Showing posts with label Year List 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year List 2012. Show all posts
Monday, 31 December 2012

2012 Ringing and Year List Totals

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Following on from this morning's Linacre roundup I thought I should spend some time looking at my ringing and "year listing" a...
Sunday, 11 November 2012

Return of the Waxwings

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Some years Britain sees a big influx of   Waxwings from Northern Europe, usually when the berry crop has been poor. This winter seems to be...
Saturday, 3 November 2012

Barns Ness again

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Our last day in Scotland saw me heading off to Barns Ness again to look for the Water Pipit. Again, no luck!!!!!! I did, however, have a ver...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012

VELVET SCOTERS!!!!!

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I spent two hours at Musselburgh Lagoons on the outskirts of Edinburgh this afternoon, where I had the most amazing views of both male and ...

Aberlady Bay and Gullane Bay

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I've made a couple of visits to Aberlady Bay over the last few days to look at the flock of approximately 20,000 roosting Pink-footed G...
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...
Saturday, 15 September 2012

Meadow pipt extravaganza

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Following on from my first ever  Meadow Pipits at Linacre last week I spent 5 hours out ringing this morning with the Sorby Breck Ringing G...
Saturday, 18 August 2012

Swallow roost and Year Tick

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Following on from last week's successful ringing session at the swallow roost at The Avenue Washlands in Chesterfield, we returned agai...
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

RSPB Old Moor- 13th August 2012

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I had a trip over to RSPB Old Moor on Monday with my nephew and niece. We managed to see a good range of birds and insects and I added 2 ne...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Return to the reeds- ringing tick.

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Way back in March I blogged about a ringing trip to Poolsbrook Marsh near Chesterfield ( see here ).  Unfortunately, until Sunday we've ...
Saturday, 4 August 2012

Cornwall news

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Hi there. Just got back from a lovely two weeks in sunny Cornwall, so here's a short post about some of the things I've seen. Firs...
Sunday, 17 June 2012

Nightjars and Woodcocks

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Friday evening saw me and 5 others spending  a few hours in Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire on the Chesterfield RSPB's annual visit to ...
Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Tyneside Kittiwakes

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I spent a few days up in Newcastle over the bank holiday and took the opportunity to visit the Kittiwakes that nest on the Tyne Bridge. Th...
Sunday, 3 June 2012

First Linacre Mist Netting Session

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Yesterday saw the first mist netting visit to Linacre for members of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group . 3 nets were set up and a total of 15 bi...
Saturday, 26 May 2012

2 Year ticks, 3 pulli ringed and 3 new eggs.

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I woke up early this morning, so I decided to pop up to Linacre to refill the feeders in the new ringing site. They were all completely empt...
Sunday, 6 May 2012

Ringing at the Avenue

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This morning's ringing session at The Avenue produced a toatl of 11 birds, which included 3 "ringing ticks"; Whitethroat , Wi...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012

22 active nests and ducklings

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I managed to get down to Linacre yesterday to check the nestboxes and was very pleased to see that 21 had eggs in them. In addition, the unk...
Sunday, 22 April 2012

Birthday Birding

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It being my birthday today I managed to get a lot of birding in. Many thanks Jayne! First stop was Linacre where, in 2 hours, I recorded m...
Saturday, 14 April 2012

Thrybergh CP - Ringing and 2 Year Ticks

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Today started very well with a great ringing session at Thrybergh Country Park in Rotherham. As well as the best catch for a while (17 birds...