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pooleparrot · Mar 30, 2013

Holes Bay 30/03/13

1 Spoonbill , 1 Avocet , 3 Spotted Redshank in the bay. 5 Sand Martin, 1 Common Sandpiper and about 30 Chiffchaff on the PCW Drain.

scary-canary · Mar 30, 2013

Longham lakes 2013

Redshank and redpoll were patch year ticks yesterday for me, so that puts my year list on to 79 this year, plus black swan.
Chris

pooleparrot · Mar 31, 2013

Morden Bog

A pair of Redpoll and Dartford Warbler on the heath today.

James Lowther · Mar 31, 2013

that's a funny looking dartford wblr!!

james

pooleparrot · Apr 2, 2013

Wyke

1 SEO and 4 Wheatear this afternoon at Wyke Down.

Ps forgot the Great Grey Shrike was still there.

Dawn Balmer · Apr 2, 2013

Are there any migrant hot-spots around Charmouth? Visiting the area next week so any local advice welcome. Thanks.

scary-canary · Apr 2, 2013

Dawn Balmer said:
Are there any migrant hot-spots around Charmouth? Visiting the area next week so any local advice welcome. Thanks.

Lyme Regis is nice, with dippers if you follow the river up from the beach. The Cobb and the cliff top walks are good too, for wheatears etc.i suspect the whole area is under watched, but three have been regular black redstarts near the theatre on the seafront.
This thread is interesting.
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2689297
Also keep an eye here
http://dorsetbirds.blogspot.co.uk/

Chris

Dawn Balmer · Apr 2, 2013

scary-canary said:
Lyme Regis is nice, with dippers if you follow the river up from the beach. The Cobb and the cliff top walks are good too, for wheatears etc.i suspect the whole area is under watched, but three have been regular black redstarts near the theatre on the seafront.
This thread is interesting.
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2689297
Also keep an eye here
http://dorsetbirds.blogspot.co.uk/

Chris

Very helpful Chris, thanks. I'm sure we'll explore the area and see what we can find. Hopefully Portland will tempt us away for a day.....

scary-canary · Apr 2, 2013

Dawn Balmer said:
Very helpful Chris, thanks. I'm sure we'll explore the area and see what we can find. Hopefully Portland will tempt us away for a day.....

If you get as far as Weymouth you've got lodmoor and radipole to explore too. And abbotsbury and west Bexington in between.

pooleparrot · Apr 3, 2013

Morden Bog

The Great Grey Shrike was on the far side of Morden Bog again today Southwest of the Decoy Pond, it is a far less skittish bird than the Wyke bird. Also a lot more commoner birds coming out in the sunshine, good numbers of Stonechat, Reed Bunting and Meadow Pipits. There was also a pair of Woodlark and 3 Dartford Warblers.

pooleparrot · Apr 3, 2013

Shore Road

1 Sandwich Tern resting on the foreshore with the BH Gulls.

pooleparrot · Apr 5, 2013

Shore Road

This mornings highlights were 55 Knot, 82 Sanderling, 200+ Barwits and 2 Med Gulls.

timsg80 · Apr 6, 2013

A real sense of spring today- first swallow of the year at Lodmoor and another two at Radipole, chiffchaffs singing at both reserves and two willow warblers singing at Radipole. I also saw the stone-curlews at Butterstreet Cove today- wow!

dwallace · Apr 6, 2013

Very pleasant, too, at Chesil Cove this afternoon. The White-spotted Bluethroat was very elusive for a few hours before showing well, albeit briefly, in scrub just beyond the cafe late afternoon.

Dave W

pooleparrot · Apr 7, 2013

Shore Road

On a receding high tide this morning, 37 Sanderling(including the blinged Dutch bird) and 2 Med gulls.

Dawn Balmer · Apr 7, 2013

There were two male Ring Ouzels in fields at Black Covert between Chideock and Golden Cap this morning.

No sign of the two Stone Curlew at West Bexington this afternoon, but a pair of Garganey on the Mere, 1 Swallow, 2 Sandwich Tern, 3 Stonechat and an Adder.

Pam_m · Apr 8, 2013

I enjoyed my first visit to Portland at the weekend (5th, 6th &7th) and was very pleased to have picked a decent weather weekend! White-spotted Bluethroat at Chesil Cove and Ring Ouzel at Suckthumb Quarry being the highlights! On the homeward journey a quick visit to RSPB Radipole was made with the highlight here being the (sleeping )Garganey and my first of the year Swallow, then on to RSPB Lodmoor and a decent sighting of a Spoonbill and a Little Egret!
A visit sometime in the future will be a must!

pooleparrot · Apr 8, 2013

Pam_m said:
I enjoyed my first visit to Portland at the weekend (5th, 6th &7th) and was very pleased to have picked a decent weather weekend! White-spotted Bluethroat at Chesil Cove and Ring Ouzel at Suckthumb Quarry being the highlights! On the homeward journey a quick visit to RSPB Radipole was made with the highlight here being the (sleeping )Garganey and my first of the year Swallow, then on to RSPB Lodmoor and a decent sighting of a Spoonbill and a Little Egret!
A visit sometime in the future will be a must!

An excellent haul, Pam.

pooleparrot · Apr 8, 2013

Morden Bog

No sign of the GGS this morning, plenty of other birds though. Considerably more Linnet around today and 2 groups of Xbill(2 & 4 birds). Also 2 large groups of Siskin, 2 Woodlark and a couple of Dartford Warbler.

James Lowther · Apr 8, 2013

great photos of the xbill pp,
cheers,
James

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