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Surprise,Surprise. (Not the Cilla kind) (1 Viewer)

Ian Bell

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What local rare bird have you come across on a casual watch on your local patch ? I remember this time last year,taking the dog for a walk around the coast (Girdleness) and coming face to face with a Short eared Owl about 10 yards in front of me..! Any unexpected stories from your own patches ?
 
walking the dog - luckily with me bins around me neck.

I stop half away around the wood, get right to the edge of the wood to have a look at the view a what screams past me....... a Hobby!!!! Totally chuffed I was.

Then two weeks later saw another one while walking along the canal with my then girlfriend, about two miles away from where I'd seen the first one. Again I had my bins around my neck.

Hopefully this means they were breeding in the area this year... gonna keep my eye out next year. :t:


John.
 
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in my own garden!!!!
AND it was my (then) 7 year old son who saw it and recognised it first!!
Never seen one here since!!
 
I've seen a lot of unusual birds at my local patch, including Virginia Rail, Sora, Marsh Wren, Stilt, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plover, and Black-crowned Night-heron. However, the best one was a White-winged Scoter I found last December; a rare bird away from the Great Lakes and the 1st county record!!
 
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