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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    To Jono L Nice to here a positive message about a twitch these days. Thanks
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Please be mindful of local residents. Park anywhere along Tiln Lane but do not block the gates or field access points and park onto the grass verge. This is a single track road with few passing places. There is an active farm and a small village community of Tiln just 200 yards past the gate to...
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    Dogs on Nature Reserves

    Much praise for Deseo for being on the ball with this unfortunate and sorry situation, for highlighting it both locally on the Lound Bird Club web site and nationally and regionally through media and TV. The owners of the nearby Idle Valley Nature Reserve, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, will...
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Much praise for Deseo for being on the ball with this unfortunate and sorry situation, for highlighting it both locally on the Lound Bird Club web site and nationally and regionally through media and TV. The owners of the nearby Idle Valley Nature Reserve, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, will...
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Great Grey Shrike reported from Chainbridge Lane (area?) Lound, today! Anyone know who reported it and any further details? Thanks. Gary Hobson
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Yellow-browed Warbler still present today. Photo's now up on Lound Bird Club web site Recent Sightings page. Regards Gary Hobson.
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Yellow-browed Warbler at Lound in Chainbridge Wood for past two days. Check web site latest sightings for more details and access info. http://www.loundbirdclub.com/recentbirdsightings.htm
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    The best County for birding?

    'Best birding' county for me is still Nottinghamshire yet I now live and work in West Yorkshire. Maybe its a small county in area terms but it has a reasonably big bird list, some which I have added to myself. Both Lesser Scaup & Ring-billed Gull in 1990.
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    Nightjar Lamping

    Putting ANY breeding bird under pressure from using lamps to view them could cause harm, maybe not immediately, but it may cause the adult birds to not use that nesting area the following year. Other nearby breeding birds could also be disturbed. All Schedule 1 breeding birds and any known...
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Who the 'giddy' person was is still unknown to me? The two birds on Chainbridge Scrape were described to me as very obvious Sanderlings so not sure why they were even claimed twice to be Baird's Sandpipers. Gary Hobson (LBC - Secretary & Web Site Administrator)
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    First-summer Golden Oriole and Honey Buzzard seen at Lound earlier today. Visit www.loundbirdclub.com/birdsightings2012.htm Gary Hobson
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    Lound Bird Report 2009 - Copies now available

    Hi All Copies of the latest Lound Bird Club Bird Report 2009 (Steppe Grey Shrike, Great Grey Shrike, Pectoral Sandpiper etc) are now available at £5.00 per copy including P&P from the Lound Bird Club Secretary. Go to the club's web site to find the secretary contact details...
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Red Kite through Lound yesterday A Red Kite flew south through Lound yesterday (5th) at 14.30pm. Frustrating because this species still evades me in Nottinghamshire (and Lound) |>:(| http://loundbirdclub.webs.com
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Black Terns and waders at Collingham In a quick visit I saw 2 Black Tern, a summer plumage Knot, a dunlin and a Greenshank at Collingham on Wednesday 4th. My first visit ever to this Trent Valley site despite birding this part of the valley many many times over the years. Cheers
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Hi Nidge Looks to me like a Whooper Swan. Quite long in the bill and seems to have a long neck. It also looks like its an immature from the dull buffy wing feathers or maybe i'm seeing things in the bright light. First-summer birds, if this is one, could aquire the yellow bill I suppose by May...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Jonathan Thanks for the reply. It must be the warm April weather? I've only seen them in Otley and Harewood areas until now. Cheers Gary Hobson (Notts Birder in exile)
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Steve Thanks for the reply to my question on kites over Leeds. I'll keep an eye out for more of them from now on. Looking on google earth there are quite a few parks and open spaces in north east Leeds so there are potential feeding areas within the city bypass. Regards Gary Hobson (Notts...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Hi all I noted a single Red Kite drifting low south west over St James Hospital in Leeds at 3.30pm today. It was getting hassle from a carrion crow but gained height and headed over the city centre. I know Harewood is not that far away but are sightings of these birds regular over leeds city...
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Mannix Was it not Clayworth Common and also The Willows where you and others saw the (female) Merlin. Neither of these sites are within the Idle Valley NR bondaries! Another example of why not to use the IVNR as a 'blanket name' for the far greater Lound Bird Club recording area. Cheers...
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    Pink or Bean Notts UK?

    Hi all Regarding mannix's ID puzzle. I've now, courtesy of Daz Housman, added some jpeg images to the Lound Bird Club's home page (scroll down a little) and also added my take on this bird. From the video I initially thought that the size and structure indicated Bean Goose with the dark head...
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    Nottinghamshire Birding

    Hi mannix I'd guess that both Marsh & Willow Tit are probably found in Clumber these days. I certainly saw lots of Marsh Tit there in the 80's & 90's on the many bird races we did in Notts but not sure of their status nowadays. Good Birding Gary Hobson
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    Booming Bitterns in Winter?

    Hi everyone I've recently received two seperate reports of Bittern 'booming' calls being heard in late December 2010 at Lound Gravel Pits (Idle Valley NR) near Retford, Nottinghamshire. I actually observed a Bittern there on December 31st and I also know of a second hand record from late...
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    Ruddy Duck Cull at Frodsham

    Hi all. Saw the note today on Birdguides. Just interested as I have campaigned to deter a cull at Lound Gravel Pits in Nottinghamshire. Wondering what the local Frodsham birders feelings are on this cull. Is this the first cull of Ruddies here? Sorry to bring this up again and i know the...
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