{"id":2059876,"date":"2019-06-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=3034bedcb36eab9d15e8f65fe174b9f9"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:47:41","slug":"the-dale-continues-to-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/the-dale-continues-to-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dale continues to deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week has not only been about reminiscing about the weekend and I have been out in the Dale although with lots of rain my visits have been short. There has still been lots to see though.<\/p>\n

The Three-toed Woodpeckers seem to have failed with their breeding as a 70 minute vigil at the nest hole on Wednesday failed to reveal any birds however a female (must have been the unpaired one toe) was drumming on Friday at the initial site.<\/p>\n

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A pair of Black-throated Divers (storlom) showed well on Maridalsvannet and have presumably been flooded out due to changing water levels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also yesterday I watched a pair of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers at their nest hole feeding noisy young with the adults coming as often as every 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

Icterine, Wood & Marsh Warblers and Common Rosefinches are still singing and after seeing a lone female earlier in the week I had the rare honour of hearing a male Red-backed Shrike singing today.<\/p>\n

I have previously noted that I have only heard Red-backed Shrike sing once before and it was very interesting to hear it today. It sang a lot but the song was very quiet and was almost drowned out by other species which were much further away.<\/p>\n

I also noticed a lot of mimicry with it copying Willow Warbler, Redwing and Wren.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday I had Honey Buzzard which I picked up on call and reckon I have an idea where they might be breeding which will warrant a proper search at some time.<\/p>\n