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Irlam Moss

8 Grey Partridge...4 Pair

12 Pheasant

7 Skylark in song

7 Stock Dove

1 Yellowhammer

160 Fieldfare

650 Starling

9 Lapwing

1 Curlew

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Willow Warbler in song...in same area as past two years as first for summer for me...(2023 = 29th....2022 = 24th (my earliest ever on the Moss)

3 Chiffchaff

1 Black Grouse

12 Meadow Pipit

6 Snipe

1 Redshank---Displaying

1 Curlew....Displaying

1 Merlin....Female @ 1206

Little Woolden Moss

24 Lapwing...5 nests 12 Skylark

1 Wheatear.



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Little Woolden Moss NR - am

1 Shelduck - male
4 Gadwall - 2 pairs
2 Teal - pair
3 Curlew - pair + 1 - including display flight
2 Redshank
2 Marsh Harrier
1 Wheatear - male
2 Grey Partridge - pair
1 Willow Warbler singing
3 Chiffchaff singing


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Irlam Moss

200 Starling

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Oystercatcher...Mating

13 Lapwing

13 Meadow Pipit

5 Reed Bunting

2 Redshank

1 Sparrowhawk...Chased by Carrion Crows

1 Marsh Harrier

7 Curlew...Flock which moved off North @ 1258

1 Curlew in display

Little Woolden Moss

34 Lapwing...5 sat on nests...1 pair mating

1 Wheatear

Chat Moss

19 Stock Dove

13 Lapwing

6 Skylark



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White Stork high circling in a south east direction 

Approx 11.30 viewed to East of Astley Road close to twelve yards road. 



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Irlam Moss

42 Meadow Pipit

17 Skylark...12 in song

7 Snipe

1 Yellowhammer

2 Grey Partridge

Cadishead Moss

1 Buzzard

2 Lapwing when there used to be at least 20...Good Old Winter Cereal Sowing---its ability to eradicate Lapwing Breeding knows no bounds....

240 Starling

8 Herring Gull

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

18 Black-Headed Gull

1 Oystercatcher

2 Chiffchaff in song

5 Herring Gull

3 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss

2 Lapwing on nests

 



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Wednesday 27th March 2024.

Walk from New Moss Wood Cadishead - Little Woolden Moss NR - Little Woolden Moss - along River Glaze - and return.
Sightings included:

Marsh Harrier (2)
Buzzard (2)
Wheatear (4) in ploughed field just north of Little Woolden Moss NR
Goosander (2)
Grey Heron (1)
Fieldfare (12)
Skylark (3)
Grey Wagtail (1)
Pied Wagtail (1)
Chiffchaff (2)
Gadwall (2)
Lapwing (20)
Oystercatcher (2)
Black-Headed Gull (25)

-- Edited by Steve Judge on Wednesday 27th of March 2024 09:30:21 PM

-- Edited by Steve Judge on Thursday 28th of March 2024 07:05:00 AM

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Chat Moss

2 Shoveler...Pair

9 Chiffchaff in song

9 Teal

1 Marsh Harrier flushed off juncus...only item of note where it had been was a few 'clumps' of Frogspawn

1 Little Grebe...Trilling

2 Buzzard

1 Peregrine...Male

12 Lapwing...1 sat on nest

18 Skylark....6 in song

210 Stock Dove

14 Linnet

4 Snipe

2 Curlew...1 in display

2 Kestrel

Irlam Moss

2 Oystercatcher

18 Stock Dove

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss NR - am

1 Willow Warbler singing
6 Chiffchaff singing
2 Mediterranean Gulls - pair over in full breeding plumage noisily calling to each other.
5 Sand Martin over
2 Marsh Harrier - females - constantly harassed by crows.
1 Redshank
2 Curlew
20+ Lapwing
2 Gadwall - pair
2 Teal - pair
4 Reed Bunting singing
4 Redwing over

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Two swallows on the telephone wires by the Landscape company on Astley Road at 2:40pm.

