What have you seen
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That’s a pretty good turn out Nevers👍 It’s way too windy for birdwatch here today. Not much in garden at all, they are all staying safe I think.
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Quite a cold wind here too TDA. I now have three bird boxes at various locations all fitted with cameras and one of them has a resident Bluetit. Today being windy it has spent some time sheltering from the cold, it's now all fluffed up with its head under its wing.
I can't wait for nesting season.
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Quite a few trees down round here. We had to detour past one this morning to get to chosen dog walk. Huge, brought a couple of walls down as well. Thankfully no one hurt, unlike that poor lady in Scotland. We stopped on motorway bridge to watch M1 traffic, not a good day for HGV drivers. Didn’t see a single van out, and only one MH, very small one.
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Hi ADP, I have had a bluetit roosting overnight for a couple of months now and there is now a lot of poop in the box.
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Watership Down😁 I used that book for my very first teaching practice, takes me back a bit. Poor kids, I had them reading it, acting it out, hopping around in PE, sewing little felt bunnies, and the piece de resistance……. we built a very big papier mache scene, complete with burrows, gorse, hedges, the lot. Started to get a bit out of hand when pet bunnies were brought to school mind🤣 Happy days😁 I sometimes wonder if any of those dear little juniors went on to breed rabbits…….
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Did you see the video from Macclesfield police of the unit that had overturned on the Cat and Fiddle road yesterday. Car looked too small for the size of caravan, and who in their right mind would take a caravan over that road in those winds anyway?
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Don't think that is he, as the others are still playing around today, enjoying the early morning sunshine, along with himself!
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We're not at home so no garden birdwatch for us, but had a good river watch yesterday. Grey Herons, Oystercatchers, Lapwings, a Little Egret, Curlews and Redshanks, plus around 40 Mallards during our mid morning walk.
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Yesterday we were down on the Somerset levels, some are flooded at present but not as much as some years. We were in the willow growing area which reaches down to the Tone. Lots of bird life down there, one day we'll manage to see the Cranes but had to make do with Egrets and Herons.
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Just seen a murmuration, a small one admittedly but a sight I’ve not witnessed for a few years. The starlings circled and eventually landed on the trees behind my daughter’s house and the sounds they then made was a joy to hear. These colourful members of the mynah family really do have a huge repertoire and a wonderful ability to mimic other sounds in their environment. Sadly fewer in number these days.
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We have seen quite a few small murmurations of Starlings during this trip, and missed a huge one at Alkborough Flats, although tda's OH was in the right place at the right time.
Did see a flock of about 10 Long Tailed Tits today on our walk around Long Preston.
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I put fresh seed out this morning and within minutes the Pheasants were on it, that is the Hen Pheasants. The 2 Cock Pheasants were having a face off going up and down and every other direction possible to intimidate each other. When they realised they were of equal status and there was not going to be a winner, they decided to eat, but there was no food left as the Hen Pheasants had eaten it all and scarpered.
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Still got the male Sparrowhawk about but it does not like being harassed by the Crows and
Magpies.
Also had 3 Red kites land in next door's large Plane tree nearest they have been to our place and great to see as there seems to be quite a lot of them about today coming from the south.
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We have a window feeder on our kitchen window which is visited several times each day by a male blackbird. It's his and no-one is going to steal anything from it. Except for last night. About 10.00pm we checked to make sure there was enough breakfast in the feeder for Mr Blackbird. Not only was there about enough but there was also three big slugs eating the meal worms, calci worms and sunflower seeds
. How had they got there? Our walls are heavily textured brick so I would have thought not the most comfortable to slither up but there they were. The big questing is how did they know there was food up there, about 6 feet from the floor? I flipped them out onto the floor and left them for the hedgehog that is still visiting us every night. I'll have to watch again tonight to see if we get any more unwanted visitors.1 -
Part of our walk today took us along a fast moving stream. In summer it disappears underground but there is enough water running down from the Welsh hills above it to make it quite a sight in winter. Today we saw a pair of Dippers doing their "Pleased to meet you" bob dance and a Grey Wagtail hunting for insects along the edge of the bank. A pair of Buzzards accompanied us for a long way, "meowing" to each other.
Plenty of Snowdrops out as well and some Winter Crocus. Catkins on the trees and a garden had some Magnolia buds that looked almost ready to pop. A grand walk.
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Very sad to hear about the 2 White tailed Eagles. Have had our local Buzzards displaying and a couple of days ago the male was actually doing loops in his flying display not seen that before amazing to watch.
When out the other day we came back via some smaller roads and in one field were Herons Little Egrets and Great White Egrets and Cattle Egrets so surprised to see so many, did wonder if there were frogs non the move as no water in the area at all.
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Are you all certain these Eagles were SHOT. The report suggests that the cause is BEING INVESTIGATED. Lets wait the results before once again maligning Gamekeepers and the like. Could it be that these TAME birds were unable to adapt to so called " rewilding". I reserve my judgment.
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Had a fantastic day of birdwatching by the River Dee on the Wirral today.
Everything from large birds such as Great White Egrets and Marsh Harriers to the smallest, a Goldcrest. From Winter migrants like Pink Feet Geese to potential summer ones like Chiffchaffs, albeit with one of them seen being a Siberian Chiffchaff, presumably finding the Wirral warmer than Siberia.
I know some Chiffchaffs over-winter in the UK but normally it's in the more clement South or South West. Never seen one in Cheshire before this early. Usually our first ones arrive second week in March.
I think Carlsberg sponsored the day!😂
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