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[ I do know they try eat leather sandals (terrapin/turtles, not ducks) - on a holiday in Lesbos some years ago, we used to walk past a pond, and they'd come out, like ants in Tom & Jerry, and go straight for our sandals if we didn't distract them with bread. But never toes. ]
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Reed Warbler singing in reeds (of course!!) along my river trail run- an average date for me. Plus two Cettis and s solitary Great Crested Grebe..and a Weasel!
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I good friend has just sent me a WhatsApp saying they’ve heard a cuckoo a few miles from here (and close to tonight’s planned running route)
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LOL at the leather sandals :-)

Yup, I believe they enjoy a chicky snack. :-(

Ooooo for a Reed Warbler. Or a Cetti......

I thought I'd seen a weasel/stoat (not doing the joke, Dave had to put up with that this morning) on our walk earlier, nope. Just a squirrel. (Tail was hidden I hasten to add and it was down low in the bushy grass by the edge of the path. It was also early. It was a Weasquirreloat ;-) )

Hope you get your Cuckoo DT :-)
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GSW, swallow and orange tip butterfly seen around garden this morning plus usuall good numbers of titmice and goldfinch. Goldfinch is really common here
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An unexpected flock of fieldfare yesterday evening :-o
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No waxwings?! :-O
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When I cleaned and refilled the birdbath this morning I couldn't work out why there were soggy bits of bread in it.
Answered just now. A magpie flies in, big chunk of what looks like a dry bread roll. Drops it in birdbath. Goes off to fetch another piece (no idea where from - a neighbour I assume). Comes back, dunks the first bit a few times the eats it. Flies off with soggy bit in beak.
Bloody clever birds!
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On to tonight’s run - curlew, lapwing, oystercatcher, golden plover, common sandpiper, grey wagtail, yellow wagtail, three hare, mallard with 12 duckling
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😍😍😍 great DT!

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