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Yarrow Valley Park

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Top lodge:- Pair of Mute Swans with 4 fast growing cygnets, female Mandarin with one juvenile, 2 singing Reed Bunting, but no Reed Warbler.
Big Lodge:- Pairs of Mute Swan and GC Grebe still infanticipating. Female Mallard with 8 and 6 young respectively. Coot with 1 and 4 young, c25 BH Gulls with 3 juveniles.
River:- probably 3 family parties of Grey Wagtail
Generally:- 5 singing Blackcap, 2 singing Goldcrest
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Sightings very similar to Neils. 1 Dipper on the river.
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Re: Yarrow Valley Park

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Nice Mandarin shots Peter.
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Thanks Len.
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The Great Crested Grebes have now produced a chick, with perhaps another to follow.

Insect:- Black-tailed Skimmer
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The Great Crested Grebes now have 2 chicks. Dipper with 1 juvenile and Grey Wagtail with 1 Juvenile on the river. 1 Cormorant next to the raft and a Terrapin trying to get onto the raft, but the swans weren't having any of it, at one stage the female swan attacked it. Lots of Common Blue Damselflies and a Male Banded Demoiselle.
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The pair of swans on the raft now have a chick, so they have good reason to attack the terrapin!
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Re: Yarrow Valley Park

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I suppose we should be recording these terrapins / turtles just as we do with any other feral / invasive species. The best I can come up with for the one in Peter's photo is Painted Turtle. Red-eared Slider is another possibility. If anyone knows any better, please post. Interestingly, there was a similar image on YVCPAG Facebook page, but it looked markedly different. I hope we haven't got a pair!
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Stanley Park in Blackpool hold a lot of Red Eared Terrapins. Local people have told me that back in the 1950s someone dump some unwanted Terrapins in the lake. I have seen as many as 30 in one area, and the one at YVP is very similar.
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Re: Yarrow Valley Park

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The second pair of Mute swans now have 3 chicks. The GC Grebe has two. A Coot family with 7 young were in a tight raft on big lodge.
Mandarin and single young and original swan family on Top Lodge.
Grey Wagtail at three locations with young birds at one. A bird at the weir has a gammy leg. nuthatch and Treecreeper calling. Still singing:- Song Thrush, Blackcap (3), Chiffchaff, Goldcrest.
Insect:- Banded Demoiselle
Mammal:- Grey Squirrel
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