tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71596522676298163782023-11-15T23:53:58.330-08:00SpinkyblurbSpinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-83899602624122374512022-01-11T09:20:00.001-08:002022-01-11T09:20:11.544-08:00 Nature Notes during COVID19 - the forgotten pictures!<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I can't believe I forgot to post the rest of the pictures from my daily Nature Notes collection of 2020. See my previous blog post. Anyway they are here now, plus the bonus Advent Nature Notes in the lead up to lockdown Christmas 2020. Better late then never!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">They start with the tail end of #30DaysWild.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3SvsuOBeTdKj8l5yHxlKuHp3EWc__RFwUH1Prkt9v9X5XmvF8qdy39fogTfxlstLcWTPW0PIP3S4oy9wwCINM0-_e3mhxh8oFvOqOQtoTSBkuDfHPfoTJX_JGXNLf_fqyOQgWJaqR0eSeu_JUSfGOi8mm-Kzb3wpbfsxjA4G1Fxti3SWaItgk3MHLIA=s4042" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4042" data-original-width="2964" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3SvsuOBeTdKj8l5yHxlKuHp3EWc__RFwUH1Prkt9v9X5XmvF8qdy39fogTfxlstLcWTPW0PIP3S4oy9wwCINM0-_e3mhxh8oFvOqOQtoTSBkuDfHPfoTJX_JGXNLf_fqyOQgWJaqR0eSeu_JUSfGOi8mm-Kzb3wpbfsxjA4G1Fxti3SWaItgk3MHLIA=s320" width="235" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiw6KJBPTUb6sE6_ndVTeoUNXV59qenh_5EWqp4pgUDmg6Norm8M4_zkPripv5wCdmwpNHd9IedU1Xrcxr6TlzWTqHYPuWpFPRRIPEJXpXmrfKOiR_1XdgQEE_1EVIKieycDKUv96zUG-hf4ZENctOFvEQ2lRMbcja5Rf83UQKBDf7r4adKbNKUCm_Z-A=s3907" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I continue to occasionally post some nature messages in the window, but my COVID19 Lockdown Nature Notes have ended, if only it was this easy to end the pandemic and focus on healing the planet. Please do your bit to help nature's recovery and to act on climate. Thank you.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-15315394545679443002020-06-26T05:45:00.009-07:002020-06-27T12:42:17.376-07:00COVID19 Lock Down Daily Nature Notes.<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial">
I started writing some daily nature notes almost at the beginning of lock down, a little like the
government I was late with the idea! I actually can’t recall if it
was late March or 1<sup>st</sup> April when I decided it would be nice to do, and I thought I would hang them in the window of the front room so
they could be seen from the street by those taking the ‘coronawalks’.
Anyway let’s say I started on April Fool’s Day, just because I'm a fool for not remembering!</font></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial">At first I hung up
up a piece of cardboard, wrote the notes on paper and pinned them to
the cardboard.</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial"> </font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7J3lpnb2ep_lgzG8NcxmM65JmeMgAwF1CGrlpWJYMKN8VvRws28y0MHmwMUTxJwu4VSctLLqW-HbMYk5kMsmmAlOYF7rzorqbVg005gJ-1dFS7lw_Vbt2mnP7uH_9uPSlm81ZYh1SGZj5/s3264/P1170200.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7J3lpnb2ep_lgzG8NcxmM65JmeMgAwF1CGrlpWJYMKN8VvRws28y0MHmwMUTxJwu4VSctLLqW-HbMYk5kMsmmAlOYF7rzorqbVg005gJ-1dFS7lw_Vbt2mnP7uH_9uPSlm81ZYh1SGZj5/s320/P1170200.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yg65efNl02cn7TdsXFmJv_A3pOIHCo8KeDhqC3RU2-SDvBdfOKB7pyuf8960AaFN__s6y0-MqcoGryWAGdDJOexz8VrLBBGxOwtWdf5VOH7rB1d1ixi0RKnm9Hl7biGQgv1_cqXS28vE/s3264/P1170201.JPG" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial">It wasn’t long
before I realised it would be better to do them on a small
blackboard, and since my birthday pops up quite soon into April, I asked
for a blackboard & some coloured chalks. Luckily they came! And
not only that, I received a card from a family who I didn’t know, that
had been reading the paper notes and saying how much they had learned. I
did a little fist pump, it was all I wanted to hear that people were
reading them, enjoying them and perhaps engaging with nature either
for the first time or a little more.</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial">I started to embellish the notes once I got going on the blackboard, it's actually quite nice to sketch in chalks.</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial">Towards the end of
April I mentioned my notes on a group WhatsApp chat with my fellow
football buddies. They said, "we need to see these notes, we’re
missing out!" So the next thing was to also post the notes on WhatsApp every morning, if
they were late, I knew about it!</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial">When we got to June
and lock down was starting to ease, I thought it would be nice to
carry on through the annual #30DaysWild challenge until the end of
the month. So here we are:</font></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial">Pictures posted from
21 April 2020….</font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><font face="arial">The first is terrible; spelling mistake & blurry photo (bad night?).</font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Rtyw1Igc3oH-e5BOno7Tz7ofCAor5D5-8jYRrlptXWD9UGvi4Jdr4ec7cqhdZYpUu5xfdNw-4rV1AZxcg1Kj8QE_v8moZbxT6UuOnffHeUCwLwvU2RZD80tH5vDWJb44a6o1JjHM2YAj/s3891/20200421_081734.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><div><br /></div></a></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-63045360325704815822017-10-30T15:24:00.000-07:002017-10-30T15:24:23.333-07:00Otter-ly Brilliant!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must have spent so much time out in the Broads lately that Otters now think I am part of the landscape! Let me explain how, for a brief moment today, I became an Otter whisperer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was out with my new toy (a parabolic microphone) when I bumped, yes literally, bumped into an Otter mum with her three cubs! Here are some of the recordings and a few photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At first not really knowing whether to keep recording sound or take photos, I ended up doing both, sort of. I edited out where I dropped the microphone to the floor! It was all happening fast and I was trying not to be over excited, so some of the photos are a little blurry (the camera was on the wrong setting initially), and the microphone was not in an ideal position! Was I going to miss the moment?