wagtail


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Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks

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During the quarter the Wagtail South open pit advanced in line with schedule and reached the top of the main ore shoot by June 30.
This latter feature of wagtail life is the source of much speculation.
Colin Singer, managing director of Wagtail UK was the host alongside his loyal and experienced staff who gave hospitality.
And the moment I realise that it was a baby pied wagtail was when I saw mum flying around trying to encourage her child to fly around a bit more.
RSPB Conwy is a regular stop-over for White Wagtails, and last week a Yellow Wagtail came too.
A final walk through the gardens barely minutes before departure found lawns patrolled by loose flocks of White Wagtails all black and white and gray.
The Misford family from Newport-Kevin, wife Andrea and teenage son Thomasshared a 150lb catch of carp when they visited Lower Pen y Clawdd Farm at Raglan and fished Wagtail Pool.
Various species of Siberian birds including, the Siberian Crane, Greater Flamingo, Ruff, Black-winged Stilt, Common Teal, Common Greenshank, Northern Pintail, Wagtail, Wagtail, Northern Shoveler, Rosy Pelican and Gadwall, migrate to Indian wetlands.
On Sunday on Kestrel and Wagtail 34 fished and Peter Close of Browning Quaker, won with 50lb 2oz.
Collin Singer, who runs Flintshire-based Wagtail UK and Simon O'Rourke, owner of Tree Carving Ltd in Rossett are supporting a campaign by the Federation of Small Businesses Wales (FSB) to increase understanding of the role of owner managers in society.
The warning, which gave a frightening insight into his unstable state of mind, was on a four-hour voice message found in the tent Moat used at Wagtail Farm, near Rothbury.
The conservation status isn't looking very good for the stunning yellow wagtail. During the past 25 years, the number of birds returning to the UK to breed has declined by more than 50 per cent, most likely due to loss of habitat for breeding and feeding, making it a red list species Like the yellow wagtail, many of our long-distance summer migrants, including swifts, turtle doves and wood warblers are failing to return to the UK in the numbers we used to see leaving the RSPB and the BTO very worried.
Two years ago when then Environment Minister Noel Dempsey gave the go-ahead for the controversial tm4.5 million Monument of Light, he specified that work on the 120-metre-high stainless steel needle should cause minimal disturbance to the wagtail roosts.