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    Lancashire Birding

    I trust you all had a great Xmas and New Year? Bing's dream came true ;) Those water rail images are brill! We've had a few unusual visitors in the garden since the cold and snowy snap. There's a fieldfare that comes numerous times every day but try as I might I can't photograph the b..er. He...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Well - I managed to get out to Marshside today. I didn't count everything but I enjoyed seeing Shovelers , Lapwing,Greylag,Canada,L.grebe,Teal,Pintail,Ruddy,Shelduck and the usual waterfowl that thrives there. There wasn't owt out of the ordinary but I really enjoyed myself. Haven't processed...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Smashing BiF of the gull! And I love the moor hen walking on water! Those branches on the previous images are actually there naturally - the feeders are amongst 2 apple/1 rowan trees . But we have some carefully placed branches/twigs like the ones on the attached photos. The goldfinches are...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Forgot my favourite of the day- Think he has a sore leg - either that or he's hiding his ASBO tag. Pat
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    Lancashire Birding

    YES!!! I got out in the garden this week (after my hip replacement). The hide was a bit damp but I manged to get these. Nothing exotic or collectable but I really really enjoyed watching them at close quarters. A casr of 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' etc. Blackbirds are such beautiful...
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    Lancashire Birding

    I took it to mean THE main street - as in 'The Green' in Eccy. Incidentally - OH saw about 4.00pm tonight a very very large bird being mobbed by jackdaws North of Moor Road (Croston/Ulneswalton) and over the fields near Ridley Lane, where the tip was and where the jackdaws roost of an evening...
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    Lancashire Birding

    My eyes have been peeled, Pitvar ;) Especially when riding out in that direction - but I've not spotted owt yet. Ecclestone is only about 2 miles away. Saw a Harris hawk flying past the bedroom window last year (a few feet away with jessies trailing) but it had done a 'flyer' from Garth...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Brilliant to hear about a red kite very near us! Cliff - you're getting just a little bit good at those BIFs ;) I saw a very first in the garden today, from the landing window - twas a jackdaw who sat on one of our benches calling for ages and then started eating dropped peanuts. Then he was...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Just been catching up on your posts - it's nice to see that some of you have spotted bearded tits/ cettis warbler etc. That squirrel is dead cute too. The ones at Formby have had a very hard time this year. It's unlikely I'll be out and about for a while as I had major surgery (a total hip...
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    Lancashire Birding

    I Couldn't agree more! Some people are unscrupulous - and I've seen it many times. There are twitcher's forums and networks for people who just want the ticks but I feel that this forum is about the appreciation and welfare of all birds and wildlife in general. Personally - we go out for the...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Bad news isn't it? :C:C:C
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    Lancashire Birding

    Captive or not - even most of the workers/volunteers say they've never seen them. It's a shame they're not in the wild though.....but then again a lot of the birds there are clipped too :C I often wonder about the motives of the WWT - is it raising money at any expense? Off to the hide at...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Sandra - you've actually seen a beaver!! I'm impressed. I was beginning to think they were just a myth created to pull in the punters...;) Steve (Once Bittern) - that fawn looks suspiciously like the young bird harasser that we clocked at the Griesdale hide last Friday.......... he kept us...
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    Lancashire Birding

    There was a LOL there Derek - sorry if you took it the wrong way. ;) It was a humerous dig and I didn't mean to infer that you or any of your friends were irresponsible. I just had a vision of people losing their way etc (because of the confusion in directions) and, as you are all men here...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Hope that poor bird is okay and not too harrassed by angry 'birders' who have lost their way and need a tick ?? LOL Not to mention the local residents....... Pat
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    Lancashire Birding

    Sounds like a good excuse to visit my very favourite place and childhood haunt. I know the Trough since well....... (if gradders52 stands for owt it's familiar to me ;)) Can't say too much about Staffs ... OH is half Staffs/half Scouse - what a mixture LOL LOL ;);) Will be visiting the...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Saw one of the king fishers at the Rufford hide, Holmeswood last Saturday - plus lots of insects (my macro's getting some use these days). I heard there were many huge lenses with men attached to them earlier on so there's probably been a flood of Kingfisher shots in the gallery? ;) I hope no...
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    Lancashire Birding

    We have a pair of Bull finches that often have a young male in tow. I reckon the female may encourage a bit of back up and the Male tolerates it as it's a bit of pressure off him as long as the youngster knows its place. Meanwhile..... Females are notoriously fickle - she's probably not only...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Nice images everyone. Speaking of terns... There are a lonely pair at Yarrow Valley with 2/3 chicks on a semi protected 'island'. We spent ages watching them - what a hard and ceaslessly eventful life they have protecting those young - It's all fishing, guarding and fighting...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Put those nails away boys - you can't see birds with injured eyes!!! ;);) :eek!: ;) Neil - I just noticed I said turn right instead of left - I'm really sorry and hope if you went you're still talking to me ? Much apologies - I had a helluva day yesterday. Pat
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    Lancashire Birding

    Hi Neil - Coming from Preston take the A59 to Liverpool as far as Rufford. You'll pass Rufford Old hall on your left. When you see a big pub called the Hesketh Arms on the right turn right there (B6246) . When you've gne past the wood on the right turn right down a very small lane between...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Nice images Cliff - I really like the bathing spadger - it looks like you pretty similar garden birds to us. We're trying to encourage a juvenile GSWoodpecker at the mo. I forgot to say that the hobby was still at Mere Sands Wood on Wednesday - but the adult has an injured wing. We did see a...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Wow! After that hobby I must be on a roll. We went out late locally and were going to go home but decided to call somewhere else (Marshside) and saw these three! There wasn't a single other soul there either. Neither of us have seen a bar headed goose before - in fact we had to look them up...
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    Lancashire Birding

    Well I never noticed owt amiss! :t: Cheers! ;) Cliff - great shots you posted there - especially the last one. I always think that sometimes the everyday can look just as good as a rarity. I always try not to take things for granted. In many weeks of watching our garden birds (and the Sprawk...
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    Lancashire Birding

    The Hobby I posted is at Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust near Rufford. He/she was there on Monday - and there was a youngster too. Saw a tree sparrow too - Pat
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