Was really looking forward to surveying the Northumberland Curlews this Spring, just have to hope that a silver lining might be a good breeding year with the moors being undisturbed, watercolour sketch. Take care all

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Continuing our tracking efforts w/ we deployed transmitters on 1 male & 1 female in northern Stay tuned as we find out where coastal California curlews breed!

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Angela Harding - Two Curlews (linocut)

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For some reason this image came into my thoughts tonight a pair of foraging curlews & a redshank, on a winter windswept Northumbrian beach, watercolour. Have a great weekend all 👍

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A trio of Curlews! FAR EASTERN CURLEW, LITTLE CURLEW and WHIMBREL all at Ma Chang, Beijing, this week. Just missing EURASIAN CURLEW (ironically the most frequent curlew in Beijing) for a full house.

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A snippet of a Curlews painting work in progress

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Beach Stone-curlews are such charismatic birds, they'll often sidle up to take a closer look at you and then walk off indifferently!

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It's Natural Historian George Balam in his 1912 book the Birds of Northumberland captured the beauty of "A moor without a curlew is like a night without the moon, and he who has not eye for the one and an ear for the other is a mere body without a soul"

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Sheep blarting hopefully for cake after the neighbour on his rounds through the fields.

Sparrows bickering over space in the roof of the barn,

A curlews bubbling call.

Monday morning 6.19, rush hour.

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For me, engaging people is a 3 stage process, from heart to head to action. Slide 2

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Some sketches of Stone-Curlews! An excuse to draw some long legs! inspired me to draw more waders!

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How do we persuade people that Curlews are a conservation priority, when they can see flocks of 100 or more in the winter? This blog provides answers!
https://t.co/1u7ZgyBmi7

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Had to doa Stansted airport run so diverted to Cavenham Heath after, displaying Stone Curlews & a smart male Wheatear were a nice reward

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"Day after day these autumn mornings, just as it grows light over sea and shore, begins a wild calling of many Curlews."

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Curlews rising. Otter hunting.

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Stone Curlews in furrow, interesting shapes the clusters of birds make, perhaps the last day of good weather, v windy

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Stone Curlews hiding during day in furrows in potato fields - becoming active and vocal at dusk - such peculiar birds

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