2 all black duck on Winterset this aft, on the board in the main hide 2 Common Scoter reported as seen yesterday, but bill not right on these two I saw and there's no mistaking Scoters with that "ugly" bill.
Is there another all black duck...? :h?:
Any ideas....?
Cheers Joe
PS Before anyone suggests, no, they were not Coot...
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Thanks
Andrew
Andy, I thought the ringing session was on the 6th August?
Me too, planned around this...
I didnt no that there was one organised for the 6th of August, i suspect there may be a couple more sessions afore the end of August? Hope so :t:
There is a petrel ringing night on the 6th August - we have spoken to the YWT to confirm the event is definitely happening. I am intending to be there with a few others, so hopefully I will meet some of you there.
The link to the event is on the YWT website http://www.ywt.org.uk/whats_on.php?e=1019
I should have tried for Storm Petrel today as I need for Yorkshire - having said that I'd have probably gone to Flamborough and missed the sole bird - wouldn't have thought to sea watch off South Gare, (never normally any sea-watching news for SG) - 27 :eek!:
Instead I ticked Silver-spotted Skipper in Oxfordshire - now only need 3 of the 58 British regulars, (59 if you include Real's) which I won't see this year so I can park the butterflies now until next Spring.
Any thoughts on the number of Stormies in the North Sea - I've been birding for more years than I care to mention, and I can't remember numbers of them like this? Obviously weather related, but we'll have had this weather pattern at this time of the year previously and there hasn't been a wreck like this.
You obviously haven't been keeping abreast of the Butterfly news Steve - no such thing as Real's in Ireland - been found to be a third, cryptic species of Wood White, conveniently named Cryptic Wood White
http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?species=juvernica
As for the stormies - 4 days of westerlies followed by a few days of nor-westers, northerlies would stack the birds off the norwgian coast and then down. When do young birds fledge? My guess is the system has run just as the juvies have fledged displacing birds from northern isles, kilda and scandi.
I had seen the article on Cryptic, but didn't read it in any depth - are we saying there is Real's and Cryptic in Ireland - i.e. 60 species - I think I made an assumption, (probably incorrect) that it was simply a name change from Real's to Cryptic.
Silver-spotted is a cracker - was a bit worried it would be too cloudy today, but saw a few - also loads of Chalkhill Blue, Marbled White, Brown Argus, Small Heath etc. - Aston Rowant is a fantastic wild flower meadow - great place with several Red Kites overhead as well.
Re the Stormies, I like/share your theory but it must have occurred before - more observers now?
I had seen the article on Cryptic, but didn't read it in any depth - are we saying there is Real's and Cryptic in Ireland - i.e. 60 species - I think I made an assumption, (probably incorrect) that it was simply a name change from Real's to Cryptic.
Silver-spotted is a cracker - was a bit worried it would be too cloudy today, but saw a few - also loads of Chalkhill Blue, Marbled White, Brown Argus, Small Heath etc. - Aston Rowant is a fantastic wild flower meadow - great place with several Red Kites overhead as well.
Re the Stormies, I like/share your theory but it must have occurred before - more observers now?