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Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Mar 2019
5:24pm, 21 Mar 2019
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Enjoy the Chettis - presumably enboldened by ‘spring fever’

I’m off out on chiffchaff patrol again shortly ;-)
J2R
J2R
Mar 2019
6:05pm, 21 Mar 2019
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DT, given that it was in the grounds of a university, it may have been drugs rather than spring fever which was responsible. :)
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
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7:09pm, 21 Mar 2019
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Didn’t get a chiffchaff but did get best views I’ve had of this ornamental number

Chrisity
Chrisity
Mar 2019
9:08pm, 21 Mar 2019
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the lone ranger of the bird world?

Run around Youlgreave this morning, lots of skylarks, chiffchaffs, nuthatch and by the River Bradford grey wagtail, pair of mergansers and a dipper flying by.
bonners
bonners
Mar 2019
9:40pm, 21 Mar 2019
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What is it DT?
Derby Tup
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Mar 2019
9:43pm, 21 Mar 2019
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It’s a Reeves Pheasant apparently. I vaguely knew what a Golden Pheasant was plus Lady Amethyst’s (sp?). Reeves followed me I think expecting to get fed and it was making some amazing sounds :-)
Derby Tup
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9:44pm, 21 Mar 2019
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Lady Amherst's pheasant Is the other fairly common one
bonners
bonners
Mar 2019
9:48pm, 21 Mar 2019
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Cheers, you've obviously made a new friend 😊
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
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First time I saw it (I think I’ve seen it three times now) I was genuinely thinking wtf?!

Wheatears arrived en masse here and chiffs singing everywhere according to local birders’ blogs
flyingfinn
flyingfinn
Mar 2019
10:37pm, 21 Mar 2019
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Chrisity Mergansers are a pretty rare sighting in Derbyshire, single figure sightings per year I believe. Youlgreave and the River Bradford is much more a Goosander enviroment but if you're confident they were Mergansers DOS are likely to be interested.

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