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I heard the whistles/squeaks/screams ahead of me, and I wasn't really sure what it was at first, then right in the middle of the path I could see brown shapes wriggling in the long grass. I couldn't believe my luck when they all started heading along the path towards me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I crouched to the side of the path taking photos, then when they got too close for my long lens I picked up the microphone. Mum level with me paused briefly and gave me a look before pressing on up the path with two cubs not far behind. The third cub had already caused her to pause a couple of times to allow it to catch up. When it got closer to me, and yelled very loudly into the microphone, she hissed a warning to the cubs and the two closest to her dived into the reeds between the path and the dyke. The little one (definitely a runt) took a liking to me and just kept yelling - Mum was in the reeds with the other two, all still communicating. I thought I should move on in the direction they had come from so Mum could pick up the runt. However, I soon found runty following me down the path, I stopped to take some photos of it, & the next thing I knew it was sitting on my left foot. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The little cub having a bit of bother with a back leg & certainly letting everyone know about it!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I noticed that one of its back legs was not working well, I quickly thought is there a chance it needs the vet, I could see no wound so I decided it would have a fighting chance if it stayed with Mum, and perhaps it was better in the water than on land. Now to get it back to Mum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back along the path we went. When it was level with where it's siblings had gone into the reeds it paused, there was some more whistles and warbles, I bit more hissing but eventually it crossed the path and went into find the family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was an explosion of excited whistles, which then softened as they all slipped into the water. Phew mission accomplished! Listen to the soundtrack and view all the photos of this Upton Fen adventure here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fingers crossed the leg function improves. If it doesn't make it, despite Mum's efforts, it's siblings looked in fine fettle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-32025367145617917302017-09-29T13:44:00.001-07:002017-09-30T04:55:47.436-07:00Fantastic Fledglings!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've counted lots of fledglings this summer, it feels like it has been a good year and the parent birds have done an amazing job, so here are some figures and photos (click on them to enlarge) to celebrate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I always do regular bird counts in the garden and this year I decided to keep a tally of fledglings, as best I could! See the table below for peak counts of each species & estimates of total fledglings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see Blackbirds were the real stars, working so hard with a peak count of eight. It wasn't all plain sailing, as a few had feather issues which hampered their progression, and they seemed particularly dependent on my garden for mealworms. One I named Rumpy as he lost so many feathers in that area, and there was another with a weird thing going on on its throat (see photo)! It was nice to see the early broods still visiting the garden as they turned 'black' later in the summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure the Robins lost a parent on their second brood (lost the young from first brood early on sadly) but the remaining parent worked tirelessly to bring four through single-handed. With the Dunnock however, I struggled to keep up with their comings and goings, who was paired with who? In the end I think it was just the one female close by and since I didn't see so many fledglings, maybe that backs it up. Tits all turned up on the feeders with juveniles, it was fun to watch them learning how to use them several slipping underneath! Finches were not so frequent on the feeders but their regularity increased when they were feeding at the nest, like the Starlings I think they nested a little way away so the youngsters didn't appear until they were good fliers. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a state! No idea what was going on here, if it was just feathers or some flesh too.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh hello, it's fledgling Rumpy! Looks better from this angle, & just checking out me and the cat.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Video taken with camera trap of the Starling fledglings at breakfast and a brief cameo from Rumpy at the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This summer for the first time I helped RSPB look after the Little Tern colonies at Eccles and Winterton. Little Tern populations have declined (feels like a repetitive story with many seabirds sadly), so colonies in the UK have been given some special care over recent years to try to help their recovery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was intense activity at Eccles with the smaller site providing home to slightly more birds than the larger fenced off area at Winterton. The infographic below (by head warden Fabienne Fossez) provides a summary of the birds efforts (and ours) and it shows what a good year they had! It wasn't without challenge due to some seriously high tides washing out a few nests (fortunately early enough so they could try again), but the real culprit at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Winterton was a rogue kestrel, who treated Little Tern fledglings as fast food! Despite this, a fantastic 260 young fledged across both sites, so close to topping 300! It just shows the fine margins that declining populations live by. Read more about the