Showing posts with label Dunlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dunlin. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Baird's Sandpiper!

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The incredible run of rare waders continued today, when a Baird's Sandpiper (197) was found at Redmires Reservoir, Sheffield. Another li...
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

South Gare - 15th August 2026

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After my trip to see the Buff-breasted Sandpiper , I drove up to South Gare, near Redcar (where I'd twitched a Brown Booby back in 2023...
Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Grey Phalarope - 2nd September 2025

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 Normal service was resumed today, as Jayne and I set out "twitching" again! This time, we headed up to Edderthorpe Flash, near Ba...
Friday, 30 May 2025

Northumberland Dip!!

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 Whilst in Northumberland, I had a coupe of early morning visits to Lindisfarne to see if I could spot an American Golden Plover , that had ...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022

Stag Rocks - 2nd January 2022

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Jayne and I were still up in Northumberland on the 2nd, so we had a few hours at Stag Rocks aka Harkess Rocks, near Bamburgh. When we got th...
Thursday, 19 August 2021

Pacific Golden Plover and Black Stork!!

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 Yesterday I had a drive over to RSPB Frampton Marsh to see a couple of nice birds:  Pacific Golden Plover (lifer!) and Black Stork (Brit...
Sunday, 4 August 2019

RSPB Dungeness

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Jayne and I had a trip around RSPB Dungeness on 1st August. We spent a couple of hours on the reserve, and saw some nice birds, insects and...
Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Colour-ringed Mediterranean Gulls - Cornwall 2019

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Last week, whilst in Cornwall I managed to see 2 colour-ringed Mediterranean Gulls on the RSPB's Hayle Estuary reserve.The first bird,...
Saturday, 7 October 2017

Year List Update - 7th October 2017

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I haven't update  my 2017 "Year List" since August.  There haven't been too many additions since then, but I have added Sh...
Wednesday, 2 August 2017

RSPB Marazion Marsh

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Jayne and I spent a couple of hours at Marazion Beach and RSPB Marazion Marsh near Penzance on Sunday morning. We started off by walking...
Thursday, 20 April 2017

Three New Birds

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I was up at Carsington Water for a couple of hours on Tuesday evening (18th) walking around Stones Island. I was on my annual "wagtail...
Monday, 19 December 2016

Wader Ringing

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Since I started ringing back in September 2011 I've always concentrated on passerines, simply because these are the types of birds that ...
Thursday, 3 September 2015

RSPB Old Moor

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I had a day at RSPB Old Moor today in search of a Great White Egret , that has been present for a few weeks. After a few hours, and quite a ...
Saturday, 14 February 2015

North East trip adds to the Year List

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Although the weather wasn't great yesterday, we decided to have a trip to the coast. We decided on Tynemouth near Newcastle, as this mea...
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Monday, 15 December 2014

WWT Welney

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I was out and about with the Chesterfield RSPB Group at the weekend, visiting the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust's Welney reserve. At th...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012

VELVET SCOTERS!!!!!

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I spent two hours at Musselburgh Lagoons on the outskirts of Edinburgh this afternoon, where I had the most amazing views of both male and ...
Saturday, 3 March 2012

Polish Dunlin in Northumberland

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A couple of weeks ago I had a trip up to St Mary's Island, Northumberland . Whilst here I spotted a colour ringed Dunlin . I sent the de...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

Scaup at Thrybergh.

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I'm sorry but I just can't help myself. This morning instead of going for a walk around Linacre I drove back to Thrybergh CP to see...
Monday, 20 February 2012

Waders, waders and yet more waders!

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After yesterday's excitement at North Shields I had a drive up to one of my favourite birding spots, St Mary's Island in Whitley Ba...