Showing posts with label Oystercatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oystercatcher. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 August 2026

South Gare - 15th August 2026

›
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...
Sunday, 12 April 2026

Waders, Gulls, Summer Migrants and a few Ducks!

›
I had a few free hours yesterday afternoon, so I popped down to Ogston Reservoir to see what was about. As a member of the Ogston Bird Club ...
Sunday, 15 March 2026

Year List Update - 15th March 2026

›
This week, I've managed to add a few new species to this year's "Year List", bringing the total so far to 116 birds. The f...
Friday, 30 May 2025

Northumberland Dip!!

›
 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 ...
Monday, 28 October 2024

St Ives - 26th - 27th October 2024

›
 Jayne and I arrived in St Ives on Saturday afternoon, and, after settling in to our accommodation, we had a walk around the town, enjoying ...
Thursday, 11 May 2023

Linacre- 8th May 2023

›
 I had my first walk of May, around Linacre on Monday morning before the rain set in. It was a great walk with some very nice sightings. The...
Saturday, 12 November 2022

Pied Wheatear!!

›
 A first winter male Pied Wheatear turned up in a skate park in Whitley Bay last week, so, after a week of umming and ahhing (!) Jayne and I...
Wednesday, 31 August 2022

Greater Sand Plover

›
 Yesterday, I drove across to Redcar beach to see a Greater Sand Plover that had arrived last week. Luckily, there were about a dozen peopl...
Tuesday, 14 July 2020

Linacre WeBS - 11th July 2020

›
On Saturday, I walked around all three reservoirs for this moth's WeBS count. Highlights for me were a pair of Great-crested Grebes wi...
1 comment:
Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Year List Update

›
It's been quite a while since I last updated the blog, so here's a post about the bird species I've seen since then. The first...
Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Idle Valley Nature Reserve

›
Today Luke and I met up with several members of the Chesterfield RSPB Group for a walk around the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust's Idle...
Monday, 19 December 2016

Wader Ringing

›
Since I started ringing back in September 2011 I've always concentrated on passerines, simply because these are the types of birds that ...
Saturday, 13 August 2016

Bembridge and St Helen's Duver

›
The first time we visited the Isle of Wight we stayed in Bembridge, and enjoyed many walks along the harbour and St Helen's Duver . Duri...
Monday, 2 May 2016

Scotland - Day 2

›
Yesterday was our second day in Scotland. We started very early, meeting up at RSPB Loch Garten at 5.30am, hoping to see our first Capercai...