tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30694957071675949952024-03-20T04:35:19.843-07:00UK Birder in SerbiaPatch birding in the heart of the BalkansGEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-14309931806615943802015-04-15T04:13:00.001-07:002015-04-15T04:13:57.474-07:00TUESDAY 7th APRIL 2015<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="color: #999999;">8°C, feels like 4 °C, wind N 38 km/h, overcast, dull.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">12 Great Crested Grebe</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Little Egret</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">2Black Headed Gull</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Little Owl</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">2 Long Eared Owl juvs</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">18 Hooded Crow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">70 Barn Swallow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">White Wagtail</span><br />
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Liplje -<br />
all of the following on The Ridge amongst heaps of manure on a weedy field<br />
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6<span style="color: blue;"> Serin</span> <i><span style="color: #999999;">2 male & 4 female</span></i><br />
3 Tree Pipit<br />
4 Black Redstart<i><span style="color: #999999;"> 1 male & 3 female</span></i><br />
2 White WagtailGEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-23791010914721229042015-04-06T01:30:00.005-07:002015-04-06T01:30:57.926-07:00SUNDAY 5th APRIL 2015<span style="color: #999999;">Overcast, dull with persistant drizzle and rain.</span><br />
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Liplje<br />
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Wheatear <i><span style="color: #999999;">male again on the Ridge</span></i>GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-4098216159085878462015-04-06T00:06:00.000-07:002015-04-08T23:43:52.197-07:00SATURDAY 4th APRIL 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">1-8°C, wind S 16 km/h, clear and sunny.</span><br />
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Paljuvi and Jabucje village<br />
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Jabucje village 07:00 - 10:15<br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Superb night herons were close to the road, beautiful in flight with wonderful croaking call. Cracking bird which I've only ever seen once before when I twitched a single bird many years ago in blighty'. Guess these must be photograph.s' there are no reed beds here for them to breed in' (Dragan Simic) However they do also breed in trees.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Purple heron is an early bird I think only the secound recorded this Spring in Serbia.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Disappointedly the flock of small grebes had gone along with half the Great crests and apparently all the Little Grebes, there were none seen even in the wooded shallows which I checked on a large part of the shore along the NW and SW borders. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Disappointing also for the Belgade birders who would have twitched this bird this morning not least Dragan who has not seen this species in Serbia. I have to admit to being ignorant of just how rare this bird is in Serbia and on reflection would have tried harder to get better views for a photograph</span><br />
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25 <span style="color: red;">Night Heron</span> <i><span style="color: #999999;">roosting in trees in the shallows</span></i><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Purple Heron</span> <i><span style="color: #999999;">over leisurely N to S</span></i><br />
Grey Heron<br />
Marsh Harrier <i><span style="color: #999999;">over North</span></i><br />
3 Mallard<br />
11 Shoveler<br />
34 Garganey<br />
10 Great Crested Grebe<br />
Moorhen<br />
2 Coot<br />
Jay<br />
6 Hooded Crow<br />
6 MagpieMagpie<i><span style="color: #999999;"> 2 nesting</span></i><br />
2 Jakdaw<br />
80+ Swallow<br />
Great tit<br />
Nuthatch<br />
3 Chiffchaff<i><span style="color: #999999;"> 1 singing</span></i><br />
3 Blackcap <i><span style="color: #999999;">singing</span></i><br />
15 Starling<br />
12 Goldfinch<br />
Hawfinch<br />
2 Tree Sparrow<br />
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<br />GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-555047199090545972015-04-03T11:40:00.000-07:002015-04-03T12:04:58.554-07:00FRIDAY 3rd APRIL 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">8°C felt like 3</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">°C, wind</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> NW 40 km/h, 50% overcast with sunny intervals, pressure 1017 hPa</span><br />
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Paljuvi Lake, Kolubara<br />
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Flotilla of 20 small Grebes out near centre of lake, difficult to id due to the distance and the fact that they were mostly all sleeping on fairly choppy water, Black-necked identified mostly on jizz including upright perky head flicking stance, high forehead /head shape and rusty orange flanks. Slavonian on rusty orange flanks, blazing gold 'horns' and lower swimming position. Near by Great Crests looking over twice their size.<br />
Little grebes in contrast were all together in the shallows with the Garganey and Pochards and Ferruginous near by.<br />
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2 <span style="color: red;">Slavonian Grebe</span><br />
1 <span style="color: red;">Black-necked Grebe</span><br />
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22 Great Crested Grebe<br />
11 Little Grebe<br />
4 <span style="color: blue;">Ferruginous Duck </span><i><span style="color: #999999;">1 or 2 males</span></i><br />
46 Garganey<br />
8 Pochard<br />
2 Gadwall <i><span style="color: #999999;">pair</span></i><br />
2 Coot<br />
Egret sp <i><span style="color: #999999;">probably Little</span></i><br />
Grey Heron<br />
Linnet <i><span style="color: #999999;">female</span></i><br />
