Showing posts with label Ringed Plover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ringed Plover. 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...
Monday, 4 May 2026

Year List Update - 4th May 2026

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 Over the Bank Holiday Weekend, I managed to add a few more species to the Year List, taking the total so far to 154 species. The first spec...
Sunday, 5 April 2026

Corralejo- March 28th and 29th

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 Jayne and I arrived in the resort of Corralejo on Saturday afternoon. We spent the rest of the day, and the Sunday in the resort. The first...
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...
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...
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 ...
Saturday, 12 November 2022

Pied Wheatear!!

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 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

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 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...
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 ...
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...
Friday, 2 September 2016

Frampton Marsh RSPB

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Yesterday I spent 5 hours at RSPB Frampton Marsh with my nephew, Luke. Luke saw 5 new species of birds, and I managed to get 8 new "ye...
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, 10 February 2014

Coastal Birding

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At the weekend I popped up to Newcastle with my wife and daughter, to visit our son and his girlfriend. As always when we go up I pop acro...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

North Berwick and Bamburgh

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Last day in Scotland today, so I got up early (again) and had a couple of hours on the beaches at North Berwick . The sun was just rising as...
Friday, 31 August 2012

Old Moor - 31st August 2012

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News of a Red-necked Phalarope at RSPB Old Moor yesterday got my "twitching instinct" going and so I drove over for a few hours ...
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...
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 ...
Wednesday, 17 August 2011

RSPB Old Moor - 17th August 2011

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For the last few years I have subscribed to the Birdguides website as a way of keeping up with bird news from around the country. Looking t...