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Irlam Moss

19 Black-Headed Gull

17 Fieldfare

45 Starling

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Sand Martin

102 Black-Headed Gull

1 Redshank

31 Lapwing

Barton Moss

400 Woodpigeon

140 Linnet

28 Stock Dove

11 Skylark

90 Starling

3 Chiffchaff

1 Nuthatch

2 Bullfinch

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

13 Meadow Pipit...7 in Display Flight

2 Redshank

24 Lapwing...2 in Display

2 Chiffchaff in song

1 Curlew in display

Cadishead Moss

38 Black-Headed Gull

2 Herring Gull

1 Yellowhammer in song

2 Curlew...1 in Display

2 Oystercatcher

6 Fieldfare

Little Woolden Moss

1 Snipe

34 Lapwing

1 Mediterranean Gull Flying North @ 1108

17 Skylark

1 Wheatear

Irlam Moss

1 Yellowhammer in song.

18 Linnet



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Little Woolden Moss NR - am

1 Sand Martin
1 Marsh Harrier - female
1 Redshank
2 Oystercatcher

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Chat Moss

1 Curlew...in display

5 Skylark in song

1 Grey Partridge

1 Marsh Harrier

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

52 Lapwing

1 Redshank

1 Curlew in display

2 Oystercatcher

Little Woolden Moss

2 Lapwing Nests

45 Lapwing

1 Wheatear chased off by a Skylark 

6 Skylark

22 Linnet



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Chat Moss late am

2 White Wagtails with 3 Pied Wagtails
1 Wigeon - male
2 Tufted Duck - pair
1 Marsh Harrier - female trying to catch a Mallard but gave up.
1 Sparrowhawk

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Highlights from the mosses this afternoon:

Little Woolden Moss NR:
1 Black Grouse - male briefly sat on a bund wall
1 Marsh Harrier - female
2 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
2 Chiffchaff

Chat and Irlam Mosses:
2 Little Grebe - pair
2 Tufted Duck - pair
9 Teal - some displaying
1 Water Rail heard
2 Lesser Redpoll
3 Yellowhammer
2 Grey Partridge

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Irlam Moss

450 Linnet

60 Fieldfare

1 Nuthatch

1 Treecreeper

1 Peregrine...Male @ 1000

5 Lapwing

Chat Moss

1100 Woodpigeon

11 Chaffinch

3 Fieldfare 

4 Lapwing in display

4 Greylag Geese

5 Snipe

1 Chiffchaff in song

3 Reed Bunting

9 Buzzard in sky at same time

Barton Moss

14 Lapwing...4 in Display

11 Skylark

220 Jackdaw

110 Carrion Crow

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Curlew in display

 

 



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Late post for yesterday

Little Woolden Moss NR:

10 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
3 Marsh Harrier
1 Grey Partridge
Good numbers of Lapwing - many displaying
Numerous Meadow Pipit in display flight

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Irlam Moss

130 Starling

2 Oystercatcher

1 Nuthatch

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

38 Lapwing

2 Redshank

110 Black-Headed Gull

8 Meadow Pipit

2 Oystercatcher

1 Chiffchaff in song

Little Woolden Moss

66 Lapwing

1 Lapwing nest...I believe this is the earliest Lapwing Nest I've noted on the Moss

22 Skylark

4 Grey Partridge...2 Pair

250 Fieldfare

85 Linnet

300 Starling

2 Oystercatcher

28 Chaffinch

2 Tree Sparrow

Chat Moss

12 Lapwing

190 Linnet

 

 



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Chat Moss

2 Yellowhammer

5 Redwing

3 Chiffchaff in song

3 Skylark in song

5 Buzzard

9 Mallard

1 Marsh Harrier Attacked by a Carrion Crow @ 1300

2 Tufted Duck...pair

1 Little Grebe...Trilling

2 Lesser Redpoll

10 Lapwing in display

12 Stock Dove

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

11 Meadow Pipit

4 Snipe

7 Reed Bunting

2 Curlew...in Display

10 Pied Wagtail

3 Redshank

1 Yellowhammer

1 Marsh Harrier @ 1137

2 Teal

3 Oystercatcher

Little Woolden Moss

200 Fieldfare

Irlam Moss

450 Starling

2 Lapwing in display

1 Buzzard

 



