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| Author: | Andy Sharp [ Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Barton swift 24th April 2013 |
A football practice session in my garden with my 9 year old Son serenaded by twittering swallows and then, amongst the darting few, the shape, that shape, a swift. Dark and rigid it cut across the sky, even making a high speed low level sortie along the gutters like a roosting summer breeder. I gazed whilst the thud of leather threatened my face but I was lifted beyond care. Barton swift is back, Barton is wonderful for swift. Darkness eased in and we trudged to the back door, both smiling for different reasons. |
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| Author: | Graham Catley [ Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Barton swift 24th April 2013 |
Migrant arrival round the pits today; highlights female Redstart and male Whinchat Waters' Edge, 4+ groppers, increase to 30+ Sedge and 30+ Reed Warblers, Common Tern, 2 Greenland Wheatears and a lesser scaup type PochardxTufted hybrid displaying to female Pochards with 7 drake Pochard. |
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| Author: | Andy Sharp [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Barton swift 24th April 2013 |
A report from a Far Ings Bird Group member this morning of a cuckoo on site and a barn owl. A grasshopper warbler along the New Pits too. |
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