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Dairy Farm Road to Siding Lane

Dairy Farm Road
Curlew 60 feeding fields north of the road 0710-0835+ though distant and increasingly disturbed by farm work - an astonishingly large migratory flock for St Helens! Also: Barn Owl 0735; Pink-footed Goose 20.

Siding Lane
Willow Warbler 2 in song; Shelduck pair.

Derek Evans
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