Dave Corfield 🇺🇦

Amateur wildlife photographer, interested & fascinated by nature and everything wild, love to travel, RSPB Volunteer

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@MarkSmiles5 @RSPBMiddleton @Staffsbirdnews Pintail and Wigeon drakes still present too

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@groughgruff @RSPBMiddleton @Staffs_Birds @MercianBirding Certainly looks good for wood Sand👍

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@MarkSmiles5 @RSPBMiddleton Big flock of geese came in but only greylags and canadas yellowhammer along canal hedge

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@MarkSmiles5 @RSPBMiddleton @Staffsbirdnews Where were the Yellowhammers please Mark?

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@LeeEvansBirding @prrockmom 😲

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@prrockmom Cute indeed but look as if they need a snowy background

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@PMinshull Here’s a really scruffy photo of them both - you might need to enlarge it a bit. Anyway where were you 😎

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There. Are two Marsh harriers now

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@groughgruff I found a Czech Republic site where they used yellow nose tags and have sent them this photo I will let you know what happens

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Female Marsh Harrirr showing well now on Notth Pit @RSPBMiddleton with Kestrel 5Egyptisn Geese and GWE

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Cool and calm morning @RSPBMiddleton Blackwit and Redshank by the 2 benches several Water Rail 20Redwing 12Skylarks over 4Mipit 10Siskin 6Redpoll 3GWE 2Stonechat

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@MarkSmiles5 @RSPBMiddleton @Staffsbirdnews Welcome back Mark, glad to see you are all in one piece this time and that your ability to find the birds is not diminished. 👍

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@DaveHobbyHutton But you can have too much of a good thing - from last night

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@groughgruff @RSPBMiddleton Also had Marsh Harrier from north pit plus Kestrel there too. Yellow Wagtail flew over whilst watching the Sanderling

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A warm and initially sunny morning @RSPBMiddleton brought a Sanderling onto West scrape but chased by a juvenile Sparrowhawk only other wader of note a single Green Sand . That’s so far only half way round

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WOOHOO it’s Big Blue at last in my garden @BCWarwickshire

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Wild windy warm morning at @RSPBMiddleton Ruff Blackwit 2LRP 2Green Sand Peregrine 2Sparrowhawk 2Goosander(canal pool!) Garganey Pochard(f) 8Wigeon 2GWE and a Hobby chasing hirundines of which there were hundreds

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@RSPBMiddleton Please note it starts at 9 am until 10 am dependant upon the number of moths.

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@atkinson_steve 😩

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@atkinson_steve @RSPBMiddleton @Staffsbirdnews And the two Ruff
I also saw 2 Sparrowhawks