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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2025-01-19 at 10:00

In a bit of a twist, today we have a #SundayStonechat, which is obviously #NotADuck. It might be spying for them though.

[#]BirdsSeenIn2024 #Birding #Stonechat #Birdstodon #BirdsOfMastodon

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2025-01-17 at 09:00

Are you excited for #FourDuckFriday!?

[#]BirdsSeenIn2024 #DuckOfTheDay #Birding #Mallard #Duck #Birdstodon #BirdsOfMastodon #DucksOfMastodon #Duckstodon

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2025-01-15 at 09:00

The #WednesdayWaterbird is a #BrentGoose - it is #NotADuck and I think it might have lost a contact lens?

[#]BirdsSeenIn2024 #Birding #RSPBTitchwell #Goose

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2025-01-14 at 19:33

This is the correct tune to share this and every #TuneswapTuesday - John Spiers playing The Mallard

https://youtu.be/pgrf_Hto8w4?si

[#]Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2025-01-10 at 08:48

Do you remember when John Prescott announced development plans for the north of England that involved “concreting over an area the size of Hull every year” and the general response was “maybe you could start with Hull”?

Well…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/10/national-trust-to-restore-nature-across-area-bigger-than-greater-london

[#]Rewilding #RestoreNature #Biodiversity

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2025-01-03 at 07:00

Getting ready to pop out for a dawn visit to my patch. The Met office and BBC say it is -5 or -6 Celsius with wind chill.

This shows that I…

[#]Birding #PatchBirding #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2025-01-01 at 00:01

It is 0001 on 1 January - I wish all my #quackolytes a quacking good 2025!

[#]Duck #DuckOfTheDay #WednesdayWaterbird #Mallard #BirdsSeenIn2024 #LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #Birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Birdstodon

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-31 at 07:41

Looking at the forecast, I may be having second thoughts about my plan to start the new year the right way with a #LowCarbonBirding walk to and around my patch tomorrow morning!

[#]PatchBirding #Birding

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-26 at 09:00

[#]ThreeDuckThursday, am I right?

[#]Mallard #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-25 at 12:30

The #WednesdayWaterbird is a #HerringGull - I hope it is having a good day today. Also #NotADuck

[#]Gull #Seagull #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-20 at 09:00

Struggling to get your ducks in a row this #FourDuckFriday? Mine aren't just mismatched and out of line, two of them aren't even ducks!

[#]Shelduck #Avocet #DuckOfTheDay #Duck #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-19 at 09:00

A slightly untidy #ThreeDuckThursday - two tufties and a mallard.

[#]TuftedDuck #TuftedDucks #Mallard #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-11 at 10:00

The #WednesdayWaterbird is a #Tuftie that was hanging out in the town centre last week.

[#]TuftedDuck #Duck #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-08 at 15:39

Planning to visit RSPB Titchwell for the first time on Thursday- any advice, #Birding people?

[#]Birdwatching #RSPBTitchwell #RSPB

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-05 at 09:00

[#]ThreeDuckThursday keeps on coming. Can it be the weekend now?

[#]Mallards #Ducks #DuckOfTheDay #LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-03 at 09:00

[#]TwoDuckTuesday is getting it together.

[#]Mallard #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-12-01 at 09:00

These #WeekendWaterbirds are #SundaySwans and yet again hiding their heads in shame for being #NotADuck - so near and yet so far!

[#]DuckOfTheDay #MuteSwan #Swan

[#]LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-11-27 at 09:00

The #WednesdayWaterbird is a #Duck

[#]DuckOfTheDay #Duck. #Mallard

[#]LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-11-19 at 09:13

Maybe COP should be like choosing a pope - lock them in the room and don’t let anyone out until the smoke changes colour?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/18/cop29-live-as-we-head-in-to-the-second-week-is-the-climate-summit-stuck

[#]ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming #DontLookUp #COP #COP29

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Written by Occasional Ducks on 2024-11-15 at 09:54

Just wait until you hear what religion the Pope belongs to…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lknel1xpo

[#]ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalHeating #COP29

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