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Birdsong
I’m trying to do better identifying birds by sound, as I’m not good at spotting them in the treetops.
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Ainsdale Dunes
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Red-veined Darters return
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First Darters of the year!
I scared up a couple of teneral Sympetrum sp. in the Slack 169 area - the only one I relocated to photograph was this Common Darter.
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Ainsdale
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Targets not really acquired
Read more…“Unfortunately, there is one thing about most of these Sea Ducks which does much to detract from their interest, and that is, they cannot readily be observed from the shore, and appear upon our seas at a season when the elements render the coast least attractive.” - Charles Dixon (1896) British Sea Birds
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S*xy Seven at Marshside
It was a lovely sunny autumn morning until I left the house, but but by the time I reached Marshside there was a bitter wind, deteriorating light and a constant threat of imminent worse. Still, it all worked out.
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A white blob in the distance
On a sunny but chilly morning I started at Fairclough’s Platform where a kestrel hovered over the parking-bay right up until the moment I had my camera switched on. On the reserve itself was the usual fantastic seasonal display of ducks, geese and waders, with a colour-ringed black-tailed godwit prominent amongst hundreds of its fellows. A scattering of ruff and redshank were present amongst them, and the whole lot kept twitchy by a pair of buzzards hunting worms along the fenceline as well as a heron flying over.
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Martin Mere
We started out searching the reedbed walk for Bearded Tits, but no luck today. There were at least 5 Cetti’s Warblers singing, though, as well as a chiffchaff. The sunshine also brought out a few Migrant Hawkers and we also spotted a Drinker caterpillar and a few Eristalis and Helophilus hoverflies.
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It's probably never even been to Kent
The Kentish Plover that I sort of forgot to go look at last weekend was kind enough to stick around for the whole week, so I was able to catch up with it in the usual spot on Southport Beach opposite the part of Pleasureland where in a different lifetime I used to operate the Log Runner. It was easy to find - a dozen or more green coats were lined up shoulder-to-shoulder behind tripods and it was the closest bird.
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