project and this year in detail here: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.littleterns.org/">https://www.littleterns.org/</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the juveniles are ready to fly, the adults encourage them into the air by flying closely past them carrying a fish, and usually calling. Terns actually make quite a bit of noise most of the time! Once airborne the adults make them fly a few circuits of the colony to build up stamina (it wouldn't be long before they head to Africa after all) and then they drop down to the foreshore and feed them the reward. It's brilliant to watch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since we were already looking after birds nesting on the shore, we also kept an eye on the Ringed Plovers nesting close by and often within the tern colony site. The Eccles pairs did exceptionally well after a rocky start with predation an issue, but once the terns got hatching, the Ringed Plovers seemed to find safety in numbers with their second broods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think you would agree that both these shore nesting birds produce young with a very high 'cute factor'! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll be back there next year trying to keep the predators at bay and disturbance from human and canine beach users to a minimum. Terns dislike dogs, and are sometimes not too fond of people either! I can particularly empathise with them when unsavoury characters decide to steal eggs and vandalise the site as happened in </span><a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/east/archive/2017/06/24/eggs-stolen-from-nests-of-rare-little-terns-in-suffolk.aspx" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Kessingland</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-40326587" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Crimdon</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> near Hartlepool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">St Stephens Street in Norwich may seem a bizarre place to be counting fledglings but when I heard from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) that there was a gap in the data for the <a href="https://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/find-gap-european-breeding-bird-atlas-2" target="_blank">European Breeding Bird Atlas</a> in this area of Norwich for evidence of breeding Herring Gulls, I felt it was a good place to look. Lesser Black Backed Gulls had definitely been nesting on the roof tops of the shops and office blocks so maybe in among them were some Herring Gulls. So when I was in the city I spent a few minutes checking out the gull fledglings, sure enough the LB's were there, but also, walking on the top of the low roof of Poundland was a Herring Gull youngster. I added the records to <a href="https://app.bto.org/birdtrack/main/data-home.jsp" target="_blank">BirdTrack</a> and BTO will incorporate those records to EBBA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought I'd share my first map(s) - all about Curlew (CU), Lapwing (L) and Snipe (SN) in East Norfolk, which happens to be where I have been surveying farmland for evidence of breeding of these declining waders for the RSPB. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I gathered species presence data from BTO's <a href="https://app.bto.org/birdtrack/main/data-home.jsp" target="_blank">BirdTrack</a> records. BirdTrack is a citizen science project in which birders record lists of their sightings in 1km tetrads (fancy word for square) and upload them to the BirdTrack site, usually via the app, so that the clever bods at BTO can gain an insight into population trends and other details, such as the effect of climate change, important for their conservation. It's great at any time of the year to see what is going on in almost real time, but it is especially exciting during the migration seasons when you can see which species are arriving and which are leaving, and can compare it to historical data. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So take a good look at my course assignment map below, see if you can spot areas where all three species like to hang out, and some areas where they don't (middle section of the area I looked at)! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This map shows number of species recorded in the tetrads in association with land that has a conservation designation (County Wildlife Sites, SSSI's, National Park, AONB). I used several different mapping techniques (combinations of vector and raster layers) to create this map using <a href="http://www.qgis.org/en/site/" target="_blank">QGIS</a> open source software. However, I really wanted to see if there was any relationship with farmland and to add that layer in too made it look rather too messy for my assignment map!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since finishing the course, I've knocked out a few more maps showing the same BirdTrack data but in different ways and with the Agricultural Farmland Classification.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of these maps require careful study to fully interpret the colour symbology (working on how to improve that when "publishing"), but there are several things that can be learned:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CU and SN together was not recorded in any square </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The middle third of the area has less density of CU, L and SN</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The middle third of the area has the most Grade 1 Agricultural Land Classification</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BirdTrack data for the southern third (Breydon Water & associated marshes) suggests all squares have all three species recorded, but when this data is explored further much of this area is inaccessible and appears to be extrapolated from adjacent or nearby squares</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am still learning GIS techniques and there are tools to test some of these observations statistically, so beware, this blog may yet see more maps! I hope you like them as much as I do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't (??) then here are some birdy pictures:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Curlew - not in East Norfolk this one, but up North at RSPB Titchwell Marsh (1km tetrad TF7544).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of Lapwing at Breydon Water (TG5108) - and if you want to see more about Lapwing go to my previous <a href="http://spinkybird.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/determined-lapwing-wild-goose-chase.html" target="_blank">post</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a Snipe also up North at NWT Cley Marshes (TG0544)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But to prove they can be found on farmland in the East here are eight (of thirteen) in a harvested sugar beet field near Clippesby (TG4215)</span></div>
