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Birding on the border. Scotland 2021A short trip along the English/Scottish Border country. |
 Brown Rat at the feeder. Leighton Moss. |
 Not a Blue-winged Teal. |
 But a Hybrid of Cinnamon Teal and Shoveller. |
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 Marsh Harrier. Leighton Moss |
 The Brown Rat comes back.. Leighton Moss. |
 Common Pochard. Leighton Moss. |
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 Great White Egret. Leighton Moss. |
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 Eurasian Teal with Common Snipe. |
 Common Snipe. Leighton Moss. |
 Teal with the hybrid. |
 Gadwall. The white speculum is the clue. |
 Gadwall. female and male. |
 Common Snipe. |
 Gadwall. Male. Leighton Moss. |
 Greater Cormorant. Leighton Moss. |
 Marsh Harrier. |
 Marsh Harrier. |
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 Common Snipe. |
 Lapwing, Green Plover or Peewit. |
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 Common Buzzard. Scottish border near Langholm. |
 Eurasian Jay. Teviothead. Borders. |
 Black-tailed Godwits. Budle Bay. Northumberland. |
 Eurasian Curlew. Budle Bay. |
 Red-legged Partridge. Kelso. |
 Eurasian Kestrel. Teviothead. |
 Our next base. Farm House. Caerlaverock. Dumfries. |
 The view from our Conservatory. |
 And Badgers outside each evening. |
 The Barnacle Geese come down from Svalbard each winter. |
 In the background is a leucistic bird. |
 Greenfinch at the feeder. Caerlaverock. |
 Widgeon outside our conservatory. |
 Whooper Swans are ringed also. They come from Iceland. |
 The badgers come to feed each evening. |
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 Goosanders are regular at the Caul in Dumfries town. |
 Yellow-legged Gulls are not. Dumfries. |
 Roe deer. Mersehead. |
 Yellow hammer , RSPB Mersehead. |
 Tree Sparrow. RSPB Mersehead. |
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 Red Kites. Lauriston, Dumfries. |
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 Badgers. |
 Pink-footed Geese. Powfoot. Dumfries. |
 Yellowhammer. |
 Caerlaverock feeder. |
 Many Barnacle. Caerlaverock. |
 Whooper Swans too. |
 Our pond, Caerlaverock Farmhouse. |
 Who needs TV? |
 Feeding time. Caerlaverock Farmhouse. |
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