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Recent content by Jon Turner

  1. Jon Turner

    First Butterfly of the year?

    Rocketing temperatures here in N Devon have brought out several Peacocks to join the Small Tortoise-shells.
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    First Butterfly of the year?

    News from North Devon: a friend saw 2 Red Admirals on the wing at Rosemoor a couple of days ago. Another colleague had a Brimstone through his garden in South Molton today, and as the temperature climbs each day in the last week or so I finally had a Small Tortoiseshell in the bird reserve I...
  3. Jon Turner

    Extremadura, late May 2025

    Trujillo is very much worth a visit. I've stayed there a few times and access to some of the best areas is relatively easy. The town is stunning!
  4. Jon Turner

    First Butterfly of the year?

    A friend in Cornwall had Red Admiral (expected) and Comma (very much NOT expected!) in his garden today (pic Cornwall Birds).
  5. Jon Turner

    First Butterfly of the year?

    Found a Peacock sheltering in a woodpile the other day. Far too cold for it to be active, so I covered it up again and hope it will survive.
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    Last bird seen in 2024

    Just filled the fatball feeders ready for the early assault in the morning, when almost immediately about 10 Long-tailed Tits zoomed in for a top up before heading off to roost. No doubt they'll be back early doors tomorrow. HNY to all!
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    Large White-headed Gull in Vienna, Austria

    Apart from a few Black-headed Gulls, all I saw in Vienna on a river cruise in May was (were?) Yellow-legged Gulls.
  8. Jon Turner

    Your favourite bird of the year (so far)

    The Gran Canaria Sudan Golden Sparrow which will probably be the only new bird this year, but I reserve the right to change my mind, and try to update here if I do!
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    Bird ring

    It was put on a juvenile Starling on 9th May 2021 according to DemOn.
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    Farlington Marsh, May 24

    It's been there for several years I think....
  11. Jon Turner

    Is all this bird ringing necessary?

    I don't recall reading this thread previously, and I just looked through the first and last pages of comments. I noted that one of the early posts was about Crested (Red-knobbed in those days) Coots, which had white bands around their necks. We came across a few of these at the Espera Lagunas...
  12. Jon Turner

    Birding close to Nairobi

    Nairobi National Park was good in the very early 1960's too! Sadly before I was a birder!
  13. Jon Turner

    Pelion

    We went to the Pelion peninsula a very long time ago. Without looking up my records, I recall: Icterine Warbler, Red-breasted and Collared Flycatchers, Rock Nuthatch, Red-rumped Swallow, Hoopoe, Isabelline Wheatear, Sombre Tit, Beech Martin. Off out birding tomorrow, but will try to remember to...
  14. Jon Turner

    GRAN CANARIA - 2- 6th February 2024

    Took a couple of hours to show yesterday, but eventually appeared briefly in a tree by the road just around the corner from Nick's sighting.
  15. Jon Turner

    Warbler - North Devon - 18th May

    Iberian Chiff has a very different song - the 'chiff - chaff' is there but there is then a more complicated scratchy song, Try googling it or Xeno-canto....
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