From last year wharfee :)Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
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From last year wharfee :)Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
*correction* LAPWINGS?? in the fields near Redmires Reservoir. Love that sound.
Avocets or curlew?Quote:
Originally Posted by simgreen78
I'm rather embarrassed to admit that when I went to check having read your question, what I thought was an Avocet was in fact a completely different bird! Very frustrating, as I have been claiming for years that we had a pair of nesting Avocets in the field behind my childhood home...:oQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
I'm heading over to the RSPB site for an ID.
I'm no Bill Oddie. (Which can probably only help my running prospects...:))
Right. My brief stint in the Young Ornothologists Club twenty five years ago obviously made no lasting impression...:o
Lapwings. Probably. Do they have that distinctive, almost synthetic-sounding call?
Let the abuse commence... ;)
Pee - wit When I got a dog er well when my wife got one and I got landed with it and had to train it a bit I used the lapwings cal because it was one I could remember. Only trouble is i I can't do it very loudly.
Starts high then goes down and back up again. Sort of.
You should have used the evocative sound of an alarmed grouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
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Red grouse are particularly vocal when flushed from the hillside, announcing their presence with a 'go-back, back, back' call and a fast, direct flight on alternate whirring and gliding wings.
In other words, just like a fell runner!.Quote:
The male persuades females to mate with a display which involves calling, puffing out feathers, erecting its tail, and moving with a stiff walk.
If it was a pair of Lapwings they were probably doing some quite impressive acrobatic displays at this time of year (i.e. showing off).Quote:
Originally Posted by simgreen78
I have only rarely heard the 'go-back' call, it's usually more like "ggrrraaarrrgghhh".
(Which of course means wotcher mate 'ow's it goin? - I speak it fluently)
Aye, that's the one. Lord only knows where Avocet came from...
Impressive acrobatic displays and that distinctive call. A lovely bird. :)
Kate Bush?
Possibly, although she wasn't thrown up as a possibility on the RSPB website...Quote:
Originally Posted by Margarine
Saw a rather cute red squirrel today.
Debbie
A pair of Ravens doing that twisty thing they do :cool:
We have a Rookery less than a mile away. bloody noisy birds Caw!Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
They're very busy atm :)Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Wheatear today too on fence you follow Honister -> Dalehead :cool:
I heard a cuckoo today. First one this year.
Have you got a clock then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Feet in the Cowclaps
I haven't. Perhaps I should.
I think it's downright cruelty to keep birds cooped up in clocks like that. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Feet in the Cowclaps
Young hare in field over Oldham way, never seen one round them parts before.
Pretty sure there was a Ring Ouzel in William Clough yesterday evening. Didn't get a full-frontal view, but it sounded good.
Be a while since you saw any type of hare Merry.:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
Regards
Saw a pair Red kite’s soaring over Harewood House yesterday. Looked amazing.
This is true:o Well spotted mate:DQuote:
Originally Posted by HUGH JARSE
Thats a coincidence. we saw a very young one today, Couldn't have been much bigger than my fist. up By the summit of Margery Hill, actually I've seen more Hares today than in a very long tome, must have been close to 100 but I was out for a loooong time. Lots of Curlews, grouse, small BofPrey but too fast and low to work out what it wasQuote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
There have been pairs in Jaggers and Blackden in recent years although not seen one recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoffB
Saw loads of hares today on middle moss and featherbed moss (near margery hill), at least 7 adults and 5 juveniles. Also a few curlews, loads of grouse and some small birds of prey. Only out for 2 hours, so pretty impressed with that.
I'm sure one of the hares was a pacemaker - kept running ahead of me on the way across to margery hill, and then looking back to see if I was still there!
yes,they do look amazing, we do a few training runs around the Harewood trails and the area around the Emmerdale film set and see quite a lot of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Datt
Saw & heard first Skylarks of the year on today's run. Whinfell Ridge from Hucks Bridge on A6 nr Kendal/Shap
Fantastic bird song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFdra...=youtube_gdata
IDP, BofP sounds like a merlin ;):cool:
1) Herons nest with chicks
2) A Tern ?which type
All at Linacre Woods near Chesterfield
PS saw a Sparrowhawk bring down a Wood Pigeon in our neighbours garden yesterday
Amazing encounter on recent 6633 Ultra in Canada....
Running just after dusk and saw a white rabbit come bursting out of a snowbank about 10 yards from me and then, over the top of the bank, came a lynx chasing the rabbit. The rabbit put in a couple of cunning jinks and managed to escape... took my breath away.
excellent:D Apart from kestrels, osprey, eagles, buzzards, I do have difficulty in IDing BofP. they move so fast:o I've seen a few red kites but not round here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
I know there is a peregrine nearby and this is regularly spotted.
But I can spot a lapwing and curlew and there were lots today, also skylarks and yet more hare
Highlights of walk round Hellifield Flash today were Shellduck, Shoveller, Snipe, Redshanks, Teal, Curlew, Lapwing, Gold Finch, Widgeon and a definite sighting of a Swallow :)
First swallows for me today too.:)
A Stoat at Spicer Hill, near the grin n bear it course.
How do you know it was a stoat?
A stoat's stoatly different to a wee weasel ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
Black tip on the tail. Weasels don't have the black tip.Quote:
How do you know it was a stoat?