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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    An eel! Only the third I've seen in 35 years of living close to the river Arle. This one was 200m from the Eel House, once used to trap 10's if not 100s of eels
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Several kites seen this rather gray and drizzly afternoon in Hampshire and a couple of Kestrels, a male and a juvenile. Also a green woodpecker in a tree, which is always nice, a nd a Great White egret which are much less common than small egrets round here, so I was pleased with that. Also...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Special evening at my local patch today, 6 very active Marsh Harriers as the sun set and the moon rose. One female harrased by one crow, then mobbed by half a dozen or so. She took refuge on a a tree on "comorant island" a rather small muddy lump in the moddle of the lake. The branch was rather...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Four Marsh Harriers and a Pipistrelle bat
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Anyway, I got excited today as I saw a male siskin in the garden (and through my binos) A common bird but we rarely get them in the garden. Apart from that normal complement of blue tits, long tailed tits, reed buntings, blackcap, goldfinches, greenfinches, robin, dunnocks, sparrows, starlings...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Yes I think leather jacket is a UK wide term. The RSPB has this to say about crane flies: "This slender, long-legged fly is grey-brown with dark brown leading edges to its wings. It looks like a giant mosquito, but is harmless. It is also known as a daddy longlegs. The shape of the abdomen...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    This morning- a little egret, a kingfisher, couple of jays, red kite, buzzard, redstart, skylark, meadow pipit This afternoon, half a dozen long tailed tits, another egret, red kite, kestrel This evening shoveller, teal, wigeon, coromrants, heron, 45 canada geese, GBBG and a marsh harrier Three...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Yesterday 7/9 A rare trip out to Titchfield Haven for myself and the wife, our wedding anniversary. Not been for a few years, so a couple of Avocets was a first for us. Also Kingfisher, black tailed Godwits, Redshank, Turnstones, Oystercatchers, Little Egrets, herons, cormorants, buzzards...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Actually yesterday, but a Great White Egret flying low over my local pond in Hampshire
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