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Just thought I'd let y'all know what I've managed to glimpse from the goings on up here in the Brecon Beacons in the last Week.
In no particular order.
Watched a few pairs of Curlews displaying together, flying around, being noisey and with the odd display acrobatics......though nowth like I used to watch just north or Otley on hte moors in Yorkshire.
Canada geese have been coming and going from the reservoir, though they are getting a bit noisey too, morning time they belch out calls trying to attract other lost individuals....and today they actually managed to gain a solitary greylag.
Blue tits are starting to build there nests. Long Tailed are paired up and willow and marsh tits are at their most conspicuous, even visiting the feeding station.
Siskins have mated , greenfinches have paired up and goldfinches have arrived back paired too. Redpolls and linnets about.
Little grebes and tufted ducks feeing together, cormorants trying desperatley to fly at 500' with little success and a lot of effort!!!lol. Herons beginning to feed higher up the streams and Bitterns making the odd boom.
Red Kites are well and truely paired, spending a lot of the day flying about with each other. Goshawks still hunting on their own........or perhaps looking for mates, as are the Peregrines. Merlins are keeping a low profile atm, only see them once or twice a day atm.
Owls are still a bit noisey, at times.
Ravens are quite croaky too and are feeding on short grass areas.
Great Spotted Woodpeckers seem to have an adgenda all of their own. While they spend a lot of their time inclose proximity to each other, they all seem to be solitary atm....IYKWIM.....two weeks a go I did watch 5 of them spend time what I guess was trying to mate...but I could be wrong!
Thrushes and blackbirds have deserted the garden mostley and are to be found individually over a wide area.
Dippers........they must be one of the most loving birds about.....till death do us part!!! etc
.....and as ever are always together, and have mated.
White wagatails are mostly feeding singularly, whilst the groups of tits still go on. The goldcrests are also hanging about and the lesser spotted woodpecker is sometimes in their groups. the numbers in the groups are less atm. The long tailed tits seem to be feeding from stuff under old grass.
........Much more but time is pressing, just to add the ABC's have shown themselves in the last 2 weeks too
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