choughed2bits
kev thomson
OK so i know i should be posting somewhere else (and have considered starting a kincardineshire - VC91 apparently - thread for some time) so here goes.
I normally spend my time birding around Gourdon, Montrose and the Ness, so apologies if this extra thread doesn't completely add value. By rights, Kincardineshire is neither in Anus nor Torry so spotted a nifty gap in the local patch market. It is a bit of a land that time forgot in a few respects and i like it like that - but i wont go into the pros and cons of living here just yet.
Anyway, Junee and I have just returned from a week in Cuba and between mojitos, cigars and snorkelling, the birding was pretty good and all without much effort.
I thought the reader might appreciate a run down of the birds i managed to see over the course of the week in and around Cayo Coco and some of the Cuban mainland around Ciego de Avila and Moron:
1 Magnificent Frigatebird
2 Brown Pelican
3 Double Crested Cormorant
4 Neotropic Cormorant
5 Great Blue Heron
6 Reddish Egret
7 Great Egret
8 Snowy Egret
9 Cattle Egret
10 Little Blue Heron
11 Green Heron
12 Greater Flamingo
13 Turkey Vulture
14 Broad-Winged Hawk
15 Common Black-Hawk
16 Crested Caracara
17 American Kestrel
18 Clapper Rail
19 Purple Gallinule (18 & 19 spotted by June - missed by me!)
20 Black-Necked Stilt
21 Black Bellied (Grey) Plover
22 Willet
23 Kildeer
24 Laughing Gull
25 Royal Tern
26 Least Tern
27 Mourning Dove
28 White-Winged Dove
29 Common Ground Dove
30 Zenaida Dove
31 Antillean Nightjar
32 Cuban Green Woodpecker
33 Northern Flicker
34 Gray Kingbird
35 Loggerhead Kingbird
36 Cuban Crow
37 Cuban Martin
38 Cave Swallow
39 Northern Mockingbird
40 Red-Legged Thrush
41 Bahama Mockingbird
42 Yellow Warbler
43 Blackburnian Warbler
44 Common Yellowthroat
45 Oriente Warbler
46 Cuban Grassquit
47 Cuban Bullfinch
48 House Sparrow
49 Greater Antillean Grackle
50 Tawny-Shouldered Blackbid
51 Muscovy Duck
Not bad considering most of these were lifers, and i wasn't trying desperately hard - it was far too hot and mosquito-ish to go looking for some proper swamp dwellers and hummingbirds.
Anyway, i hope to spend some spare time updating this thread with local sightings and plenty of idiosyncratic twaddle in future and whenever i can get away with skiving from work. But until then,
Happy birding,
Kev T
I normally spend my time birding around Gourdon, Montrose and the Ness, so apologies if this extra thread doesn't completely add value. By rights, Kincardineshire is neither in Anus nor Torry so spotted a nifty gap in the local patch market. It is a bit of a land that time forgot in a few respects and i like it like that - but i wont go into the pros and cons of living here just yet.
Anyway, Junee and I have just returned from a week in Cuba and between mojitos, cigars and snorkelling, the birding was pretty good and all without much effort.
I thought the reader might appreciate a run down of the birds i managed to see over the course of the week in and around Cayo Coco and some of the Cuban mainland around Ciego de Avila and Moron:
1 Magnificent Frigatebird
2 Brown Pelican
3 Double Crested Cormorant
4 Neotropic Cormorant
5 Great Blue Heron
6 Reddish Egret
7 Great Egret
8 Snowy Egret
9 Cattle Egret
10 Little Blue Heron
11 Green Heron
12 Greater Flamingo
13 Turkey Vulture
14 Broad-Winged Hawk
15 Common Black-Hawk
16 Crested Caracara
17 American Kestrel
18 Clapper Rail
19 Purple Gallinule (18 & 19 spotted by June - missed by me!)
20 Black-Necked Stilt
21 Black Bellied (Grey) Plover
22 Willet
23 Kildeer
24 Laughing Gull
25 Royal Tern
26 Least Tern
27 Mourning Dove
28 White-Winged Dove
29 Common Ground Dove
30 Zenaida Dove
31 Antillean Nightjar
32 Cuban Green Woodpecker
33 Northern Flicker
34 Gray Kingbird
35 Loggerhead Kingbird
36 Cuban Crow
37 Cuban Martin
38 Cave Swallow
39 Northern Mockingbird
40 Red-Legged Thrush
41 Bahama Mockingbird
42 Yellow Warbler
43 Blackburnian Warbler
44 Common Yellowthroat
45 Oriente Warbler
46 Cuban Grassquit
47 Cuban Bullfinch
48 House Sparrow
49 Greater Antillean Grackle
50 Tawny-Shouldered Blackbid
51 Muscovy Duck
Not bad considering most of these were lifers, and i wasn't trying desperately hard - it was far too hot and mosquito-ish to go looking for some proper swamp dwellers and hummingbirds.
Anyway, i hope to spend some spare time updating this thread with local sightings and plenty of idiosyncratic twaddle in future and whenever i can get away with skiving from work. But until then,
Happy birding,
Kev T