Showing posts with label Great Northern Diver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Northern Diver. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 February 2026

Scarborough - 14th February 2026

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 Yesterday, Jayne and I had a sunny day in Scarborough and RSPB Bempton Cliffs , adding 7 new birds to this year's Year List. We started...
Sunday, 23 February 2025

Year List Update and a Lifer (nearly!)

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 I last updated the Year List at the end of January, and, since then, I've added 6 new species, including a "near lifer"! Firs...
Saturday, 24 February 2024

Scarborough - 23rd February 2024

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 Yesterday, we had a lovely family day in Scarborough. It was just 7 degree, but really sunny, and the birds put on a good show too. The fir...
Friday, 5 January 2024

Musselburgh Lagoons- 4th January 2024

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 Whilst up in Northumberland, we had a day in Edinburgh. As always, we stopped off at Musselburgh Lagoons for an hour. The first bird I hear...
Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Bempton and Scarborough - 13th April 2021

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 With a relaxation of lockdown rules allowing travel further afield, Jayne and I decided to have a day trip to the coast, visiting RSPB Bemp...
Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Year List 2020 begins

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Hello, and welcome to the first blog post of 2020. This year's birding began at about 7am, when I was woken up by a singing Robin . foll...
Sunday, 21 January 2018

Year List Update - 21st January 2018

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It's been a while since I updated the Year List, and it's moved on quite a bit, so here goes. Numbers 47 to 50 were seen at Derbyshi...
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, 23 January 2017

Scarborough Birds

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I was in Scarborough yesterday, with Jayne and Lydia. It was sunny, for an hour or so at least, but cold. Whilst there I managed some nice b...
Sunday, 10 January 2016

Mancunian Great Northern Diver

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Jayne had an appointment in Stockport today, so I had  a few hours to spare. Checking the Bird Guides website , I noticed there was a juveni...
Monday, 28 December 2015

Carsington Water Year Tick

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I was out at Carsington Water yesterday with Jayne, with the hope of adding another species to the "year list". As you can probab...
Monday, 24 February 2014

Year List update

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Just a quick post tonight to update the Year List with a Great Northern Diver that I saw yesterday at Carsington Water . Despite very chopp...
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...
Friday, 23 December 2011

Pre Christmas birding.

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Having finished school on Tuesday I thought I'd have a bit of birding before the festivities begin, so I set off to RSPB Old Moor and P...
Sunday, 30 January 2011

Cromford and Carsington Water - 30th January 2011

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Welcome to my last blog of the month. Today saw the family head up to the Severn Trent reservoir of Carsington Water , via Cromford Wharf, f...
Sunday, 2 January 2011

A Day at the Seaside - Scarborough 2nd January 2011

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It's become a bit of a family tradition to have a day at the seaside in the early new year and so this year we decided to visit Scarboro...