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Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher seen feeding young in Merriott. (Only ever seen one once before.) Must try and get a better picture . They are nesting in the roof of a barn adjacent to a nearby stream. There are also a nesting pair of Grey Wagtails in the same barn.
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Saw one near the Ham Wall car park last Sunday, by the way...

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I expect that they are easily dismissed at a distance as just another lbj by novices like me but even at 25M it caught my eye and luckily my 42x zoom just managed to record it.

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Spotted Flycatcher at Ham Wall yesterday evening. Feeding from wires near the main entrance gate.

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I must be lucky,several round my home near brompton regis exmoor,not as many as last year though.love that snapping sound

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One seen today in the grounds of Street Youth Hostel where there was also a Marsh Tit

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Struggled to find them at previous locations and beginning to think I wouldn't see any this year but managed to track a pair down outside main entrance to (private) Compton Castle near Compton Pauncefoot.

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Spotted Flycatcher this afternoon Kilmersdon side of the Mells Down cycle Path