mooskibaby
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I've just received an email from a friend of mine saying there's an oriental praticole in Derbyshire, is this true?
My friend said she saw it flying over Ripley. She hasn't been bird watching for a long time, so I'm not too sure.
That made me laugh. I take it there haven't been any reportings of anything like a pratincole in the area then
In answer to Dan's Query about insects that he posted on the Wyver thread but should be on here LOL I'm wondering about A Bee Hawkmoth or a Clearwing moth perhaps?
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Steph'
There was a vague report on Birdguides a week or so ago that I think has us all let's say... a wee bit stumped. Um... your friend, do you know if she uses the site?
I see the WBW is still present. It's obviously waiting for me to finally have a day off work AND access to a car, roll on the weekend!
Just had a highly entertaining hour at Carsington. Walked into Sheepwash hide and immediately picked up the 2 Greenshank and 1 Little Egret, that were present yesterday.
I then began to scan the point to the right of the hide, where I soon picked up a young lady in suitably skimpy bikini, who decided to swim into the middle of the res!8-P
Obviously distracted, it was a full 15 minutes before I noticed the 4 drake Common Scoters right in front of me.
Shortly after I spotted something crawling up the dry earth in front of the hide, which turned out to be a mole! What it was doing there, I don't know but probably something to do with the dry weather.
The mole had almost made it to the vegetation in front of the small pond when it was attacked by a Magpie.It put up a brave fight, but when eventually confronted with 3 Magpies, it was all over.During the attack a Snipe was flushed from the reeds.
As I made my way back, thinking the excitement was over, I spotted a Southern Hawker dragonfly. Stopping to watch it for a while, I was amazed when a Blackbird grabbed it from the air, and flew into the wood with it. Obviously thought it was a Hobby!
Eventful day there Clive Not going to comment on the first distraction:-O:-O:-O
I've seen Mole at this time of year wandering the surface... I believe young Moles sometimes move away from their birth areas on the surface seeking territories of their own around now, mind you one we saw was clearly trying to dig down in hard earth in a similar dry period a few years back... it even tried to dig through my trainer!
That Southern Hawker/Blackbird incident is very notable... not sure that sort of thing is recorded very often!!!
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Steph'