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Whooper Swans - Cygnus cygnus152 viewsit's good to see Whooper Swans returning to our local farmland again this autumn
photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta127 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus143 viewsphotographed @ Flukehall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese - Anser brachyrhynchus145 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchus141 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta148 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta149 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta143 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose139 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose119 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose142 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose132 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese151 viewsphotographed @ Backsands Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese141 viewsphotographed @ Backsands Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling140 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa Fluke Hall Lane Pilling146 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge147 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans162 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling169 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese163 viewsa trio of birds that includes two ringed birds, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose143 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose167 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese176 viewstaking to the sky en masse after being spooked, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese158 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Goose147 viewsphotographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Pink Footed Geese Anser brachyrhynchus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling169 viewsa trio in flight that includes a ringed bird, photographed @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Whooper Swan183 viewssurveying the scene
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Whooper Swan141 viewswhat a beautiful looking Swan
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Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus Fluke Hall Lane Pilling152 viewsfeeling sorry for itself in it's sling
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Whooper Swan150 viewsI'd only got my 105mm macro lens with me, so had to back up quite away to get the whole of the swan in shot.
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Whooper Swan153 viewsthe girl from the RSPCA asked me to come with her to Pilling Sands so that when she released the Swan if it was unable to fly I could help her re-catch it. I agreed of course, but what I didn't count on was how fast it could run, it shot off towards the estuary with little chance of us catching it.
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Whooper Swan156 viewsI'm free, the Swan makes a dash towards the estuary. I went back to work at this point, but got a call from the RSPCA girl later to confirm the Swan tok to the skies when it was scared by someone on a quad bike.
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Whooper Swan168 viewsWhilst driving down Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling, I turned a corner to see this Whooper Swan running towards me with a tractor right behind it, when the swan saw me coming it veered off the road into the hedgerow & became entancled in the branches there. After watching it for a while it became apparent it was stuck, so I phoned the RSPCA, who agreed to send someone out & asked me to wait with the swan until they arrived.
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Whooper Swan147 viewsThe swan got quite distressed each time a vehicle sped past, but no matter how much it struggled it couldn't break free of the hedgerow
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Whooper Swan169 viewsGotcha - within the hour a young lady from the RSPCA arrived, she was absolutely brilliant. She quickly but carefully grabbed the swan & removed it from the hedgerow with the miimum of fuss, she was obviously very confident handling the bird, I wouldn't have fancied getting in range of it's beak.
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Whooper Swan182 viewstime for a firm hand. With the swan restrained she checked it's wings for breaks, the Swan was trying to flap both wings so she concluded it was unlikely it had a broken wing. Apparently they sometimes think roads are rivers & land on them by mistake, stunning themselves, which is maybe what happened to this bird.
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Whooper Swan170 viewschecking it's OK
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Green-veined White162 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Spiders Webs152 viewsphotographed @ Pilling Lane Ends Amenity Area
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Collared Doves147 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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St Mark's-fly161 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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St Mark's-fly145 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnet143 views
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Linnets150 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnets157 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Linnet139 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge416 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Red-legged Partridge411 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark181 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark177 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark182 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Skylark160 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Long-tailed Tit150 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Great Tit147 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Great Tit144 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Dunnock155 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Curlew142 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Curlew Numenius arquata Pilling163 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane, Pilling
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Carrion Crow161 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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Blue Tit160 viewstaken @ Fluke Hall Lane Pilling
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