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  1. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Apr 24: Heraklion, Crete A non-birding trip which was originally scheduled for 2022, and was going to be an autumn break on the coast - flights postponed twice for different reasons, and we ended up having a city break doing tourist stuff. A very sparse bird list somehow managed to involve two...
  2. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Apr 18, Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura I needed to go to Faro to sort something out with my car, so I thought I might as well travel a little further still and check out the wetlands and fields of the Parque Ambiental - my second visit to this site. Just like last time, I was soon being taunted...
  3. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    16 April: Porto Carvalhoso, Tavira, Portugal An unfortunately too brief trip back to Portugal, with a few admin things to sort out as I'm now a Portuguese tax resident, and a report to work on. Decided on a morning visit to pick up some inland species in the hills of Tavira concelho, about 20...
  4. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    12 April: Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland My first chance to visit the Northumberland coast on this short trip to UK, and decided on a walk to Beacon Point as there were a few potential year list additions on eBird. Unfortunately I had very little spare space in my bag on the way back to...
  5. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Apr 11: Blagdon, Northumberland I've not done any dedicated birding over the last few weeks - been to Paris and saw more short-toed treecreepers and rose-ringed parakeets, and just had a flyover sparrowhawk this morning at my partner's place near Newcastle, but no new year list additions. I...
  6. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    It's a small wholesale fish market, pretty much all octopus with the odd fish I believe - it used to have a thriving swift colony until the building was repainted and the entry holes beneath the roof filled :(
  7. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Mar 16: Santa Luzia, Tavira Only one addition to the year list over the past week - common swifts are back, unfortunately still trying to access their blocked up nest sites in the octopus market... 147. Common Swift
  8. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Mar 15: Lagoa de Aldeia Nova, VRSA Another visit to the lagoon with my partner this time, successfully seeing the Red-knobbed coot again and photographing it in less harsh light, on a misty day. Was hoping for great crested cuckoo, but instead unexpectedly heard a common cuckoo calling. Taunted...
  9. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Mar 14: Quatro Aguas, Tavira Went to the left bank saltpans about two hours before high tide, when the waders were still around on the old tidal-flooded pans. A couple of new year list species which were also new to my Portugal list - a flock of knot on the saltpans (I think only a migrant here)...
  10. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Mar 05: Lagoa de Aldeia Nova, VRSA I've been a bit out of sorts over the past couple of days, unsure whether I'd perhaps caught Covid on the plane over (top tip: don't check in late in order to score a free extra legroom seat as I did, they might give you 1C - you end up getting coughed over and...
  11. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    It was part of a group of five - all apparent adults, but only two were flushed pink.
  12. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Mar 03: Tavira Did a circuit around Salinas do Forte do Rato on Saturday, walking out on the cycle path to Ribeira do Almargem and back through the saltpans. No new year list additions, aside from an unfamiliar call of a small bird flying briefly overhead. IDed by Merlin as Common Waxbill -...
  13. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 24: Wallington Hall, Northumberland Not sure why I thought it was a good idea to visit a National Trust property on a sunny day at the end of school half-term...although as usual it wasn't too bad away from the hall, walled garden and play areas. No marsh tits (or bramblings) today, but...
  14. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 22: north Newcastle on Tyne Didn't need any hearing assistance to add a close - but frustratingly unseen - tawny owl to my heard-only list. Actually, as I was wearing my hearing aids, maybe it wasn't that close...earlier in the day I saw a couple of flyover oystercatchers which I'd thought...
  15. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 21: Morpeth, Northumberland Felt like a proper old person today as I first got the bus to town for an eye test, then on to Morpeth to collect my new hearing aid. I was thinking about some urban birding in Newcastle around Exhibition Park to try and add mistle thrush, but opted instead to...
  16. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 17: Weetslade, North Tyneside Finally got my 2024 bogey bird, with a wren sitting on top of a fence singing in plain site, and a few more holding territory on my walk to the country park. The feeling of winter being at least tentatively over continued at Weetslade, where I counted 16...
  17. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 14: North Newcastle on Tyne Happy I topped up the sunflower seeds this morning - lots of activity at the feeder, including a stock dove hoovering up underneath, before being chased off by a woodpigeon. 136. Stock Dove
  18. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 13: Weetslade, North Tyneside Flight view of a GSW near the feeders; also saw a nice female sparrowhawk at the northern edge of the Country Park - still no wrens! 135. Great Spotted Woodpecker ...and forgot to add another mammal... 04. Roe Deer
  19. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 08: Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, Ashington The deterioration in temperatures today made it seem like a good idea to visit the Montane factory store in Ashington for some more cold-weather base layers. eBird showed whooper swan and smew had been recorded at a nearby country park, the...
  20. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 06: north Newcastle on Tyne Woken up this morning to the less restful sounds of the bin wagon's reversing beeper. The song thrush was further away today, but I took a lunchtime walk and managed to track it down, getting a decent view without disturbing his flow. 133. Song Thrush
  21. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Feb 04: St. Mary's Island, North Tyneside No additions to the year list, but most noteworthy was a lesser black-backed gull flying north - uncommon enough in NE England in winter to show up as 'infrequent' on eBird. Once again only checked the island and rocks to the south, so no purple...
  22. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Jan 31: north Newcastle on Tyne This has been far and away my best start to a birding year, and I was hopeful of ending January on a nice round 130. Wasn't planning on going far today, and the wind and rain didn't encourage a change of mind, but there was some low-hanging fruit I might've...
  23. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Jan 28: Weetslade, North Tyneside A quick visit to the feeders with a circuit around the western part of the nature reserve and nearby waggonway produced a few more additions - plenty of tree sparrows, a flock of around 100 fieldfares heading south low overhead, and a goldcrest in a hedgerow...
  24. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    Jan 27: Seaton Burn, North Tyneside Back in UK for the next month or so, decided to walk to Big Waters Nature Reserve along an old waggonway footpath - partly flooded stubble field held 4 grey herons and a grey wagtail. 118. Grey Wagtail Big Waters, Newcastle on Tyne My visit here exceeded...
  25. kb57

    kb57's 2024 Year List

    It is quite a harsh call compared to skylark or crested lark, and certainly distinctive - the spotless starlings were doing a perfect imitation of it!
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