Showing posts with label Scaup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scaup. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 March 2026

Year List Update - 15th March 2026

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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...
Saturday, 11 January 2025

White-billed Diver!!!!

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 A juvenile White-billed Diver  (98),was found, at Cresswell Pond in Northumberland, earlier this week. It only stayed briefly, but then in ...
Saturday, 28 December 2024

Rufford and Attenborough - 28th December 2024

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 This morning, Luke and I went across to Rufford to try and catch up with Hawfinch (202). Whilst there, we also had a quick check on the Bla...
Friday, 6 January 2023

Northumberland - 2nd - 6th January 2023

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 Jayne and I have just had a few days in Northumberland (with family). We were based in Alnmouth, and, as always, we spent the days visiting...
Friday, 30 December 2022

Year List 2022

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 Over the last few days I've added the (most likely) last two species to my Year List for 2022, Smew and Scaup . The Smew , a redhead, ...
Thursday, 16 February 2017

North East Adventure

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Every February half term I like to have a day out birding somewhere different. This year I spent a day with Luke travelling around the North...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

WWT Slimbridge- 15th February 2016

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It's half term this week, so I traveled down to the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust's Slimbridge reserve with my nephew and his friend o...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

RSPB Bempton, Scarborough and Flamborough

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I spent this weekend in Scarborough celebrating my up-coming birthday (thanks Jayne!!). We started off at RSPB Bempton Cliffs , then moved o...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

100 up

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On Monday I decided to have a day where I go to several sites to see a few birds that I otherwise wouldn't catch up with. As you can see...
Thursday, 3 January 2013

25 Year Ticks

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The best thing about birding at the start of a new year is that just about anything you see is a "year tick". Today I went out bir...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

Scaup at Thrybergh.

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I'm sorry but I just can't help myself. This morning instead of going for a walk around Linacre I drove back to Thrybergh CP to see...
Saturday, 25 February 2012

Thrybergh Country Park - 25th February 2012

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My first ringing trip in two weeks was a return visit to Thrybergh Country Park in Rotherham. We had three nets up and, after a quiet start...