Showing posts with label Common Scoter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Common Scoter. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 March 2026

Common Scoter!

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 I've only managed 3 visits to Linacre this year (!), so I was very keen to get down this morning. Honestly, I was hoping for some Whoop...
Monday, 4 August 2025

Year List Update - 4th August 2025

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 Jayne and I are up in Scotland for a couple of weeks. On the drive up, we stopped off at Musselburgh Lagoons, near Edinburgh, to look for s...
Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Falmouth - 29th October 2024

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 Today, we spent the day in and around the Falmouth area, with our nephew, Luke and family. We managed another couple of year ticks, Firecre...
Saturday, 18 March 2023

Common Scoter

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 After today's visit to Linacre, I saw a record of a male Common Scoter on Chesterfield Canal, so popped down there. It was still prese...
Sunday, 31 October 2021

Scotland - October 2021

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 Jayne and I were in Scotland last week, where we added a few birds to the "year list" and had another couple of possibles. We wer...
Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Scotland - 19th April 2019

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Jayne and I are up in Scotland for a few days, and our first stop, on 19th, was Musselburgh Lagoons, near Edinburgh. We stopped off here to ...
Saturday, 1 September 2018

Norfolk Birding - August 2018

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Last weekend Jayne and I spent 3 days in Norfolk. We travelled down on Sunday and popped into RSPB Frampton Marsh to catch up with a Stilt ...
Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Linacre Birds - 7th August 2017

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It's been just over a month since I last blogged about Linacre Reservoirs here, so, after a 3 hour visit on Monday, I thought I'd be...
Monday, 3 July 2017

Common Scoter at Linacre ... again!

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Back in September 2016 there was a record of 4 Common Scoters at Linacre Reservoirs (see here for details). I didn't manage to see the...
Friday, 23 September 2016

Common Scoter at Linacre

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I rarely go to Linacre after work, but news of 4 Common Scoter on the Derbyshire Ornithological Society's website on the 19th (Monday)...
Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Scarborough, Bempton and Bridlington

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I spent yesterday out and about in Yorkshire with Luke. We started the day off in Scarborough, before driving down to the RSPB Bempton Cliff...
Thursday, 31 December 2015

Year List 2015- the final figure!

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So it's just gone 7pm on New Year's Eve, so I think it's safe to say I won't be adding any new birds to the "year list...
Monday, 28 October 2013

Aberlady Bay and Gullane Bents

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I'm up in North Berwick for a few days, so this morning I got up early and drove across to Aberlady Bay in search of a Snow Goose that...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Aberlady Bay and Gullane Bay

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I've made a couple of visits to Aberlady Bay over the last few days to look at the flock of approximately 20,000 roosting Pink-footed G...
Wednesday, 26 October 2011

St Mary's Island - 22nd October 2011

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Following a morning visit to Warkworth Beach we had a drive down the coast and popped into St Mary's Island in Whitley Bay for a couple ...
Monday, 24 October 2011

Warkworth Beach - 22nd October 2011

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With the start of half term holidays I travelled up to Northumberland with my wife and daughter to catch up with our son and do abit of bird...
Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Wales - 20th - 22nd February 2011

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Just been away for a few days to Wales with the family, so I thought I'd let you know how we got on. Though not principally a birding tr...