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Just Common Birds

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Dec 062020

In these strange times of COVID19 lock-downs and Tier Systems in place, it is difficult for me to venture out of my comfort zone. In other-words, travel farther afield than ones home patch. I am very fortunate to live in a rural area and have plenty of places on my local doorstep to go birding. There are several good feeding stations at the moment. One in particular is very active and has given me a chance to test out the camera skills on small birds and in varying lighting conditions. Trialling my new Canon R6 against my Canon 5DmkIV. Both […]

2 Local Cattle Egrets

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Nov 212020

2 local Cattle Egrets were found in amongst a flock of Mute Swans feeding in a field between Willington and Repton early afternoon ( 21st Nov). Quite a rare bird for my area so worth paying them a visit. There was also a male Peregrine briefly over the area. This morning 2 Yellow-legged Gulls at Staunton Harold Res and a Little Egret at Foremark Res.

The Autumn Red Deer Rut

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Nov 122020

In recent weeks the local Red Deer Stags at NT Calke Park, South Derbyshire have been very vocal. Their bellowing calls can be heard at great distance. Autumn is the time of year when the Stags engage in elaborate displays of dominance including roaring, parallel walks, and fighting. This behaviour is called The Rut, it is the Red Deer’s mating season.

A Derbyshire Red-throated Diver

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Nov 102020

Any inland Diver is a rare find and usually one that is associated with the winter period. With Black-throated Diver now a very rare visitor to Derbyshire, last recorded in 2011 and Great Northern Diver now an annual visitor to my county, the Red-throated Diver in recent times seems to have gained second place status. There were at least two birds recorded in 2019. The discovery of one at St. Chad’s Water yesterday afternoon and still present today, (10th November 2020) was too good to miss. Although, due to a variety of work issues, I couldn’t get to see it […]

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