Showing posts with label Canada Goose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada Goose. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 August 2026

Rufford Gulls - 12th August 2026

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 Yesterday, on the way back from Blacktoft Sands, Jayne and I had a quick, half an hour stop, at Rufford. It was very sunny and 32 degrees, ...
Saturday, 18 July 2026

Rufford - 18th July 2026

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 I had a few hours free this afternoon, so I had my second visit of the "autumn" to Rufford CP. The number of Black-headed Gulls ...
Friday, 10 April 2026

And they're back..!!

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 I was down at Linacre this morning to carry out the first nestbox check of 2026. It was a mixed bag, as always, with 7 nests with eggs in t...
Thursday, 21 August 2025

Rufford Gulls - 20th August 2025

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 After a couple of weeks away, I had a 2 hour visit to Rufford yesterday afternoon. There were approximately 75 Black-headed Gulls present ...
Sunday, 5 January 2025

Year List Update

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 Yesterday, I added a few more birds to the Year List. The first four were all at Rufford CP, yesterday, and included my first site record o...
Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Rufford Gulls - 29th August 2023

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 I popped over to Rufford for an hour this afternoon. There were about 50 Black-headed Gulls (10 juveniles), 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (...
Monday, 28 August 2023

Cumbrian Gulls (and Geese) - 23rd and 24th August 2023

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 Jayne and I had a few days up in the Lake District last week. We stayed in Keswick and visited Derwent Water and Bowness-on-Windermere. The...
Thursday, 6 January 2022

Attenborough Nature Reserve - 4th January 2022

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On Tuesday, my nephew and I went down to Attenborough Nature Reserve. We had a walk around the reserve and added a few more species to the Y...
Sunday, 18 April 2021

Linacre Ringing and Nest Recording

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 This weekend I've had two visits to Linacre, once for the first ringing session there since September 2020, and once for the first nest...
Sunday, 11 April 2021

Sunshine and (Snow) Showers

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Today was this month's WeBS walk at Linacre. I had a wander round and recorded the following birds: Mallard (45), Mandarin (24), Coot...
Saturday, 27 February 2021

Linacre Reservoir - 27th February 2021

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 It was a bright, sunny and calm morning this morning, with a temperature of just 1 degree at 7am, as I arrived at Linacre. I spent 2 hours ...
Wednesday, 23 December 2020

Rufford and Clumber - 21st December 2020

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 On Monday I had a few hours at Rufford and Clumber Park, looking for ringed Black-headed Gulls . In total, I saw 5 known birds and 2 new on...
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Sunday, 13 December 2020

New Black-headed Gull - VA5573

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There were about 200 Black-headed Gulls at Rufford CP yesterday, including three well known birds, 217A, 237A and V77K (see labels for deta...
Sunday, 29 November 2020

Rufford Gulls, Swans and Geese - 28th November 2020

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Normally when I go to Rufford CP, it's to catch up with the Black-headed Gulls that over winter there. Yesterday's trip there was f...
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...
Thursday, 15 August 2019

Black-headed Gull EA32375 in Bakewell

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Yesterday, Luke and I went across to Bakewell to see if we could find any ringed Black-headed Gulls . There were only about 20 gulls there, ...
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Monday, 15 July 2019

Black-headed Gulls - Winter begins!!

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I went to Bakewell on Saturday to see if there were any Black-headed Gulls back from their breeding grounds. There were about 20 birds pres...
Sunday, 28 April 2019

Linacre Nestboxes - Update 28th April 2019

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It's now been 2 weeks since my last check of the nestboxes at Linacre, so I went down this morning with 2 other members of Sorby Breck R...