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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:13:28 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>A sanctuary in the shadow of industry</title>
           
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  RECENTLY my wife and I paid a return visit to the RSPB nature reserve at Saltholme on Teesside. It now seems to be described as more of a wildlife reserve and discovery park than a bird sanctuary, but it is an astonishing place.
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           <title>Some hardy visitors, but cold comfort for summer migrants</title>
           
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  NO-ONE will be surprised that March, with its bitter cold, was not a good month for summer migrants. Nevertheless, a couple of hardy birds braved the conditions.
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           <title>Quiet month but birds of prey livened things up</title>
           
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  IT has been rather a quiet winter for local birdwatchers and February was no exception. Waxwings were still around in decent numbers though.
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           <title>Wading in with memories of the year’s geese and gulls</title>
           
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  THIS is a chance to look back on what has been an interesting, if not classic, 12 months for birdwatchers. The year kicked off with large numbers of geese still present from 2011. Snape Mires and the Nosterfield area were particularly attractive and attracted flocks of over 100 Whitefronted Geese and more than 70 Bean Geese.
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           <title>Rather a gull month in birthwatching calendar</title>
           
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  There was little doubt about April’s bird of the month, a ring-billed gull which dropped in briefly at Scorton Quarry. This rare American bird looks rather like a small herring gull but with a
  prominent dark band across its beak. This species had never been seen in Britain before the 1970s but there then followed a sharp rise in sightings. However, it has become rather scarcer again in
  recent years and it remains a genuinely rare bird in Yorkshire.
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           <title>The month of the egret - and a little blue mystery</title>
           
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  LAST month will be remembered as the month of the egret.
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           <title>Don’t be bitten by a bittern if you venture too close</title>
           
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  WAXWINGS continued to delight local birdwatchers through January, and up to half-a-dozen birds were seen at many places, including three that took up temporary residence outside the booking office
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           <title>Fascinating year ends with an Asian mystery</title>
           
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  THIS is another chance to look back on what has been a really interesting 12 months for local birdwatchers. The year kicked off as it ended with heavy snowfall and very low temperatures.
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           <title>Waxwing and bittern</title>
           
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  NOVEMBER saw the first local appearance of a bird that is likely to dominate this winter, the waxwing.
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           <title>Summer migrants overlap with winter visitors</title>
           
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  THERE has been a trend in recent years for summer migrants to linger in the UK later than previously. This September was no exception with birds like Swallows and House martins still present in
  high numbers throughout the month and even Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs still in song at the month end.
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