Canada geese and mallard on the cut, plus water chicken, cormorant overhead
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, starling, blue and great tits, magpie, carrion crow
No mammals spotted today
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Canada geese and mallard on the cut, plus water chicken, cormorant overhead
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, starling, blue and great tits, magpie, carrion crow
No mammals spotted today
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Roe deer on the scarp, counted four this morning, plus plenty of grey squirrels
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, starling, blue and great tits, magpie, carrion crow
Waterfowl: mallard, water chicken, Canada goose, grey heron, little egret
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Some flower pics from earlier, by way of a #NatureToot Supplemental primulas and daffodils; presumably planted, we are not botanical at all, but nice to see the start of the flowering season
Nearly home and a couple of roe deer bounced across the field by the old mill; plenty of grey squirrels about too
Waterfowl: the mandarin duck was back after a few weeks away, among the mallard; cormorants up in the willows, Canada goose, water chicken, little egret, grey heron
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, starling, magpie, carrion crow
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Breakfast club! Mallard and Canada goose on the cut, water chicken, mute swan, cormorant and little egret
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, starling, blue and great tits, magpie, carrion crow
No mammals spotted today. Yet.
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A #NatureToot supplemental from this afternoon’s amble, four roe deer on the tops, plus the frog spawn shared earlier; couple of possible ravens, plus skylarks, partridge, kestrel
Duck! Mallard on the cut, Canada goose also about, cormorant too
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, starling, blue and great tits, jay, magpie, carrion crow
No mammals this morning
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Spotted a rabbit this morning for the first time in months, hope that means they are returning to the vale; didn’t get a pic but did get some others to make up, including grey squirrels
Birds: blackbirds in the wood, starlings in the trees, plus house sparrow, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, blue and great tits, magpie, carrion crow
Waterfowl: Canada goose, mallard, and this fine fellow airing his water chicken legs
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Deer on the scarp across the vale just hiding behind a tree
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, blue tit, magpie, carrion crow
Canada goose, water chicken, mallard
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Kestrel in the vale today, other birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, blue tits, magpie, carrion crow
Waterfowl: Canada goose, mallard, water chicken, little egret
No mammals today
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Today’s #NatureToot supplemental will need to make do with a screen shot - suspected Tawny Owl down by the river, and a bat flittering about.
Mallardista tendency out on the Cut in the morning sun, as was a little egret, Canada goose anarchosyndicalist commune on the bottleneck; water chicken
Birds: Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, blue and great tits, magpie, carrion crow, plus a woodpecker in the woods - heard not seen so not sure what kind
No mammals today
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This morning’s contribution to all time worst nature photos are mammal special: that lumpy bit among the twigs? A grey squirrel. That tiny patch of white way across the valley? A roe deer
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, magpie, carrion crow
Waterfowl: mallard, water chicken, Canada goose, grey heron, little egret, common gull
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Incongruous mallards on the field again - better pic today; plus a black-headed gull on the lodge; Canada geese, water chicken and little egret all about
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, blue and great tits, magpie, carrion crow
Mammals: grey squirrel, roe deer
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Starlings on the field, a sure sign spring is on its way (or we had a lie-in); other birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, coal, blue and great tits, kestrel, magpie, carrion crow
Waterfowl: mute swan, mallard, water chicken, Canada goose, grey heron
Mammal: grey squirrel
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Robin! Always spotted, often spotted, rarely pictured; other birds: house sparrow, blackbird, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, long-tailed and great tits, kestrel, song thrush, magpie, carrion crow
Waterfowl: mute swan, water chicken, Canada goose, grey heron and some incongruous mallard, these having a swim in a puddle on the playing field
Mammal: grey squirrel
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Meet Gary and Lexie, two of the Canada goose anarchosyndicalist commune, must be 20+ of them now; that’s Neil the mallard behind them; mute swan, water chicken, grey heron and black headed gull
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, blue and great tits, magpie, carrion crow
Mammal: grey squirrel
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Deer in the woods, crossed the path in front of us then kept a careful watch as we walked past
Waterfowl; Canada goose, mallard, water chicken, grey heron, cormorant
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, goldfinch, magpie, carrion crow
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Roe deer on the scarp again, just one today, with antlers
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, magpie, carrion crow
Waterfowl: mute swan, mallard, water chicken, Canada goose, grey heron, cormorant, little egret
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Let’s start with mammals: roe deer on the scarp, think there were four this morning, grey squirrel
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, dunnock, wood pigeon, song thrush, magpie, carrion crow, kestrel
Waterfowl: water chicken, mallard, Canada goose, little egret
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