Showing posts with label Alvaston Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alvaston Park. Show all posts
Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Derbyshire Gulls - 26th October 2020

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 I had a little "Gull Tour" yesterday, visiting two of my favourite places in search of over-wintering Black-headed Gulls. Both si...
Friday, 28 August 2020

Gulls, Parakeets and a Swan

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 Yesterday, I had my first visit to Alvaston Park in Derby since January (see here ), hoping to catch up with some returning Black-headed Gu...
Tuesday, 7 January 2020

New Year Gulls - Part 2

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As well as visiting Rufford Park last week (see here ), I also had a quick visit to Alvaston Park in Derby. The trip was quite frustrating...
Sunday, 5 January 2020

New Year Gulls - Part 1

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In the first few days of 2020 I've had a couple of trips to Rufford CP to get my first sightings of darvic ringed Black-headed Gulls for...
Saturday, 4 January 2020

Year List Additions

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Yesterday, I had another day out birding and managed to add another 8 species to my Year List for 2020. My first stop was the Nottinghamsh...
Saturday, 16 November 2019

Alvaston Park - 16th November 2019

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A couple of weeks ago I was in Alvaston Park, and spotted the Danish ringed Black-headed Gull VA4073, (see here ). I was back there again to...
Saturday, 2 November 2019

Danish Gull VA4073 Returns

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A quick trip to Alvaston Park in Derby today looking for gulls produced a Danish-ringed bird, VA4073, a bird that I first saw here in Novemb...
Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Black-headed Gulls - an update

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Last winter was my best ever for recording darvic, colour ringed Black-headed Gulls in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, with 25 different bi...
Monday, 18 February 2019

Old Friends and New

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I had a bit of a "gull tour" today, visiting a couple of well known sites to see if I could catch up with some ringed Black-headed...
Sunday, 2 December 2018

Norwegian and Swedish Black-headed Gulls

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I was back in Alvaston Park, Derby again today, looking at..... yes, you've guessed it.. Black-headed Gulls . There were still about 100...
Friday, 30 November 2018

Derby Black-headed Gulls

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Back on 11th November, Jayne and I drove down to Alvaston Park in Derby to look for some Ring-necked Parakeets that had been reported there...