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Thread: Today's Wildlife Encounter

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    Saturday morning anticlockwise circuit of Barden moor as part of my Spine Flare training. The moorland birds were all present, with Golden Plover, Greylag geese, and loads of curlew. Even a Buzzard up on the moor. Ran past the remains of a duck, plucked and eaten. Looked like a peregrine victim - feathers and down everywhere. Even better very few people and some sun. So glad I can run the moors to experience all this. Interesting chat with the local mole catcher who said they only breed once a year and now is the time. Loads of Chiffchaff in the local nature reserve this morning and a pair of Mandarin on the Wharfe.

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    Swallowed my first fly of 2018 whilst out on my bike yesterday evening!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Llani Boy View Post
    Swallowed my first fly of 2018 whilst out on my bike yesterday evening!
    None yet for me, but still optimistic. Spend a lot of time near Llani, at Llan near Llanbrynmair. Really enjoying watching the Clywedog Osprey.

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    Saw a swallow at Buttermere yesterday (and a Red Squirrel).

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    Some highlights from a recent trip to Sierra Nevada in Spain: blue rock thrush, woodchat shrike (a pair of them together) and a very speedy black snake I almost trod on while running. Had I been wearing a HR monitor, I would have definitely seen a spike on my trace.

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    Several singing pied flycatcher yesterday evening in the Strid Woods. Also saw / heard green woodpecker, mandarin, nuthatch, dipper, grey wagtail, blackcap, goosander and at least three common sandpiper

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    Pair of Redstart just outside Loweswater village yesterday, towards the end of the Buttermere race route.

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    Last weeks sighting included Gannets, Razorbills, Fulmars and one hare on a cliff top walk to St. Bees lighthouse from Whitehaven. In a local woods I saw a pair of jays seeing off a crow and a a red squirrel, quite pleased to see the latter as they all vanished in 2016 assumed dead from Squirrel pox.

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    I believe we have a nest of something small and fast in a crack in the wall next to our front gate. I'll have to get a closer look but I can hear chirruping and think I can see the beaks of some fresh chicks.
    Nic Barber. Downhill Dandy

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    First Adder of the season spotted on Scout Scar today
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