northernloon
swimming in a virtual sea
You must have a hell of a garden.This is on my garden list!
Greater Yellowlegs will be subject to some serious grilling
You must have a hell of a garden.This is on my garden list!
Sociable Lapwing Wilson's Storm-petrel Solitary Sandpiper Blyth’s Pipit
Of course it will be none of the above and something completely random!
Sulphur-bellied Warbler for me.
My best garden birds are Siskin, Redpoll & Reed Bunting. Not too bad for the middle of an estate. I expect that to climb as i have planted tons of trees annd bushes and built a pond. I expect Mr Flowers might have some corkers on the subject of a garden list.
summer was cancelled due to a scheduling problem at seasons are us, they've buggered it up completely and stuffed 2 autumns in to fill the gap.
as for garden listing i use jane turners rules, i.e. anything which can be identified using scope at max mag goes on it
Amongst them. There was an article in Yorkshire Birding the other year where several birders were asked about likely predictions but I can't remember what was in it – maybe someone could scan it.
Other 'missing' stuff includes, amongst many others:
Sooty Tern just got to wait for one to get into the North Sea and a good chance off Flams no doubt
Black Scoter maybe but we don’t get the number of scoter flocks off the coast that we used to, how about an inland bird with a passage flock of Common Scoter?
Eleonora's Falcon possible (but ID retrospectively from photos posted on BF probably)
Sora seem to like random places and must be overlooked in UK due to their habitat preference
Wilson’s Snipe probably pass through amongst the thousands of Common Snipe going through the county
Greater Yellowlegs will no doubt occur at some point
Brünnich's Guillemot bit of a long shot, maybe a coastal corpse somewhere
Buff-bellied Pipit possible given the number of Mipits that go through the county from points west….
Siberian Rubythroat must be in the offing given the increase in eastern Palearctic vagrants; based on our geographical position then that applies to any of the mouthwatering ‘sibes’ not yet on the Yorks (or British list)
Plenty to go at really:eek!:
Day to day it varies between 200 and 2000 but several thousand are meandering up and down the holderness coast so I guess it's slightly weather dependent. Managed some snaps of the local water vole today but the cloud was in at 20.30 so shot very slow and soft. Great photo op if the sun is shining. Also a kingfisher - my first in the village.
Many thanks for the info James, went yesterday pm and got some great shots, much appreciated
Not been to Wykeham since last month, I would expect tripits to still be around, plus xbills, siskin and turtles.
Hunnies are fickle critters, I believe this year the best direction to be looking to see them is sort of NNE when stood at the watchpoint. Most of the action I know about has taken place in that sort of direction.
Best of luck.
Should get up earlier James