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Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-64079784758668470572016-05-29T12:46:00.000-07:002016-08-12T11:38:21.818-07:00Determined Lapwing & A Wild Goose Chase!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peewit, Lapwing, Green Plover, <i>Vanellus vanellus</i>, whatever you call them, they're in big population decline here in the UK. I'm a scientist, so here's a graph showing the data from <a href="http://blx1.bto.org/birdtrends/species.jsp?&s=lapwi" target="_blank">BTO</a> that proves it (y axis is a smoothed population index & green indicates 85% confidence limits). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Origins of the Lapwing name hail from Middle English <i>lappewinke</i> and <i>lapwyngis</i>, and back even earlier to the Old English </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hleapewince</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, all of which mean 'leap' and 'wince' or 'waver, move rapidly'. It's descriptive, as the Lapwing appear to make a big leap </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when they take to the air, and when on the ground they scuttle about quite rapidly. In that respect I'd hardly call them wavering, as I shall highlight below. However, when they're foraging they pause to listen, and patter on the mud using a foot, which increases their success rate in finding and catching invertebrates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The distinctive calls of peewit, or kievit, if the Dutch birds (explains some of their other names) ever made the short hop </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">across the North Sea, can be heard as soon as you reach the marshes particularly in the spring. This is usually accompanied </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by some tumbling, turning, swooping and even upside down flying. How do they do that? If you haven't watched the aerial </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">acrobatics of these amazing birds, then you have missed out on nature's very own Cirque du Soleil show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The decline in population isn't for lack of trying on their part. I was recently up on the North Norfolk coast at NWT Cley watching </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Lapwing and their young families on Arnold's Marsh. They are determined birds when protecting their patch of marsh, be it from </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">other lapwing or other bird species, many of which can be much, much bigger than themselves. They'll even take on the top avian predator of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">marshland, the Marsh Harrier, and like most birds in the breeding season, have absolutely zero tolerance of crows and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gulls. Mob-handed they take them on in mid air, trying to stall the perceived intruder's flight, or dive bombing anything on the ground. All intended to distract from nests and the precious bundles of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fluff running among the grass tussocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However I was quite surprised when I saw just one female take on half a dozen Greylag that were meandering too close to her </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">four babies. That saying about geese being the best guards, just got upgraded to Lapwing. This was a proper wild goose </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chase except there was real purpose in it, to keep those big, and as far as Mrs Lapwing was concerned, clumsy, birds off of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">her newly hatched babies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When a Lapwing hatches it seems to have the ability to run instantly, which is probably a good thing as on grazing marshes (prime Lapwing Real Estate) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">there are often even bigger beasts to avoid, like cows. It's worth noting in this 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare, that he </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">refers to them in Hamlet, when Horatio says of Osric "This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head." It's as if they </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">can't wait to be hatched and are eager to get on with life, forward little chaps. I have to say I have never seen one with shell on its head </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lapwing get another mention in Comedy of Errors, this time referring to their habit of luring predators away from nests "Far </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from her nest the lapwing cries away." This deception is carried out with cries and/or feigning injury and in fact explains </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">another name. The Greek name used to be <i>polyplagktos</i> meaning "luring on deceitfully." Other writers have noted this behaviour, consequently </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Lapwing has sadly become a symbol of deceit and insincerity. I say, it is only trying to survive in a tough environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what are <b>we</b> doing to try to help these birds, they clearly do their very best to help themselves? I take part in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">RSPB's Lowland Farmland Breeding Wader Survey (yes a right mouthful), along with other survey volunteers, and farmers who are </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">managing their land in a way to support several dramatically declining species. I survey a farm each year in the Broads, I'm over on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Halvergate this year. It's glorious out there (when the weather is kind), and I'm so pleased to hear the news that the RSPB </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have managed to <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.aspx?id=418658" target="_blank">acquire more land</a> in this internationally important area. