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Now that the doubters have been put in their place regarding the sighting of Goshawk in North Lincs, can we assume the same is going to happen to the sighting/s of Marsh Tit. And isn't it a coincidence that the Goshawk was sighted in roughly the same area as the Marsh Tit???????

Regards

Max

PS: wonder what Freddy will have to say????????? lol

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The problem with Marsh Tit is that they are very sedentry and difficult to separate from Willow Tit if they don't call - even ringers have problems when they are in the hand! I understand from previous postings there is a Marsh Tit population north of the Humber but their range in Lincolnshire is strongly thought to be confined to the south of the wolds. However, anything can happen in the bird world so keep an open mind.

Hi Stuart,i have seen Marsh Tit as close as Welton Water to this side of the Estuary,it is more or less opposite South Ferriby and must be just over a mile to fly over to the south bank,this just shows how sedentary they are when we have large areas of suitable habitat which is un-occupied.


Regards


Steve.

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Absolutely, Max; and yes, Stuart, I have always made it an imperative never to tick Marsh/Willow Tit without hearing their call, even given favourable visibility.

On my North Cotswold patch, many years ago, where Marsh Tit was regular and Willow Tit, though in decline, was not uncommon, I had to hear that all important call.

Richard.....

Max,
Were you referring to the notorious " Manton Triangle ", by any chance?

Regards,

Freddy

Freddy,

AS IF lol

Max

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it was not a marsh tit at msq,live with it max!!start looking for UFO"S AS IVE SEEN TWO!!SEE MY OTHER SUBMISSION,
ROG.

Max,
Further to my brief observation on Sunday 19 April re the notorious and mysterious 'Manton Triangle' and to your subsequent 'As if ' comment, I have been re-reading the post written by that 'previously committed', hallucinating and superannuated pensioner (some say afflicted with a permanent twitch )....The Silver List - Lincs Bird Chat, March 2008. It's now had some 3100 hits, all but 3 traced by ATS (Advanced Tracking Systems ) to a lone, well-defined bunker mound in the grounds of the former psychiatric hospital in Bracebridge Heath and from an area formerly occupied by the top security 'Manton Ward', chillingly shown in former architects' plans as being triangular in shape. Hallucinating pensioner ....yes, but I now realise (as you do) how spookily and forecastingly accurate he was in his uncontrolled ramblings in March 2008 regarding the present 2009 'debates' about the Manton Triangle Goshawks and Marsh Tits.
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" .....the Manton Triangle - bordered in general by Gainsborough to the West, Scunthorpe to the North and Brandy Wharf (off the A15) to the East. ...'.to boldly go where few birders have gone before and returned normal'. This area is the strange and mysterious haunt of ancient megaticks. It holds many secrets and one can experience unexplained discrepancies in the time/space continuum. It has been rumoured that certain missing birders have occasionally been teletransported from here to other points in time and space. There are unsubstantiated reports of locals coming across an arcane and enigmatic individual, especially along the northern fringes of the Triangle who, at closing time and particularly during the height of the mating season of the endemic Yellow-bellied Goshawk, talks gibberish. .... Some critics claim that .... certain birds appear here as terrestrial and also aerial holograms which can only be seen by particularly sensitive or inexperienced birders."

And to cap it all (can you Adam and Eve it , Max ) a " certain local resident" now pops up and claims UFOs have been sighted in the general area, moving North to South - apparently looking for a landing site in the said Manton Triangle? Pinch yourself, Max, you may be in the middle of some Sam Smiths induced dream. Did those aliens write this script and beam it down to the Manton Ward area of Bracebridge Heath only to be picked up by my over-sensitive computer nearby? We may never know!

Regards,

Freddy

i dont know about sam smiths(incidently these ufos were seen before i had a drink!!!)you sound like your on something much stronger ,laft to go ,got to take dino,my pet dinosaur for a walk.