a small dish of ABM's very best bird food crawling round the living-room floor trying to remove a young and nervous starling from under his furniture. It had, apparently, flown in at ankle height after colliding, as they do, with a window and then followed it's scrambled senses for safety
. It eventually found it's own way out but only after all the furniture had been investigated and found wanting, of course. All that remains to be done is to watch while the furniture is returned to it's original positions { I will know when that's in progress from the chunnering and cussing that is sure to accompany it 
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Well that was a special walk, along Bradford and Lathkill Dales, seeing full fields of Buttercups and Clover, Swallows everywhere, Butterflies galore, a Dipper feeding a chick, a cute cygnet with mum and dad, a pair of Mandarin ducks, Redstarts and Willow Warblers, and best of all we came across a Slow-Worm on the path. Fortunately OH warned me just before I stepped on it causing me to do a quick pas-de-deux across it. Unfortunately it was quicker than we could get the phone out to photograph it!😂
A really super day's nature watching.
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After a very slow start we've heard more Cuckoos than ever recently. Two days ago we heard at least 3 while we were out walking up to Bircher Common, and then this evening we heard another from our new site at Loggerheads, near Market Drayton.
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Bl**dy roe deer have come down out of the forest and eaten the tops of my garlic as their first course and tackled the lupins for dessert.
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Yes ET deer do like our plants I have had the same at home a few years ago they ate all my violas in a large pot and left the roots in.
We have got huge numbers of swifts around our cottage here in the Cantal and today at Conques there were a lot flying about especially around the church, also a lot of red kites and buzzards here, saw a few grey wagtails down by the river Lot this afternoon.
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Red Kites seem to be all over nowadays. There have been over our site here near Market Drayton, well away from the release regions.
There are at least one pair of Lapwings in a field in front of the caravans. You can hear them when they are being annoyed by the resident crows, but today I saw one chasing away a buzzards and then being assisted by the said crows.
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We stopped in Salers Cantal for lunch and again a lot of swifts but even more jackdaws all chatting away we do not get them at home.
Now at second gite very good and more views and even more birds about here had a hoopoe fly over the garden and also a lot of bird of prey about so will take binos with me on the local walks.
OH bought me a book to wildlife in this area very interesting.
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