Sets are nice (1 Viewer)

Farnboro John

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• Oct 27, 2017

• #1

A picture is worth a thousand words, so I'm economising on 3,000 here:

21 October, Oare Marshes: Wilson's Phalarope (1w)
21 October, Staines Reservoir: Red-necked Phalarope (juv)
26 October, Pennington: Grey Phalarope (1w)

Inside a week. Happy bunny!

John

 

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Richard Prior

Halfway up an Alp

• Oct 27, 2017

• #2

To misquote Tom Jones: "Sets Pot, Sets Pot, you're a Sets Pot."
Not at all jealous.

Really

:-C

 

Kits

Picture Picker

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• Oct 27, 2017

• #3

Well done you!

 

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birdmeister

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• Oct 28, 2017

• #4

Fantastic photo of the Red (Grey) Phalarope, John!

I've seen Red (Grey) twice, but still am yet to see Red-necked or Wilson's. All in due time!

 

Farnboro John

Well-known member

• Oct 28, 2017

• #5

Thank you all!

BM: "Grey" is what we usually see, "Red" is a major event here (I twitched a summer plumage one last year and it felt almost like a new bird!)

John

 

ClarkWGriswold

Carpe Carpum

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• Oct 28, 2017

• #6

I had 7 crow species last year on one day. Missed out on Hoodie - unsurprisingly in South Wales.

 

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Original PaulE

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• Oct 28, 2017

• #7

I've had 4 of the 5 British owls in a day 3 times and I had the hard one LEO everytime, twice little owl evaded me and once tawny !!

 

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fugl

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• Oct 28, 2017

• #8

My best “set” was a small flock containing all 4 North American Zonotrichia sparrows at one of the Reno parks a few winters ago, feeding in a few square-yard patch of lawn below a juniper tree.
1. White-crowned. Locally common and ubiquitous during the winter months.
2, Golden-crowned. Regular in small numbers dto
3. Harris’s. Rare Dto
4. White-throated. Dto

Even allowing for the tendency of Zonotrichia sparrows to associate with their congeners during the off-season, having all 4 North American species in a single flock like this must be very unusual indeed

 

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birdmeister

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• Oct 29, 2017

• #9

Farnboro John said:

Thank you all!

BM: "Grey" is what we usually see, "Red" is a major event here (I twitched a summer plumage one last year and it felt almost like a new bird!)

John

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I would love to see one in breeding plumage! Both of mine were either immatures/molting, so rather a dirtier version of basic plumage.

Still great birds, though.

 

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BimmyB

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• Oct 29, 2017

• #10

I had a full set of corvids in Britain a couple of years ago en route to Ireland, and once in the Emerald Island added Hoodie and 'Irish Jay' on the same day to complete the whole set.
Also, non-birds this year was a full set of Volucella hoverflies in the same wood on the same day which was pretty cool.

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Oct 30, 2017

• #11

I was going to say I'd had the full set of Ospreys on a few occasions.

But then I remembered IOC have split Eastern Osprey (Australia), so I haven't. :-C

 

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birdmeister

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• Oct 31, 2017

• #12

I'm always happy with a three-falcon day (American Kestrel, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon).

 

Farnboro John

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• Nov 2, 2017

• #13

Um. I actually have done the five-owl trick - more than once, but the first time was in company: Tawny Owl at Ashford (Middx) Golf Club, followed by 2+ Short-eared Owls at Feltham and 17 Long-eared Owls at a roost whose location I can't even remember: after which I and my companions scuttled over to Moor Green where we knew we could easily nail Little Owl. Having done so, we stood around cursing the fact that we didn't have a local Barn Owl site when Clare exclaimed "there's a Barn Owl at the far end of the pit!" Cue slight panic as the owl disappeared into scrubby birches, but it quickly reappeared. Job done! I know there were three of us but I can't remember if the third was Arch or Mike.

 

JWN Andrewes

Poor Judge of Pasta.

• Nov 2, 2017

• #14

Wasn't me, must've been Mike.