F'Laps - Saturday 5th July
Join in with our challenge this Saturday. Run a set distance every hour until you can't run any more!Fetch Birdwatchers
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165 watchers
Mar 2020
6:05pm, 30 Mar 2020
39,161 posts
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Derby Tup
It didn’t sound or move like a kite if truth be known. It didn’t seem like a buzzard either. It was sluggish but not particularly powerful looking; like one of those old-school Soviet turbo-prop bombers
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Mar 2020
6:07pm, 30 Mar 2020
1,555 posts
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flyingfinn
DT looks like there a number of Ospreys back in the UK at their nesting sightings with quite a lot expected imminently ukospreys.uk so they will be moving north at the moment. Severn Trent have officially closed the Res here and though in reality access to the path network is still possible on foot it means the local sightings fb page and website have understandably shut down to discourage visitors coming from afar. Which means unless I spot any transient Ospreys from the house or whilst out running I'm not getting the usual heads up. They frequently use the trout fishery here as a service station/b+b during migration. They've put up nesting platforms to try and persuade them to stay but without success so far. The Canada Geese do seem to find the platforms useful for nesting though!
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Mar 2020
6:09pm, 30 Mar 2020
39,162 posts
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Derby Tup
Osprey used to call of at Ogston res too near Alfreton ff
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Mar 2020
6:35pm, 30 Mar 2020
1,556 posts
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flyingfinn
Yes DT, they seem to largely follow the Derwent up through Derbyshire, visiting the various feeding opportunities on either side of the valley. In previous years I've seen a succession of sightings on a single day of what appears to be a single bird as it moves north/south through the county along the line of the valley.
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Mar 2020
6:37pm, 30 Mar 2020
39,163 posts
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Derby Tup
They go up Wharfedale too in spring. There’s a group of ‘spotters’ use the car park at Barden Scale - ace viewpoint with opportunity to see several raptor species
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Mar 2020
7:17am, 31 Mar 2020
34,552 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Is a Merlin quite unusual? Wevs got one in the garden / field. Beautiful.  G
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Mar 2020
10:36am, 31 Mar 2020
1,666 posts
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Surelynot
Lots of Jackdaws on my bird feeders at the moment. Fantastic looking birds.
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Mar 2020
10:46am, 31 Mar 2020
4,810 posts
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The Scribbler
Heard 'my' songthrush as I was running along the beach this morning. Obviously has a favourite spot to sing from. Thanks Derby Tup for helping me identify this one.
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Mar 2020
11:17am, 31 Mar 2020
2,688 posts
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J2R
Happy, a merlin in one's garden is, I would say, a fabulous thing. We have a decent range of birds in our garden but merlin will never be one of them!
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Mar 2020
11:25am, 31 Mar 2020
39,191 posts
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Derby Tup
G have a look at kestrel. Unless you are really somewhere quite wild a merlin is an unlikely garden bird
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