Crane Spotter
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Crane Spotter: A ‘Woodsand’ – in the woods and field
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Among a crowd of elephants and hippos at a watering hole somewhere in Africa right now is an elegant little wader picking its way carefully through a forest ...

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Crane Spotter: Record local year masks a cause for concern
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After my local record of 118 sightings of different bird species in 2022 I decided to try and go one better in 2023. But as 120 is a nice round number I ...

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Crane Spotter – Time to make a better day
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I’ve never been a Neighbours fan but as I tramped one muddy public footpath alongside a Cranleigh field last month a little bird flew overhead and reminded me ...

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Crane Spotter: An alternative Christmas ‘redbreast’
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If we didn’t have a Robin as our much-celebrated Christmas bird then I can suggest a likely alternative. It’s slightly bigger and, like many Santa Claus ...

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Crane Spotter: Striking gold in the muck
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Muck, muck, glorious muck! It can be a magnet for birds. The trouble is that with changing farming practices there is not so much of it around these days. ...

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Crane Spotter: A big bill drops in
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Ouch! Not another big bill. Hasn’t it been going mad! We’re all feeling the pinch. Seemingly everything’s been going up since Brexit/Covid/the war in ...

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Crane Spotter: Bob, bob, bobbing – and gone
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There’s a fascinating little bird they call ‘common’ but like many others who share its first name – such as Crossbill and Gull – it isn’t. Well not around ...

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Crane Spotter – A tale of two sittings
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Main Photo: Magpie, Pica pica It was the best of times – until they turned up. Some noisy builders started work just when I was looking forward to a ...

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Crane Spotter: Spotted again at long last!
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Have you ever accidentally re-found something you thought was long lost?  Perhaps it was an old photo of a loved one that was slipped into a rarely used ...

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Crane Spotter: Plover lover’s reward (Part 2)
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Those extremely rare local visitors with the ‘golden spectacles’ I wrote about last month - the pair of smart Little Ringed Plovers - ended up staying longer ...

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Crane Spotter: Plover lover’s reward (Part 1)
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Main Photo - Litte Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) It’s always nice to go ‘shopping’ and to return with something exciting you weren’t expecting to find. ...

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Crane Spotter: Finches pinched!
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(Main Photo - European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)) Lots of people ask me ‘What birds are you seeing at the moment?’ and I’m usually happy to oblige ...

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