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Spring/Summer Migrant Watch

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    #32
    romulus augustulus
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    Have heard a Blackcap singing in the wood/furze behind the house over the last few days . According to Birdwatch website , they're scarce summer visitors which surprised me a bit . Either way , lovely to hear , especially when combined with the Willow Warbler and Chiff-chaff . Just waiting on the swallows to nest in the sheds now .....


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    #33
    1squidge
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    Seen my first Housemartins today on louth coast.


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    #34
    trebor28
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    could be wrong but i have 3 male Blackcaps around here within a few hundred yards of each other. could be females also, have seen 1 definite.


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    #35
    jmkennedyie
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    Seen/heard a surprising amount of warblers in last few days myself...Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Blackcap and Grasshopper all in N Kildare. Heard one Cuckoo too. House Martin, Swallow and Sand Martin. No swifts yet.

    Just a reminder for everyone to log your first swallow/cuckoo/swift sightings on springalive.net


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    #36
    E39MSport
    Registered Users Posts: 3,730 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    jmkennedyie wrote: »
    Seen/heard a surprising amount of warblers in last few days myself...Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Blackcap and Grasshopper all in N Kildare. Heard one Cuckoo too. House Martin, Swallow and Sand Martin. No swifts yet.

    Just a reminder for everyone to log your first swallow/cuckoo/swift sightings on springalive.net

    Same here - same area. Remarkable.


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    #37
    sables2
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    Super clear images WUL: To capture these 'bullets' in flight is a task in it's self..;)


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    #38
    trebor28
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    have been inundated with blackcaps.

    everywhere i go i hear them, dont always see them as they are very secretive.
    fairly confident i have at least one pair nesting around me too.


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    #39
    trebor28
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    Spotted flycatchers out side my place this morning.

    two definitely and maybe 3.
    couldnt be certain with the amount of noise they were making.

    continued on down the road a few hundred yards and there were another 2 i think around a stream.


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    #40
    Traonach
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    Corncrake back calling in west Mayo. Hopefully the weather will improve and we can get a few more calling......


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    #41
    Cat Melodeon
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    We've had swallows nesting under our eaves every summer since we've lived here (over 30 years). Yesterday, for the first time ever, their nest was occupied by what I think are house martins (black upperside, white underneath from the throat down). I haven't seen a swallow yet. Is it common for this to happen? We're taking it as a bit of an omen - we're planning on moving house this year!


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    #42
    Birdnuts
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    Discovered 2 singing males yesterday at a place I have never seen them before among a large area of gorse on hilly land 6 miles north of here on the Kildare/Wicklow border:D


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