{"id":10767,"date":"2024-11-18T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10767"},"modified":"2024-11-24T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T14:20:42","slug":"kingfishers-and-polypores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/kingfishers-and-polypores\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingfishers and Polypores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Another visit to Shipley Glen and Crag Hebble Dam. Male and female Kingfisher and large Birch polypore. And a walk down through Trench Meadows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Crag Hebble Dam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On this visit to Crag Hebble Dam there were no hoards of runners and cyclists so I was able to spend some time watching and waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crag Hebble Dam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Crag Hebble Dam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The header image shows a Kingfisher on a higher perch watching for food in the water. They eat various small things but I only saw them with small fish – minnows. When I was watching the female Kingfisher at the far side of the Dam I kept hearing a Kingfisher call. At first I thought it was the bird I was watching but then another call made me look over my shoulder, and there on the rocks near the pool was another Kingfisher. It took me a second or two to find it so I wondered if it was the same bird that I had been watching. I looked back to the tree branch and the female was still there. The male then called again and the two of them flew down Loadpit Beck towards the river.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Polypores<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Even though it was raining I decided to walk down through Trench Meadows to the river at Hirst Mill. I didn’t spot anything in Trench Meadow other than the cattle that help manage it as an SSSI but just before I got to the gate to it I did spot a leaning Birch tree with some rather large examples of Birch polypore bracket fungus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birch polypore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Birch polypore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Birch polypore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Birch polypore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trench Meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Higher Coach Road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grey Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A temporary fence has been put up along the river bank with signs warning people that the rocks of the weir are slippery when wet. Peering through the fence I did spot a Dipper on the other side of the river and a couple of ducks paddling amongst the rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking back up to Shipley Glen I did spot a Grey Heron in Trench Meadow. It walked into Loadpit Beck where presumably it can find food. Using my binoculars to focus beyond the surface reflections I had been able to see fish in Crag Hebble Dam but I have yet to see fish in the Beck itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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