Curlew, Dunlin and Golden Plover up on Nine Standards today. It felt quite spring-like until the mint imperial-sized hailstones arrived!
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Curlew, Dunlin and Golden Plover up on Nine Standards today. It felt quite spring-like until the mint imperial-sized hailstones arrived!
Chiffchaff have arrived in Wharfedale in good numbers now
Saw a tree full of finches and a lovely yellow hammer singing on sutton bank last week. Loads of curlews, oystercatchers and lapwings about round Masham. I must get down to the river to check for sand martins.
Yesterdays wildlife; Bunnies, buzzards, ba lambs, big black crows and bumble bees.
Nothing very exotic but very nice all the same. It was all looking very spring-like, in the sunshine.
My first Wheatear of the year at Stockdale (Settle tops) today.
Not the one in the pic, I snapped this one a couple of years ago...
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One of my very favourite "outdoors" birds, along with golden plover
Nice trot along the river with MashamMan and saw a treecreeper and a yellowhammer and we heard some curlews.
That reminds me, we saw a pair of treecreepers in the riverside park in Ilkley at the weekend. Just next to the road and loads of people walking past. Lovely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
They seem to be quite bold little birds. I was watching one when I was in Sweden and it was not bothered by the people passing it or by me watching it. The one I saw today let us get really close too.
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Originally Posted by noel
Some Magpies are building a nest in a tree in our garden, the songbirds have disappeared since they turned up so we keep sabotaging their attempts to finish the nest. Apparently they use mud and clay to bind the sticks together; not our Magpies though- they are using dog $hit, i know this because last time i went out to have a go at the nest a piece fell out and splatted on the side of my face. It really stinks that close to your nose and tastes bad too.