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Somerset Birding
Mega Yank duffs up Coot today Amid a cacophony of noise the Pied Billed Grebe gave a Coot a dose of its own medicine this afternoon at Ham Wall ;-)) Could hardly believe my eyes and wondered if this was 'normal' behaviour?? I didn't see what caused this spat but the Coot had to get away very... -
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Regarding Roger's remark about visitors from outside the county, we bumped into a group of 14 visitors from Mid-Cheshire yesterday afternoon at Greylake. After they had gone another mini bus load turned up though not sure from where. The Cheshire folks had done Ham Wall and seen the pied-billed... -
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Roger thanks for your offer and I note you made valuable contributions to this thread right back at the beginning in 2008 continuing on through July 2012 providing excellent information which was appreciated I'm sure by many. Trouble is, and I guess this was the recent point made, we probably... -
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Ham Wall on Saturday Bitterns booming all around / several viewed in flight / 3 showing at the reed edges at one time; GW Egret fly by; Whitethroat got quite a bit of attention. -
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Red Kite in Somerset today My first sighting of a Red Kite in Somerset (today). 1 mile East of A37 roundabout on A303 close to Yeovilton. Kite stooped twisting from about 80 feet and disappeared behind a tree into a field just beside the A303. Driving (obviously) so no time for tags... -
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Oh well silly me then. Called the Starling hotline and was told Shapwick and Ham Wall. They were at Shapwick I understand no worries you win some you lose some. Not a problem as it was a nice evening and living in South Somerset it's no distance for me |=)| -
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You win some you lose some! This evening at Ham Wall wasn't a patch on last year. If I were to go again tomorrow I'd head out through ShapwicK Heath.....but if that doesn't work then the Starlings have changed their collective minds ;-) Jamie -
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Darryl, Shame on us 'Somerset Birders' Takes a Devon guy (and believe me Darryl has lot's to visit at home) to give us a push...please help by contributing to our local patch. :clap: Jamie -
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Darryl, Probably the best bet is to look for Ham Wall on the RSPB website. This will give you the grid reference and a Multimap link which should get you to the car park at Ham Wall. From the car park walk East into Ham Wall, or West into Shapwick Heath (East)....i don't know of any post... -
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Also took a photo of a squrrel with a bad face due to a very long tooth http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...tinger/042.jpg Poor little guy/gal....clearly teeth not meeting/grinding properly...bad news for a rodent I think... Hopefully going to make it to Chard reservoir this Saturday... -
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Hi Reg! Thanks for supporting out thread. Very much appreciated! We look forward to your input. We hope you get time to do some birding (family permitting) when you come down. Hopefully we will have accumulated a reasonable presence here to help you when you do come. Keith is doing a... -
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Hey Luke, You came to Somerset....COOL! Maybe it was the Junco? Did you see it? I missed it |:(| Glad you found the Starlings roosting...a great sight! :t: Looks like we have 'Levels' in common. If I make it to Wales, if you don't mind, I'll send you a PM for best sites eh? Jamie -
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Luke, Can't add anything to the RBA alert this afternoon sorry. I headed out of Somerset for the week at 2:30pm, so I won't be able to physically progress this for you |=(| Jamie -
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Starling Roost spectacle! Nov 15th 2008 approx 4pm - Ham Wall RSPB Reserve, Somerset, England First attempt at capturing the Starlings coming in to roost over the Somerset Levels at Ham Wall RSPB reserve. They were well over half a mile away though. There must be some way of estimating the... -
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Hi Keith, Thanks for that!. The FIRST to actually post a list of current sighting to our new Somerset Birding / Local Patch forum!! To my shame I have only visited Chard resv twice yet it is only about 15 miles from me. I keep getting drawn to the Somerset Levels. You didn't mention the... -
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Dejected at the lack of presence on BirdForum of our beautiful County of Somerset, (notwithstanding there are viable ornitholigical groups in this county), why can't we have a presence here on BirdForum??? I would only wish that any BirdForum members who would like to not only enjoy birding in...