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Dave Tennant


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Raven calling from tree north of lake 7 15 am.

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Judith Smith wrote:

Cuckoo ( on the W side), Grasshopper Warbler (N of the lake), Water Rail, Reed Warbler (lake) and a Jay mewing like a Buzzard - watched this actually doing it but it had me fooled for a while. Who was it who mentioned this on the forum a week or so ago? We had the same experience at Bickershaw Rucks on April 2nd as well. This must be a new thing, no doubt because of all the Buzzards about, but I never knew they were such mimics.





It was I! On the Newton Heath thread on 12th April I wrote ...... " At nearby Clayton Vale - double figures of Jays giving some strange vocalisations - some sounding like "mewing" Buzzards!"......

They certainly had me fooled doh.gif - spent ages imslow.gif staring skywards looking for Buzzards until the penny finally dropped! wink.gif

Bill.

-- Edited by Bill Myerscough on Friday 24th of April 2009 05:51:09 AM

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Judith Smith wrote:

a Jay mewing like a Buzzard - watched this actually doing it but it had me fooled for a while. Who was it who mentioned this on the forum a week or so ago? We had the same experience at Bickershaw Rucks on April 2nd as well. This must be a new thing, no doubt because of all the Buzzards about, but I never knew they were such mimics.






I had the same experience a while ago at Moore NR in Cheshire (with Steven Astley) -we were totally fooled for ages by 3 or 4 birds all doing perfect Buzzard impressions.

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Cuckoo ( on the W side), Grasshopper Warbler (N of the lake), Water Rail, Reed Warbler (lake) and a Jay mewing like a Buzzard - watched this actually doing it but it had me fooled for a while. Who was it who mentioned this on the forum a week or so ago? We had the same experience at Bickershaw Rucks on April 2nd as well. This must be a new thing, no doubt because of all the Buzzards about, but I never knew they were such mimics.

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A Whitethroat reported here on Birdguides. today.

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Female bullfinch spotted at 8am today , also heard willow warbler while walking along the old railway line.

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Walking around the lake and up the old railway line this am heard four chifchaf singing . a pair of reed bunting were very active ,and two great crested grebes were in the process of the mating display.

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