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Have I the most impressive dip list in Yorkshire - can anyone top these 16?

Storm Petrel
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Franklin's Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Pechora Pipit
Nightingale
Cetti’s Warbler
Savi’s Warbler
Arctic Warbler
Serin
Pine Grosbeak
White-throated Sparrow
Pine Bunting
Amur Falcon

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If I'd connected with these I'd be joint 17th on the YB rankings. Some really painful memories in that list. At least some of them will fall - hopefully soon, even if some never will.

That's an impressive list. Even I've seen a few of those ;). A Serin at Spurn in the early nineties was my first twitch.

Lesser Crested Tern was one I was thinking about the other day. I did manage to see Elsie once in the mid nineties - was she frequent in Yorkshire - I got her at Beacon Ponds if memory serves

I do know I have missed at least five Raddes Warblers. Heard a few though.

Lawts

Friday 21st October 2011 20:41

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Originally Posted by garry1366 (Post 2269543)

Just to grip you off Lawts I've seen 14 of those guess which 2 I need?

G

Belted Kingfisher and Amur Falcon?

Lawts

Friday 21st October 2011 20:45

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Originally Posted by Marcus Conway - ebirder (Post 2270260)

Oh Elsie is on the list of those I should have gone for, but that'a nother list! I did get her on the Farnes. These are all true dips.

AndyK

Saturday 22nd October 2011 08:24

anyone know if the GND is still on the resevoir, didnt get to go last week?

Lawts

Saturday 22nd October 2011 08:58

GND Gone - went a few days ago.

AndyK

Saturday 22nd October 2011 11:08

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Originally Posted by Lawts (Post 2270540)

GND Gone - went a few days ago.

Bugger! Thanks for letting me know.

garry1366

Saturday 22nd October 2011 12:46

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Originally Posted by Lawts (Post 2270290)

Belted Kingfisher and Amur Falcon?

Belted and Pechora.

John As you well know I saw the Amur Falcon!

G

zing	Saturday 22nd October 2011 16:46

Ldv

Things starting to pick up on the LDV Two sedge warblers still hanging around,sparrowhawk and hobby showing well,15-20 swans have arrived including 2 whoopers,dozens of gbb gulls,and 100+ fieldfare flying over all afternoon in groups of 15-20.All we need now is some H2O.

Martin Standley

Saturday 22nd October 2011 19:20

Filey Brigg

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Had a nice morning on the Brigg today. Star of the show was this cracking long tailed duck. Also velvet scoter, arctic tern, purple sandpiper plus common stuff.
Full account on the blog.

Keith Dickinson

Saturday 22nd October 2011 19:29

Great fotos of the duck Martin

gary1957

Saturday 22nd October 2011 22:05

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Originally Posted by woodhornbirder (Post 2269645)

Cetti’s Warbler

They must be resident, someplace in yorkshire?? or do they just skip `the magic kingdom` and arrive at coastal spots in northumb? (breeding in teeside as well)

They were present for most of the year at Potteric Carr last year but haven't seen a report this year.

BirdFlower

Sunday 23rd October 2011 14:06

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Originally Posted by Trystan (Post 2075029)

. If I could get a few of those on the list and hit 200 in the UK for the year I would be quite happy!

Came across this post when looking for something else & wondered how you are getting on?

Trystan

Sunday 23rd October 2011 16:13

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Originally Posted by BirdFlower (Post 2271484)

Came across this post when looking for something else & wondered how you are getting on?

Exceptionally well. 221 in the UK this year with 11 lifers. Sea birds have improved significantly from the boat trip last month.

naturenorth

Sunday 23rd October 2011 22:20

Afternoon at Nosterfield Quarry - Lingham Lake - Common Crane, 4 Dunlin, 1 Redshank, 6 Goldeneye and a Bar-Headed Goose in amongst the Greylags, two of which were neck-collared AJZ and AJU. Spent some time with Bill Haines who started the Greylag scheme and now lives in London. Small flock of 24ish Golden Plovers.
Flask - Iceland Gull flew over.
Reedbed - Kingfisher.
Flocks of Redwings and Fieldfares about too.

tba20042003

Monday 24th October 2011 06:50

Goldfinches. Has anyone else noticed an upsurge in the number of goldfinches recently? I'm regularly getting up to 10 at any one time in my garden on the feeders. Just wondered if this is out of the ordinary?
Cheers
Tom

Sandra (Taylor)

Monday 24th October 2011 07:17

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Originally Posted by tba20042003 (Post 2272071)

Yes Tom. Noticed an upsurge just in the past week. (I'm near Todmorden, W.Yorks) We regularly got 8 or 9 but now each day the tree is wick with 'em - 20 or more now. Are they incomers I wonder? But I'd love some house sparrows or starlings. Never satisfied are we?

S

OwenW

Monday 24th October 2011 07:28

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Originally Posted by tba20042003 (Post 2272071)

It may or may not be related, but the records from the Spurn Bird Observatory have shown large numbers of goldfinches moving through, so it may well be that some winter visitors have already made it into our neck of the woods. We regularly get 20 plus in our garden and they seem to breed close by judging by the numbers of juveniles we see, but there do seem to be even more than normal around - and very welcome they are too!

Daniel Martin

Monday 24th October 2011 10:08

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Originally Posted by tba20042003 (Post 2272071)

We have been commenting on it at local level Tom - big increase. The garden flocks have doubled which is surely due to a good season rather than continental surge?
The local fields have good numbers and they dont appear to have been affected by the same problem Greenfinch have.

captaincarot

Monday 24th October 2011 11:24

goldfinches

we've had 2 to 4 visiting all summer, till about 3 weeks ago when the numbers started to rise to a peak of 24, since that day they all seem to have buggered off. all we get now is the odd one every couple of days

northernloon

Monday 24th October 2011 11:48

Never forget that the 2 birds on your feeder are probably not the same ones you saw an hour ago

timmyjones

Monday 24th October 2011 11:56

Seen the forecast recently?

http://timsbirding.blogspot.com/2011...u-bung-no.html

liverpool_bob

Monday 24th October 2011 15:04

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Originally Posted by tba20042003 (Post 2272071)

Had a flock of 90+ yesterday on my patch feeding in a strip of game cover, the largest count for many years. Also a flock of 80+ Tree Sparrow nearby which is easily the largest count I've recorded locally. Most welcome :t:

liverpool_bob

Monday 24th October 2011 15:18

Just had a cracking weekend... for locally scarce stuff at least. Highlights were a frustratingly shy Ring Ouzel (2nd patch record!) sharing a hedge with 4 Blackbirds, a Crossbill (also 2nd record), a Redpoll, and an adult Med Gull feeding with a couple of dozen Black-heads/Commons on a winter corn field.

As for other winter thrushes either they moved straight through or haven't arrived yet - just one small flock of Fieldfares and 2 Redwing all weekend.