edenwatcher
Well-known member
Nice.
At the end of January Daniel and I had an unsuccessful outing to Arbroath for glaucous gull. There were compensations with 4 purple sandpipers there, a green-winged teal at Balgavies Loch, ridiculously tame goosanders in Dundee, greenshanks etc. on the Eden and 99 scaup in St Andrews.
We had a night away for the boys' half term down in Northumberland. Pacific diver the obvious highlight, but plenty of other goodies including shore lark, c100 twite, 4 Eurasian whitefronts, slavonian grebe and plenty of scaup.
We left ourselves insufficient time to try for the black scoter at Goswick but called in at Belhaven Bay on the way home, adding great northern diver, plenty of long-tailed ducks and another slavonian grebe.
Final highlight (for me and the boys - Sue dipped) was successfully picking up the great grey shrike beside the A1 at East Linton (no chance of stopping and no chance of turning round for about 10 miles!).
Rob
At the end of January Daniel and I had an unsuccessful outing to Arbroath for glaucous gull. There were compensations with 4 purple sandpipers there, a green-winged teal at Balgavies Loch, ridiculously tame goosanders in Dundee, greenshanks etc. on the Eden and 99 scaup in St Andrews.
We had a night away for the boys' half term down in Northumberland. Pacific diver the obvious highlight, but plenty of other goodies including shore lark, c100 twite, 4 Eurasian whitefronts, slavonian grebe and plenty of scaup.
We left ourselves insufficient time to try for the black scoter at Goswick but called in at Belhaven Bay on the way home, adding great northern diver, plenty of long-tailed ducks and another slavonian grebe.
Final highlight (for me and the boys - Sue dipped) was successfully picking up the great grey shrike beside the A1 at East Linton (no chance of stopping and no chance of turning round for about 10 miles!).
Rob