Showing posts with label Goosander. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goosander. Show all posts
Sunday, 31 May 2026

Four New Ticks

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 On Thursday, Jayne and I went out to Calke Abbey for a visit. Afterwards, we followed up on a tip, and visited Newton Solney to see two ...
Saturday, 21 March 2026

Rufford - End of the Season

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 Last weekend (14th) I had my last trip of the winter to Rufford. Unfortunately, there were only 2 Black-headed Gulls present (both 1st win...
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...
Saturday, 16 March 2024

Rufford Gulls - 9th March 2024

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 At this time of the year, I'm never sure when I'll see the last of the wintering Black-headed Gulls at Rufford. Last Saturday I po...
Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Linacre Mega!!

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 Yesterday (27th), I received a message from the volunteer rangers letting me know that there was a swan species on the middle reservoirs. U...
Monday, 26 February 2024

Rufford Gulls - 25th February 2024

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It's getting towards the end of the winter season now, and the Black-headed Gulls that over winter here will soon be setting off back t...
Saturday, 17 February 2024

Linacre Visit and Ringing - February 2024

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 On 4th February, I had a walk around all three reservoirs at Linacre. It was 9 degrees, grey and overcast. Birds seen/heard were: Song Thru...
Sunday, 11 February 2024

Rufford Gulls - 4th February 2024

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 Last Sunday, I was across at Rufford for a couple of hours, in 12 degree heat! There were still good numbers of gulls around, including c.2...
Saturday, 27 January 2024

Linacre WeBS - January 2024

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 Last week (20th), I walked around Linacre to carry out this month's WeBS count.  After a week of very cold temperatures, the bottom re...
Wednesday, 10 January 2024

Rufford - 8th January 2024

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 I had my first visit of 2024 to Rufford on Sunday. There weren't a lot of Black-headed Gulls around (c.150), but I did see 13 of ...
Tuesday, 2 January 2024

Linacre - 1st January 2024

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 I was out at Linacre first thing yesterday to get my first count of 2024. The day started wet and windy, but it soon dried up, and the sun ...
Wednesday, 27 December 2023

Rufford - 17th December 2023

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 My latest visit to Rufford, was my best of the winter so far, with 12 of "our" green-ringed birds seen, along with Lithuanian-rin...
Saturday, 18 November 2023

Welcome Back P519!

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 It's been a couple of weeks since my last visit to Rufford, and I'm very pleased to say that this time there were Black-headed Gull...
Sunday, 5 November 2023

Gull-less Rufford!!

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 Well not quite!! I popped across to Rufford yesterday, and found just 28 Black-headed Gulls there. Unfortunately, none were ringed. It seem...

Linacre - 5th November 2023

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 I had my first visit of the new month to Linacre this morning. I spent a couple of hours walking around all three reservoirs, and recorded ...
Thursday, 6 April 2023

Linacre - 6th April 2023

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 After a short drive to a site in Nottinghamshire to see breeding plumaged Black-necked Grebes (124) (7 birds seen) and a single Little Ring...
Saturday, 31 December 2022

Linacre - 31st December 2022

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 I hadn't got anything else on today, so I had my last visit of 2022 to Linacre this afternoon. I was there from 1.15pm to 2.45pm in gre...
Friday, 23 December 2022

Rufford Gulls - 23rd December 2022

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 It was raining very hard this afternoon, so today's visit to Rufford lasted just 1 hour. There were only 45 Black-headed Gulls present,...
Sunday, 13 February 2022

Linacre Birds - 12th February 2022

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 I managed to get down to Linacre for the first February visit. The weather was cool (5 degrees) and pretty windy, but there were decent num...
Saturday, 15 January 2022

Linacre - 15th January 2022

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 This morning the weather was zero degrees when I arrived at Linacre at 7.45am, and it didn't rise throughout the  two hour visit! Thank...