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Lapwing with 1+ young FMill Farm.Peregrine. Red Kite yesterday over High Bridges. Southern Hawker, Black -tailed Skimmer per Pete Hackett
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Goosander (redhead), Little Ringed Plover x3, Oystercatchers x2 + 2 Chicks, Common Tern x2, Black Headed Gull c20, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Bullfinch c10, Buzzard c3, Ring Necked Parakeet, Cormorant, Stock Dove c4, and Swift c50+
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Just had two hours in the valley, clocked 42 species. Nothing out of the ordinary but 30 lapwing in the marsh, 2 buzzard Paddocks, Goosander, 32 mute swan on Forge Mill per Steve Lilly
Good Birding YAMYAM
 
Little Ringed Plover juvenile to the left of the hide, Oystercatchers x6+ 2 Chick and Lapwing x32 in the Marsh per Wali Taylor
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Numbers had climbed to 37 mute swans (including 4 cygnets) this evening on Forge Mill. The most I've ever seen on that lake.
 
Fantastic count Mike if the numbers keep increasing we could beat the record count of 56 birds in May 2003
Good Birding YAMYAM
 
Little Ringed Plover Juvenile and Adult to the right by Wali Taylor
 

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Green Sand heard calling over Dartmouth Park this morning, also 4 Oystercatcher and c40 Swift per Matt Hadlington
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#County News
Two possible Pratincole species over Blythe Valley Country Park at 13:30 per Roger Dickens
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Found this old Photo from 1980 copy taken using Phone so quality very poor taken looking out from where the RSPB Centre stands now, to the right of the tree's in the foreground is possibly where the Hide stands now and the area between them and the Golf Course is where the Lake and Island are.
 

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The same view now !! You can just make out the Pylon's on the horizon
 

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Little Ringed Plover x6 Adults + 2 Juveniles ( not our birds), Common Tern x2, Oystercatchers x2, Pochard, Lapwing x32, Swift, Swallow, House Martin and Sand Martin mixed 300-400 birds, Water Rail and Bullfinch x4 Juvenile at Feeders per Pete Carless
Good Birding YAMYAM
 

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