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150324...brief am visit

Irlam Moss

1 Buzzard

7 Skylark in song

5 Yellowhammer

31 Lapwing

90 Starling

12 Magpie

1 Chiffchaff in song

Chat Moss

8 Lapwing in display

10 Stock Dove

 

 

 

 

 



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This morning/early afternoon with Pete Hines

Chat Moss

5 x Buzzard, 2 x Rook, at least 8 x singing Chiffchaff,  2 x Curlew, 2 x large flocks of Linnet with c350 birds 2 x Marsh Harrier, 26 x Lesser Redpoll, 1 x Little Grebe (heard), 2 x Grey Partridge, 1 x Stonechat 

Astley Moss

2 x Red Legged Partridge



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Astley Moss Winter Bird Count 3/3 for LWT

300 Redwing...most in song an absolute joy sharing this moment that was surely their celebratory/courage building cusp of returning to their distant Scandinavian forest homes...

90 Chaffinch....were these too Scandinavian birds ready to return home? 

1 Chiffchaff...in song

1 Willow Tit...in song

3 Song Thrush...2 in song

17 Robin in song

11 Wren in song

5 Reed Bunting in song

28 Teal

1 Yellowhammer in song

8 Meadow Pipit...5 in display flight

4 Stock Dove

1 Buzzard

1 Woodcock...the only Woodcock Nest I ever found was in this area back in the eighties sadly these birds no longer breed here ...thus I strongly suspect this bird is too a Scandinavian visitor soon to return home

6 Lapwing....5 in display 

 

 



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Little Woolden Moss this afternoon

1x male Marsh Harrier, 9x Curlew flying into reserve late afternoon, 1x Shoveler



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Cadishead Moss

320 Fieldfare

800 Starling

2 Oystercatcher

4 Grey Partridge

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

11 Meadow Pipit

4 Redshank...2 Pair

4 Oystercatcher...2 Pair

6 Snipe

17 Lapwing

5 Reed Bunting

1 Common Gull.



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Irlam Moss

1 Yellowhammer

1 Song Thrush in song

5 Snipe

13 Skylark

36 Meadow Pipit

4 Grey Partridge...2 Pair

180 Starling

2 Oystercatcher

150 Black-Headed Gull

Cadishead Moss 

12 Lapwing in display

2 Herring Gull

 

 



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Chat and Irlam Mosses this morning

4 Chiffchaff singing
2 Little Grebe - pair
5 Buzzard - one carrying nesting material
4 Yellowhammer singing
c150 Linnet
2 Tufted Duck - pair

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New Moss Wood

11 Pheasant

14 Siskin

18 Robin

1 Mistle Thrush in song

17 Wren

11 Blackbird

2 Jay

9 Dunnock

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker---Drumming

30 Redwing ...several in song

1 Buzzard

4 Song Thrush

Cadishead Moss

1 Raven flying South @ 1107

1 Grey Partridge

70 Black-Headed Gull

Irlam Moss

2 Oystercatcher

2 Lapwing in display

2 Pink-Footed Gee

 

 



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Irlam Moss

42 Starling

4 Oystercatcher

44 Lapwing...several in Display

16 Skylark

11 Reed Bunting

5 Yellowhammer

7 Corn Bunting

300 Woodpigeon

50 Stock Dove

26 Chaffinch

....and a field now 'full' of plastic after 'green waste' had been liberally spread upon it!!!

Chat Moss

120 Stock Dove.

 

 



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Chat Moss

14 Lapwing in display

240 Stock Dove

3 Redwing

Irlam Moss

2 Oystercatcher

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Marsh Harrier

 



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Chat Moss

13 Skylark ...6 in song

2 Grey Partridge

1 Marsh Harrier

19 Chaffinch

150 Stock Dove

1 Curlew

2 Snipe

22 Redwing...some in song

12 Lapwing

75 Fieldfare

2 Rook

1 Kestrel

Little Woolden Moss

66 Lapwing

 

 



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Astley Moss 11/03/24 Highlights..

