Interesting. Thank you. We get loads of chiffchaffs round here, so I always go on balance of probabilities for one of those. I'll keep an eye out for the other things too - legs, tail wagging.
Interesting. Thank you. We get loads of chiffchaffs round here, so I always go on balance of probabilities for one of those. I'll keep an eye out for the other things too - legs, tail wagging.
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-o...81775630434950
More on the Chiffchaff here. I didn't know they wintered in the Med. while WWs headed further south to sub-saharan Africa.
Am Yisrael Chai
More fieldfares than you shake a stick at in Wiltshire today along with a huge number of starlings.
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Pete Shakespeare - U/A
Going downhill fast
Long-tailed macaques. Yes, I'm in Singapore. These monkeys are really common here, at least in the few parts of the island that haven't been turned into a concrete jungle.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Bit of a strange one from last week. We visited WWT Slimbridge and within about 10 minutes had a really good sighting (thanks to some keen people with expensive scopes) of a collared pratincole! Rare migrant to he UK. Apparently it was busy eating wasps.
Quite an attractive bird, a bit like a large swallow, with a marked forked tail and a raptor-esque bill.
https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centr...ole-still-here
Strange but special!Originally Posted by noel
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
I was at a funeral today, and when everyone came out of the crematorium, a red kite came and spent a while flying around, no more than 20 feet above us. In a past age, this might have been taken as some sort of omen. These days we know that it was just working out whether any of us were edible.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Yesterday morning a sparrowhawk on the back lawn stripping the feathers off its prey with a couple of magpies lurking close by and cackling. Once de-feathered, sparrowhawk flew off with the carcass. I never saw them until recent years. Their population seems to be increasing.
My regular walk round the Gallows Hill Nature Reserve in Otley was spectacular this morning. Loads of birds came in for the food I put out. We then walked up the river Wharfe and were privileged to see an otter swimming in the river - followed it for about 100yards before it disappeared. Walking home feeling lucky we had a fine sighting of the Kingfisher fishing, and a dipper flew by. Only seen an otter in the Wharfe once before, and I walk it most mornings.
Wonderful. I hear otters are becoming more common - apparently they even have them on the canal in Bingley!
But I've still never seen one in the wild.
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