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    Pretty cold at -9!
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    Large flock of Redwing pecking over a field of pasture near home. Lovely birds with great markings, especially on the head. Not sure what they were getting to eat as the ground was frozen solid.

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    Lapwings are back! Scores of them, doing their squeeky, flying, twisty thing, on and over a few fields heading to the fell at Eggleston this morning.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Lapwings are back! Scores of them, doing their squeeky, flying, twisty thing, on and over a few fields heading to the fell at Eggleston this morning.
    Yes, and great they are! Saw a flock in the fields north of Otley recently. Also Curlew heard flying over and today the first Oystercatcher. What with Snowdrops, Crocus and Daffodils it looks like spring may arrive.

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    On today's bike ride i saw what looked like some kind of game bird... i expect it was very common, but i wouldn't be able to identify it... had a very distinct "bright" brown feathers on it's breast, almost looking orange-y in colour. Made an awful racket like it was trying to scare something away, flapping it's wings like crazy hovering a few feet above the ground.

    Also a grey squirrel, and a dead badger.

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    How big was it Travs - pigeon sized, or chicken sized?

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    Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
    How big was it Travs - pigeon sized, or chicken sized?
    errr.... a bit bigger than a pigeon i think... perhaps the size of a small chicken.

    Knowing my ID abilities, it could have been a startled chicken...

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    Sounds to me possibly a cock pheasant, perhaps squaring up to a rival?
    Visibility good except in Hill Fog

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    Cormorant at Nanpantan reservoir, keeping an eye on all the anglers. Presumably if any angler had taken out a fish and not put it back, he would have had to contend with the sharp end of a beak.
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