2 Willow Tit

1 Male Sparrowhawk 

2 Buzzard

2 kestrel

1 Great spotted Woodpecker

c50 Chaffinch 

12 Redwing over west

3 Song Thrush in song

7 Robin in song

9 Long tailed Tit

1 Goldcrest

6 Blackbird...1 in song

1 Woodcock

Lapwing pair displaying

1 Greenfinch wheezing 

Also a numerous unnatural number of captive bred Pheasants obviously  meant for shooting purposes.



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

1 Redshank

3 Snipe

2 Oystercatcher

70 Fieldfare

Little Woolden Moss west Plus the Glaze

16 Teal

130 Fieldfare

180 Black-Headed Gull following the Plough

1 Common Gull

10 Lesser Black-Backed Gull

2 Herring Gull

19 Chaffinch

4 House Sparrow where up to very recently there were and have been for years there were always 20-30 plus....Puzzling this rapid decline in numbers...

 



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Irlam Moss

2 Grey Partridge 

1 Song Thrush in song

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

15 Reed Bunting...Several in song

2 Lesser Redpoll

3 Snipe

9 Meadow Pipit...2 in Display Song

1 Curlew

2 Oystercatcher

1 Redshank

1 Marsh Harrier

2 Buzzard

 



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Chat Moss

3 Lapwing in Display

1 Curlew

18 Redwing...some in song

7 Reed Bunting

3 Yellowhammer

1 Little Egret

2 Tufted Duck...Pair

16 Stock Dove

Barton Moss

52 Lapwing

45 Starling

11 Stock Dove.

 



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Little Woolden Moss NR

12 Curlew
3 Oystercatcher
3 Marsh Harrier
1 Stonechat
120+ Fieldfare
4 Redwing

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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

12 Meadow Pipit ...some in Display Flight

9 Reed Bunting

15 Mallard

3 Lesser Redpoll

1 Redshank

3 Oystercatcher

7 Snipe

1 Curlew

1 Marsh Harrier 

Little Woolden Moss

15 Lapwing several in display



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Irlam Moss

300 Linnet

4 Lapwing in display

2 Buzzard in display

Chat Moss

50 Linnet

2 Woodcock

35 Redwing

2 Grey Partridge

1 Tree Sparrow

2 Meadow Pipit in Display Flight

1 Buzzard attacked by Corvids...

1 Song Thrush in song

Barton Moss

82 Lapwing

80 Linnet

40 Stock Dove

 



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Irlam Moss

120 Fieldfare

300 Starling

Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier

3 Lesser Redpoll

6 Snipe

3 Teal

2 Pink-Footed Geese

2 Great Black-Backed Gull

750 Linnet

130 Fieldfare

Barton Moss

900 Woodpigeon

250 Jackdaw

58 Lapwing

90 Stock Dove

 



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Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

4 Pink-Footed Geese

1 Curlew

2 Snipe

Little Woolden Moss

125 Lapwing

7 Grey Partridge

1 Sparrowhawk....Female

350 Linnet

32 Skylark

 

 



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Some highlights from the mosses today

Chat Moss:
2 Tufted Duck - pair
1 Little Egret
4 Buzzard
c80 Linnet
5 Grey Heron
3 Herring Gull

Little Woolden Moss NR:
7 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
3 Marsh Harrier
1 Woodcock
c60 Lapwing
2 Stonechat - m & f


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Irlam Moss

160 Pink-Footed Geese...Flying West @ 0925

1 Oystercatcher...Flying Over

6 Skylark in Song

5 Lapwing in Display

1 Yellowhammer

Chat Moss

12 Lapwing in Display Flight

75 Stock Dove

2 Yellowhammer

18 Lesser Redpoll

2 Redwing

2 Tufted Duck



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Chat Moss 9-11:45

Single Corn Bunting, 3 Yellowhammer, female Marsh Harrier, 20+Lapwing, 15 Reed Bunting, 10+Linnet, Meadow Pipit, 14 Fieldfare, 1+ Common Buzzard, 30 Stock Dove were the highlights.



