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Michael Harrison
 Post subject: Passage Migrants
PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:08 am 
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Location: Baumber Park, Horncastle.
Sunday 26th August

Hemingby:-
Flock of 5 curlew flying north upstream over R.Bain towards Baumber Mill.

Shearmans Wath, West Ashby:-
11 Teal
2 Grey Heron
7 Green Sandpiper
10 Snipe

Baumber:- 1900hrs
Suprised to find an unseasonal Short Eared Owl sitting on a swath of straw on a newly harvested barley field.

Mike
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Stuart Britton
 Post subject: Re: Passage Migrants
PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:21 am 
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Michael,
Swath!! - you'd better include a translation for the non yellow-bellies who read the Forum!
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Michael Harrison
 Post subject: Re: Passage Migrants
PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:54 pm 
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Like you Stuart I am a Yellowbelly through and through and am a keen student of our local dialect and practise it whenever I can although I don't think the word 'Swath' is particularly 'Linkisheer', phonetically it would most likely be 'Swaath'!

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Greg Roberts
 Post subject: Re: Passage Migrants
PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:42 pm 
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Mike.
That'll be a Swath on the Wath then ?

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