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Gents - female Saker! I love patchbirding.
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Tice's Meadow and Tongham GP, Surrey (5 Viewers)
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Rich,
Nice one at least your getting something even with construction going on.
Take care .
Rich.
chaps, 2 great black back gulls 1 yellow leg gull 29 lesser black 50 + BH gulls Pergrine and 4 Goossander 3 m 1f flew over.Reed Bunting meadow pipit and bullfinch 4 green finch 3 siskin.
Had a nice start to the litter pick on friday, i m sure you will notice next one on the 2 nd March meeting at water rail gate at 10 am till 1pm .
Had a nice start to the litter pick on friday, i m sure you will notice next one on the 2 nd March meeting at water rail gate at 10 am till 1pm .
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Good to see that there is now a litter pick at Tice's. Who's organising it?
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Chaps, any luck with the Yellowthroat? I found this species difficult to see in Canada. I've heard it called the 'Hide and Go Seek' Bird in the States and it has been illusive in Wales I believe.
Rich Little pick Friday was done off my own back with Jim a local got rid of all the cans and metal + 8 odd bags of rubish.
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A nice chat with the polite Gary Bagnell and ordered into line by old maverick himself, LGRE?
Rich you have please got to tell us more ok it might have to wait till your back.But you where nt there but you got the vib mate.
Not much to report today 80 + Lapwing starling in the high 50 s more redwing than fieldfare 8 greenfinch and 4 bullfinch 12 pied wagtail.
Not much to report today 80 + Lapwing starling in the high 50 s more redwing than fieldfare 8 greenfinch and 4 bullfinch 12 pied wagtail.
mattytheduke
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Rich, had no idea there was a litter pick last Friday, and I was at Tice's too! Do let me know when the next one is and I'll be happy to help if I'm free.
Matt.
Matt.
Matt, Next litter pick Friday 2nd March 10am till 1pm Rich
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I am not worthy.
MORE than 1,000 birdwatchers flocked to a Newport field after a bird, rarely seen this side of the Atlantic, was spotted there.
A dog-walker spotted a common yellowthroat in a hedgerow on Friday morning and, after he posted a picture on the internet, birdwatchers from all over the UK travelled to the farmer’s field off Cwm Cwddy Drive, Rhiwderin.
The bird is indigenous to warmer parts of North America, such as Florida, and there have been ten previous sightings in the UK with this being only the second in Wales.
Gwent Wildlife Trust president Roger James said: “Word got out and there have been thousands of people here from places like Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Teeside. There were 400 people here on Friday alone.”
Birdwatchers formed an arc around the field with binoculars and cameras, primed to get a sight of the bird as it made its way through undergrowth.
Tom Bragg, 34, travelled from Devon and said: “The bird could have got lost when migrating during the winter. It would have been caught by a storm and blown across the Atlantic, a terrifying ordeal and something most do not survive.”
Richard Horton, 65 and Dave Baker, 49, left their Aldershot homes at 5am yesterday to travel to Newport
Mr Horton said: “It’s incredible it’s travelled from America and found its way here.
“It’s very low down in the hedgerow feeding and resting, but it’s caused great excitement.” [/I]
MORE than 1,000 birdwatchers flocked to a Newport field after a bird, rarely seen this side of the Atlantic, was spotted there.
A dog-walker spotted a common yellowthroat in a hedgerow on Friday morning and, after he posted a picture on the internet, birdwatchers from all over the UK travelled to the farmer’s field off Cwm Cwddy Drive, Rhiwderin.
The bird is indigenous to warmer parts of North America, such as Florida, and there have been ten previous sightings in the UK with this being only the second in Wales.
Gwent Wildlife Trust president Roger James said: “Word got out and there have been thousands of people here from places like Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Teeside. There were 400 people here on Friday alone.”
Birdwatchers formed an arc around the field with binoculars and cameras, primed to get a sight of the bird as it made its way through undergrowth.
Tom Bragg, 34, travelled from Devon and said: “The bird could have got lost when migrating during the winter. It would have been caught by a storm and blown across the Atlantic, a terrifying ordeal and something most do not survive.”
Richard Horton, 65 and Dave Baker, 49, left their Aldershot homes at 5am yesterday to travel to Newport
Mr Horton said: “It’s incredible it’s travelled from America and found its way here.
“It’s very low down in the hedgerow feeding and resting, but it’s caused great excitement.” [/I]
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JohnnyH
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This morning there were 2 Rails in the stream together which confirms my suspicion when I first saw the returning bird before Christmas. At the time I had a fleeting view of what I thought to be a second bird, but as time went on without seeing more than 1 bird I dismissed as perhaps a Moorhen.
Also seen - Little Egret along the river, female Stonechat in the reedbed, 4 Bullfinch, 5 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit, Kestrel, 3 Stock Dove, & Sparrowhawk. Plenty of water on the meadow so bring on the Spring passage!
John.
Also seen - Little Egret along the river, female Stonechat in the reedbed, 4 Bullfinch, 5 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit, Kestrel, 3 Stock Dove, & Sparrowhawk. Plenty of water on the meadow so bring on the Spring passage!
John.
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Just looked in the book at red-fronted serin nice one to get mate almost redpole size.Your's or Dave's?
Lifer today. Male Red-fronted Serin. A stonker!
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