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Zim Girl's 3rd Big Year 2020


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Great Sparrowhawk photo! Your windows must be amazingly clean.

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Super. A long drought is broken.

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Indeed a shot worth waiting for!

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Thanks everybody!

We have had a lot of building work going on most of the year, that is finished now so I can concentrate more on the birds.

We actually saw a Nuthatch on a new feeder we have put up last week and that is a garden first so we were very pleased.

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great shot! now I want your garden for the sparrowhawk. LOL. 

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Great garden birds you have! Nice!

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It slipped my mind where you are off to ( nothing new there..;)), but wherever it is, enjoy it thoroughly and come back safely!

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yes - have a great trip. you've got wonderful company. watch those tse tse-sssss

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wow, that Sparrowhawk is beautiful, how exciting to have it visit

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Despite very few postings recently I am still trying!! 

I was hoping to get out for some more UK birds after my 14 day quarantine, but RSPB Leighton Moss has closed for Lockdown 2 which is a bit of a pain, not that I could drive to it (or anywhere) at the moment because I am nursing a couple of cracked ribs.  

So in the meantime I am having to resort to pulling a couple out of the EBC file which I will not be able to better this year.  Also, the garden birds took pity on me and a few I hadn't seen in a while put in an appearance.

 

79.  Eurasian Skylark

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Nr Haweswater, Lake District  -  30/05/20

 

 

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We tried several times during the breeding season this year to get some pictures of the nesting Ospreys but we only managed very distant views.  The nest is a very long way from the viewing platform.  The Osprey is towards the left of the nest in the first picture.  The 2 white blobs are the monitoring cameras.

 

80.  Osprey

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Foulshaw Moss  -  15/08/20

 

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So now back to the garden.

 

81.  Song Thrush

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Back garden  -  23/09/20

 

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82.  Eurasian Collared Dove

 

This pair have been visiting every day just recently.  (With friends)  

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Back garden  -  11/11/20

 

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This guy hasn't been seen by us for ages so we were really pleased to see him on the seed feeder yesterday.  Then today he appeared again on a closer feeder.

 

83.  Great Spotted Woodpecker

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Back garden  -  16/11/20

 

 

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2 hours ago, Zim Girl said:

because I am nursing a couple of cracked ribs.  

That sounds painful! I do hope you'll get better soon. Nice garden birds, fortunately!

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Nice photos. Sorry to hear about your ribs - painful.

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Ooohh, lovely Woodpecker...

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17 hours ago, PeterHG said:

That sounds painful! I do hope you'll get better soon. Nice garden birds, fortunately!

 

16 hours ago, TonyQ said:

Nice photos. Sorry to hear about your ribs - painful.

 

Thank you!

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A walk along the canal at the weekend has given me two more for BY.  

First another one from earlier in the year that I don't think I will better.

 

84.  Eurasian Treecreeper

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Stanley Park  -  16/03/20

 

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This bird is quite common around the estuary of Glasson along the Lancashire Coastal Way and also in the fields surrounding the Lancaster Canal, which is where we found this one.

 

85.  Little Egret

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Lancaster Canal  -  21/11/20

 

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But our best find were the Goosanders, also quite common on the canal at this time of year.

 

86.  Goosander

Female

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Male

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Lancaster Canal  -  21/11/20

 

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This one is a duplicate.  Grey Heron are often seen in and around the canal but there is one that we nearly always see sitting at lock no 6.  He is a very chilled heron and you can walk right past him without him flying away, so I took a face on picture for a change.

 

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Lovely to see the Goosanders so close!

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ouch the broken ribs sounded painful, and yet you brave a walk! speedy recovery.

 

 

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20 hours ago, Kitsafari said:

ouch the broken ribs sounded painful, and yet you brave a walk! speedy recovery.

 

 

Thank you.  Walking is good for them (well that's what I tell myself), sitting in one position for too long makes them ache a lot.

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