Superb morning at Aust Services with @oscardewhurst.bsky.social. Yellow-browed Warbler calling in the scrub with vismig Woodlark, 3 Hawfinch, Yellowhammer, Merlin, Red Kite, 56 Grey Plover, 1476 Chaffinch, 4 Brambling, 7 Redpoll, 54 Siskin and 228 Stock Dove @bristolbirding.bsky.social

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Unexpectedly epic day in Longdendale with 4 Great Egrets east mid morning (over Bottoms Reservoir) and then a dash up to Crowden for the 1st valley Great Grey Shrike since 2015 @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social #UKBirding

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Tens of thousands of these flies currently moving westward along the underbarn Portland Harbour, quite extraordinary!

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Late to reply - I don't have issues with this as cachinnans. That's what I'd have called it if I was in the hide. It fits the current parameters for this dynamic species - I've seen several small CG (females presumably) - dinky, almost like Common Gulls at times. Don't see other influences in yours.

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@nybirdnews.bsky.social I arrived in the fog this morning at Brimham Rocks with the intention of seeing the Great-grey Shrike, which I managed at 10.25, and when the mist cleared half an hour later I was amazed to find myself 20 feet away from a Desert Wheatear sat in a small willow!

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