ahh Holy island my first introduction to birding as a 10 year old set my heart on visiting the farnes but rough weather stopped the crossing..... i was devastated did you manage to get across to the farnes?
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ahh Holy island my first introduction to birding as a 10 year old set my heart on visiting the farnes but rough weather stopped the crossing..... i was devastated did you manage to get across to the farnes?
DOC REED
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Little point this time of year Zing..went last may....total therapy for the stresses of life....not sure even if they run trips this time of year. Holy island was superb though,,,nothing mega apart maybe from hen harrier..always a special bird....especially these days!!!
have you been to faxfleet? its further down the bank to blacktoft sands had the best ever views of marsh and hen harriers there two or three years ago, its worth the trip as you are on your own as everyone else is further up the river at blacktoft.
just checked blacktoft website marsh and ring tailed hen harriers spotted on the 4th feb.
some pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zing0414/
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knocker7800
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Had a nice afternoon at Fairburn yesterday with plenty of pale redpolls flitting about the alders near the kingfisher screen. Also a weasel was hunting/playing amongst the boulder pile near the screen. Managed to get to within a few feet and also managed a record shot with my phone camera. Top! Other highlights were a bar headed goose with the whitefronts at LinDyke, and yet another dip of the LEO.
bumped into a bloke who had seen 3 otters under the mellenium bridge in york at 8:30pm on tuesday night.
mark.
bumped into a bloke who had seen 3 otters under the mellenium bridge in york at 8:30pm on tuesday night.
mark.
DOC REED
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Redhouse redpolls
Lovely to meet Yorkshires 9th top lister today...and what a really nice guy he was.....don't think we mustered an Arctic....but had a good natter anyway...cheers Garry!!!
Here is one from today..lets start a quizz..lesser or mealy??
I know what I think....
Lovely to meet Yorkshires 9th top lister today...and what a really nice guy he was.....don't think we mustered an Arctic....but had a good natter anyway...cheers Garry!!!
Here is one from today..lets start a quizz..lesser or mealy??
I know what I think....
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With a wingbar that colour it can't be anything other than lesser ( or can it? )
Dave
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What is your opinion of the birds in post #13457 ?
Ben M
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For me...
1 is Lesser (structure, wing bar, and buff tones are obvious factors)
2 is difficult to call on that photo alone, could be Mealy but not enough pro factors, and could equally be Lesser
3 (assuming not same bird as 2) is much more pro Lesser than Mealy
Better profile shots of 2 and 3 would help.
1 is Lesser (structure, wing bar, and buff tones are obvious factors)
2 is difficult to call on that photo alone, could be Mealy but not enough pro factors, and could equally be Lesser
3 (assuming not same bird as 2) is much more pro Lesser than Mealy
Better profile shots of 2 and 3 would help.
DOC REED
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Both Mealy
Dicky Ticker
Birds, burgers and buffoonery!
Nice pics Clare, particularly the Nuthatch...a corker, glad you connected. Looks like a much better day than when I went! Did you not see any Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers at Rufford?
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liverpool_bob
scarce migrant to yorkshire
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Blimey! That looks like a big white rump!
As does this one, from a friend of a friends garden. I realise it's overexposed so rump may not be quite as it seems.
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Ben M
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Cannot see distinct ear covert
Plenty of warm brown tones in the plumage
Streaking is not striking
Bill appears small
Wing length could be exaggerated by blurring
I'm not sure it is Lesser, I don't even think it is Lesser, I just cannot see enough good Mealy features over Lesser features from the image.
Ben M
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In the Mealy camp with this one.
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