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Offline Linda

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Re: Local Wildlife
« Reply #885 on: September 30, 2013, 11:03:50 pm »
Buzzard,Im sure as we have quite a few around where i live and i have had a couple of visits from young ones braving the trees in the garden.They catch sparrows with such speed, amazing wingspan.

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« Reply #886 on: October 01, 2013, 11:20:46 am »
Having had a closer look I am not convinced and of it being one or the other!  A closer shot would be the only way to tell definitely.  I think it could be a Honey-Buzzard or a Golden Eagle.
 
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« Reply #887 on: October 01, 2013, 10:17:31 pm »
According to Tellytubby who is a good authority on birds, it is definitely a Buzzard.

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« Reply #888 on: October 02, 2013, 08:27:03 am »
A Buzzard it is then. It was a very impressive sight seeing it soaring effortlessly above the mountains.  $good$

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« Reply #889 on: October 02, 2013, 11:12:29 am »
They are getting more common but are a very impressive sight with a wingspan of 43 to 54 inches.      When we were walking around Dorathea Quarry a Buzzard kept soaring above us and Teletubby and Rhuddlan both do a mean impersonation of their bird call and the Buzzard kept on responding to them and followed us around for quite a while.

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« Reply #890 on: October 02, 2013, 11:16:41 am »
With the darkness getting earlier each night we are seeing the Badgers and Foxes in the garden more and more.   I've seen the Fox about three times this week and the Badger nearly every night.

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« Reply #891 on: October 02, 2013, 08:07:07 pm »
I posted a picture of a buzzard on this thread many, many moons ago.  It had been sat in a tree in my garden.

It was a causing a mass panic amongst jackdaws and seagulls who were attempting to harass it into leaving.

It treated them with contempt and ignored them.  Then is flew off, majestically, over my roof. A superb sight.

I was in awe of this creature, but Hugo and others replied by saying they were quite common in the area.
I've not seen one 'in the flesh' since though.
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« Reply #892 on: October 03, 2013, 04:45:19 pm »
You were very lucky to see a Buzzard in your back garden Fester as they are so impressive,  I think I've only ever seen one on the Great Orme and that was high in the sky.  You can recognise them by the wingspan which can be over four feet wide and by their distinct call.

www.rspb.org.uk/buzzard‎

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« Reply #893 on: October 03, 2013, 06:55:28 pm »
Buzzards can regularly be seen in the Conwy area esp. between the town and Henryd,

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« Reply #894 on: October 03, 2013, 09:16:06 pm »
there are a pair of them nesting near our golf club every spring and we have four of them flying over our golf course on a regular basis

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Re: Local Wildlife
« Reply #895 on: October 20, 2013, 02:51:27 pm »
A Red Admiral Butterfly in the sunshine in Llangollen yesterday and some Birds of Prey at the Exhibition there.

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Re: Local Wildlife
« Reply #896 on: October 27, 2013, 10:43:11 pm »
Some of the Birds we saw by the River Clwyd  on Saturday.

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Re: Local Wildlife
« Reply #897 on: December 09, 2013, 06:31:20 pm »
Stranded Whale set free on Pensarn Beach

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-25306076

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Re: Local Wildlife
« Reply #898 on: January 31, 2014, 10:31:37 am »
Its that Baby Goat time of year again. This one is new born today.

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Re: Local Wildlife
« Reply #899 on: March 05, 2014, 03:10:21 pm »
I heard that there were many baby seals at Angel Bay in Penrhynbay so I popped along there to have a look.    It was high tide when I arrived there but couldn't see any of the white seal pups there but did see about eight adult seals on the beach there.