Thank you for adding an interesting, positive, informative post to this thread:t::t::t:
One of our visitors had carried it off the beach and left it by the path! All good fun. Paul
I was going to post about yesterdays jacket potato filling and my choice of ice cream whilst in the field, but I did not consider this informative or relevant to anything, least of all a thread about birding!!
40 minutes (all the time I had) at Sheringham produced the following this afternoon:
Little Gull
3x Gannets
6x Sandwich Terns
5x Common Terns
Cormorant on sea
5x Eider
Manx Shearwater
Small sea duck species but very distant.
Josh you need try this visualization stuff. I visualized an osprey over the car on Monday - awesome. Only problem being that I was in cambs. As for the poor quality of sherringham Seawatching, there is always drink and drugs. Alternatively you could always start a blog called argue bargy birding!!
Kieran:
From a brief perusal of the RBA website, 4 seems to be the largest recent number. However, there isn’t the facility to filter out the single birds- and there are over 20 pages, before it becomes impossible to search further.
Perhaps they are able to do this internally.
I know that, 6 years ago, I looked over a marshy field in Texas, where there were over 50 !
I think a days seawatching on a certain large mammal tranquilizer would be one most memorable. I'd certainly like to read my own note book the day after.
6.00am: A steady stream of Flying Fish have been moving north, oddly.
6.76am: I figured out that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves.
Sometime after my watch melted:George W Bush's Sherwater.....heading east!![/QUOTE. Priceless!!
As I was casually flicking through RBA I saw a count of four Pectoral Sandpipers reported in Cornwall. Now I know this charming little calidris is the most common nearctic vagrant wader in Britain (well I should think the most common nearctic full stop) and I saw as many as three birds together last year in Northamptonshire. But I was wondering if anyone knew what the largest count of Pectoral Sandpiper to be seen in Britain together was? Or if anyone had heard of or seen a larger group than four, my knowledge will only stretch back less than two years as I have been away from birding nearly a decade.
Regards Kieran
I remember 7 @ Stithians (Cornwall) in early October 1982...see 1982Cornwall bird report.
I think a days seawatching on a certain large mammal tranquilizer would be one most memorable. I'd certainly like to read my own note book the day after.
6.00am: A steady stream of Flying Fish have been moving north, oddly.
6.76am: I figured out that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves.
Sometime after my watch melted: George W Bush's Sherwater.....heading east!!
Josh a helpful and informative post!! Did you submit these records?
yes, there were 21 of them and they weren't seen anywhere else along the coast :-O