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Post by exileinashton on Aug 26, 2019 17:16:27 GMT
Walking to the game on Saturday across the old slag heaps, I saw two large, what I think were buzzards soaring on a thermal, the next thing they starting fighting mid-air, quite bizarre, not the sort of thing you normally see in blurton, anyone else see them ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2019 17:50:40 GMT
Think they were doing the other f'ing.
Saw loads round Trentham too.
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Post by exileinashton on Aug 26, 2019 18:08:49 GMT
Haha, seemed like a dangerous way to go about it
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Post by zerps on Aug 26, 2019 18:32:25 GMT
It’s the apocalypse
Jesus predicted buzzards over blurton
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Post by Northy on Aug 26, 2019 18:32:59 GMT
Maybe a crow and a buzzard, the crow mobbing it?
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Aug 26, 2019 18:36:16 GMT
Obviously vultures. Circling The Bet.
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 26, 2019 18:48:21 GMT
Buzzards are dead common now
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Post by danceswithclams on Aug 26, 2019 18:53:36 GMT
I saw some near the hospital in Crewe.
Leighton Buzzards.
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Post by cerebralstokie on Aug 26, 2019 18:58:27 GMT
I knew an old lady who remembers corncrakes - yes corncrakes - in the fields behind the church in Blurton. This must have been about the time of the First World War.
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Post by felonious on Aug 26, 2019 19:09:42 GMT
I knew an old lady who remembers corncrakes - yes corncrakes - in the fields behind the church in Blurton. This must have been about the time of the First World War. Around the time when babies were delivered by storks.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 26, 2019 19:11:21 GMT
I know I'm in fairly rural part of Wales right now but the Buzzards and red kites are more common than sparrows. Going up the valley on the steam train yesterday there was one sitting on a fence post next to the line as the train went past just staring back. Impressive.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Aug 26, 2019 19:15:13 GMT
Buzzards over Blurton?
Is that our version of Sunshine on Leith?
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Post by marylandstoke on Aug 26, 2019 19:24:55 GMT
I know I'm in fairly rural part of Wales right now but the Buzzards and red kites are more common than sparrows. Going up the valley on the steam train yesterday there was one sitting on a fence post next to the line as the train went past just staring back. Impressive. If you check out The Workhouse in Rhayader there is a kite center there for red kites. The do a feeding most afternoons and it’s one of the best “air shows” you could wish to see. I believe the main house is a hotel now but that was long after my time. Gets great reviews.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2019 21:19:51 GMT
If it was blurton they were prob shite hawks
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Post by marylandstoke on Aug 26, 2019 22:03:03 GMT
Apparently even the Vultures won’t touch the pies at the ground at this point.
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Post by Northy on Aug 27, 2019 6:04:51 GMT
I know I'm in fairly rural part of Wales right now but the Buzzards and red kites are more common than sparrows. Going up the valley on the steam train yesterday there was one sitting on a fence post next to the line as the train went past just staring back. Impressive. Near the red kite feeding station?
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Post by lawrieleslie on Aug 27, 2019 6:17:09 GMT
I know I'm in fairly rural part of Wales right now but the Buzzards and red kites are more common than sparrows. Going up the valley on the steam train yesterday there was one sitting on a fence post next to the line as the train went past just staring back. Impressive. My cousin lives in High Wycombe and she reckons RedKites are most common large bird species around there. Down here in the South Devon AONB Buzzards are plentiful. Problems are coming though because the legislation that makes killing pest birds illegal may have a detrimental effect on the Buzzard population.
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Post by felonious on Aug 27, 2019 6:19:26 GMT
I know I'm in fairly rural part of Wales right now but the Buzzards and red kites are more common than sparrows. Going up the valley on the steam train yesterday there was one sitting on a fence post next to the line as the train went past just staring back. Impressive. My cousin lives in High Wycombe and she reckons RedKites are most common large bird species around there. Down here in the South Devon AONB Buzzards are plentiful. Problems are coming though because of the legislation that makes killing pest birds illegal and crow bombing is starting to have an effect on the Buzzard population. I saw a Red Kite in Cheddleton last year.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 27, 2019 7:12:25 GMT
I know I'm in fairly rural part of Wales right now but the Buzzards and red kites are more common than sparrows. Going up the valley on the steam train yesterday there was one sitting on a fence post next to the line as the train went past just staring back. Impressive. Near the red kite feeding station? The railway runs from Tywyn on the coast 7 miles inland up the valley. All the birds (including barn owls) nest in the woodland areas surrounding. There's no shortage of food for them in the form of many sheep/lambs that die and are permitted to be left in the fields for them. Saves the farmers from having to tidy up the carcasses.