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<br />GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-23621940778048044842015-04-03T01:04:00.002-07:002015-04-03T02:00:36.667-07:00FRIDAY 3rd APRIL 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">4°C feels like -1</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">°C,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> wind W/NW 24km/h, mostly overcast with some sunny spells, pressure </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">All the redstarts on the ridge feeding amongst the piles of farmyard manure with the stonechats and the near by singing Woodlark.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Tree Pipit</span> <i><span style="color: #999999;">over NW</span></i><br />
6 Black Redstart<i><span style="color: #999999;"> 3 male & 3 female</span></i><br />
2 Stonechat <i><span style="color: #999999;">male & female</span></i><br />
Chiffchaff<br />
5 Swallow <i><span style="color: #999999;">over NW</span></i><br />
3 White Wagtail <i><span style="color: #999999;">1 pair at Branka's</span></i><br />
4 Wood Lark <i><span style="color: #999999;">1 singing 3 over NW</span></i><br />
15 Starling <i><span style="color: #999999;">over NW 4+10+1</span></i><br />
4 Redwing/Song Thrush <i><span style="color: #999999;">over W</span></i><br />
3 Pheasant<i style="color: #999999;"> male & 2 females</i><br />
2 Magpie<br />
Jay<br />
Yellowhammer<br />
Cirl Bunting<br />
Chaffinch<br />
Hawfinch<br />
Tree Sparrow<br />
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<br />GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-78184138308010379342015-04-01T13:08:00.000-07:002015-04-02T03:03:34.488-07:00WEDNESDAY 1st APRIL 2015<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">10</span> <span style="color: #999999;">°C, 5</span><span style="color: #999999;"> <span style="color: #999999;">°C later and dropping</span>, wind W 14km/h,Overcast & dull with rain showers, pressure 1013hPa and rising</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Black Stork reminded me of the one I saw here last year and again I had the feeling it was prospecting or new where it was going locally.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wheatear again in same field on The Ridge, a pale bird with none of the sparkle of a spring male. Mantle had a hint of brown in the grey, mask was more brown black and the white eyebrow not very prominent. A first year male perhaps ?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Black Stork</span><span style="color: #999999;"> <i>over fairly leisurely North up the wooded valley</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Wheatear</span> <i><span style="color: #999999;">(Northern)</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Chiffchaff<i><span style="color: #999999;"> 1 singing </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Black Redstart<i> <span style="color: #999999;">male and female, not paired</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stonechat <i><span style="color: #999999;">male</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 White Wagtail</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Butterfly's yesterday -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Holly Blue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Large Tortoishell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Orange tip </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Green Veined White</span><br />
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<br />GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-68329575308642194262015-04-01T12:21:00.004-07:002015-04-02T03:10:54.840-07:00MONDAY 30th MARCH 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<dt><span style="color: #999999;">1<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1°C, wind light from South, mostly overcast with brighter intervals.</span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Paljuvi Lake Kolubara & Jabucje village centre Kolubara</span></dt>
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<dt><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Ospreys</span> were a great surprise and all to brief, both birds on their way out when I saw them, the first moving out NE and the possible second an hour later, moving out NE/E.</span></span></dt>
<dt><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The <span style="color: black;">Harriers</span> came in late and were difficult to observe. First 2 together then a third following closely behind. I was wondering if they could be using a common roost site ?</span></span></dt>
<dt><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Good selection of duck with great views of spanking male<span style="color: black;"> Gargany's</span> pestering a female. </span></span></dt>
<dt><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Little Egret</span> is early for here I think.Had fabulous long head plume.</span></span></dt>
<dt><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First <span style="color: black;">Long Eared owls</span> in Serbia for me and so nice to find my own. Right in the middle of the village with noisy vehicles and lights near by. The young were in conifers calling and the adult did a fly by on a couple of occasions.</span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9 <span style="color: red;">Gargany</span> <span style="color: #999999;"><i>pair + 6 males + female</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">16 Great Crested Grebe <span style="color: #999999;"><i>some paired & courting</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Wood Pigeon <span style="color: #999999;"><i>nesting</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Green Woodpecker <span style="color: #999999;"><i>singing</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 Hooded Crow <span style="color: #999999;"><i>3 pairs</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">14 Swallow</span><span style="color: #999999;"><i><span style="color: blue;"> </span>feeding</i></span>, <span style="color: #999999;"><i>and resting on bank side vegetation</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Chiffchaff</span> <span style="color: #999999;"><i>singing</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Song Thrush<span style="color: #999999;"><i> singing</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">90 Starling <span style="color: #999999;"><i>3 flocks</i></span></span></dt>
