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Post by phil70 on Aug 7, 2019 12:25:30 GMT
By Summer 2021 we may very well be inhabitants of the swamplands ourselves. Little but the cry of the curlew and the sound of the zombies chomping on human flesh. First find your human Phil
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Post by JohnV on Aug 7, 2019 12:27:39 GMT
By Summer 2021 we may very well be inhabitants of the swamplands ourselves. Little but the cry of the curlew the thing to listen for is the boom of a bittern ....... magical
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 7, 2019 13:33:22 GMT
By Summer 2021 we may very well be inhabitants of the swamplands ourselves. Little but the cry of the curlew the thing to listen for is the boom of a bittern ....... magical Yes I’ve heard that at the gliding club on occasion. Dusk/dark making it more weird!
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Post by phil70 on Aug 7, 2019 21:51:39 GMT
the thing to listen for is the boom of a bittern ....... magical Yes I’ve heard that at the gliding club on occasion. Dusk/dark making it more weird!
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Post by Jim on Aug 8, 2019 6:24:29 GMT
the thing to listen for is the boom of a bittern ....... magical Yes I’ve heard that at the gliding club on occasion. Dusk/dark making it more weird! Strange how it's named after my boat, Bittern's Boom.
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Post by bills on Aug 8, 2019 9:00:50 GMT
the thing to listen for is the boom of a bittern ....... magical Yes I’ve heard that at the gliding club on occasion. Dusk/dark making it more weird! In Aberdeenshire?
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Post by JohnV on Aug 8, 2019 11:36:31 GMT
Yes I’ve heard that at the gliding club on occasion. Dusk/dark making it more weird! In Aberdeenshire?
I must admit that surprised me I thought they were only in a very few spots in the fens and very rare even there
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Post by Jim on Aug 8, 2019 11:43:00 GMT
They are no longer as rare as they were. Several at Leighton Moss where I've heard them but never seen one. I was working near Welshpool last year and was told one was out in the open in front of a hide for a few days running, but just couldn't get there to see.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 8, 2019 12:46:28 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Aug 8, 2019 12:51:38 GMT
Bitterns at the gliding club in the Spey Valley, Highland region. Insh Marshes (RSPB reserve) is couple of miles away.. that's good to hear, they were down to only a handful of breeding pairs in the whole of the UK just a few years ago. I remember hearing them as a child in the marshes ..... I then didn't hear one again until just a few years ago when I was moored to a mud weight on the Little Ouse on the edge of a RSPB reserve
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Post by JohnV on Aug 8, 2019 13:08:54 GMT
Must say I feel a bit ambivalent about the RSPB.
The work they have done in protecting bird species has been great but sometimes their ambitions to return waterways to nature clashes with my desire to navigate
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2019 13:26:13 GMT
I remember that on the K&A with the water vole friendly canal banks.
Boaters have probably driven a coach and horses through all that now but when I spent the winter down near Bradford OA it was 2000/01 so relatively soon after the restoration. There were sections of towpath where you were not supposed to moor.
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