Some photos from Arne

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On and around RSPB Arne last week..

[center]Handsome boy !..
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Spoonbills, there were 76 one day !! Amazing, in 1993 one was spotted in the UK !..
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Parasol Fungi..
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Dartford Warbler..
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Avocets joined by a Black Tailed Godwit!
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White Deer. Not an albino ccording to a Warden, it's just a genetic fault..
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I wonder if Burton have got spoonbills again. I never seen them till last year.
And I remember the first time I saw Egrets along the 'beach' at Parkgate and wondered what they were, never used to get those in this country, now we have 3 kinds.
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I hope they have some Mo.

Little Egrets were first to appear again in the early 90's.

Now the Great White Egrets are appearing more and more, some even breeding here.
There are 17 at Dungeness at present, goes up every year.

Then there's the Cattle Egret showing more and more, plus as you say, Spoonbills.

They say there isn't a climate change, for whatever reason, going on.

Fear is that large birds are doing quite well, it's the little one's suffering.

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Great White Egret, Dungeness...
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Little Egret in field down the Lane...
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Cattle Egret in field Dungeness...
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some really good photos there Richard )like( I like the one with the flying avocets, and yes, the "handsome boy" looks magnificent
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The first piccie is indeed of a very handsome boy.
As for the white deer, where we lived before there were three herds and each one had at least one white deer. One year there were three in one herd. I thought albino's were a genetic fault......
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Great pics Richard! Love the Spoonbills. When we first saw Little Egret in Devon about 15years ago it was amazing & now we don't bat an eyelid!!
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Beautiful photos Richard, thank you for putting them on.
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They are beautiful photos Richard none of them would look out of place on the Countryfile calender, maybe something worth thinking about with the quality of your work )like(
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Linda S wrote:They are beautiful photos Richard none of them would look out of place on the Countryfile calender, maybe something worth thinking about with the quality of your work )like(
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now there's an idea - a DTL calendar for members to buy )like(
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I did think about a Calendar, but the outlay was a little worrying, but thank you for your nice comments.

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Good idea from LL there Richard though I was thinking it may be a good idea for you to enter the country file calender competition, I didn't word it very well did I :-D
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I could wear my leopard skin leotard.

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Now that Richard, I would seriously think about paying good money to see. {rofwl}
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Can't be any worse than that bloke in the green mankini it scared me for life that one {rofwl}
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