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<dt><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jabucje village centre -</span></dt>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">27th March</span> - Liplje</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Pheasant females</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">23 Grey Heron <span style="color: #999999;"><i>11 birds sitting on nests in Heron Wood</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Marsh Harrier</span> <span style="color: #999999;"><i>male over N</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hen Harrier<span style="color: #999999;"><i> male over E</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sparrowhawk<span style="color: #999999;"><i> female</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Buzzard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Collard Dove</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 Jay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Magpie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Jackdaw</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Raven <span style="color: #999999;"><i>on nest in Heronry</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Skylark <span style="color: #999999;"><i>flew out N</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Black Redstart <span style="color: #999999;"><i>female</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 Stonechat <span style="color: #999999;"><i>2 pairs, new pair in by main road as last year</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Blackbird</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Song Thrush </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">32 Starling <span style="color: #999999;"><i>single flock some singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">White Wagtail</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yellowhammer </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cirl Bunting <span style="color: #999999;"><i>singing</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Blackcap</span> singing near home</span>GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-36568437553620077492015-04-01T11:22:00.001-07:002015-04-01T11:22:54.000-07:00THURSDAY 26th MARCH 2015<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clear and mild </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Woodcock <span style="color: #999999;"><i>roding again close to home</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tawny Owl <span style="color: #999999;"><i>calling/singing</i></span></span>GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-6310149387114448212015-04-01T10:48:00.001-07:002015-04-01T11:19:22.624-07:00WEDNESDAY 24th MARCH 2015<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7°C, wind SE 20 km/h, light cloud cover, mostly sunny.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Liplje 6:00-7:35 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Feral Pigeon </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Collard Dove</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">M.S.Woodpecker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">G. S. Woodpecker<span style="color: #999999;"><i> 2 drumming</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Green Woodpecker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 Jay <span style="color: #999999;"><i>party of 8 very vocal and courting</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Magpie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Hooded Crow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 Raven</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Woodlark<span style="color: #999999;"><i> possibly</i><i> 2 singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marsh Tit <span style="color: #999999;"><i>singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 Great Tit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blue Tit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Nuthatch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wren</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Robin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Black Redstart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Stonechat <span style="color: #999999;"><i>1 pair + male, 2</i><i> singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Blackbird</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Song Thrush</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8 Starling <span style="color: #999999;"><i>single flock some singing, one mimicing G.Oriole</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cirl Bunting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chaffinch<span style="color: #999999;"><i> singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Hawfinch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">House Sparrow </span><br />
<br />GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-43737982895456014262015-03-22T11:11:00.001-07:002015-03-22T11:11:37.350-07:00SATURDAY 21st MARCH 2015Liplje<br />
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Heronry Census - the heronry is located close to the main road 22, known by me as Heron Wood.<br />
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21 Grey Heron<br />
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12 birds sitting on nests with 6 mates near by. 3 on partially built nests and possibly 1 unoccupied.GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-82838305908896504452015-03-19T12:23:00.004-07:002015-03-25T01:35:06.589-07:00THURSDAY 19th MARCH 2015<h4>
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6°C, wind N/NW 19mph, partly cloudy with sunny intervals.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">First Stonechat of the year.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Migrating flock of wagtails feeding on new ploughed field.