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Late post for 28th Feb:

Flock of c200 Chaffinch on Barton Moss

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Some highlights from today:

Little Woolden Moss NR:
12 Curlew - feeding flock - new high mossland count for me
3 Oystercatcher
1 Woodcock
1 Snipe
1 Moorhen

Chat and Irlam Mosses:
60+ Lesser Redpoll - feeding flock
1 Little Egret
5 Shoveler
1 Marsh Harrier - female
2 Buzzard
2 Goldcrest
6 Canada Geese - 3 pairs
8 Lapwing - 3 displaying
1 Grey Partridge
1 Cormorant
35 Pink-footed Geese over west


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Irlam Moss

35 Fieldfare

10 House Sparrow

1 Buzzard

4 Song Thrush...2 in song

1 Whooper Swan flying east @ 1000

10 Skylark...8 in song

2 Grey Partridge

4 Yellowhammer

6 Pink-Footed Geese Flying North @ 1028

27 Reed Bunting

2 Snipe

Chat Moss

16 Fieldfare

42 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West @ 0842

1 Great Black-Backed Gull Flying North

45 Redwing...some in song

1 Song Thrush...in song

14 Chaffinch

230 Stock Dove

4 Grey Partridge

24 Skylark....6 in song

11 Reed Bunting

1 Lesser Redpoll

54 Lapwing

50 Starling

Little Woolden Moss

9 Lapwing

3 Grey Partridge

26 Pink-Footed Geese flying West @ 1230

 



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Little Woolden Moss NR - quick early evening visit

9 Curlew flew in as a flock - my highest mossland count
1 Merlin - male hunting
1 Marsh Harrier - female
1 Tawny Owl
60+ Pink-footed Geese over west
15 Lapwing
2 Oystercatcher
1 Woodcock
1 Snipe

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Chat Moss

1 Marsh Harrier

16 Lapwing

90 Stock Dove

70 Linnet

Little Woolden Moss LWTNR

2 Golden Plover flying over...1 @ 0900...very High 1 @ 0915....which came in lower in response to my return whistle....checked me out a couple of times then dashed off south...

12 Lapwing

4 Reed Bunting in song

2 Oystercatcher

165 Pink-Footed Geese Flying West @ 1018

1 Marsh Harrier hunting @ 1050....flew SW @ 1100...assume on its way to Woolston Eyes...

42 Lesser Redpoll

Little Woolden Moss

16 Lapwing in Display...sadly their once spring sown crop field is these days Silage which has achieved the dubious success of destroying a large breeding population of Lapwing over recent years...and I suspect that this 12 will be reduced once they encounter the too tall to nest in 'grass'...hmm I wonder why Lapwings are in such decline....!!!!

175 Fieldfare

9 Skylark

350 Starling

Cadishead Moss

23 Fieldfare

1 Sparrowhawk....female

 

 

 



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Irlam Moss

210 Fieldfare

3 Song Thrush...1 in song

43 Meadow Pipit

6 Snipe

3 Grey Partridge

120 Starling

2 Stonechat...Pair

Chat Moss

800 Pink-Footed Geese

40 Linnet

13 Fieldfare

4 Skylark in song

11 Reed Bunting

150 Stock Dove

1 Marsh Harrier....Female

95 Pink-Footed Geese Flying North @ 1215

 

 



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Barton Moss

55 Skylark

65 Redwing several in song

3 Lapwing in display

19 Chaffinch

2 Goldcrest...1 in song

14 Rook

135 Linnet

4 Snipe

18 Reed Bunting

1 Mistle Thrush in song

2 Willow Tit

3 Yellowhammer

350 Jackdaw

Irlam Moss

200 Linnet

750 Woodpigeon

15 Chaffinch

6 Lapwing...in Display

Chat Moss

610 Pink-Footed Geese...most taking their ease

7 Skylark in song

2 Oystercatcher

10 Lapwing

25 Linnet

1 Barnacle Goose...dozing

1 Merlin...Hunting

 

 

 



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A couple of images of the Barnacle Goose in F52 from yesterday, Sunday 25th

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