Crane Spotter
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Crane Spotter – Enjoying our little chat
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Recipe: take two small pebbles and hold one in each hand. Now tap one against the other. What you can hopefully hear is very much like the call of the ...

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Crane Spotter – Out for a duck
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Seeing something you consider remarkable when you are into birds has much to do with where you are and when you see it. A Moorhen on your local pond might ...

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Crane Spotter – Oooh Ahh, there’s treasure in them Surrey Hills
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Birds are noticeably on the move this month as we head into Autumn and I’ll be on the watch out, as usual, for a few unusual species. Numbers of some more ...

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Crane Spotter: Toot toot! The Coot’s a hoot
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I was walking the dog one night when I heard the squeaky two tone note of a child’s bike horn approaching. Better watch out, I thought, any kid that young ...

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Crane Spotter – Blackbird, will it be the comeback bird?
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Oh the joyful music of male Blackbirds singing!  Throughout the day and especially in early evenings and mornings their delightful music has been hard to ...

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Crane Spotter: June
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Warrants are out for the arrestof a trio of trouble-hit characters who have vanished from their former haunts around the village. Volunteers’ annual ...

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Crane Spotter: Having a lark
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Main Photo: Skylark (Alauda arvensis) There was I, gazing up into the apparently empty sky with my ‘bins’ when a passing dog walker on the public footpath ...

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Crane Spotter: Laughing all the way to the bank
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Gotcha! The bird who arrives back from its winter coastal retreat is again with us just in time for April Fool’s day – all dressed up and ready to play the ...

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Crane Spotter: A ‘Woodsand’ – in the woods and field
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Among a crowd of elephants and hippos at a watering hole somewhere in Africa right now is an elegant little wader picking its way carefully through a forest ...

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Crane Spotter: Record local year masks a cause for concern
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After my local record of 118 sightings of different bird species in 2022 I decided to try and go one better in 2023. But as 120 is a nice round number I ...

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Crane Spotter – Time to make a better day
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I’ve never been a Neighbours fan but as I tramped one muddy public footpath alongside a Cranleigh field last month a little bird flew overhead and reminded me ...

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Crane Spotter: An alternative Christmas ‘redbreast’
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If we didn’t have a Robin as our much-celebrated Christmas bird then I can suggest a likely alternative. It’s slightly bigger and, like many Santa Claus ...

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