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Archive => Archived Boards => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Dave on October 06, 2010, 11:26:39 AM
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For those of us who like birds, the gradual return of buzzards to this area has been a welcome development in recent years. :) Normally they are seen in ones and twos, but on Monday there were four wheeling round above the Goyt Valley between Strines and Mellor. Is this a record?
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Mrs Whit and I have noticed them too when we've been walking in the valley and also when we've had a meal in front of the fantastic picture windows at the Sportsman. But following your post Dave I had an email from a member of Marple Naturalists, who watches but doesn't post, that says:
In your forum Dave comments on seeing four buzzards on Monday. The buzzard population is increasing rapidly at the expense of the kestrel , at one time seen frequently from nests in the Goyt Mill and generally over motorways but now nearly an endangered species.
Every silver lining has a cloud it seems :(
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We've noticed the buzzards along the whole of the goyt valley, there seems to be a breed based somwehere around the quarry part of Offerton Sand and Gravel
Yesterday we were lucky enough to see a kestrel really low in Bramhall as we came home, thinking back it is some time since I've seen a kestrel locally. We do get a sparrowhawk in the garden quite frequently, which is a wonderful sight