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Saturday, 31 August 2013

Spotted Crake

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Just a short post to update the Year List with this superb bird - Spotted Crake !!!!! Not the best photos, but it was about 30m away, so I w...

Thursday, 29 August 2013

RSPB Blacktoft Sands and Old Moor

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I decided to have a drive over to RSPB Blacktoft Sands today in search of waders. As always I was very pleased with the variety of birds on...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013

400+

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That's the estimated total of Swallows that we've managed to ring in the reedbed roosts at The Avenue so far this summer. We wer...

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Linacre WeBS - July and August 2013 and Nestbox Update

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Just realised that I haven't blogged about the two most recent WeBS counts for Linacre ,so here goes. First up is the July walk. I wa...

Sunday, 25 August 2013

Year List Update

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Just a quick post to update the old Year List. Three new species were added recently as follows: 172 – Osprey 173 – Greenshank 174 – Ru...

Magpies Galore

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This morning saw me out for a short ringing session with 2 other members of the Sorby Breck Group at the private site in Sheffield. We arri...

Thursday, 22 August 2013

139 birds

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That's the total number of birds me and five other members of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group caught at The Avenue during two sessions o...

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