stephen cartwright

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Goathill and milborne port stw this morning buzzard,red kite,sparrowhawk,green woodpecker and cetti's warbler

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Hundreds of house Martin over sherborne on Wednesday, blackcap ,garden warbler at stw,2 peregrine on abbey.

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Whinchat purse caundle this morning first local 1 for many years ,garden warbler passed through my garden yesterday late afternoon.

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Holwell drove is alive with insects and butterflies including at least 50 clouded yellow including a pale form

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Willow warbler and wheatear on return passage in fields on northern edge of milborne port

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Garden warbler passed through my garden today,song thrush eating elderberry,plenty of young blue and great tit's ,house Martins still buzzing about but swifts all seem to have departed.clouded yellow,painted lady and hummingbird hawkmoths everywhere .

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Pale clouded yellow around the garden of the green man at kings stag this afternoon a first for me

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Last weekend there were approximately 30 swifts at charlton horethorne and 60 around sherborne Abbey, today about 20 clouded yellow butterflies in field beyond southern end of Sutton bingham reservoir.

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Small blue in garden of the kings head charlton horethorne today around 1pm .

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3 red kite and 2 buzzards over house yesterday around 7pm ,2 hummingbird hawkmoth and painted ladies have been regular on lavender ,lots of baby blue tit's using the birdbath and 2 blackbirds fledged yesterday exactly the same day as last year.

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Small blue in my garden milborne port can't quite believe it

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Another singing firecrest this one in south street milborne port I struggled for firecrest when I first started birding back in the day now they seem reasonably easy to get

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Lesser whitethroat and garden warblers singing away at lydlinch today but alarmingly no willow warblers or nightingales possibly another site has lost a great bird we should be worried but does anybody really care ?

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House Martins today at beer hackett

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Garden warbler and willow warbler singing in milborne port and at least 5 red kites due to grass cutting in fields near rail bridge .

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Willow warbler,whitethroat,reed bunting ,common sandpiper today around local patches and amazed to see a redwing in corscombe

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@philcheeseman4 @cranky1456 Thankyou I glanced them from a distance and stupidly assumed little egret,I was surprised how close they were to main path with people about my experience of egrets is that they usually fly off if people close by ,I also saw 1 Godwit but too far away to identify

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@cranky1456 @philcheeseman4 Hi phil do you no if there was a small flock of cattle egrets at lodmoor late afternoon yesterday

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Singing firecrest today half way along north road sherborne in fir trees and Holm oak plus 1 singing at sherborne stw.

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@01000011S hi mate think I found the right place in Wiltshire yesterday but no luck with sightings apart from kites,buzzards,hares and deer,skylarks,linnets.