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pleb

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RSPB St Aidens again
« on: 11:04:26, 06/01/20 »
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #1 on: 11:05:30, 06/01/20 »
Few pics from yesterdays plod round the St Aidens RSPB area east of Leeds, the kestrel was posing on a fence post.
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #2 on: 12:27:15, 06/01/20 »
Super kestrel pic :)

That's an amazing crane/dredger thing - what is the history of the site?
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #3 on: 14:11:33, 06/01/20 »
That looks like a drag line excavator that they use in opencast mining. It seems that it may have been abandoned at a time when scrap reclamation reached a particularly low price. I bet the wildlife thrive on that. Plenty of safe shelter in that.

In Northumberland there are quite a few nature reserves around man made lake on ex opencast sites.

Another one for BWW ex industrial use put to the benefit of walkers.
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #4 on: 14:55:08, 06/01/20 »
Nice Kestrel shot.
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #5 on: 16:05:47, 06/01/20 »
Quote from: Jac on 12:27:15, 06/01/20
Super kestrel pic :)

That's an amazing crane/dredger thing - what is the history of the site?


I'm no doubt stealing pleb's thunder here  8)  but information on the dragline can be found at http://www.walkingdragline.org


RSPB St Aidans has its own site at https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/st-aidans/


I regularly visit nearby Rothwell and the canal pictured, along with St Aidans, has been a training track for running and also makes a pleasant evening stroll (from Woodlesford Lock)


Lovely to see old industrial sites taken back by, and for, nature.
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #6 on: 16:21:37, 06/01/20 »
Thank you Jimbob & OneF

Agree, it's amazing how quickly nature with a little bit of help can re-establish. I guess that if 'we' became extinct we'd not be missed much and evidence of us soon be obliterated.
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #7 on: 17:58:32, 06/01/20 »
Lovely photo of the kestrel    :)
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #8 on: 21:14:58, 06/01/20 »
Super Kestrel shot pleb  O0
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #9 on: 09:56:58, 07/01/20 »
Great pics pleb,  :)
Well done with the kestrel O0
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #10 on: 10:24:19, 07/01/20 »
Lovely pics.
Come on Pleb 'fess up, it is one of those plastic kestrels which they use to scare other birds away with isn't it.


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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #11 on: 10:32:36, 07/01/20 »
Quote from: Ridge on 10:24:19, 07/01/20
Lovely pics.
Come on Pleb 'fess up, it is one of those plastic kestrels which they use to scare other birds away with isn't it.
Nope.......twas a right poser, only new twas a Kestrel cos it went and hovered for a bit.
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Re: RSPB St Aidens again
« Reply #12 on: 10:36:24, 11/01/20 »
Lovely pleb O0
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