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  1. Alexjh1

    Skuas at Holme Dunes, Norfolk

    Seeing the wind was favourable for some skua passage yesterday, I decided to head out to Holme Dunes to see what I could pick up. Sadly a lot of haze out to sea which made it impossible to get a good look at most things passing far out, but a few birds did come marginally closer in, so may as...
  2. Alexjh1

    Wind Conditions for Little Auks on East Coast

    Kinda what the thread title says on the tin - Little Auks are probably the annual UK species I'd most like to see at this point but obviously require the right weather conditions. My most accessible coastal counties are Lincolnshire and Norfolk, so is there a knack to knowing where to be in...
  3. Alexjh1

    Yorkshire Skua - bonus bird

    Ahh fair enough, slightly back to the ID learning drawing board - I thought the tail barring ruled out arctic! I will get there in the end haha
  4. Alexjh1

    Yorkshire Skua - bonus bird

    I did put this picture as the bottom of the previous thread, but they kinda get lost further down so thought I'd give it its own space. Also from Bridlington harbour on Sunday Barred undertail rather than streaks has a belly centric shape broad looking wings cool colour to most plumage more...
  5. Alexjh1

    Skuas sp in Yorkshire

    Going back through all the birds I saw, and I think I've got the hang of pinning them to Arctic or Long-tailed at this point for the most part, but just to throw a few more in the ring: Bird 10 Bird 11 Bird 12 + 13 - Long-taileds? Birds 14-15 - Arctic? 16
  6. Alexjh1

    Skuas sp in Yorkshire

    Thanks - that's a huge help and I think I'm getting slightly the hang of at least separating out LTS at this point. Re 1. and 2. - was that call including looking at the extra pics I added further down?
  7. Alexjh1

    Skuas sp in Yorkshire

    On Friday evening?
  8. Alexjh1

    Skuas sp in Yorkshire

    Ohh thank you that's great! If it helps a little, do have some additional pics of birds 1 and 2, but they were -very- distant at the time
  9. Alexjh1

    Skuas sp in Yorkshire

    I do apologise for the big list - it's very easy to get a bit over enthusiastic when you've just been bombarded with sightings of a family that have been methodically avoiding you for whole birding career 😅
  10. Alexjh1

    Skuas sp in Yorkshire

    I'd gone up to Bridlington this weekend to do the RSPB skua cruise, which sadly got cancelled due to the weather, however, I did see a ton of skuas nonetheless. However, as the whole reason for the trip was I've only ever seen a grand total of 5 arctic, and none of the others, and most skuas...
  11. Alexjh1

    Skua sp. Winterton on Sea, Norfolk, yday

    I had a skua come fairly close in yesterday while walking along the beach at Winterton, and honestly I just don't see them regularly enough to get a feel - presumably an arctic or a pomarine, but in somewat transitional plumage from my understanding? Any points would be much appreciated...
  12. Alexjh1

    Tern sp. off Coquet Island

    I was just up in Amble last weekend on a bit of a last minute spur of the moment trip, and unfortunately there were no more places on the trip so I didn't get a chance to view the roseate's up close, so instead we had a walk along the beach parralel to the island, and did manage to pick out some...
  13. Alexjh1

    Wood Warblers near Keswick?

    I'm going to be in Keswick for a couple of nights from the 6th of June, and I'm hoping to see one of my most overdue bogey birds: Wood Warbler. The last two times I've been in the Lakes it was a bit too early in the year for them, so I was just wondering whether anyone had any good spots for...
  14. Alexjh1

    Dark Billed Tern, Summer Leys, Northants

    I was out at Summer Leys this afternoon and happened to see a tern than caught my attention - a much darker beak than all the others around and thought I better get some expert thoughts as my tern ID skills are a bit rusty these days! So, here is the bird next to a typical Common Tern for...
  15. Alexjh1

    Unusual Sparrow-like Bird, UK

    I just got tagged into a post on my local Facebook group about a bird that has "been feeding in the garden for the last two weeks", and when this usually happens I'm expecting something a little quirky, but not entirely out the usual, but drawing a blank on this one! That's a big old...
  16. Alexjh1

    Sandpiper at Snettisham?

    Yesterday, I went over to Snettisham to try and pick up the Western Sandpiper and Roseate tern - unfortunately the heavens opened so it wasn't exactly the sort of afternoon I had planned, however, on the way back to the car I did spot one small bird that stood out amoung the dunlin, but as I've...
  17. Alexjh1

    Thornham Finches II

    Thanks for the help! I thought that was probably the case, but never hurts to double check.
  18. Alexjh1

    Thornham Finches II

    I went on another attempt to Thornham Harbour yesterday in an attempt to see some twite - nice day of birding, but I didn't find any interesting finch flocks until the sun was starting to set, hence bad grainy photographs. A local gentleman did mention there were twite there, but though I did...
  19. Alexjh1

    Hawk and Finches - Thornham, Norfolk

    Thanks. Any suggestions for picking out twite from prospective mixed flocks? Was mostly looking for any that looked like they had small yellow beaks, or just looked different to the rest?
  20. Alexjh1

    Hawk and Finches - Thornham, Norfolk

    Morning I dropped over to Thornham Harbour in Norfolk yesterday to try and see some Twite, but the light wasn't great so didn't get any views I was happy with in the field, but a couple of maybes, so thought I'd get some thoughts? Also had a hawk turn up - I assume a sparrowhawk as it always...
  21. Alexjh1

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2019

    There's a difference between someone being in history and them being honoured. No one I know is reasoning that we try erase people from history, but a statue or an eponym is a an honouring. To take an example of one I consider "cool" - Eleonara of Arborea after whom Eleonara's Falcon is...
  22. Alexjh1

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2019

    That's fair, but we are trying to be thorough here, there are literally hundreds of these people and many of them require trawling through obscure texts to get an idea of what they were doing behind the white-washed version that tends to be presented. We are looking at how we might release...
  23. Alexjh1

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2019

    I'm helping with a small part of the back research to this proposal, making a catalogue of who exactly the people are that have birds named after them - it's a big task and we're only beginning to scratch the surface, but even so far the list includes: Murderers - most often of indiginous...
  24. Alexjh1

    Seabirds, Trevose Head - Cornwall - July 2019

    Back in July I was in Cornwall and was did quite a few mornings on Trevose Head trying to seawatch for skuas and rarer shearwaters. The winds were fairly decent, and on some days I had some fairly ludicrous numbers of manxes, but didn't really pick out much at the time, despite them definitely...
  25. Alexjh1

    Seabird at Herne Bay, Kent

    Thanks! Much appreciated - had fingers crossed but my no-skua curse is finally broken!
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