Upton Warren (34 Viewers)

Spoonbill Finder said:

Mistle Thrush (still need that for the year!). .

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Phil Andrews said:

Has the hide been officially re-named now?

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Spoonbill Finder said:

I was referring to the new sign on the upstairs door of the hide, which bears the names of these 2 much missed stalwarts of Upton Warren. So I guess it must be official.

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upstarts1979 said:

I have seen and or heard this species 4 out of the last 6 times I have been around the North Moors:t:

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Spoonbill Finder said:

Hi John. I saw 2 female Pochard at the Moors Pool early morning and they were still there when I returned early afternoon. Alan H and myself also had 4 Sand Martins from the East Hide early morning. I then had a further 2 from the Arthur & Joyce Jacobs Hide late morning and a party of 10 from there mid-afternoon.

I spent 12 hours at the reserve today, logging 64 species. I also missed Gert's Dunlin and didn't get Skylark, Meadow Pipit or Mistle Thrush (still need that for the year!). That would suggest that there were at least 68 species present at UW today. Of the other more common species I might have expected to see Redwing, Goldcrest, Siskin & Common Gull were the most notable absentees.

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Spoonbill Finder said:

I must have been concentrating on those Pochards too much

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upstarts1979 said:

Andy what sex were the pochard I had 2 females yesterday:t:

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Phil Andrews said:

I think the bit where Andy said "I saw two female Pochard at the Moors Pool" may be a little clue? 8-P

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Phil Andrews said:

I think the bit where Andy said "I saw two female Pochard at the Moors Pool" may be a little clue? 8-P

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Kingfisher-kid said:

I THINK JTB HAS BEEN IN THE CAR PARK TO LONG IT MAKES YOU GO BLIND I HEAR o

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biking birder 2010 said:

Morning!

I received this message this morning and I'll be away the weekend of the event. Is anyone interested in registering the Warren please? ATB:t:

[Click on the link at the bottom for details and registration form]

Dear ‘I love Shorebirds' Member,

I write you individually in a hope that you support our great shorebird event of the year. You probably heard about the World Shorebirds’ Day, which is a public awareness initiative of the need for shorebird protection, shorebird habitat conservation, research and fund raising worldwide.

As a part of the event, the Global Shorebird-Counts will be held targeting to have 1,000 sites and a lot more people involved in the launch year (2014). There are already nearly 200 sites registered. I kindly ask you to consider joining this shorebird count project. Only one thing is needed to be done now from your side. Register your site, where you most probably will count shorebirds on the weekend of 6-7 September 2014.

Please visit the site registration page on the World Shorebirds’ Day website: http://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/global-shorebird-counting/ I count on you. With this registration, you give yourself a chance to win some awesome prizes offered by our partners.

Thanks for your time. I hope you did not find this message disturbing.

Best, Szimi
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Gyorgy Szimuly
Coordinator of the Global Events of the World Shorebirds Day
Milton Keynes, UK

http://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com

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Phil Andrews said:

As with any data set one needs to be cautious with the statistics contained within. For example all the pre-1984 data comes via the WMBC annual reports which only flags return dates that were the earliest for the county that year, skewing the data. At some point I will go through AFJ's old notebooks and see what light they may shed on migrant arrival dates in the 1970s. In the meantime please find the average return dates for Sand Martin in five year blocks (bearing in mind the above caveat).

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Spoonbill Finder said:

Live update

Blackwit at Flashes

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upstarts1979 said:

Gazza P just had swallow on east side of moors

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