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jacdaw
jacdaw
Apr 2020
5:34pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Red kite. Young bird? Moulting early?
Rosehip
Rosehip
Apr 2020
5:36pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Red kite but a bit scruffy! - did a crow get too close?
jacdaw
jacdaw
Apr 2020
5:43pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Too symmetrical; I'd say it was a one year old, moulting its primaries.
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um
Apr 2020
6:01pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Thanks all.
Still surprised that kites, buzzards and kestrels all seem happy together.

We did see a kestrel hovering and a buzzard just above it about a mile after the (probable) moulting red kite.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Apr 2020
6:02pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Good pics of a kite
Surelynot
Surelynot
Apr 2020
6:20pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Help fellow Fetchies. I was running today and caught a very brief glimpse of a bird that disappeared into a bush. I was on some rough scrubland with bushed near to the river.

The bird looked very black with a pure white rump. Size-wise it was between a robin and a blackbird. Stumped to know what it was.

Any ideas?
jacdaw
jacdaw
Apr 2020
6:40pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Bullfinch or wheatear?
Surelynot
Surelynot
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6:45pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Thanks Jacdaw. Most likely a bullfinch.
KinkyS
KinkyS
Apr 2020
10:50pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Lovely moorland-fest this evening - nothing unusual, but always a pleasure to encounter the sights and sounds of mipit, skylark, curlew, lapwing, wheatear and stonechat heart plus grey and pied wags along the canal.

I also got bitten by a Canada goose :-o
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Apr 2020
10:52pm, 24 Apr 2020
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Sounds ace apart from the goose bite :-O

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