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#Meiklewood #Gargunnock
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Hi hi Brigit - yes, works here. “Flocks”, perhaps “packs” is a better word, tend to dissipate a bit when the weather is good, but when it cools next week I reckon they will be packing up again.
The Merlin app seems to struggle to pick up calls of Red Kites and also distant curlews; may just be me.
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“Haven’t been particularly good in white-ball cricket” ?
10 out of 10 for the art of the under-statement.
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Honks & Squeaks of Geese, Pink-Foot & Greylag, woke me after a long and wiggled drive to 🏴yesterday.
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The Dunnocks & Song Thrushes seem to be particularly chatty early doors…
… then later morning Goldfinches & Greenfinches get more vocal (they need a couple of cups of coffee to get going in the morning?).
Suffice to say everyone enjoying the sun and filled with joys of “sprunging” Spring. #Birds
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Wonderful Nicky; such talent and attention to detail. 👏
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💚 that Brigit. 👏
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They eat everything, can get and reach pretty much anywhere.
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Wouldn’t trust him further than I could throw him…
… (spoiler alert, not far).
He has the morals of a wayward donkey, which is harsh on donkeys.
If I ever shook his hand then afterwards I would count my fingers to make sure he hadn’t nicked any.
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Fine aria from Song Thushes with support from Robins, Chaffinches, Nuthatches and others in the chorus.
Percussion (and also the alarm clock Hannah) from the Woodpecker.
#FirstBirdOfMyDay #Birds
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💚 that light. Gorgeous.
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The stupidity and frankly cruelty (see what happened to one of those Lynxes) of someone to do this is pretty astounding. Disease risk is a genuine & real concern.
Simply not the right action… and ironically could have the effect of pushing back any potential “re-wilding”.
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Great pic 👏.
Sand eels are such an important food for seabirds… 🤞we can stop fresh efforts to see commercial fishing of them Brigit.
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Lots and lots of Pink-footed Geese… were they inspecting my work on clearing trees felled onto fences by Storm Éowyn?
I have made loads of dead hedges with the branches / brash… and yes, the Robins, as ever, were the first to inspect the potential new “homes”.
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Kites & Ravens were notably active this morning Nicola.
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Wales 🏴 ? What a treat.
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Just keep dogs on a lead when in sensitive areas.
Some smart **** keeps on defacing the signs around here Nicola. They may be right in “law”, but in the court of common sense they are obviously wrong. Seen dogs chasing sheep, hares, deer, jumping onto ground nesting bird nests, going through gorse.
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Just saw these on a walk on the side of an old (Ash) log.
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👏👏👏
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King Viv … slowing strutting out to bat… The Maroon cap… gum being hard chewed.
The stare at the bowler.
Triggers a misquote of Dirty Harry, “Are you feeling lucky punk?”
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That’s beautiful. Anyway, good luck.
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Pigeons … perhaps not #FirstBirdOfMyDay Hannah (The Five Kites gang won that), but pigeons certainly win on numbers.
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#FirstBirdOfMyDay … The Tawny Owl alarm clock …
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… hair stylists would take ages to create such a “freezy hair” (not frizzy) effect for films.
[…errr… on a dull, practical point Hannah, sustained temps at/below -5 d C is when indoor pipes start freezing, so 🤞 your heating gets working again soon]
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Just returned to WF in Combe from my parents in Scotland Nicola today…
… crikey that North side of the Combe Gibbet Hill is still properly cold.
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Pink-foot Geese dropping in to the outer park beside “Beaverbank” Wood with some welcome morning sun.
#Meiklewood
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#FirstBirdOfMyDay - a coil of Whistling Wigeon, a spring of Teal, flocks of Mallard and a solitary (female) Goosander…
#RiverForth
#Meiklewood
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Hello from the bottom of the hill on the South side of the Gibbet Nicola.
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Love ever-bobbing Dippers…
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Patches of water all over the place with the Forth in flood here on the Carse of Stirling. Seems to have triggered Otter families to go on walkabouts along the banks in search of calm water to feed in
Lots of herons enjoying the bonanza on the fields but also Greylag, Pinkfoot and Canada geese.
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Hi hi - on Barbados.
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#FirstBirdOfMyDay … a lovely Sandpiper on bobbing beach patrol.