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    Blandford Birds I have been recording birds in the Blandford area since the 1970s, and now that I'm semi-retired I've had the time to trawl through my notes to find out how many I've seen within a one mile radius. Answer 75 and counting. I've decided to start a Blog, Blandford Birds, but...
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    Golden Plover 150 Golden Plover over the A354 between Tarrant Hinton and the turning for Higher Crichel early this afternoon.
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    Down Farm, Sixpenny Handley A male Hen Harrier this afternoon, but no Shrike(s) or Owls yet as far as I know
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    This is all from memory, but if you go to the Somerset Ornithological Society's web site and to the Bird News page. They had an evening meeting a couple of weeks or so ago at (I think) Stock Hill on the Mendips and if you scroll back through the postings there's an account of the meeting. They...
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    At least four very vocal Mediterranean Gulls with Black-headed Gulls over Blandford this afternoon.
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    A Swallow was over Blandford early this afternoon.
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    For what it's worth, a Buzzard was displaying over Blandford at lunch time, and it was carrying a stick which looked like jesses at first, but I got the scope out and it was definitely a stick. Red Kite also over the town at lunch time.
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    The Great-grey Shrike showing well at Wyke Down, Sixpenny Handley this afternoon, also a male Wheatear and a Ring-tailed Hen Harrier.
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    A cracking male Brambling in our Blandford garden this afternoon.
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    One was swimming downstream just above Town Bridge on Tuesday last week. Anywhere between Town Bridge and the bridge over the By-pass is worth a look, but. the area around the black footbridge/old railway arches is still favourite.
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    Wednesday Afternoon A Mediterranean Gull over Blandford at 1.45 this afternoon with a mixed Gull flock. A Red Kite over the A354 at Handley Cross at 3 p.m. and the same, or another bird, over Harley Gap an hour later.
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    Great-grey Shrike & Golden Plover Great-grey Shrike showing well approx. 50 yards east of the Pumping Station at Sixpenny Handley, also c40 Golden Plover at South Down, Tarrant Hinton this afternoon.
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    Certainly there earlier in the week.
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    The Great-grey Shrike showing well at Wyke Down Sixpenny Handley, on bushes about 100 yards east of Pumping Station at 11 a.m. this morning.
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    How to get to Wyke Down, there is a small car park for six or so cars on the left hand side of the minor road from Sixpenny Handley to Wimborne St Giles. If you're coming from the Blandford direction on the A354 look for a right hand turn at a minor crossroads about half a mile before the...
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    Short-eared Owls again at Down Farm Sixpenny Handley, we only saw three during our twenty minute stay, there may have been more of course.
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    The Great-grey Shrike still at Wyke Down Sixpenny Handley mid afternoon, also c40 Golden Plover over the A354 between Tarrant Hinton and Pimperne.
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    A male Hen Harrier flew across the A354 towards Wyke Down Sixpenny Handley mid afternoon.
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    Great-grey Shrike and a male Hen Harrier at Down Farm, Sixpenny Handley this afternoon. No sign of any Short-eared Owls when we left at 4 p.m.
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    Great-grey Shrike at Down Farm Sixpenny Handley earlier this afternoon, in Hawthorn bushes next to the farm buildings.
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    Thanks Ray, It was indeed on iPlayer, but even better, we had another look this afternoon and were rewarded with excellent views of an Otter playing to the crowd. There were some birds as well, six sightings of what were probably three Kingfishers, a couple of Grey Wagtails and a Little Egret...
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    We've been down to Stour Meadows regularly but we've still not seen the Otters. There's an impressive array of photographic hardware on display though, and there was a superb photo of an Otter on top of the weir in broad daylight on South Today one day last week. One of those "I wish I'd taken...
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    14 Waxwings in Larksmead in Blandford this morning including six in a Rowan tree in our garden. Needless to say I was at work, but my wife very kindly took some photos. I see on Birdguides that there were 24 Waxwings in Old Farm Gardens also in Blandford this afternoon.
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    Hen Harrier(s) Two ringtail Hen Harriers - or the same one twice. The first along the A354 Salisbury Road at the Critchel turning at 12.40, and the second at 16.30 at Bottlebush Down on the Handley to Cranborne road.
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    For the past week, there's been a flock of 50 or so Golden Plover in the field between the Toll House and the Critchel turning, between Tarrant Hinton and Thickthorns on the Blandford to Salisbury road.
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