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<blockquote data-quote="Mouldy" data-source="post: 1765570" data-attributes="member: 25743"><p><strong>Updates</strong></p><p></p><p>Latter half of the week was mainly cloudy and/or windy hereabouts, best spell of raptor watching was late Wednesday morning before it clouded over with a max count of <strong>8</strong> (4 x buzzard, 3 x red kite, 1 x sparrowhawk)</p><p></p><p>The birds have deserted the garden feeders in their droves, only have two feeders up now and only have to refill them every three days, nothing of note been coming in.</p><p></p><p>At least the list has started moving again, the much awaited singing <strong>skylark</strong> at last hit my eardrums from the adjacent farmland, and a couple of flyover <strong>linnets</strong> on consecutive days boosting my meagre total, (I knew working in the greenhouse would pay dividends) but both expected so nowt to get cocky about. </p><p>Other spring firsts, bumble bees wednesday and today, didn't get the species though. </p><p>Then news of Steve's first sandmartins of the year had me scanning the valley for any drifting upriver late afternoon but not yet, though I've just realised a distant raptor I saw with a couple of buzzards while looking for them was actually a <strong>peregrine</strong>, only saw it in front on flat-winged glide with occasional flapping, when it dipped down below the horizon it was distinctly grey-backed, but its size in comparison with the buzzards had me baffled, I was desperately trying to make it into a goshawk but the jizz just didn't seem right for accipter and for whatever reason peregrine never entered my equation. The whole episode left my mind when the terror of kids teatime arrived shortly afterwards, and I just noticed that a peregrine was reported near the village earlier today and it just clicked. So if that was you that reported it Steve, cheers mate. :t: </p><p></p><p>Lets see what the weekend brings</p><p></p><p><strong>OMAHD 61 Mouldy 54 </strong> </p><p></p><p>cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mouldy, post: 1765570, member: 25743"] [b]Updates[/b] Latter half of the week was mainly cloudy and/or windy hereabouts, best spell of raptor watching was late Wednesday morning before it clouded over with a max count of [B]8[/B] (4 x buzzard, 3 x red kite, 1 x sparrowhawk) The birds have deserted the garden feeders in their droves, only have two feeders up now and only have to refill them every three days, nothing of note been coming in. At least the list has started moving again, the much awaited singing [B]skylark[/B] at last hit my eardrums from the adjacent farmland, and a couple of flyover [B]linnets[/B] on consecutive days boosting my meagre total, (I knew working in the greenhouse would pay dividends) but both expected so nowt to get cocky about. Other spring firsts, bumble bees wednesday and today, didn't get the species though. Then news of Steve's first sandmartins of the year had me scanning the valley for any drifting upriver late afternoon but not yet, though I've just realised a distant raptor I saw with a couple of buzzards while looking for them was actually a [B]peregrine[/B], only saw it in front on flat-winged glide with occasional flapping, when it dipped down below the horizon it was distinctly grey-backed, but its size in comparison with the buzzards had me baffled, I was desperately trying to make it into a goshawk but the jizz just didn't seem right for accipter and for whatever reason peregrine never entered my equation. The whole episode left my mind when the terror of kids teatime arrived shortly afterwards, and I just noticed that a peregrine was reported near the village earlier today and it just clicked. So if that was you that reported it Steve, cheers mate. :t: Lets see what the weekend brings [B]OMAHD 61 Mouldy 54 [/B] cheers [/QUOTE]
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