The best 3 days of my life!

[seb salas]

What about this for a list of birds in Britain in mid December all between 8.25am on Tuesday and 3.30pm yesterday afternoon:

Tuesday
American Robin (Godreyy Pt Cornwall)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Hayle Est Cornwall)
American Wigeon (Hayle Est Cornwall)
Green Winged Teal (Hayle Est Cornwall)
Ring Billed Gull (Helston Boating Lake Cornwall)
Surf Scoter (Carrick Roads Cornwall)
Blk T.Diver (Marazion Bay Cornwall)
Red T.Diver (Marazion Bay Cornwall)
Med Gull (Marazion Beach Cornwall)
Purple Sandpiper (St Ives Island Cornwall)

Wednesday
Water Pipit (Marazion Marsh Cornwall)
Bearded Tit (Marazion Marsh Cornwall)
Glossy Ibis (Bowling Green Marsh Devon)
Spoonbill (Bowling Green Marsh Devon)
Dusky Warbler (Paignton Devon)
Cirl Bunting (Prawle Pt Devon)

Thursday
Baltimore Oriole (Oxford)

I'm so glad the boats to Bardsey Island were cancelled !!!!!!!!!!!!

[scampo]

Now you just want to make us all jealous - lucky you. Whenever I travel that far to see birds they go into hiding or fly elsewhere!

[bukem]

Well done Seb.
As I said in my first ever post what a fantastic county Devon is for wildlife, I love the place.
You must invest in a good camera or if you have one take a few shnapps for us.

[Harry Hussey]

Hi Seb,
Well done!Would be 5 Irish ticks there for me:American Robin,Glossy Ibis,Bearded Tit,Dusky Warbler and Cirl Bunting(Cirl has never been recorded in Ireland,and is perhaps unlikely to occur?How dispersive/migratory are they?Know there have been a few on the Northern Isles.)
Have seen Cirl and Bearded Tit in Bulgaria,though.
Harry H

[Andrew]

Seb,

That is a wonderful list, I have had nine of those birds this December too. I mean specifically the same birds you saw. Well done!

[Tim Allwood]

yes, that's a largish list of rare birds

well done.

[seb salas]

Admittedly there was no skill involved.
I just followed the pager!
What's the point in getting cold and wet trying to find your own birds when if your a twitcher you can hop out the car, trample across private fields, upset local residents and nost importantly really irritate anti-twitchers and STILL be back in your B+B for Neighbours at 5.30pm and then slaughtered in the pub by 9pm?

[Michael Frankis]

back in your B+B for Neighbours
I am most disappointed!!

:king:

[Bluetail]

Blimey, Seb, that's almost a total mop-up of all the specialities on offer down here. The only one that's missing as far as I can see is the Marazion Bittern and I'm bit surprised not to see GND on the list, but, depending on where you live, these may not be unusual for you!

Jason

[Tim Allwood]

Admittedly there was no skill involved.
I just followed the pager!
What's the point in getting cold and wet trying to find your own birds when if your a twitcher you can hop out the car, trample across private fields, upset local residents and nost importantly really irritate anti-twitchers and STILL be back in your B+B for Neighbours at 5.30pm and then slaughtered in the pub by 9pm?

been there too I'm ashamed to say Seb ;) ('cept the Neighbours stuff)

but blimey Seb it takes you till nine to get slaughtered? :D

it's dark at 4ish at the moment and the pubs are open B (: , you've seen some good birds :bounce: so why does it take so long! :brains:

[Jane Turner]

Eek...smiley attack. You been on the Whisky again Tim?

[Tim Allwood]

No, tonight I shall mostly be drinking....wine

a picture says a thousand words or so says the cliche

except when it's a manky small Canada Goose of course ;)

[Jane Turner]

Seb...you got me scrabbling for my Notebook.

this is my best three days
4/10/92 Fair Isle
Barred warbler 2, Yellow-browed warbler 12, Pallas' warbler 1 Eastern restart 1, Olive-backed Pipit 6, Richards Pipit 3, Eye-browed Thrush 1, Great grey Shrike 1, Woodchat Shrike 1, Common Rosefinch 1, Lapland Bunting 20

and 1000s of other migrants

5/10/92 North Ronaldsay
Siberian Thrush 1, yellow-browed warbler 1, richard's Pipit 1 Risso's dolphin and Sooty Shearwater on the boat trip.

6/10/92 Fair Isle Siberian Stonechat, Yellow-browed wabler 6, OBP 4.... and a lot of ducks, swan and geese.

[Brendan T]

Wow thats a fair list Jane. 6 OBPipit - must be a record even for Fair Isle? I've yet to see one and yet to visit Fair Isle (or thinking about it any of the Northern Isles ... in fact I've only been to Scotland twice).

[Jane Turner]

Wow thats a fair list Jane. 6 OBPipit - must be a record even for Fair Isle? I've yet to see one and yet to visit Fair Isle (or thinking about it any of the Northern Isles ... in fact I've only been to Scotland twice).

It was a pretty exceptional day..and its was shorts and T-shirt weather. One of the OBPs was in a chicken run with a YBW!