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This is the nest that has been lovingly built in the Laundry Outhouse at our farm... A very busy place but mum has raised four beautiful chicks in there despite the comings and goings!
This shot whilst not as good as those I would take later further down the lane, has a lovely soft feel created by the first rays of a new day.
On reviewing my pics from last week, I realised I had actually filmed both the upper barn owls.
These two shots were from my first encounter of the day. He flew off down the lane, having watched me for a few minutes, as I crouched down by a farm gate.
When I came across his partner a few minutes later, I incorrectly assumed they were the same bird.
Barn owl (Tyto alba)
Yorkshire Dales - Upper Barn male
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I was watching Springwatch this evening and got a feeling of deja vu when I saw the Snipe photo on the back of their cue cards, and on the screen at the back of Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan. I don't mind the BBC using my photograph but it would have been nice to have been credited.
I took the photograph in Upper Teesdale four years ago.
From a silly o'clock walk just as the sun came up.
Please see Suffolk April 2017 album. www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/albums/72157682818547896
- View Image Large to see the mud on their long curved bills -
'Numerous Numenius'.
Not a sight I would capture every day! Nine Curlews, Numenius arquata captured on a late evening walk, flying out to roost after a busy day foraging on a West Yorkshire moor.
Numenius is from two Greek words, 'neos' which translates as new, and 'mene' which means moon. These come together to form 'of the new moon', alluding to the crescent-shaped of the curlew's bill. The moorland icon, the beautiful Curlew, Numenius arquata.
Very sadly and worrying...It is estimated by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that worldwide there has been a 20-30% reduction in Curlew breeding numbers in the past 15 years. Curlew are now considered to be “vulnerable” on the European red list, meaning that the species face a high risk of extinction.
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Curlew Notes and Information:
The UK's breeding population of curlews is of international importance, being estimated to represent more than 30 per cent of the west European population.
Declines ...
There have been worrying declines in the breeding population throughout much of the UK, with the Breeding Bird Survey indicating significant declines in Scotland, England and Wales, and an overall UK decline of 42 per cent between 1995 and 2008.
Earlier surveys recorded a 60 per cent decline in breeding numbers in Northern Ireland between 1987 and 1999.
Curlews are also declining more widely across their global breeding range and, consequently, their IUCN status is near threatened. The species is a UK BAP priority, and is Amber listed due to the international importance of both breeding and wintering populations in the UK, its unfavourable conservation status in Europe and the declines in UK breeding numbers.
Within the UK, curlews breed on a range of habitats but are primarily birds of extensively managed rough grasslands, moorlands and bogs. The bulk of the breeding population (around 60 per cent) occurs in Scotland, with the majority of the remaining birds in northern England, RSPB Notes.
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