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Wood Pigeon</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Green</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"> Woodpecker</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">4 Jay</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">HoodedCrow</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3690490722656px;">2 Woodlark 1 singing</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3690490722656px;">Marsh</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3690490722656px;"> tit</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3690490722656px;">9 Great tit</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3690490722656px;">2 Blue tit</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.603572845459px;">4 Robin singing</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.603572845459px;">Stonechat</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.603572845459px;">Blackbird</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.603572845459px;"> singing</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.603572845459px;">3 Song Thrush singing</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.603572845459px;">2 Starling over N</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.603572845459px;">Dunnock</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">11 White Wagtail</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">4 Yellowhammer 1 singing</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Cirl</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"> Bunting singing</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">10 Chaffinch</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"> 1 singing</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">Goldfinch</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;">6+ Tree Sparrow</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><br /></span>GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-36459860306852913692015-03-19T10:51:00.002-07:002015-04-01T12:41:36.837-07:00WEDNESDAY 18th MARCH 2015<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10°C, wind light variable, cloudy with sunny intervals</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harrier in same field as previous male Hen Harrier in January, one to watch ? Showed strong streaking on underside with creamy/yellowish background. Inner half of underwing noticeably darker. Upper wing not uniform with various grey brown areas. . Some orangey tones noticed on upper tail feathers. Flushed Pheasants a few times and possibly the Heron and Egret off the near by river.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lapwings hanging about so worth a later visit to see if they are breeding.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latković, Kolubara</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>Hen Harrier female / juv</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>Sparrowhawk</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>Buzzard</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>5 Pheasant</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>Grey Heron</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>Great White Egret</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>2 <span style="color: blue;">Northern Lapwing</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>2 Magpie</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2519989013672px;"><b>2 Hooded Crow</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liplje - within a few hundred meters of home</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Middle Spotted Woodpecker <i><span style="color: #999999;">male</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Great Spotted Woodpecker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Jay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Wood Lark</span><span style="color: lime;"> </span><i><span style="color: #999999;">singing</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 Great tit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Blue tit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Marsh tit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Nuthatch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wren</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 Robin <i><span style="color: #999999;">singing</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7 Blackbird <i><span style="color: #999999;">1 singing</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 Song Thrush <span style="color: #999999;">s<i>inging</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dunnock</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 yellowhammer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cirl Bunting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14 Chaffinch<i><span style="color: #999999;"> 1 singing</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 Tree Sparrow</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17:55 -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 Fieldfare <i><span style="color: #999999;">over N</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span>GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-87800180528270637002015-03-14T15:49:00.001-07:002015-03-19T10:35:08.495-07:00SATURDAY 14th MARCH 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">3-6°C, wind light from SW, cloudy, pressure 1027hPa and rising</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">Fieldfares and starlings feeding on arable land with Greenfiches and Tree Sparrows near by.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">Blackbirds still feeding on last of the ivy berries. Seems to be an important winter food which by the cutting down of just s few of the ivy covered trees could have a significant effect on their winter survival numbers. The hawthorn does not seem to carry fruit into the winter as it does in Blighty nor are there any ornamentals for them to feed on such as pyracantha, holly, sorbus sp. ect.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">Probably my best flock of Greenfiches so far.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">Pheasants in seperate male and female groups.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">10 Pheasant <i><span style="color: #999999;">3 male & 7 female</span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">60 Starling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">25 Fieldfare</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">7 Blackbird </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>26 Greenfinch</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>Cirl bunting <i><span style="color: #999999;">male</span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>4 Chaffinch</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>30 Tree Sparrow</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>3 Goldfinch</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>22:10</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>5+ <span style="color: red;"> Common Crane </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>Flew over calling in two flocks of 3+ and 2 close to house, heading North.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>Fantastic evocative call all the more magical for echoing around our hilltop on a misty night ! </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><b>I attempted to mimic their call and possibly with some success especially with the first flock which appeared to get closer and linger a little. </b></span></span>GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-61102715610879786842015-03-08T00:58:00.000-08:002015-03-08T00:58:07.137-08:00SATURDAY 7th MARCH 2015Overcast, sleet, rain, cold<br />