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The target birds we surveyors are looking for are not just Lapwing, but also Curlew, Redshank, Oystercatcher, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Snipe and Yellow Wagtail (technically not a wader but likes the wetlands!). The participating farmers in this partnership have been given<a href="http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/graziers_and_rspb_conservationists_seek_a_balance_in_the_broads_1_4552385?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social_Icon&utm_campaign=in_article_social_icons" target="_blank"> advice </a>about </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">managing the degree of wet in their fields, and the amount of rush allowed to grow based on previous work by the RSPB. They </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are encouraged to scrape out foot drains (shallow 'ditches' containing water no more than ankle deep) and can use their </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cattle and sheep, but at not too high densities, to create areas of shorter sward. All of which provides soft mud into which </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">long-beaked waders can probe for insects, worms, etc., especially important for chicks, and a variety of different </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vegetation lengths, and clumps of rush to provide cover from predators. Time, and surveys, will tell if these subtle </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">management changes will make a difference, I really hope so!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a tragedy it would be if we lost these beautiful and boisterous birds of coast and marsh. My favourite places for easy viewing of these birds all year round (and in large numbers in winter) are: <a href="http://www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-in-norfolk/nature-reserves/reserves/cley-marshes" target="_blank">NWT Cley</a> or <a href="http://www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-in-norfolk/nature-reserves/reserves/hickling-broad" target="_blank">Hickling</a>, and <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/seenature/reserves/guide/b/buckenham/" target="_blank">RSPB Buckenham Marshes</a>, but really any field that's a bit damp and where the grass isn't too long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pause a while to watch and listen but remember, i</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t's their marsh in spring, so don't get too close!</span>Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-85160815592781689182015-10-14T14:51:00.000-07:002015-10-14T14:51:30.706-07:00Gulls At Play<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little did I know I was going to Herring Gull playschool when I popped down to Walcott a couple of weeks ago. I was intending to watch the migration flypast , but got a little distracted by the antics of a group of this year's young Herring Gulls, and most entertaining it was too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bell for start of playschool seemed to be an adult with a crab who was willing to give it up to the youngsters, it was like getting your mini bottle of milk to start off the session. Once the crab had been 'seen to' a group of a dozen or so young birds decided it was time for a game of drop-retrieve. Some picked up a favourite stone, others a bunch of seaweed, then proceeded to drop it from about a metre above the water and dive in after it. There was no attempt to catch it before it hit the water, that would be drop-catch, not drop-retrieve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It all took place in the shallows and at first I thought is this training for foraging, but it really didn't reflect that, maybe if they were expert divers like gannets or terns. There is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://britishbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/V104_N02_P094%E2%80%93099_N.pdf" target="_blank">evidence</a> that young gulls (this year's brood) do this sort of thing when the conditions are right, and luckily they were that day: light winds, bright sunshine and very little swell. The study proved that indeed these gulls were having playtime, and having seen it for myself I totally believe it. They were having fun and seemed to be positively encouraging each other, you know how they can yell. It was good to see another side to these birds that received so much unmerited bad press through the summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS: The migration flypast mostly involved Brent Geese heading towards Cromer, with Gannets going the other way to Great Yarmouth, and a late pair of Sandwich Tern also going south.</span>Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-87610764570401287172015-06-13T09:56:00.000-07:002015-06-13T09:56:01.131-07:00A #30DaysWild Ride Home<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took me almost an hour to get home yesterday, day 12 of #30DaysWild. I regularly cycle to work and normally it takes 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the wind direction. Yesterday it was almost an hour in only a light breeze. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn't a puncture, or the choice of a longer route that made me take much longer, no, it was all the wild distractions, so many brilliant encounters that are great for #30DaysWild which is an initiative for June being encouraged by </span><a href="http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30DaysWildInfo" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">The Wildlife Trusts</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here is the story of 'My #30DaysWild ride Home'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I left work I started a list in my head of bird species I saw or heard on the journey; Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Blackbird, Carrion Crow, Jay, Dunnock, Greenfinch, Whitethroat, Wren, Jackdaw and I had barely gone 400m. I paused on the bridge over the river Yare to check out the fish (obviously inspired by the hero of this year's Springwatch, Spineless Si). There were lots of fry and some bigger fish too, guessing they might be Roach, the most common fish of the Broads area. The water was very clear (made a note to go back with underwater camera) but what really caught my eye was a dozen, all males, Banded Demoiselles flitting across the water, occasionally pausing on piece of reed. Suddenly, I noticed a change, there was much more purpose about their flight, and sure enough a female had flown into the group and she was proving most popular. Whilst watching all this I could hear more Whitethroat, another Wren, I think about three Reed Warblers, a Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler all singing and Blackcaps calling in their stone chinking way. Species total so far: 16.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After ten minutes I moved on, all of 50 metres, to where a Song Thrush was singing an interesting repertoire. I tried a video but the battery life on my camera was an issue, there is a little below! Then, as I was being gently dusted with Willow fluff, a second Song Thrush started up behind me. I found myself positioned directly in the middle of a Song Thrush sing off. It was a bit like 'The Battles' on The Voice on telly, certainly these Birds Got Talent! It was great stuff, Song Thrushes in stereo, with a Chiff Chaff chiffing in and an incessant backdrop of Tit squeaking, Blue, Great and Long Tails. I wanted to close my eyes and just listen but didn't dare in case I missed a flash of a passing Kingfisher, they're regular through that area, but no luck today. Species total update: 20.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I moved on again, through the woods, it was relatively quiet in there, one Robin calling. Then suddenly a loud croaking/cawing from back near the river. Only one thing makes that noise, Grey Heron, and it was complaining very strongly, probably at some corvids giving it grief. I continued on around the UEA Broad, where I saw a Swallow take a drink, yeah I know a Swallow swallowing! I was taking </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the even more scenic route home, well now that I had started my birds list I wanted to know if it would beat the morning ride to work list of 24 which included a Kestrel. Black Headed and a couple of Lesser Black Backed Gulls were on the Broad, and a motley looking hybrid Mallard (all counts for the list tho'!). Another extended family of Blue Tit fledgers were squeaking in the trees and a Whitethroat tricolating (Norfolk dialect for sprucing up/decorating) a Hawthorn. A Goldfinch flew over the path tinkling, and another Song Thrush came into auditory vision. I was enjoying this gentle ride when suddenly a Cetti's Warbler blasted out its song at me, I wobbled for a second, and just as I had recovered a Wren did the same! Both must have been so close to the path. A Great Tit called to its mate and a pair of Magpies worked the path in front of me for insects, worms and more likely dropped human food. Species total update: 28.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I carried on through Eaton Park, where there were more Blackbird, Chaffinch and Gulls. As I passed the boating pond three Swifts took a drink, all in turn and all aiming for the exact centre of the pond, was it a game I wondered? Out of the park and through the houses towards Unthank Road I looked out for Starlings as a week ago there had been several fledglings, not today. Maybe they are back out in another area of the park working the grassy areas for food. When I got to Unthank Road I heard a big fuss in the top of the trees. there was lots of wing clapping and crashing of leaf laden branches, it was a massive Woodpigeon fight. I did think, however, that the sirens I could hear heading their way was rather an excessive response. I don't think they were arrested for disturbance of the peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I arrived home to be greeted by Mr Blackbird and his couple of fledgers demanding more mealworms (I think Mrs Blackbird is back on the nest - actually I noticed she built a new one!). I put the bike away and a pair of Goldfinch stopped in the very top of the Silver Birch to chat before continuing their work of nest building. Either they are very slow builders as they were gathering cobwebs back in March (see the 'video' of stills below) or it is another pair, in which case, isn't that a bit late?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought to myself what a lovely ride home, so lucky. So what was the final species total? A splendid 29. No Kestrel on the way home but plenty of great things that were noteworthy for #30DaysWild.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are still plenty of geese about, Brents mainly and a few Greylag. It's as if every grey that was in their feathers had been picked from the sky's palette. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Wigeon are not thinking about heading East yet back to the breeding grounds, and are just focusing on looking and sounding gorgeous. They do pretty well on both counts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pinging could be heard coming from the reed bed as the Bearded Tits flirt. I had hoped they might show out on the path to pick up grit but I had to make do with a pair of Reed Bunting instead. Still cute though, even the blurry female.