Showing posts with label Stock Dove. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stock Dove. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 March 2026

Linacre and Barbrook Reservoir - 21st March 2026

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 This morning, I was out with 3 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group for a session at Linacre. I'd heard Chiffchaffs singing for ...

Rufford - End of the Season

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 Last weekend (14th) I had my last trip of the winter to Rufford. Unfortunately, there were only 2 Black-headed Gulls present (both 1st win...
Saturday, 7 March 2026

Common Scoter!

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 I've only managed 3 visits to Linacre this year (!), so I was very keen to get down this morning. Honestly, I was hoping for some Whoop...
Saturday, 28 February 2026

Year List Update

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 In the last two weeks, I've added a couple of new species to this year's Year List. The first new species, Stock Dove (108) was ad...
Sunday, 19 January 2025

Rufford - 18th January 2025

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 Yesterday morning, I had a couple of hours at Rufford, before grandparenting duties took over. Whilst there, I managed to add 3 new Year Ti...
Thursday, 22 August 2024

Linacre WeBS - August 2024

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 I carried out this month's WeBS count at Linacre yesterday. As always at this time of the year, it was pretty quiet. Unfortunately, the...
Saturday, 6 April 2024

Linacre WeBS - 6th April 2024

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 The second visit to Linacre this week was this morning, when I carried out this month's WeBS count. It was 13 degrees when I arrived a...
Monday, 1 April 2024

Linacre 24th and 29th March 2024

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 I had a couple of visits to Linacre in the last few days of March. It was quite quiet on both occasions, but I did manage to see a few summ...
Monday, 19 February 2024

Nottinghamshire Day Trip - 18th February 2024

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 Yesterday, I had a little drive around a few sites in Nottinghamshire, adding 5 species to the Year List. I started off, in the rain (!) at...
Monday, 28 August 2023

Linacre WeBS - 28th August 2023

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 I carried out the monthly WeBS count this morning. It was warm and sunny and a really enjoyable walk around all three reservoirs. Birds see...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Linacre Nestboxes - 30th April 2023

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 I was down at Linacre this morning with 2 other members of the ringing group, carrying out a first check of the nestboxes. In total we foun...
Friday, 2 April 2021

Linacre - 27th March 2021

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 Last Saturday morning, I spent a couple of hours at Linacre. It was five degrees, windy, with a few hail showers! Water bird numbers had be...
Sunday, 7 March 2021

Linacre Reservoirs - 6th March 2021

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 Yesterday was my first visit to Linacre of March. I arrived on site at 6.45am and spent two hours walking around all three reservoirs.  As ...
Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Linacre Gull Fest and WeBS - 15th February 2021

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 This month's WeBS walk at Linacre Reservoirs took place yesterday. Following a week of very cold temperatures (+2 maximum) and snow th...
Saturday, 16 November 2019

Alvaston Park - 16th November 2019

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A couple of weeks ago I was in Alvaston Park, and spotted the Danish ringed Black-headed Gull VA4073, (see here ). I was back there again to...
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Linacre Nestboxes

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This week is the BTO's National Nestbox Week, so I decided to go down to Linacre to check on our nestboxes, and make sure that they are ...
Sunday, 17 February 2019

Linacre WeBS - February 2019

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This month's WeBS count took place yesterday morning, and the following birds were counted; Mallard 64, Mandarin Duck 28, Tufted Duck ...
Sunday, 13 January 2019

Year List - 100 species +

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This weekend I've managed to add 3 new species to the "year list". The first new species, Waxwing , was added yesterday, when ...
Saturday, 12 May 2018

Linacre Ringing - 7th May 2018

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Last weekend I had a quick trip to Linacre to check on the progress of the "owl" boxes, following our successful trip there on 21s...
Sunday, 22 April 2018

Linacre Ringing and Nestboxes- 21st April 2018

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I was down at Linacre yesterday morning with Luke and 5 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group for a ringing session. We also had time ...