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Spotted Flycatchers - a total surprise
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11 Jul 2018 18:41 #917
by Chris Grimshaw
Spotted Flycatchers - a total surprise was created by Chris Grimshaw
I tried posting this by yesterday by Twitter but for some reason it didn't work as has been the case for a few weeks now. Any ideas why Colin?
Anyway about 14:00 i noted a spotted flycatcher in the garden as we were about to go out. I cursed myself for not photographing the bird but it was still about when we got home a couple of hours later. About 18:00 I then found 2 juvenile birds sat on a branch just over the fence waiting to be fed by the adult. There may just have been two adults but suspect not. The juveniles were well developed. This morning all three birds were still about roughly in the same position. The juvenile birds were flying very short distances.By the time Andrew "Jonah" Vaughan arrived the birds had moved some yards further down Birchwood Avenue and haven't now been seen since about 13:00. These were a first for my garden and I am not sure I have even seen one in Lincoln before. For a while yesterday evening I wondered if they had bred in the garden scrub over the fence but discounted that theory once I saw the juveniles flying
Anyway about 14:00 i noted a spotted flycatcher in the garden as we were about to go out. I cursed myself for not photographing the bird but it was still about when we got home a couple of hours later. About 18:00 I then found 2 juvenile birds sat on a branch just over the fence waiting to be fed by the adult. There may just have been two adults but suspect not. The juveniles were well developed. This morning all three birds were still about roughly in the same position. The juvenile birds were flying very short distances.By the time Andrew "Jonah" Vaughan arrived the birds had moved some yards further down Birchwood Avenue and haven't now been seen since about 13:00. These were a first for my garden and I am not sure I have even seen one in Lincoln before. For a while yesterday evening I wondered if they had bred in the garden scrub over the fence but discounted that theory once I saw the juveniles flying
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