Recent Sightings
from MARCH 2021
2021 (best viewed in landscape on mobile phones) Link to heading
Sighting
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Otter
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Minke Whale
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Sedge Warbler
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Corncrake (x2 – they’re back!)
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White-fronted Goose (x4)
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Teal (x7)
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Mute Swan (x2)
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Whooper Swan (x3)
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Shoveler
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Gadwall (a pair)
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Tufted Duck
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Whimbrel (x3)
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Scots Lovage (new site)
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Lapwing (chicks everywhere)
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Hen Harrier (x3 males)
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Mossy Saxifrage (locally abundant)
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Pipewort (rosettes developing)
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White-tailed Eagle
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Kestrel
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Rue-leaved Saxifrage
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Mute Swan (x2)
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Common Heath moth (first of year)
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Marsh Violet
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Thale Cress (only Coll location)
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Porpoise (x5)
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Red-throated Diver (x4)
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Cuckoo (new arrivals)
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Hawfinch (major rarity!)
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Twite (x5)
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Barnacle Goose (x120 north)
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Little Terns (x15 new for year)
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Pink Purslane (new for Coll)
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Long-tailed Tit
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Black-headed Gull (x7)
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Eider (x20)
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Whimbrel (x8)
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Shoveler (x4)
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Wigeon (x2)
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Black-tailed Godwit (x14)
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Golden Plover (x40+60)
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Otter (x2)
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Great Northern Diver (x25)
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Willow Warblers (first of the year)
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Green Hairstreak
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Common Seal (x75)
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Golden Plover (x40)
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Dunlin (x6)
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Sanderling (x16)
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Hen Harrier (a pair)
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Golden Plover (x4)
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Sand Martin (at colony)
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Sea Spleenwort
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Shelduck (a pair)
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Roseroot (new location)
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Golden Plover (x5)
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Arctic Skua (x1)
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White-tailed Eagle (x3)
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Common Scurvy-grass
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Great Northern Diver (x8 calling)
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Black Guillemot (x11)
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Eider (x2 pairs)
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Red-breasted Merganser (x4 pairs)
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Shelduck (x2)
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Canada Goose (2 separate individuals)
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Peregrine (x2)
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Otter (2 separate individuals)
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Eider (2 pairs)
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Barnacle Goose (x150)
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Pink-footed Goose (x70 north)
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Water Rail
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Whooper Swan (x14)
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Wood Pigeon (x7 pairs)
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Whooper Swan (x16)
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Arctic Skua
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Bonxie (x 3 in territory)
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Red-throated Diver (2 pairs in territory)
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Hen Harrier (pair)
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Early Whitlowgrass (new location)
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White-tailed Eagle
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Hart’s-tongue Fern (new location)
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Redwing (50+)
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Chiffchaff
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Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
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Merlin (cracking male!)
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Eider
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Great Northern Diver (x3)
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Mute swan
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Bonxie
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Twite
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Merlin
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Shelduck
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Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
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Black Guillemot (x2)
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Rusty-back Fern (local rarity)
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Peacock butterfly (x4)
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White-tailed Eagle (x3)
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Merlin (female)
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Moss Carder Bee (queen)
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Bonxie (x2)
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Minke Whale (our first of the year)
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Manx Shearwaters (north in numbers)
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Hart’s-tongue Fern (new location!)
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White-tailed Eagle (x2)
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Whooper Swan (x16+1)
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White-fronted Goose (x100 heading north)
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Wood Pigeon
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Whooper Swan (x16 north)
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Great Northern Diver (x3)
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Golden Plover (parties totalling 70)
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Barnacle Goose (x120 heading north)
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Wheatear
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Redwing (x60)
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Sand Martin (x2)
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Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
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Redwing (x3 Icelandic race)
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Bonxie (x2)
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Barnacle Geese (moving north)
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Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
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Wheatear (first of the year)
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Jack Snipe
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Golden Plover
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Whooper Swan (x2)
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Red-throated Diver
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Fulmar (exploring nesting sites)
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Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
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Peregrine (a pair displaying)
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Redwing (x3 Icelandic race)
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Red Chestnut moth (x3 in trap)
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Canada Goose (x19)
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White-fronted Goose (70)
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Wood Pigeon (x3)
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Whooper Swan (big movement north)
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Bilberry (rare on Coll)
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White-tailed Eagle
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Belted Beauty moth
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Long-tailed Tit
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Mottled Grey moth (in trap)
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Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
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Otter
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Mute Swan
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White-fronted Goose (plenty still about)
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An early Bonxie
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Sea Spleenwort
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Great Northern Diver (x3)
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Date
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29/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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28/4/2021
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27/4/2021
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27/4/2021
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27/4/2021
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27/4/2021
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27/4/2021
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26/4/2021
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26/4/2021
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25/4/2021
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25/4/2021
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24/4/2021
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24/4/2021
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24/4/2021
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24/4/2021
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24/4/2021
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23/4/2021
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23/4/2021
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23/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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20/4/2021
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20/4/2021
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20/4/2021
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20/4/2021
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20/4/2021
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17/4/2021
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17/4/2021
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17/4/2021
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17/4/2021
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17/4/2021
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16/4/2021
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15/4/2021
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15/4/2021
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15/4/2021
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15/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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14/4/2021
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12/4/2021
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12/4/2021
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12/4/2021
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12/4/2021
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11/4/2021
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11/4/2021
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11/4/2021
