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  • Summary : July 2015

    Summary : July 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in July = 3 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 150 New UK Life List Birds In July= 1 Our Garden A quiet month in the garden. A small group of Starlings eat daily, a Wren is an ever-present feature and is nesting in the Virginia Creeper at 1st floor level…

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  • Red-footed Falcon 24th July 2015

    Red-footed Falcon 24th July 2015 Having watched the postings about a Red-footed Falcon being seen regularly just outside the gates of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery near Stoke the temptation was eventually too much and armed with a post code we set off one morning wondering if we stood any chance of finding it. As it happened, it could not have been more obliging and with a…

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  • RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands : 21st July 2015

    RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands : 21st July 2015 We filled in a spare Tuesday morning with a visit to Burton Mere Wetlands. It was a fairly overcast day but this can sometimes be useful at this site as bright sunlight causes a lot of glare. A quick look at the main scrape revealed the usual high numbers of Black-tailed Godwits nut there were also a…

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  • RSPB Old Moore : 10th July 2015

    RSPB Old Moore : 10th July 2015 With the end of the birding group term, we have been looking for interesting places to go for short days out. Recent reports of sightings at RSPB Old Moore encouraged us; a possibly breeding Little Bittern seen many times over several days, an American Wigeon and a Gull-billed Tern were all birds we would be very happy to…

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  • Woolston Eyes : 3rd July 2015

     Woolston Eyes : 3rd July 2015 The year seemed to be rushing past so we took the opportunity of another fine day to visit the Woolston Eyes reserve to get our annual dose of Black-necked Grebes and, of course, a “year tick”. In this we were not disappointed and we also got a single Ruddy Duck, not a first for the year but a pleasant…

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  • Summary : June 2015

    Summary : June 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in June= 17 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 146 New UK Life List Birds In June = 2 Our Garden The garden continues to be full of ravenous young Starlings. A Robin visits now and again but the neighbours House Sparrows seem to have decided that the gras is greener…

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  • RSPB Otmoor : 29th June 2015

    RSPB Otmoor : 29th June 2015 As we left the Fat Fox in Watlington to return to Manchester we stopped off at RSPB Otmoor with the hope that we might be able to see the Turtle Doves that breed there – one of the few places where you are in with a good chance of seeing this increasingly rare bird. As it happens, we did…

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