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Winnwick farmland

Couple of hours around the water opposite the fiddle and surrounding fields produced some great birds today.
10+ Yellow Wagtails
20+ Yellow Hammers
Redshank x 1
6 Buzzards high on the thermals
1 male Kes
Couple of Reed bunting
Plenty of Linnets
2 female Wheatear (In usual paddocks)
Few tree sparrow and the usual more common stuff.
Report off Matt Bannon a great guy I met for a chat also seen a Stone chat and yesterday a common sandpiper on the water opposite the fiddle.

Cheers
Howard Arends

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