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Grasshopper Warblers singing as I took an evening constitutional. I've wondered for a while wether they were Grasshopper Warblers so I checked on RSPB site. Clear as a bell same as the example on there!! Must have been three or four, possibly a couple more. Didn't realise they were on the Red List!!
did an extended kentmere horseshoe last night, approaching high st fron the north a large bird of prey flew over wall and circled round towards kidsty pike. golden eagle? i know one/pair used to nest in the haweswater area
a pair of buzzards circled overhead yesterday as I did my hill reps on Lightside (Glossop) - they were seemingly enjoying the heat and thermals to gain height, and I saw a curlew too
Swifts have arrived (I see DT spotted one a few days ago). Several birds whizzing around Downham at the start of the Pendle Cloughs race.
Great stuff wharfee. I haven't seen any more since those by Silsden Res but I've been lookingQuote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
Nipped out for a quick lunch time hour on the bike, and a Blue Tit flew between my arm and leg and straight out ahead over the handlebars.
Cheeky blighter
Saw the Deer again one morning last week and managed to get a good photo as well as a video. Once I manage to make it the correct size I will post it so we can find out what kind they are.
Also saw my old mate the Heron on the canal near Copley (Halifax) first time since last year.
Dan
I think I saw/heard a Sedge Warbler tonight on my evening meander! Checked as best I could with RSPB site again and seemed to be nearest to the audio's on there! Not counting it as a definate though!
Meadow Pippit, Skylark, Curlew, peewit and heard my first Cuckoo. Nice.
Heard a cuckoo...and I think saw it too! It was about a week ago though! :)
Heard a Cuckoo while sitting on my mates new outside Loo! Also nice to spot a few Spotted Flycatchers over the w/e
Over a few days..a Barn Owl being buzzed in daylight by a gull. Rooks being buzzed by Oystercatchers because it had stolen an egg!! Couple of Linnets. Noted that there's a lot less rabbits around the site where I walk(only seen one in two days!!). But on the up side...is it just me, or are there a few more Swallows about!?
Yeah I've seen loads of swallows when I've been out cycling of late esp. in the area between Otley/Almscliff Crag and the River Wharfe. Lots of Lapwings in evidence too
Finally got my front window fixed today as it had failed and was misting up all the time. Clear as a bell now till a Blackbird flew into it this afternoon and messed it up.....it was only stunned though and flew off after it had got its act together again.
Two deer, a buzzard, kestrel, rabbits, squirrels and a carp in a pond.
What a great morning to be out.
What were they all doing in the pond? Drowning?Quote:
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Sunset Swift
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Sunset Swift by Andy Holden, on Flickr
owls skreeching in the darkness of the night.
outside my bedroom window.
for ages.
lovely to hear...apart from being kept awake.
watched for ages to try and catch a glimpse but nothing seen apart from a hedgehog skuttling across the road.
sounded like 2 adults and a young one - like they were trying to encourage it to fly.
It'll never work. Hedgehogs just aren't aerodynamic enough.Quote:
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Hare on the hill behind our house. Neighbour saw a deer three nights ago. Wildlife camera is going up on a tree trunk tonight tonight again. Last two nights we videoed a dog fox passing through. Who needs spring watch?
One out of Ten
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One out of Ten by Andy Holden, on Flickr
Bloody fed up of Cuckoo's
I hear then every where I go. why can't I ever see them...am I going mad.....BAH!
Curlew bossing a Kestrel. Took a shot just after.
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Look out for them on the telephone cables etc if you hear them and there are cables in the area.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Tonight there were eight (too dark to get a pic).Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
We have a blackbirds nest in my open fronted logshed, we watched them build, lay, incubate and feed from the house. This morning the 4 nestlings are gone :angry:. Not sure which culprit to blame, the neighbours cats or the jays/crows/magpies. They weren't far off fledging, probably by the weekend, very upset and annoyed.
There is also a redstart nest at the back of the woodshed, but this is deep in the woodpile and safe (not visible even). They are also feeding now, but a their territory overlaps a robins (must also have a nest very near) so there are battles all day long between them as to who owns which fencepost!
First orchids nearly out in the wood, loads of bluebells etc. Cuckoo flew over the house last week, saw it from our bed, it landed in the tree near the blackbirds who set about it with gusto and saw it off.
A lovely time of year, it's all action.
I'd never seen one until last Thursday - on the way up Ben Cruachan, we saw a pair flying just in front of us. Very exciting!Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
(By the way, it's Cuckoos, not Cuckoo's)
We've got dippers in a nest box under the bridge near our house. It's very inaccessible, which is good as the front has fallen off the nest box.
Didn't know Dippers would take to a nest box, what does it look like? let me know I would like to make one.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
My swifts have taken up residence in their nest box. Its quite funny a pair of Starlings roost in it all winter and have a brood in it before the Swifts arrive and as soon as they leave the Swifts move in :thumbup:
Googled the Dipper nest box. Wood and nails here I come. Got a really nice old stone bridge where I can put it.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
Nice one. Yes, it's not particularly special. Good luck. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Masham Man
Cuckoos! The other week whilst staying with my parents, I was out on a bike ride round Arran with my old man and we heard a Cuckoo. My old man told me a story about how they heard Cuckoos on the Isle of Man when they were kids, but hadn't heard them for the last 40 years or so. Then a couple of days later whilst running through the castle grounds on the Goatfell race I heard another. Today I was out for a run at home and heard one! Also watched the numpties flying radio controlled gliders which really upset the nesting Perigrines.
2 curlews having a good song and dance on the lower slopes of Kinder today.
Probably the same fox den that Wharfee has been taking pictures of. Two foxes were out to begin with but only one when I got close enough to take a picture.
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Do we do flowers here? Anyway, last night's run from Taddington - loads of Cowslips, Mountain Pansies, Early Purple Orchids. Also found a Riggweltered ewe (on its back) near Chee Dale. We thought it was dead at first, as it wasn't moving, then it moved its head a little. I just rolled it over, it jumped up and trotted off with its lamb following after. It had a massively bloated stomach - presumably they can't fart when upside down?
we should have a Today's Flower/Flora thread....I saw loads of cloudberry plants (thanks to IDP for his facebk photos) on Bleaklow at the weekend but thought they were strawberries!! I'm now better educated. A thread to post photos of unknown plants/flowers would be lovely.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoffB
As initiator of this thread yonks ago, I am very happy for flora spottings to be included too :)
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fuzzy pic of the close up, same flower in shady, grassy river bank....any ideas?
campion?
Probably Field Mouse-ear. It doesn't look right for white campion to me, & it's definitely not bladder campion. They're all related (pink family).