Fetch Birdwatchers
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167 watchers
Apr 2021
8:34pm, 11 Apr 2021
50,134 posts
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alpenrose
Thanks J2R, I keep trying to learn the sounds but I really need to go out with "people that know" which is quite a difficult thing to do these days.
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Apr 2021
9:25pm, 11 Apr 2021
49,640 posts
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Derby Tup
Bonners sanderling are often to be found right at the water’s edge. The first thing you usually notice is how white they look. They have a quite distinctive stiff legged ‘scurrying march’ walk / running action. Fabulous little birds
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Apr 2021
9:52pm, 11 Apr 2021
2,649 posts
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flyingfinn
Good haul of new migrants during my run today. Blackcap singing its heart out, Common Sandpiper flushed off the dam wall and then a resplendent Wheatear and a calling Redstart as I came back off the hill into the village. Also heard a report of a Sedge Warbler at the res and Reed Warblers back in Derbyshire so they should be serenading me soon on a daily basis from the Reed bed. Finally even though it keeps snowing it's starting to sound like spring!
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Apr 2021
9:58pm, 11 Apr 2021
49,641 posts
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Derby Tup
Hoped we might get common sand today but not yet
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Apr 2021
10:03pm, 11 Apr 2021
49,642 posts
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Derby Tup
I suspect this spring will ultimately be like one of those restaurants where all the food - appetisers, starters and mains - all arrived at the same time. I haven’t seen a hirundine. I am convinced all the chiffs aren’t here yet and I’ve heard one blackcap so far
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Apr 2021
10:04pm, 11 Apr 2021
1,895 posts
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bonners
@DT, thank you. I think from your previous description made me think of Sanderling as I was on the water's edge. Also a little pale flick when they flew off
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Apr 2021
10:12pm, 11 Apr 2021
50,139 posts
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alpenrose
I'm hearing chiffchaffs everywhere I go now DT. I'm pretty sure I heard a stonechat the other day too.
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Apr 2021
10:13am, 12 Apr 2021
4,514 posts
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steve45
Like you Derby I've not seen a hirundine even though flocks of scores and a thousand have been seen not far away. I think that Chiffs, Willow Warblers and Blackcaps along my running route are now installed as territorial. No Reed, Sedge or Whitethroat yet and again they've already been seen within 10k of here.
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Apr 2021
10:54am, 12 Apr 2021
72,366 posts
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Hanneke
I have just been listening to bird song on an ap. It was a total kakophony yesterday, but I couldn't work out what I was listening to...
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Apr 2021
10:59am, 12 Apr 2021
72,368 posts
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Hanneke
Oh an I saw and heard a Tawny owl last night. Often heard, rarely see it! But I was out in the orchard at dusk, spraying the blossom for frost.
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