Showing posts with label Barnacle Goose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barnacle Goose. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 August 2026

Four New Birds

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Before we came away, a good friend shared an excellent place to see Stone Curlew , so yesterday afternoon, I set out to have a look at the s...
Sunday, 16 August 2026

Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 4th Lifer of the Year!

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 Yesterday, I was dropping Jayne off for our daughter's "hen do" in York, so I decided to drive on to Scaling Dam Reservoir on...
Sunday, 7 April 2024

Year List Update - 7th April 2024

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 It's been a few weeks since I updated the "Year List", and, since then, I've added a few new species. First was the Ring-...
Monday, 5 April 2021

Red-necked Grebe - Carsington 2nd April 2021

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Jayne and I went to Carsington on Friday and had a few hours walking around the dam wall, Stones Island and Hide area. The highlight of the ...
Monday, 4 March 2019

Year List Update - 4th March 2019

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The "Year List" has moved on again, with several new species added at Carsington Water last weekend (numbers 119 - 121), Red-legge...
Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Minsmere again!!

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RSPB Minsmere really is a wonderful place, so I popped down again yesterday morning at 5:30am, and spent 3 and a half hours walking around t...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

WWT Slimbridge- 15th February 2016

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It's half term this week, so I traveled down to the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust's Slimbridge reserve with my nephew and his friend o...
Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Dovedale Walk and Carsington Water

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Yesterday I went for a walk along Dovedale with my family and a good friend. We walked around the river from the car park at Dovedale to Mi...
Saturday, 28 February 2015

New goose at Linacre.

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I've been recording the birdlife at Linacre Reservoirs regularly since 2006, and in that time I've only seen Canada and Greylag Gee...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

East Lothian Tour and 3 Year Ticks

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Got up and out again this morning. First stop was Musselburgh Lagoons on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I visited this site for the first time...
Thursday, 22 August 2013

139 birds

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That's the total number of birds me and five other members of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group caught at The Avenue during two sessions o...
Friday, 4 January 2013

Carsington Water - January 2013

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Following on from yesterday's excursion I spent a few hours out at Carsington Water today. The weather wasn't great, but I had a sh...
Thursday, 12 April 2012

Carsington Water - 4 Year Ticks

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Hi there. Had a trip up to Carsington Water today and managed to bag myself 4 Year ticks- hurrah. First up was a Great Northern Diver th...
Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Bamburgh and Seahouses - 24th October 2011

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Our last day in Northumberland was unfortunately very windy, which meant that the birding was quite difficult to put it nicely! Despite the ...