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    In AND around Sunderland

    Couple more species with young out of the nest including Grey Wagtail, Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon & Rook Ups & downs for other species, Song Thrush, Skylark, Corn Bunting, Cuckoo & Kingfisher all thinner on the ground; Tree Sparrow, Willow Tit & Magpie all on the up, with Wood Pigeon going all...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    Surprised you didn't find it in your garden ......! Tip off from Spuggy, alerted me to two Stor.... Cranes close by. Had just got out the bath, but managed to get them from one of the Burnside Observatories... ( my attic window ). This latest garden tick follows on from Bittern during the week !
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    In AND around Sunderland

    Nice bit of stumbling there Adam ! Had a couple of hours round the patch after the Dawn chorus walk at Rms HoGate prs of Tree Sparrow, Shelduck, Curlew, LRP, Redshank, Buzzard & Yellow Wagtail Close by 3Swift, Kingfisher, Goldcrest, Tree Sparrow, House Martins collecting mud, Long-eared &...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    couple of hours along the southern section of the S'land coast not much offshore & didnt see a single wader, but 2 each of Brent Geese & Sandwich Tern north despite the breeze lots of Groppers - presumably some are in transit, as 1 sat on the coastal footpath...! other warblers included...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    SW Sunderland Fulmar east over H.Lyons this morning (MH) with Garganey drake there on Sat Others moving through the area recently including Short-eared Owl, Osprey, Waxwing, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Ring Ousel, Tree Pipit & a belated report of 3Crane north over RM on Friday Some scarcer...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    without doubt a cc Marsh Harrier Adam. same date as one which went through RMs last year.
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    In AND around Sunderland

    400 mixed large gulls spooked by Common Buzzard spiralling over Biffa dump before continuing north. Willow warbler within earshot this morning. Waxwings returned with 4 Mute Swan low over the garden too. Still waiting for my Swallow garden yeartick...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    Singles of Reed & Sedge singing intermittently at RMs, both more than a week earlier than regular first arrival dates. Also a small number of Whitethroats & a Tree Pipit passing through Coots with chicks hatched, 4prTeal, 3prGadwall, 14 sub adult swans on pool 2. Several Lrp with a pr mating, 10...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    hoping one will continue upriver & have a bit of prospect round our quarry ledges.... ---------------------------------------- an hour round former Lambton cokeworks site with Jack on his bike 9 or 10 Wheatear & a Yellow Wagtail over were highlights, prs of Lapwing, Redshank, Little ringed...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    thats an interesting one --------------------------------------------- a brief visit to the Country Park with sickly child Scoped a dozen Wheatear & a cock Ring Ousel out of the wind on the SE side of the big grazed hill to the north of the site. Several pairs of Lapwing, Skylark & Mipit...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    Half a dozen Waxwing resting up & calling seen from our back step this teatime Amazing variety of species over the last week or so
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    In AND around Sunderland

    mild weather but local owls a bit late getting down to business no local Tawny young that ive heard of yet Long-eareds a bit behind schedule too LRP mating yesterday Owl blog update
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    In AND around Sunderland

    Garden ticks this afternoon, from the sun-lounger of Sand Martin & Blackcap
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    In AND around Sunderland

    Couple of additions to the S'land yearlist White Stork noted at several locations A very early Grasshopper Warbler at HBogs ----------------------------- A White Wagtail at HGate with 8Redwing a Fieldfare 2prOystercatcher, 4prShelduck, 3prCurlew, only a single pr of Redshank & an abismal...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    in passing, noticed a pair of Irish Dippers nesting on the R.Wear at Lambton Bridge today.... watched them taking nest material out of the nesting cavity ! :eek!: also distant Yaffle(h), pr Buzzard, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, mGrey Wagtail, mBlackcap, 1Treecreeper, 1Swallow, 25Sand Martin...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    Had a blustery hour at The Freezer / Joes in the company of Agami Heron, Foghorn Leghorn & Roker Martin. Nothing to write home about until AH noticed Comma & Peacock butterfly's in a sunny glade & also RM put us onto the strange sight of a Peacock butterfly pursuing a Bee ! FK next up, using...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    RMs this evening Very blustery, 23 Goosander hauled out on the bank & 3 Goldeneye also in to roost overnight. 2Snipe 2Oiks, the ugly Pintsil, but nothing else out of the ordinary Out of the wind a Little Owl, 3Pipistrelles & a Long-eared hunting low through the car park area
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    In AND around Sunderland

    spied 4 roadside Waxwings at the Boundary Houses early afternoon, flew S.West headed towards Foghorn Country.
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    In AND around Sunderland

    RMs this AM 2Swallow, 1House Martin & 30Sand Martin together over II. wildfowl tailing off, still small no of Teal & Wigeon, 4pr Gadwall, prGCGr, 2pr Dabchick & the hideous Pintail. Steady passage of wagtails & pipits, some dropping in to feed for short spells. The majority of wags being male...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    thats whats known locally as a Heron..... ;) possible thats its the same one as was over Lambton Bridge early yestday evening.... hopefully it'll re-appear & enter Sunderland airspace..... (i read another S'land one went over Tunstall Hill this am) missed off cock Wheatear from my Joes...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    An hour at Joes late morning Male Swallow hawking with 40 or so Sand Martin Couple each of Willow Warbler & Blackcap, Chiffys everywhere....
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    In AND around Sunderland

    A productive afternoon with small child. We had an hour at RMs looking for amphibians, couple of Willow Warblers singing quietly every now & then another year tick as a House Martin went through north ( i think this is my earliest ) with 10 or so Sand Martin feeding close by. We continued on to...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    over the last couple of years Steve 'Amur Wagtail' Addinall (Bonsai Birder on this forum) has put that area firmly on the local birding map..... ---------------------------- Sunlund area Blackcap Tuesday Hetton Bogs, with Sand Martins visiting 2 colonies Good news with Dippers nest building...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    my first Swallow of the year hawking out of the wind yesterday close to home at home we have a pr of Great Tits prospecting nest holes... 2 boxes for them at a decent height, yet they seem more interested in an untidy pile of 8 or so beside our front wall ( that havnt got round to putting up )...
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    In AND around Sunderland

    4 summer migs an hour this afternoon on the local patch, before the school run. Bumped into MH & we enjoyed 2 fine cock Wheateaters & a Little ringed Plover, with several Chiffchaff singing a brief visit to RMs this morning with a Sand Martin hawking past the hide no apologies for...
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