Garganey!!!! (1 Viewer)

Alastair Rae

London birder

• Feb 16, 2004

• #21

If Candlemas Day be dull and drear
Winter's gone for another year

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I guess that's why if the groundhog can see his shadow, it means another six weeks of winter.

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Feb 16, 2004

• #22

deboo said:

It wasn't in full breeding plumage.

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Hi Dave,

Understandable - Garganey have the longest period in eclipse plumage of any duck, from June/July to February/March. Usually, they moult into full breeding plumage only just before they migrate or during the migration, and early ones are quite often not yet in full plumage. I've even seen them not yet fully in breeding plumage in mid April on occasion.

Michael

 

deboo

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• Feb 16, 2004

• #23

Thanx again to you all!

I have just entered the details on the BTO migration watch website.

Dave.

 

Gill Osborne

Well-known member

• Feb 17, 2004

• #24

Yay good on you Dave.....I'm off out now to look for my own spring migrants!!!

And yes Dawn, I will enter it onto the BTO Migration Watch site...meant to last year but never got around to it *hangs head in shame*

GILL

 

SimonC

Still listing - I'll capsize one day

• Feb 17, 2004

• #25

Dave, I just found a picture of you receiving your "I just found a Garaganey" certificate!
You kept that quiet!

 

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Darren Oakley-Martin

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• Feb 17, 2004

• #26

SimonC said:

Dave, I just found a picture of you receiving your "I just found a Garaganey" certificate!
You kept that quiet!

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Simon, BRILLIANT! Your turn to put me in danger of getting the sack for laughing hysterically! Been scratching my head about your Geoff Capes references all day! :clap:

 

SimonC

Still listing - I'll capsize one day

• Feb 17, 2004

• #27

Darrenom said:

Simon, BRILLIANT! Your turn to put me in danger of getting the sack for laughing hysterically! Been scratching my head about your Geoff Capes references all day! :clap:

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And that's not even the Bunny/Pancake replacement!

BTW, I wish I'd found a Garganey, it'd be a lifer for me!

 

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Darren Oakley-Martin

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• Feb 17, 2004

• #28

SimonC said:

And that's not even the Bunny/Pancake replacement!

BTW, I wish I'd found a Garganey, it'd be a lifer for me!

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IMPORTANT PUBLIC NOTICE:

DO NOT VIEW SIMON'S BUNNY/PANCAKE REPLACEMENT IN A PUBLIC AREA- YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE SECTIONED.

 

deboo

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• Feb 17, 2004

• #29

Simon,

You eeeediut!!!!

That is THE funniest thing I've seen all day!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Dave.

 

Brian Stone

A Stone chatting

• Feb 19, 2004

• #30

Just had a report that this bird is still present (Thurs morning). :t:

 

deboo

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• Feb 20, 2004

• #31

brianhstone said:

Just had a report that this bird is still present (Thurs morning). :t:

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I'm as smug as a very smug person getting smugged!!!
Shall endeavour to see MY bird again tomorrow....
Was planning to go to Lynford to see the Hawfinches again.....
Nah...Ten a penny them Hawfinches...and I might get a few Barred Woodpeckers at Woodwalton...and probably the earliest ever Nightingale too!!!

HAHAHAHA

Dave.

 

Carson

Well-known member

• Feb 25, 2004

• #32

Dave, you have a very good date. My date for a Garganey is rather ordinary: June 22 (2000).

And I wasn't even the first one to see it. I arrived second. Nice chap, already looking at it, said, "Say, how well do you know your ducks?"

It was the location, you see. The date was ho-hum, but the location...was Vancouver, Canada.