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WILDLIFE NOTES FEBRUARY 2009 BY DR PHIL SMITH - 01 March 2009

February is the month when the spring movement of birds, especially gulls and waders, back towards their northern breeding haunts, really begins in earnest. Large flocks of Common Gulls start to appe ....

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WILDLIFE NOTES JANUARY 2009 BY DR PHIL SMITH - 01 February 2009

Despite the cold weather, my first sighting of that harbinger of spring, the Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis), was at Moor Lane, Ainsdale as early as the 18th. A heavy frost partly froze Sands Lake, Ains ....

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WILDLIFE NOTES DECEMBER 2008, DR PHIL SMITH - 02 January 2009

A mostly quiet month, the coldest December for forty years was enlivened by an unusually large flock of 40-50 Twite on the shore opposite Weld Road, Birkdale. These upland finches, closely related to ....

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