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Whooper Swans - Cygnus cygnus77 viewsit's good to see Whooper Swans returning to our local farmland again this autumn
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta76 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus80 viewsphotographed @ Flukehall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese - Anser brachyrhynchus78 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchus66 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta89 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta80 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta83 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose67 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose64 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose68 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose68 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese70 viewsphotographed @ Backsands Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese65 viewsphotographed @ Backsands Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling67 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa Fluke Hall Lane Pilling72 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge77 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans79 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling80 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese80 viewsa trio of birds that includes two ringed birds, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose77 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose80 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese96 viewstaking to the sky en masse after being spooked, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese75 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose75 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese Anser brachyrhynchus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling78 viewsa trio in flight that includes a ringed bird, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swan92 viewssurveying the scene
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Whooper Swan72 viewswhat a beautiful looking Swan
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Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling74 viewsfeeling sorry for itself in it's sling
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Whooper Swan75 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 Swan74 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 Swan74 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 Swan71 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 Swan74 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 Swan90 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 Swan98 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 Swan96 viewschecking it's OK
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Green-veined White73 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Spiders Webs81 viewsphotographed @ Pilling Lane Ends Amenity Area
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Collared Doves70 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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St Mark's-fly83 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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St Mark's-fly73 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnet73 views
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Linnets75 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnets77 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnet71 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge321 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge319 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark82 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark82 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark81 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark80 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Long-tailed Tit67 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Great Tit71 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Great Tit71 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Dunnock75 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Curlew72 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Curlew Numenius arquata Pilling80 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Carrion Crow77 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Blue Tit76 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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