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Lovely atmospheric deer photos.

That is one brave man and a lucky dog.
 
Good news for Glaslyn Osprey fans, this years chick KC2 was photographed yesterday by a nature reserve warden at a wildlife area in the Gambia.
 

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May be a daft question but here goes. How do they know it is the same one BYM?, do they have a transmitter that picks up the chip?, and if so how do they know it isn't coming from one of the other birds?.
 
Great news (and super impressive wings!)
Its the blue leg ring Dinosaw. Somehow, with binoculars or camera someone gets enough of a look at the ring to read it.
 
They were all ringed with Darvic rings which are easy to read hence KC2 which is the leg ring of this bird, can't remember if it is male or female
 
I expect many of you saw the article on the news or in the paper about the thought extinct Grass-Poly that was re found in Norfolk. We didn't realise until yesterday it was in our friends garden. They bought a barn and converted it and are now restoring the overgrown muddy swamp back into a wild life pond.
They said only downside is now a succession of botanists wanting to come and visit.

But they are chuffed at all the hard work paying off. The area was totally overgrown with all sorts dumped in it, including iron roofing, tyres. They have been clearing by hand as they didn't want to heave out insects/ frogs etc with a digger
 

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I guess we never cease to be amazed at Nature's resilience. I also firmly believe the old saying that 'Nature abhors a vaccuum' although I have to say it often appears that Nature is synomymous with brambles! On a walk yesterday I spotted a wild flower I haven't seen before, it looks just like a small creamy yellow cosmos, ie a flat daisy flower, with different leaves. I need to consult a book, its probably very common, but still a delight to me.

My nature for the past few days has been seeing 'our' 2 raptors swirling about. There is a huge difference in size and I am not sure if they are an adult and a juvenile or a pair. Given we still don't know what they are I am going to do a bit more research and see if I can work it out. They are out most mornings.
 
Two links; one very good;
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/farmers-back-plan-to-reintroduce-white-tailed-eagle-to-norfolk

And one shockingly bad.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/quarter-of-known-bee-species-have-not-been-recorded-since-1990
 
The decline of bees is a really frightening situation. They are so easily damaged by pesticides, whether they are honey bees colonising man made hives or wild bees. I only see a few different species in my garden.
 
Whilst out walking in the woods again last night, I heard a rustling in the leaves, shone my torch and caught sight of a woodcock. I grabbed my phone to take a pic, but it flew off. Gutted. Such lovely birds.
 
That's a really good spot Tweetypie, I have never seen one (except in a round jigsaw puzzle belonging to my Great Grandmother, that I remember completing as a teenager!)

The bee situation is terrifying. I must admit I find it quite hard to distinguish between bee varieties, above the obvious ones. The only thing I can hold onto is that where I am in Portugal we have unlimited hectares of tended/untended land with a huge variety of nectar sources, much of it wild. Which is lucky as locals do tend to be heavy handed with pesticides, or to plough between the productive trees (there is virtually no arable here, its all smallholdings of productive trees sometimes underplanted with veg).
 
Must admit that the bees in my garden last year appeared to be either wasp size ish or big bee. They love my lavender. I planted lots more last year, too. Aside from bees, I've seen a massive decline in frogs over the past few years. I used to have to be so careful not to tread on them when out walking in the woods, last few years I've only seen a couple.
 
I remember a kayaking weekend down in Devon several years ago. We set off from the very end of the Grand Western canal & the water was almost solid with tadpoles. I felt almost guilty putting my paddle into the water, pushing hundreds aside with each paddle stroke!
 
We had 5 Woodcock this morning in a local wood, they have been on a very muddy boggy path by a stand of Alder trees. OH has got it to a fine art, you need to get there about half an hour before dawn, and you see them in the torchlight or they fly into the trees to roost amongst the leaf litter, or you can do it half an hour before dusk and watch them come out, they never move too far from the wood edge though. Two Barn Owl and a Tawny Owl as well.
Anyone who lives Norfolk way, if you drive down from Sandringham to Wolferton at night there are lots on the verge they come out from under the Rhododendrons to feed
 
Ohh you are very lucky to see all of those. Aren't they just funny and fascinating bobbing about. ? Im going to do the annual big garden bird watch tomorrow. Not sure I'll see much more than the resident Robin's, sparrow's, blue tits and pigeons. Oh and the thrush which wakes me up with its dulcet tones every morning. ?
 
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