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[Uncle Kevriano]

egyptian goose the first I have seen this yearView attachment 80445

These birds will take over our wetlands. They breed all year and have large broods. We see them everywhere in Norfolk.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Red Tailed Kite from a display in Summer.

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 541.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/3200 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[spudhead]

I see these sometimes at my local pond, very distinctive.

In previous years I have seen many more

 

[spudhead]

These birds will take over our wetlands. They breed all year and have large broods. We see them everywhere in Norfolk.

not an issue up here Kev since we have a government building thousands of houses on the green belt and around many of our reserves, the one I walk a lot has 6,000 houses being built right up to the edges of it, and bird numbers on that reserve have fallen massively over the last 2 years, the lapwings and skylarks used to breed on the fields they are building on. And most of the houses are luxury properties and a reserve near me was a former deep cut mine and then open cast to depth of hundreds of feet, the reserve and lakes they built on that site took almost 10 years to attract birds and wildlife in decent numbers, and that site has seen many birds leave in large numbers, I have not seen kingfishers on that site since 2022-23 for example