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I watched a pair of Redshank mirroring each other. There was some subtle tail display too. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was all rather sweet until, it seemed one got annoyed with the copycat and got a little violent. They yelled and grabbed each other. They must like that, as they quickly made up and went back to mirroring each other, and so it went on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I almost missed this grey plover, it was blending in so well. I do think it looks a little forlorn, as yet mate-less, unlike the loved up Turnstone pair nearby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a Blackcap back in my garden at the moment. Could it be the same one as last year, I like to think so. His Missus also visited last year, but I've not seen her yet this winter. I was wondering when exactly they dropped by last year so I checked my records on BirdTrack - Its a brilliant app from the BTO which allows you to keep a record of your bird sightings and enables you to be a geek and delve into the records like the BTO do. It helps inform all manner of people making decisions that may affect our wildlife and even assists in criminal matters: <a href="http://goo.gl/1hhtl9" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/1hhtl9</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I compared this January with last for my lists recorded at home, the Blackcap was in earlier last year. I also discovered that I have slightly more species recorded for this January but then that is probably skewed by the total number of lists I made this year compared to last (12 to 4), the picture will build each year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Woodpigeon and Blue Tit are present on every January Garden list and despite being common I really enjoy watching them. Woodpigeon, I have noticed are not great sharers, a scrap seems to break out quite readily, even when there's more than enough food to go around. I've also been watching a Woodpigeon family with an only child since the summer. The squab after a tricky start on fences now does extremely well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for the Blue Tits, they remind me of snowboarders the way they move through the gardens, if you've ever been on the piste you'll know what I mean. Small groups of them dash past the window, making a few turns and ollies, and then a last minute deep carving turn into a bush or tree, equivalent to a piste-side stop up the mountain. They wait here for the last one to dive in and then there's a quick vote to see who's leading next and they are off again. It makes me want to get up the mountain on my snowboard - I just realised my jacket is a Blue Tit blue and my board yellow... gonna get Blue Tit stickers for my helmet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Robin makes an almost 100% turnout on my lists and are definitely more conspicuous at this time of year in my garden. I have a pair visiting, and the other day as I was refilling the feeders one sat in the Forsythia, or the feeder launch-bush as I call it, singing softly, it was gorgeous! </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A young male blackbird thought he owned the Forsythia launch-bush earlier in the month but seems to have given it up lately, he drank a lot that bird! Regularly supping at the birdbath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the subject of pairs, I submitted one BirdTrack list a week or so ago which had all the hallmarks of spring on it; pair of Robin, pair of Dunnock, pair of Blackbird (hope its Mr & Mrs from last summer, but it's so hard to tell when there could be tens of pairs around - Holt Blackbird Project if you're curious https://holtblackbirdproject.wordpress.com/</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ), pair of Coal Tit, several pairs of Blue Tit, pair of Great Tit, pair of Woodpigeon (squab's parents), pair of Jay, pair of Chaffinch, pair of Greenfinch, and a Collared Dove threesome! Full house, I'd say!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a bit excited! Imagine all those potential fledglings, and it all starts in winter! I'm not totally disinterested in the garden for the rest of the year, but so many different birds </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are here</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all at the same time in winter. Yes I do look forward to when Mrs Blackbird brings her babies in for mealworms in the spring, but I don't want the same stress as last year, when the Magpies ousted the young Blackbirds from the nest a bit early. It was mayhem for both Blackbird parents for about a week or so but I think four out of the five fledged properly in the end. Sterling effort on their part, and on the part of my cat who managed to resist taking them, albeit with a bit of encouragement, or should that be discouragement?</span><br />
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<br />Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-88840026984740131492014-11-30T11:23:00.000-08:002014-12-02T13:58:33.527-08:00Being a Birthing Partner<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't know I was going to become a birthing partner, but when given the job unexpectedly I grabbed it with both hands and lungs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was visiting the grey seal colony at Horsey to see how they were faring this year during the pupping season. Were they going to be as successful as those up at Blakeney who were already breaking records? Well it seems yes they are, pups are all along the beach so a much larger area is cordoned off to help reduce disturbance. Seals don't understand ropes and I'm pretty sure they don't read signs too well, so they weren't paying too much attention to the designated areas. Seals and pups stretched as far as you could see. Fortunately those mammals that <u>can</u> read were respecting the signs and were even keeping off the beach that wasn't roped off. Excellent!