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Post by ianr on Feb 20, 2024 8:28:14 GMT
We have a good number nest around the roofs here, this morning as I left to walk the dog a flock of around 50 flew over. The other month at sunrise I was seeing flocks of around a thousand must be roosting not too far away again ian
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Post by ianr on Feb 22, 2024 7:49:59 GMT
Watching one of the local blackbirds building it's nest in a small holly tree in the front garden yesterday Many have tried in the past usually the magpies get at them ian
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Post by ianr on Feb 27, 2024 8:04:29 GMT
Little egret over the house this morning ian
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Post by Tringa on Feb 29, 2024 16:35:41 GMT
Not just today but for a few days now I've heard a green woodpecker calling.
Up until about, I think, three years ago I'd hear their call almost daily from early spring to into summer.
Then there were no calls so it was great to hear one(or more) again.
The GSWs are also doing well and are on the peanut and sunflower feeders frequently.
Dave
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Post by Tringa on Mar 4, 2024 19:49:06 GMT
Me and Mrs T had a good couple of hours at the Nene Washes(about 9 miles east of Peterborough) today. Not many species but the list included scores of widgeon, mute swan, whooper swan, buzzard, kestrel, red kite, common crane, roe deer but the highlight was this one sitting in a hedge. AAGP1500_edited-1-crop by Dave Marley, on Flickr In talking with the man who kindly pointed it and another short eared owl out to us the particular hedge is often used by SEOs in the winter. Dave
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Post by Harold Smith on Mar 11, 2024 9:51:21 GMT
Yesterday Lunch time juvenile Sparrowhawk perched on garden fence for about 10 minutes before flying off. 2024 03 10_0583a by Harold Smith, on Flickr When it left all the House Sparrows hiding in the Cotoneaster hedge burst out. Harold.
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Post by Harold Smith on Mar 12, 2024 15:25:11 GMT
Pair of male Mallards arrived this afternoon. Had a good swim around the pond, had a preen and a feed from the ground feeder, then another swim and preen. Stayed for about and hour and half before moving on. 2024 03 12_0599a by Harold Smith, on Flickr For the last couple of weeks a male and female have been visiting the garden but there was no sign of the female today. For about ten years a male and female Mallard have been coming to the garden. Some years they have stayed through out the summer, leaving around the end of August/beginning of September. Whether they are the same ones I do not know, though I understand they can live for quite a long time. I sometimes get the feeling they are the same ones, or at least one of them, because if they turn up and find the ground feeder empty they will come to the back door and hang around until I bring some food out. One day, I'm sure, they will knock on the door demanding to be fed. Harold.
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Post by Tringa on Mar 18, 2024 22:29:47 GMT
That must be a delight to have ducks coming to your garden.
Dave
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Post by Tringa on Mar 18, 2024 22:32:31 GMT
Mrs T and I were fortunate to have a few views of this one today on a short afternoon walk. It was too far away for the longest lens I have so this is fairly heavily cropped, but even to see one was good. Dipper3 by Dave Marley, on Flickr Dave
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Post by Tringa on Mar 25, 2024 9:31:35 GMT
Saw a pair of bullfinches for the first time this year earlier this morning eating the emerging buds on a greengage.
Dave
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Post by ianr on Apr 21, 2024 9:44:14 GMT
A walk along the fleet this morning there were blackcap, white throat and sedge warbler singing. 1 swallow on the drive home ian
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Post by Tringa on Apr 22, 2024 6:48:21 GMT
Unfortunately I could not spot it but heard a blackcap singing about 6am today.
Dave
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