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Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Feb 2019
1:30pm, 12 Feb 2019
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Fantastic - skylarks and buzzards are birds of the sky!
phal
phal
Feb 2019
2:17pm, 12 Feb 2019
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Normal bits and bobs at our local haunt today - nice to see three oystercatchers and plenty of lapwing, although they weren’t very noisy today. Few gadwall out and about and shoveller too. Reed buntings having mini-adventures as well.
phal
phal
Feb 2019
2:18pm, 12 Feb 2019
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Skylark song never fails to make me smile.

I have many happy memories with that soundtrack.... love it 😍
J2R
J2R
Feb 2019
3:12pm, 12 Feb 2019
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Yes, skylark singing the other day when I was out on a run. Lovely!
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Feb 2019
3:20pm, 12 Feb 2019
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I cannot wait to hear one again
Rosehip
Rosehip
Feb 2019
6:01pm, 12 Feb 2019
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Lots of skylark here today too. Buzzards "my" side of the A1, red kites the other :)
Little egret on the river again :)

Think I also saw an otter, or rather it's tail, can't be sure though.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Feb 2019
6:02pm, 12 Feb 2019
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Otters are amazing. I saw two really quite close up last summer on the canal. They obviously unnerve everything around two
Rosehip
Rosehip
Feb 2019
6:15pm, 12 Feb 2019
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I know there is at least one pair along that stretch of the river, as the local anglers complain that they dig under the fence and get into the fishing lakes, but this is the closest I've come to seeing one here.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Feb 2019
6:27pm, 12 Feb 2019
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Go out for the last 20 mins of light and keep ‘em peeled for any disturbance on the water ;-)
Rosehip
Rosehip
Feb 2019
7:00pm, 12 Feb 2019
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- I'd fall in the dark on the way home! (and have to walk past the lorry park in the dark, which I don't really fancy)

Found a barn owl pellet under the box in the big old oak tree :) hope that means one has made itself at home there again.

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