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Liplje<br />
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15 Fieldfare over SE<br />
2 Mistle Thrush<br />
24 Great tit<br />
25 Tree Sparrow<br />
<br />GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-72273522182832139712015-03-06T01:25:00.002-08:002015-03-06T04:08:07.035-08:00FRIDAY 6th MARCH 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">0-3°C, wind N light, overcsst dull snowing and light covering, pressure 1027 hPa and falling</span><br />
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Liplje Sumadija Serbia<br />
Return of the snow this morning and the finches with it.<br />
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Sparrowhawk<br />
2 Grest potted Woodpecker<br />
2 Middle Spotted Woodpecker<br />
2 Nuthatch<br />
2 marsh tit<br />
20 Great tit<br />
2 Blue tit<br />
Robin<br />
8 Yellowhammer<br />
7 Chaffinch 3 female<br />
2 Tree Sparrow<br />
2 Cirl Bunting<br />
Goldfinch<br />
JayGEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-15575788507656015252015-03-03T22:15:00.000-08:002015-03-03T22:15:11.361-08:00WEDNESDAY 4th MARCH 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">0-12°C, wind S/SE 8-12 mph, mostly clear sunny, pressure 1025 hPa and falling</span><br />
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Liplje<br />
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New one for the Walnut list, Collard Dove this morning.<br />
Appeares we have a pair each of Great and Middle Spotted Woody's visiting regularly to feed on pig fat put out for them.GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-70157960418611247852015-03-01T22:10:00.001-08:002015-03-02T02:16:31.638-08:00MONDAY 2nd MARCH 2015<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">5-14</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">°C, wind light from SW, light cloud clearing, sunny, pressure 1014 hPa and falling</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Identified the "song" of the </span>Middle Spot<span style="color: #666666;"> today though believe I may of heard it last week and passed it off as one of the many Jay calls and of course it may have been mimicked by this clever corvid.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> Again heard the </span>Short-toed Treecreeper<span style="color: #666666;"> song and call but unable to identify which of the two Treecreepers it may have been. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">7 </span>Fieldfare<span style="color: #666666;"> over North yesterday.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Pleased to see pair of Tree Sparrows investigating my nest box along with 2 Great tits at the same box at Raspberry plantation.</span></span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Liplje at home 6:30 am</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Middle Spotted Woodpecker <i><span style="color: #999999;">male singing</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Great Spotted Woodpecker <i><span style="color: #999999;">female & male drumming</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Green Woodpecker <i><span style="color: #999999;">singing</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Fieldfare <span style="color: #999999;"><i>over N</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Song Thrush<span style="color: #999999;"><i> singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blackbird<span style="color: #999999;"><i> singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Great tit<span style="color: #999999;"><i> singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Cirl Bunting <span style="color: #999999;"><i>male & female</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yellowhammer <span style="color: #999999;"><i>singing</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">07:45 - 09:30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Circuit 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Green Woodpecker<span style="color: #999999;"> <i>singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Great Spotted Woodpecker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sparrowhawk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 Skylark <span style="color: #999999;"><i>over N</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">26 Fieldfare <span style="color: #999999;"><i>over E</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mistle Thrush</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">White Wagtail<span style="color: #999999;"><i> flyover</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 Great tit <span style="color: #999999;"><i>1 singing</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Blue tit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Long tailed tit agitated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wood pigeon display flight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Jay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jackdaw</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Feral pigeon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Collard Dove</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Robin singing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wren</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cirl Bunting male singing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yellowhammer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hawfinch female</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Brambling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chaffinch male singing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 Tree Sparrow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7 House Sparrow </span>GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-74720458576472332552015-02-23T23:30:00.000-08:002015-02-24T07:20:08.937-08:00TUESDAY 24th FEBRUARY 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">3-15°C, wind SE 7mph,light cloud sunny,pressure 1005hPa and falling</span><br />
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Liplje<br />
