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Tawny in the Park

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, crookes valley park, owls, sheffield on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »

This lunch time, I got a phone call from my friend Chris who works in an office overlooking Crookes Valley Park - there was a tawny owl in plain view roosting in a tree. I ran down, and got good views, using one of Chris’s colleague’s offices as a hide. A nice, unexpected lunchtime twitch!
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Teal

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, crookes valley park, sheffield on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »

I just saw a pair of teal on Crookes Valley Lake on my lunch hour - the first time I’ve seen any there.
With these current cold snaps it may be worth keeping an eye on the lake - yesterday’s cold and fog also brought down 27 black-headed gulls on to the lake, which is a [...]

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