Hi Inga, their whereabouts although well known is not in the public domain and unfortunately I doubt anybody will post such information on here (at least I hope not). Better off going to Norfolk to see them roost at Stubb Mill in winter.

John.
Just spent a week in Dorset. Perhaps you could try Arne RSPB site. Not really north of Poole but you could get car ferry from Sandbanks to Studland (£3 I think) to save time. Arne has decent variety of habitats- good for Spoonbills, Dartford Warbler, various reptiles & Sika deer etc.

hi John

this month's birdwatch magazine has an article and map on birdwatching in Poole. here is the website link! a trip to WH Smith may be a good idea!

http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/i...k=view&id=1462

HTH

Mark

Beacon Ponds
 

Went for a walk down to Beacon Ponds yesterday.I would have liked a trip up North for the Terek sandpiper, but was pushed for time.
Nothing much on the way down but a couple of hours in the hide gave little tern,roseate tern, curlew sandpiper,greenshank also plenty of sandwich terns,common tern,knot redshank,dunlin.turnstone lots of swifts over.
A nice couple of hours tucked out of the wind.

FBOG reporting 172 manx shearwaters off the Brigg today with good numbers of waders, and a few roseate. A visit soon is in order.

Does anyoe know if there are many waders on the Brigg. Was thinking a dawn trip with a seawatch and then onto the honey b's...

Only a few waders on the brigg; the usual Oystercatcher, a few Turnstone, a Common Sand and a couple each of Dunlin and Purple Sandpiper. Waders have been moving south over the last couple of days, so a few Whimbrel amongst others have been dropping on briefly. There was an adult Roseate lingering over the high tide yesterday, but this evening the swell covered the brigg and very few terns were around; just Sandwich moving south and four Arctics. The two Roseates flew south today and didn't hang around.

Had a couple of hours at Swinemoor this evening, a few waders about including wood sandpiper,greenshank,golden plover and snipe.
Also plenty of common stuff about.

following from my twitches for little swift and terek, I was officially placed on gardening leave - get the feck in!!! They took my laptop and everything.

Don't start until the 28th so that's 20 days of birding, paid for courtesy of my previous employers.

If anyone's around drop me a line....

A top evening, SEO out at 1720, watched a food drop to young in the heather. Followed by spotted flycatcher,Grey wag just out of the nest, LEO, two groups of crossbill, merlin, crlew, LRP etc.

Just been playing around on Bubo.org and found a new way to work out what your bogey birds really are. The cool thing is the more people do it the more accurate you get. Pop your life/yorks list into bubo and then put in top blockers. Go to the far end of the list, to the anti-blockers if you will such as blue tit, woodpigeon and work toward blockers until you find a bird that isn't on your list. Nationally it seems about spot on but for Yorkshire it is a bit biased because only 15 lists are on. That said it seems to be fairly accurate. You can see my bogey birds on my blog.

Chough - Burton Agnes.
Any more info? Dave Mansell territory...

"I'm lazy and can't be arsed to twitch crap thats too far like the stilts and Great White Egrets that i have seen abroad." ... surely you have to at least try to see a species before it can be a bogey?

I mean, erm, Little Tern! ;)


Cheers,
Bob.

Also you say there your blockers, but I think you mean they're your bogeys...
A blcoker would be something like brown fly etc....

I meant bogeys, gits

Stranger things have happened*


Cheers,
Bob.

* though I can't back that statement up ;)

Anybody remember the record of one (Chough) at Weldrake quite a few years ago, before the Regular? Goshawk sightings.

Daz

Yup, Brown Fly is a Blocker alright.

tarts tick!
my yorks bogeys FWIW Mealy Red.

Interestingly my Dark County list is 271!

Got the 2002 Fairburn bird.

I've been chugging away through my records to get them into Bubo and I've unearthed one from 1999 for the S'albufera in Majorca, for a Hobby....so I have seen one of the buggers, just not in the UK. I've only input about a hundred records so far so no chance me finding a bogey bird yet, as the system will tell me everything after gulls in the systemic list is a bogey.
Marcus I will bear in mind that you are available as I'm planning a day out before I go on holiday in August, it will be a Wednesday and not an early start as I have chores to get out of the way.

My Yorks bogey is apparently ring-necked duck followed by icterine warbler

I've been alongside a bush that an icky was seen in before I arrived and after I left...can I count it???;)

How about next weds??? We can do an SD swap (sounds dirty!)

Not next week, the little lady is on strike so she's expecting me to take her out somewhere. I was thinking more in the line of the week after.

Red Kites
 

One of the Red Kites in the Wolds has been shot, but survived - Driffield Times

While trying to find that article I also found this - Keep your distance


Cheers,
Bob.