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Monday, 6 April 2015

First swallow.

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Finally the first hirundines are arriving. A lone Sand Martin over the Settling Beds was joined by nine others by the evening, as well as t...

Lovely lotta linnets little lotties lichen liking.

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I've been watching Spring happening along Thistle Corner Drove for the last couple of days. A goodly flock of Linnets have been feeding...
Saturday, 4 April 2015

The Searchers.

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The Sun disappeared behind a cloud just as the Marsh Harrier drifted towards me. It pivoted in the air and came down at the edge of the r...
Friday, 3 April 2015

Perfect performance

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 Pace, power, skill- he's got airything other buds heet, cuz ye just canny defend agenst that. He picks his target and goes for it, the...
Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Apologies to Mr Townshend

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Yesterday, myself and Rich bore witness to one of the great displays from a team of Linnets flying in a well drilled formation over some see...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Golden afternoon

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There was a stillness to the Settling Beds this afternoon. Gone are the big flocks of winter waterfowl, and the reedbed has not yet awoken ...
Tuesday, 24 March 2015

spring takes over.

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This morning I walked up to Roswell Pits in bright spring sunshine. There were twelve Redwings in the paddock at Thistle Corner, sharp in t...
Sunday, 22 March 2015

Scandinavian Play Date

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For the second weekend on the trot I have been with the family to Jumppin Jacks, a children's play barn on an industrial estate beside ...
Saturday, 21 March 2015

Four Balls Good

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A week shy of a year ago a female type Ring-necked Duck took up a short residency on the receding floodwater at Four Balls Farm, nice synchr...
Sunday, 15 March 2015

One

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Ely10Birding was a year old yesterday and there's been plenty to write about.  Firstly a roll call of rare and scarce birds seen in the ...
Friday, 6 March 2015

those chiffchaffs

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 The two interesting Chiffchaffs recently at Ely sewage farm gave me a chance to really get to grips with the vagueries of racial identif...
Sunday, 1 March 2015

German bite

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These days its not that unusual to see Buzzards around, but even so, they are usually glimpsed as silhouettes through car windows or distan...
Saturday, 28 February 2015

Gullden shower

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On my way back from a woodland bird meeting at Santon Downham today, and I caught some activity over the Settling beds out of the corner of...
Friday, 27 February 2015

Garden Barney

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A few years ago it was usual to see Barn Owls hunting the fields behind our house.  Some cold winters and the wind fall of an ancient Ash fa...
Sunday, 22 February 2015

Barney and Me

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Now it's getting colder, the wind chills to the bone and it's hard to believe, with a gale bending branches angrily against g...