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Cirl Bunting <i><span style="color: #999999;">singing at graveyard</span></i><br />
Yellowhammer <i><span style="color: #999999;">singing at home</span></i><br />
2 Goshawk <i><span style="color: #999999;">females flying together</span></i>GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-34837996798418303762015-02-23T23:19:00.001-08:002015-02-23T23:19:48.359-08:00MONDAY 23rd FEBRUARY 2015Liplje <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px; max-height: 999999px;">Šumadija</span> Serbia<br />
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From home<br />
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Wood pigeon singing<br />
Song Thrush singing<br />
Sparrowhawk<br />
3 Buzzard territorial calling<br />
6 Fieldfare over N<br />
8 Yellowhammer<br />
20 Great tit<br />
5 Blue tit<br />
Marsh tit<br />
NuthatchGEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-39685435108967813482015-02-18T07:34:00.000-08:002015-02-19T13:14:41.431-08:00TUESDAY 17th FEBRUARY 2015Liplje<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6shbQNpiKfUjzLPU4cpIxqpMoILdKH1LV-UljF11fhTM53carpEFcmGFgTyUnDm9hDcpcfIIB-PjC59snmRrPOne4QDZsZqZ0ba9XpCaZI4IQnZ93A72ixERLkoOm59XN8xw7y0kep4/s1600/Bird+table+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6shbQNpiKfUjzLPU4cpIxqpMoILdKH1LV-UljF11fhTM53carpEFcmGFgTyUnDm9hDcpcfIIB-PjC59snmRrPOne4QDZsZqZ0ba9XpCaZI4IQnZ93A72ixERLkoOm59XN8xw7y0kep4/s1600/Bird+table+004.JPG" height="400" width="280" /></a>110 Mixed finch flock -<br />
70 Tree Sparrow<br />
30 Chaffinch<br />
8 Brambling<br />
2 Greenfinch<br />
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42 Fieldfare<br />
1 Starling<br />
2 Hawfinch<br />
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Home feeding station -<br />
2 Bullfinch females<br />
2 Middle Spotted Woodpecker<br />
Great Spotted Woodpecker <i><span style="color: #999999;">male drumming</span></i><br />
14 Great tit<br />
5 Blue tit<br />
Nuthatch<br />
13 Yellowhammer<br />
Chaffinch<br />
Tree Sparrow<br />
<br />GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-25218788842242619602015-02-13T10:11:00.003-08:002015-02-15T09:27:28.767-08:00FRIDAY 13th FEBRUARY 2015<span style="color: #999999;">-3 - 8 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">°C, wind N/NE 3-9kph, clear sunny, pressure 1027hPa and falling</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;">Hawfinch came down to the apple tree to have a look at the feeding station but was not persuaded<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Sparrowhawk becoming a regular visitor at the feeding station for obvious reason<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s. May exp<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lain <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">disappearance</span> of <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one of the</span> Tree Sparrows ?</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blackbirds still feeding on Ivy berries. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.4666996002197px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First signs of Spring with <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hellebore, pr<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">imrose<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, speedwell and dandelion i</span></span></span>n flower. </span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Tawny Owl <span style="color: #999999;"><i>heard at dusk</i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Great Spotted Woodpecker <span style="color: #999999;"><i>2 f'male + male</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Middle Spotted Woodpecker</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 Blackbird </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15 Great Tit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 Blue Tit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marsh Tit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cirl Bunting <span style="color: #999999;"><i>male</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Chaffinch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 Yellowhammer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hawfinch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 Tree Sparrow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Goldcrest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Buzzard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sparrowhawk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Jay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Raven </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hooded Crow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jackdaw</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 Roe Deer<span style="color: #999999;"><i> 1 Stag</i></span></span><br />
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<br />GEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069495707167594995.post-7757261312144767632015-01-31T12:31:00.002-08:002015-02-10T23:56:44.112-08:00SATURDAY 31st JANUARY 2015Liplje - to Ljubinkas and back<br />
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Good views of the Treecreeper showing buff lower belly/rump and calling.<br />
Sparrowhawk was a garden tick perching very close to our bird table.<br />
The Tawny was sat on our electricity pole above the bird table no doubt attracted by the mice feeding on the grain below it.<br />
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Tawny Owl<br />
2 Goldcrest<br />
Short-toed Treecreeper<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7bx7VeWbWVjPinxTWOcN6w58xSqO6MqOaNUkD_36h4uRGkMVvRj9IWmv-F6GAsN8dpZCtwNKgBRtEX2hJNJOIMCz2LL3wGGG9LLHhk3ex1KUg3At8z5MDbvR8k2kKyamfX1NGbM0pTy4/s1600/Brambling+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7bx7VeWbWVjPinxTWOcN6w58xSqO6MqOaNUkD_36h4uRGkMVvRj9IWmv-F6GAsN8dpZCtwNKgBRtEX2hJNJOIMCz2LL3wGGG9LLHhk3ex1KUg3At8z5MDbvR8k2kKyamfX1NGbM0pTy4/s1600/Brambling+011.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></a>M.S. woodpecker<br />
G. s. Woodpecker<br />
3 Nuthatch<br />
Goldfinch<br />
6 Jay<br />
80 Hooded crow<br />
Buzzard<br />
Sparrowhawk male<br />
Blackbird<br />
12 Great tit<br />
4 Blue tit<br />
3 Marsh tit<br />
2 Brambling<br />
2 Chaffinch<br />
15 Yellowhammer<br />
4 Tree SparrowGEOFF LAIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07477763832878267464noreply@blogger.com0