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Started writing our #SpotFly report
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I’m amazed to learn about a “Sustainability Threshold”
ie, every pair needs to fledge 3 young a year (yes, per year, not per brood) 😳
Some are thriving up here, fledging 9 from 2 broods 😊
#spotfly26
Goldfinch the best of this week's walking-to-work birding. Always a few around but 50+ is unusual, on Woodhouse Moor.
Lots of effort looking for more unusual migrants collected data that they weren't any! #spotfly
28spp for the week.
#patchbirding #BirdTrack #Leeds
#SpotFly Memories
A pair at each gable end 1979 & 2 pairs in this barn into 1990’s
We found birds breeding in similar proximity but Way Out West in Weardale where the air is pure & tree rats are few. @Woolie_woo @tonymcguire1966 @BirderSouth
⚫️🪰
2022 #SpotFly
Final Total with @Woolie_woo
=67 nests with
breeding pairs on territory in 45 Tetrads for 8 Weardale / Derwentside Hectads covered.
(The 3years of Atlas Fieldwork undertaken 30 years ago, came up with 51 occupied tetrads.)
@HypeMusicAfric "Namae Oshiete'by #KingandPrince .It's Recording Ducumentary in LA Digest!
#Spotfly #NamaeOshiete 🇯🇵
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Johns nest here was the first egg recorded in Durham, but working back from our 1st 2 fledged families on 16/6 those pairs will have got straight down to business & been on full clutches the week before, ie Mid May. #NRS2022 #SpotFly ⚫️🦉 @Woolie_woo
Spotted flycatcher has started co Durham @SpotyFlycatcher
2022 #SpotFly
Final Total with @Woolie_woo
=67 nests with
breeding pairs on territory in 45 Tetrads for 8 Weardale / Derwentside Hectads covered.
(The 3years of Atlas Fieldwork undertaken 30 years ago, came up with 51 occupied tetrads.)
Well that appears to be it...
This weeks visits were our first without an active #SpotFly nest since late May 😢😄
We have of course confirmed further successful breeding in new Tetrads.
*Best 1km square we worked held 18 breeding pairs. ⚫️🪰 @SpotyFlycatcher
Well that appears to be it...
This weeks visits were our first without an active #SpotFly nest since late May 😢😄
We have of course confirmed further successful breeding in new Tetrads.
*Best 1km square we worked held 18 breeding pairs. ⚫️🪰 @SpotyFlycatcher
Pugnacious ⚫️🪰
We watched a pair with young in the nest chase off a Jackdaw, glued to its tail for 100metres ! #SpotFly
Great Spotted Woodpecker encroached on Flycatcher territory, lasted less than a minute it was seen off
Spot of rain to end our evening Spotty watch ⚫️🪰
Stair rods on A68, dry by Durham, damp & mizzle at home.
At least a dozen #SpotFly watched tonight @stevenwebb2009
Worked up some #SpotFly data.
Our most productive 1km square in Weardale had 14 breeding pairs but some sections not fully covered.
(20pr/Tetrad in 1980’s Teesdale is the Max pop fig I can find for VC66).
Does anyone have any other examples? @SpotyFlycatcher
@tonymcguire1966 @Woolie_woo @bomberburnside @stevenwebb2009 @johnolley1963 @BirderSouth @DurhamBirdClub @PaulAndersonDBC Dodgy Bird Club mentioning #SpotFly for 2023 in the July'22 Lek magazine...
Looking at the plight of their half arsed Scribbly survey i wouldnt hold out much hope of anything of any real meaning to come from it.
Im going big on Woodcock next year
Provisional indication of #SpotFly breeding Tetrads (2kmX2km squares) for our 2022 fieldwork.
Random coverage of xSix 10K squares in Weardale & Derwentside.
(dbc Atlas Map 1990’s fieldwork)
Thanks to @Woolie_woo @bomberburnside @stevenwebb2009 @johnolley1963 @BirderSouth et al
We’ve been amazed at how pairs choose such different nests site types for consecutive clutches. Their first successful nest was in a skinny ivy clad tree overhanging water. (centre of pic). #NRS #SpotFly
Love watching this nest… the adults are in and out non stop 🥰@_BTO @tonymcguire1966 @BirderSouth @ScarecrowNeste1
Parent jumps on the back of one juvenile in order to feed its sibling 🤔 then changes position to feed it again...
This seems an odd action for such an acrobatic bird...🤔
Still feeding them 21:20 almost dark. #SpotFly @Woolie_woo @tonymcguire1966 @BirderSouth @Tonygibson41
Friday is our @Woolie_woo weekly date with the ⚫️🪰’s.
Several new nests today, eggs, chicks & fresh fledglings.
Couple of Tawnies about too.🦉 @DurhamBirdClub @NorthPennAONB #Weardale #NRS #SpotFly
The Spotlight birds are just about ready to go.
@SpotyFlycatcher @Woolie_woo @tonymcguire1966 @BirderSouth @DurhamBirdClub #NRS #SpotFly
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