one of the very few nesting pairs in the UK was effectively in our back garden
This is really cool! I went to Oxfordshire last weekend and saw a lot of red kites, and I found myself thinking a lot about how I learnt from this comment that they used to be extremely endangered; I had no idea. It's good to see them doing well!
I didn't know we had puffins in the UK either; that's rad!
Interesting to hear you hadn't seen coots before; I've never seen a curlew, but coots have been a common sight all my life. This is like when I posted a picture of a peacock butterfly and got a lot of comments from people who'd never seen one before; I know, intellectually, that different places won't have the birds or butterflies that are familiar to me, but a part of me is always surprised to be reminded!
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This is really cool! I went to Oxfordshire last weekend and saw a lot of red kites, and I found myself thinking a lot about how I learnt from this comment that they used to be extremely endangered; I had no idea. It's good to see them doing well!
I didn't know we had puffins in the UK either; that's rad!
Interesting to hear you hadn't seen coots before; I've never seen a curlew, but coots have been a common sight all my life. This is like when I posted a picture of a peacock butterfly and got a lot of comments from people who'd never seen one before; I know, intellectually, that different places won't have the birds or butterflies that are familiar to me, but a part of me is always surprised to be reminded!