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walking along the top of the dunes with my long lens trained onto the beach I managed to capture some lovely shots of seals of all ages. Some pups were resting quite high up the beach which resulted in really close views without causing stress. I stopped to watch one seal which had caught my eye as it was behaving in a way I hadn't seen before. Then I saw the big bump, and yes she was having contractions, so I sat in the dunes and waited. Every 5 minutes she seemed to give a bit of a push. She rolled gently on the sand, I guess to make sure the baby was in the right position. It was then, that I caught her eye, unsurprisingly as I was the only one there. She gave me a look which said "Would you be my birthing partner?" so I said no problem, and told her she was doing really well but I wasn't going down there to hold her flipper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After about 20mins she started to slowly move around in circles and then she stopped for a bigger push. I could see some blood so I encouraged her to push some more, "Go on gal!" Then it all happened so quickly, the waters broke and flippers appeared, and before you could say <i>Halichoerus grypus</i> the youngster had arrived. Brilliant!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twenty minutes later the placenta appeared and after she yelled at an inquisitive young seal to clear off, Mum settled down close to the pup and encouraged it to start suckling by gently pushing it with her flipper towards her teats. Magical!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-143387010605627282014-11-23T11:30:00.001-08:002014-12-02T13:56:33.941-08:00Resonant Rooks<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">November, late in the afternoon and the light is fading at RSPB Buckenham Marshes so I tear myself away from the wonderful whistling wigeon and head back to Buckenham railway station. I'm not catching the train but the platform is a great spot to get caught up in the gathering corvids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mainly rook and jackdaw make up this roost, and at first there are a few decorating the small stand of trees on the grazing marsh, but soon there is a steady stream of black birds from all directions, noisily announcing their arrival. There seems to be a little jostling for the top most points of the trees then things settle, apart from a little murmuring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suddenly in unison they lift, it seems someone gave the call to move and the jackdaws continue their joyous recounting of the day to each other as they head to the field with the wires. But there is no room on the wires, for these are sole property of the rooks. Every inch filled but no bird actually looking cramped for space. There they sit looking at each other and apparently mocking those on the ground for not getting there sooner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here is where the resonance part of this tale is revealed, nothing to do with sound waves for rooks are hardly sweet singers, nor is it light waves for the light is almost gone, but it seems rooks like to have some fun before they go to bed. Again in unison, a large group of them leap off from a section of the wire and, in doing so, set a tension-releasing wave along it. Those rooks that remained perched are left bouncing up and down until the resonance dies. It looked like fun to me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then as the wire wave stops and a cacophony of caws and jackdaw clucks starts up, they all lift from wires and fields and head up the slope to another field and if you're quick you can get there too as they gather up one final time before heading to the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barely visible the black river across the field slides into the top of the woods out of sight. Still, you don't really need to see them, as the sound reverberating across the fields is wonderful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The experience resonates with something deep in the soul!</span></div>
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Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159652267629816378.post-74015089266859862372014-11-02T04:57:00.000-08:002014-12-02T13:54:19.817-08:00You've Got to Love a Shrike & a Crabbing Gull!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last month I popped up to Titchwell when migration was in full swing pretending to be a serious birder!</span><br />
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Don't let me influence you but my vote goes to the red back, and not just because it has caught a wasp, its simply a really smart looking bird.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, once the fret really rolled in, and along with it another load of lenses and tripods, I thought I'd nip up the road to RSPB Titchwell to see what treasures I could find there. You know, a cuppa and cake whilst the mists lifted! It didn't take long and I was soon treated to some lovely sunshine in which the gathering Golden Plover glittered and danced in a bright blue sky - I gave them a Strictly 10!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the real reason for a first load of 'Spinkyblurb' is this;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I watched this Herring Gull for several minutes as it worked the saltmarsh for crab and here is its crabby photo story that I wanted to share:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gull picks off a leg but the crab fights on waving its pincers...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crab chucking technique was method of choice for leg removal</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a fascinating few minutes that most people seemed to be overlooking, but I love watching the detail in the way the wild gets on with life. Plus, the light was just lovely for some photography and quite frankly, who wouldn't want to eat a tasty Norfolk crab.</span>Spinkybirdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15342709989648929625noreply@blogger.com0