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9/4/2021
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9/4/2021
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9/4/2021
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9/4/2021
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9/4/2021
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7/4/2021
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7/4/2021
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7/4/2021
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7/4/2021
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5/4/2021
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5/4/2021
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5/4/2021
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5/4/2021
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4/4/2021
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4/4/2021
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4/4/2021
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3/4/2021
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3/4/2021
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3/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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2/4/2021
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1/4/2021
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1/4/2021
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1/4/2021
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1/4/2021
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1/4/2021
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31/3/2021
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31/3/2021
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31/3/2021
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31/3/2021
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31/3/2021
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31/3/2021
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31/3/2021
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31/3/2021
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31/3/2021
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30/3/2021
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30/3/2021
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30/3/2021
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28/3/2021
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27/3/2021
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27/3/2021
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26/3/2021
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25/3/2021
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25/3/2021
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24/3/2021
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23/3/2021
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23/3/2021
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23/3/2021
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23/3/2021
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21/3/2021
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20/3/2021
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20/3/2021
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20/3/2021
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19/3/2021
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17/3/2021
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16/3/2021
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16/3/2021
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15/3/2021
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15/3/2021
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15/3/2021
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14/3/2021
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14/3/2021
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13/3/2021
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13/3/2021
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12/3/2021
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5/3/2021
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2/3/2021
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2020 (best viewed in landscape on mobile phones) Link to heading
Sighting
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Mistle Thrush
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Redwing (Icelandic race x6)
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Great Northern Diver (x2)
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Common Dolphin (x15)
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Fieldfare (x30)
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Whooper Swan
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Kestrel
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Merlin
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Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Whooper Swan (x5)
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Yellow-browed Warbler (x2)
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White-tailed Eagle
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Barnacle Goose (x32)
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Whooper Swan (x36)
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Pink-footed Goose (x63)
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Barnacle Goose (x76)
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Otter (x2)
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Redwing (Icelandic race x9)
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Ruby Tiger Moth (caterpillar)
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Hen Harrier (male)
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Yellow-browed Warbler
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Golden Eagle
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Otter (x2)
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White-tailed Eagle
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Golden Eagle
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Barnacle Goose (x3)
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Lesser Water-plantain
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Frog Orchid
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Swallow (x2)
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Field Gentian
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Sparrowhawk (male)
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Red-throated Diver (x2)
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Common Dolphin (x5)
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Bar-tailed Godwit (x2)
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White-tailed Eagle (x2)
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Great Northern Diver
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Pale-bellied Brent Goose (x5)
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Wheatear (Greenland race x3)
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Yellow-browed Warbler
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White-tailed Eagle
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Sparrowhawk (x5)
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Pink-footed Goose (x2)
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White-tailed Eagle
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Drinker Moth (caterpillar)
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Merlin
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Pink-footed Goose (x1)
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Whooper Swan
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Great Northern Diver
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Common Frog
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Kestrel
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Short-eared Owl
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Frog Orchid (x5)
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Peregrine (x2)
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Brindled Ochre Moth (x2)
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Black Guillemot
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Green shank
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Red-throated Diver
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Widgeon (x2)
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Black-headed Gull
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Greenshank (x14)
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White-line Dart Moth
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Cut-leaved Dead-nettle
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Canada Goose (x2)
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Merlin
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Irish Ladies-Tresses
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Field Gentian
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Sea Aster
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Greenshank (x3)
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Striped Twin-spot Carpet Moth
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Sand Martin (x10)
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Arctic Skua (x2)
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Otter (x2)
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Knot
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Whimbrel
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Merlin
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Great Skua x10
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Great Skua
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Whimbrel
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Whooper Swan
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Green Sandpiper
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Peregrine (with ravens)
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Aceria geranii (the Eriophyid gall mite)
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Pomarine skua (dark phase)
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Knot (juv)
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Merlin
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Hen Harrier (ring tailed)
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Sparrow hawk (female)
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Corncrake
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Red-throated Diver (pair)
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Common Dolphin (x6)
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Basking Shark (2)
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Dark Green Fritillary
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Pipewort (in abundance)
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Knot Grass Moth (caterpillar)
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Frog Orchid
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Basking Shark (x4)
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Date
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18/10/2020
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17/10/2020
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16/10/2020
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14/10/2020
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14/10/2020
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14/10/2020
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13/10/2020
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13/10/2020
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13/10/2020
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11/10/2020
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10/10/2020
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10/10/2020
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10/10/2020
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09/10/2020
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09/10/2020
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08/10/2020
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08/10/2020
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07/10/2020
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06/10/2020
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06/10/2020
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05/10/2020
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05/10/2020
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05/10/2020
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04/10/2020
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03/10/2020
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02/10/2020
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02/10/2020
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02/10/2020
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02/10/2020
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01/10/2020
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01/10/2020
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01/10/2020
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01/10/2020
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01/10/2020
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01/10/2020
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01/10/2020
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01/10/2020
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30/09/2020
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30/09/2020
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30/09/2020
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30/09/2020
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