Showing posts with label Rock Pipit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock Pipit. Show all posts
Friday, 2 January 2026

A Tale of Three Pipits - Rock, Meadow and Water.

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 I have to be honest, and say that, even as a "birder", I don't often look that closely at pipits. They are, after all, the ve...
Wednesday, 3 January 2024

Northumberland - Day 1

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 Jayne and I are up in Northumberland for a few days, so we've taken the opportunity to get a few new birds for this year's Year Lis...
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, 12 August 2020

Wales 2020

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 Jayne and I have just a couple of weeks in Wales, staying in Tenby. It was a family holiday, but we also saw a few nice bits of wildlife, i...
Saturday, 23 February 2019

Scarborough Birding - 22nd February 2019

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I spent yesterday in Scarborough with Jayne and Lydia. Whilst there, I had my annual visit to Holbeck Car Park to see the over-wintering Med...
Saturday, 7 April 2018

Rutland Water - 5th April 2018

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Luke and I went to Rutland Water Nature Reserve on Thursday to catch up with the Ospreys that had returned to breed on the reserve. We spe...
Saturday, 15 July 2017

Whitby and Scarborough

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Last weekend I was up in Whitby and Scarborough with the family. Whitby was quite quiet Birdwise, but I did spot a well known Herring Gull ,...
Thursday, 31 March 2016

Black-necked Grebe and Colour-ringed Turnstones

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I'm off for the Easter holidays at the moment, so I decided to head off to Scarborough for the day with Jayne and Lydia. The sun was shi...
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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Thursday, 20 February 2014

Med Gulls in Scarborough

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Hot on the heels of Monday's birding trip I spent yesterday in Scarborough with my wife and daughter, where I managed to get a few new...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

East Lothian Tour and 3 Year Ticks

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Got up and out again this morning. First stop was Musselburgh Lagoons on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I visited this site for the first time...
Monday, 29 October 2012

Barns Ness

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This morning's walk saw me heading down the coast to a beach south of Dunbar called Barns Ness . I was hoping to catch up with a Water P...
Sunday, 28 October 2012

North Berwick birding

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I'm away in North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, for a few days and had my first bird watching walk this morning. I was out for a co...
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

Bamburgh and Seahouses - 24th October 2011

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Our last day in Northumberland was unfortunately very windy, which meant that the birding was quite difficult to put it nicely! Despite the ...
Sunday, 9 January 2011

St Mary's Island, Northumberland 9th January 2011

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The family and I zipped up the Newcastle today to visit our son, so whilst up there I also took the opportunity to have an hour at a favouri...