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Good day for dragonflies and their predators.
Today I visited Slack 47 on Ainsdale dunes, Lunt Meadows and Alt Bridge, famed Odonata locations all, but there were some birds as well.
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Support for multiple locations in a post
Until now I have only been able to add a single location and a single list of birds to each post. This means that on a day where I visit multiple locations, I have two choices:
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Bullfinches in the garden
A pair of bullfinches dropped in this afternoon to partake in the sunflower hearts party. First I’ve seen here; it’s a shame there were no chaffinches around but we still had three finch species on the feeder at the same time.
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Penwortham and Ribble Estuary
A day where the primary objective was dragonflies turned out to be just as good for birds.
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Filling in old data
I’ve been trying to fill in some old data from my iPod Touch.
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Ainsdale Dunes
I headed out hoping to see some butterflies and dragonflies, but due to the wind, mostly failed to see much of anything.
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Evening at Marshside
An evening in Nel’s hide spent squinting at tiny birds at the edge of my scope’s usable range was much more pleasant than I just made it sound.
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Marshside
Sometimes Garganey hide in the grassy parts of the marsh, and sometimes they tear around chasing Godwits. Today was a bit of both for the drake in front of Nel’s hide.
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A few birds from Haskayne and Plex Moss
A quick visit to a Haskayne Cuttng that was largely devoid of life in horrid weather was followed by sightings of Merlin and Mistle Thrush on Plex Moss on the way home.
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On Capitalisation
I’ve struggled to decide how to correctly capitalise species names on this blog, but finally made my decisions.
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