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Post by Northy on Aug 27, 2019 7:49:59 GMT
Near the red kite feeding station? The railway runs from Tywyn on the coast 7 miles inland up the valley. All the birds (including barn owls) nest in the woodland areas surrounding. There's no shortage of food for them in the form of many sheep/lambs that die and are permitted to be left in the fields for them. Saves the farmers from having to tidy up the carcasses. You should have been there the weekend before, race the train event was on
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Post by cerebralstokie on Aug 27, 2019 8:26:10 GMT
I knew an old lady who remembers corncrakes - yes corncrakes - in the fields behind the church in Blurton. This must have been about the time of the First World War. Around the time when babies were delivered by storks. No they weren't. They were found under gooseberry bushes.
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 27, 2019 8:29:10 GMT
I knew an old lady who remembers corncrakes - yes corncrakes - in the fields behind the church in Blurton. This must have been about the time of the First World War. Though there is no lonesome corncrake's cry Or sorrow and delight You can hear the cars And the shouts from bars And the laughter and the fights Shane MacGowan
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 27, 2019 10:36:17 GMT
The railway runs from Tywyn on the coast 7 miles inland up the valley. All the birds (including barn owls) nest in the woodland areas surrounding. There's no shortage of food for them in the form of many sheep/lambs that die and are permitted to be left in the fields for them. Saves the farmers from having to tidy up the carcasses. You should have been there the weekend before, race the train event was on I was, got some great pictures. It gets busier every year. I've only run it once, not twisting ankles is the secret. Although my new hips are a success I won't be doing it again. I've been living here since June, this is the second time I've lived here. I actually worked for the railway full time previously.
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Post by Northy on Aug 27, 2019 11:06:31 GMT
You should have been there the weekend before, race the train event was on I was, got some great pictures. It gets busier every year. I've only run it once, not twisting ankles is the secret. Although my new hips are a success I won't be doing it again. I've been living here since June, this is the second time I've lived here. I actually worked for the railway full time previously. One of my mates in the running club has got a place out there, they all went to his for a bbq after the race. He lives in one of those places beginning with Ll the other side of broad water back garden overlooks the railway line and the sea.
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 27, 2019 12:50:48 GMT
You should have been there the weekend before, race the train event was on I was, got some great pictures. It gets busier every year. I've only run it once, not twisting ankles is the secret. Although my new hips are a success I won't be doing it again. I've been living here since June, this is the second time I've lived here. I actually worked for the railway full time previously. What as, Transport Police...
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Post by ilfracoombestokie3 on Aug 27, 2019 13:46:49 GMT
We get quite a lot of things in Blurton as well as Buzzards, we also have Bats, Heroin, Urban Foxes, Marijuana & many more Exquisite delights for either viewing or sampling.
#cometoBlurton
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 27, 2019 15:14:06 GMT
I was, got some great pictures. It gets busier every year. I've only run it once, not twisting ankles is the secret. Although my new hips are a success I won't be doing it again. I've been living here since June, this is the second time I've lived here. I actually worked for the railway full time previously. One of my mates in the running club has got a place out there, they all went to his for a bbq after the race. He lives in one of those places beginning with Ll the other side of broad water back garden overlooks the railway line and the sea. Llwyngrwyl maybe. Nice pub there.
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Post by dexta on Aug 27, 2019 17:03:50 GMT
We get quite a lot of things in Blurton as well as Buzzards, we also have Bats, Heroin, Urban Foxes, Marijuana & many more Exquisite delights for either viewing or sampling. #cometoBlurton what kind of bat's.... Baseball by any chance
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Aug 27, 2019 18:48:10 GMT
Surprised the locals haven’t eaten them raw yet.
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Post by lommack on Aug 27, 2019 18:52:30 GMT
Good band, saw them in the swallows nest....in Blurton
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