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Whooper Swans - Cygnus cygnus120 viewsit's good to see Whooper Swans returning to our local farmland again this autumn
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta111 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus125 viewsphotographed @ Flukehall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese - Anser brachyrhynchus125 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchus115 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta129 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta126 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta124 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose117 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose102 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose116 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose112 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese122 viewsphotographed @ Backsands Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese119 viewsphotographed @ Backsands Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling113 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa Fluke Hall Lane Pilling115 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge117 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans130 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling141 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese134 viewsa trio of birds that includes two ringed birds, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose117 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose131 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese137 viewstaking to the sky en masse after being spooked, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese128 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose116 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese Anser brachyrhynchus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling134 viewsa trio in flight that includes a ringed bird, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swan148 viewssurveying the scene
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Whooper Swan122 viewswhat a beautiful looking Swan
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Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling127 viewsfeeling sorry for itself in it's sling
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Whooper Swan127 viewsI'd only got my 105mm macro lens with me, so had to back up quite away to get the whole of the swan in shot.
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Whooper Swan122 viewsthe girl from the RSPCA asked me to come with her to Pilling Sands so that when she released the Swan if it was unable to fly I could help her re-catch it. I agreed of course, but what I didn't count on was how fast it could run, it shot off towards the estuary with little chance of us catching it.
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Whooper Swan127 viewsI'm free, the Swan makes a dash towards the estuary. I went back to work at this point, but got a call from the RSPCA girl later to confirm the Swan tok to the skies when it was scared by someone on a quad bike.
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Whooper Swan143 viewsWhilst driving down Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling, I turned a corner to see this Whooper Swan running towards me with a tractor right behind it, when the swan saw me coming it veered off the road into the hedgerow & became entancled in the branches there. After watching it for a while it became apparent it was stuck, so I phoned the RSPCA, who agreed to send someone out & asked me to wait with the swan until they arrived.
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Whooper Swan126 viewsThe swan got quite distressed each time a vehicle sped past, but no matter how much it struggled it couldn't break free of the hedgerow
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Whooper Swan144 viewsGotcha - within the hour a young lady from the RSPCA arrived, she was absolutely brilliant. She quickly but carefully grabbed the swan & removed it from the hedgerow with the miimum of fuss, she was obviously very confident handling the bird, I wouldn't have fancied getting in range of it's beak.
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Whooper Swan148 viewstime for a firm hand. With the swan restrained she checked it's wings for breaks, the Swan was trying to flap both wings so she concluded it was unlikely it had a broken wing. Apparently they sometimes think roads are rivers & land on them by mistake, stunning themselves, which is maybe what happened to this bird.
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Whooper Swan142 viewschecking it's OK
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Green-veined White127 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Spiders Webs125 viewsphotographed @ Pilling Lane Ends Amenity Area
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Collared Doves127 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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St Mark's-fly127 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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St Mark's-fly114 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnet118 views
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Linnets120 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnets128 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnet113 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge371 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge364 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark138 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark139 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark143 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark130 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Long-tailed Tit118 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Great Tit123 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Great Tit117 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Dunnock124 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Curlew111 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Curlew Numenius arquata Pilling132 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Carrion Crow130 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Blue Tit130 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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