Showing posts with label Year List 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year List 2013. Show all posts
Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Ringing and Year Listing 2013

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Well 2013 is nearly over (just 8 hours to go), but I've just got back in from a few hours around Linacre and the sun is just setting, so...
Saturday, 28 December 2013

Two-barred Crossbill

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Back in August the first records of a small flock of Two-barred Crossbills at Broomhead Reservoir near Sheffield started to appear on the B...
Tuesday, 24 December 2013

IVORY GULL!!!

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Over the last few weeks there has been a small influx of Ivory Gulls into the UK. They are usually found in the High Arctic, so birds that ...
Sunday, 3 November 2013

One bird - three ticks

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I'm not a twitcher (honestly!!), but when I switched Birdguides on today and saw news of a Glossy Ibis in Bakewell I just had to go ov...
Saturday, 2 November 2013

Year List Update

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I've just been going through my Year List notes, and I noticed that there were a few species missing. As a result, my Year List has just...
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...
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, 28 October 2013

Aberlady Bay and Gullane Bents

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I'm up in North Berwick for a few days, so this morning I got up early and drove across to Aberlady Bay in search of a Snow Goose that...
Sunday, 20 October 2013

RSPB Frampton Marsh and 3 Year Ticks

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A couple of times a year I help lead a walk for the Chesterfield RSPB Group . Today's walk took us to the RSPB's reserve of Frampton...
Saturday, 31 August 2013

Spotted Crake

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Just a short post to update the Year List with this superb bird - Spotted Crake !!!!! Not the best photos, but it was about 30m away, so I w...
Thursday, 29 August 2013

RSPB Blacktoft Sands and Old Moor

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I decided to have a drive over to RSPB Blacktoft Sands today in search of waders. As always I was very pleased with the variety of birds on...
Sunday, 25 August 2013

Year List Update

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Just a quick  post to update the old Year List. Three new species were added recently as follows: 172 – Osprey 173 – Greenshank 174 – Ru...
Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Year List update and 2 "Lifers"

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Yesterday I blogged about my recent trip to Menorca and promised to update the Year List, so here goes: 149- Zitting Cisticola (Fan-tailed...
Thursday, 11 July 2013

Ring-necked Parakeet

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Last weekend I spent the day in London celebrating my daughter's birthday. Whilst there I spent a few hours at Kew Gardens and saw and ...
Monday, 1 July 2013

St Mary's Island Year Ticks

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Regular readers may well remember that my son lives up in Newcastle and that Jayne, Lydia and I head up there periodically to see him and hi...
Saturday, 22 June 2013

Nightjar Walk - Clumber Park

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Every year, at about this time, I join up with Chesterfield RSPB group to lead an evening walk around the National Trust's property of...
Monday, 17 June 2013

Busy Weekend

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This weekend I have been very busy with ringing and birding. After Friday night's trip to Ladybower Woods I was out on Saturday and Sun...
Sunday, 9 June 2013

Ladybower Wood SSSI

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Spent a couple of hours out at the DWT's Ladybower Wood reserve with Stewart from the ringing group to check a few boxes and ring my f...
Monday, 3 June 2013

Colour-ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull and possible Caspian Gull

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Whilst in Suffolk last week I spent quite a few hours at RSPB Minsmere . One morning, whilst looking out over the scrapes I spotted a colour...
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Friday, 31 May 2013

Minsmere Magic!

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Just been down to Suffolk for a week's family holiday. I managed to get quite a lot of birding done, including 3 visits to  RSPB Minsmer...