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Sunday 22nd June 2008, 15:20
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Circuit Birding
Something I've really been missing lately is a local patch (due to spending a lot of time in various parts of the North-east through work). Various factors have however resulted in me birding a series of ponds in south-east Northumberland. In the past couple of months (and to a lesser extent earlier in the year), I've been getting into the habit of regularly checking these ponds.
Sites are as follows: St Mary's Island Wetland (and inter-tidal rocks) Holywell Pond Backworth Pond Beehive Flash Wallsend Swallow Pond So the plan for the autumn is to keep on checking these as much as possible whenever in the area, with quantity prevailing over quality. I normally spend no longer than 15mins at each site, during which time I reckon I see the majority of birds present. Therefore the more regular I do 'the circuit', the more chance I have of seeing good birds. If I could manage at least 2 visits per week then that will be good. My aim to count everything present, but hopefully to add some rare waders and wildfowl to my self-found list (due to spending the majority of my birding career in wetland-free areas, I have never found a rare wader or duck). So here's this morning's birds...... St Mary's Island Redshank 7 Shelduck 1 Moorhen 4 Mute Swan 2 Arctic Tern 1st-sum S over wetland Beehive Flash Shelduck 2 ads + 4 young Mute Swan 2 Redshank 10 Swallow Pond Tufted Duck 4 Great Crested Grebe 1 Holywell Pond Gadwall 1 fem/ecl drake Common Tern 1 Shelduck 2 ads + 1 young Shoveler 1 ecl drake Grey Heron 1 Cormorant 2 (both carbo) Sand Martin 4 Swift 35 Common Sandpiper 1 Backworth Pond (nothing - flash more of a puddle, even after last night's rain) |
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Sunday 22nd June 2008, 17:26
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btw ur pm box is full, u need to delete some
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Sunday 22nd June 2008, 17:51
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Backworth Pond
(nothing - flash more of a puddle, even after last night's rain) Hi Ross, good luck on your quest , I presume you know there is also a pond at Backworth ( access between the dog kennels), this is fed from a stream, or is it pumped from an old mine ? this has been very good for waders. Brian
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Sunday 22nd June 2008, 21:54
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I knew it was there but I've never bothered to look! Where are the dog kennels exactly - Backworth Village end of road, or other end? |
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Monday 23rd June 2008, 10:01
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This morning....
Beehive Flash Redshank 3 Greenshank 1 St Mary's Island Black-headed Gull 37 Mediterranean Gull 1 ad/s Redshank 12 Dunlin 1 Shelduck 2 Gadwall 1 ecl drake Teal 1 drake Holywell Pond Great Crested Grebe pair + 3 young Canada Goose 4 + 4 young Cormorant 2 (1 sinensis, other not ID'd) Grey Heron 3 Sand Martin 8 Swallow Pond Ruddy Duck 3 Shoveler pair |
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Tuesday 24th June 2008, 20:25
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This evening.....
St Mary's Island Redshank 15 Beehive Flash Lapwing 200 Golden Plover 20 Holywell Pond Mallard 41 Tufted Duck 13 Pochard 6 Swift 130 Sand Martin 20 Backworth Pond Mute Swan 2 |
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Wednesday 25th June 2008, 15:49
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Quick flick round at lunchtime....
Holywell Pond Teal 3 Green Sandpiper 1 in front of public hide c13.30 (report of Wood Sand here 12.15 and again 15.15 was interesting....) Swallow Pond Shoveler 5 Teal 4 |
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Sunday 29th June 2008, 22:00
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Whip round late this evening.....
Beehive Flash Redshank 2 Holywell Pond Tufted Duck 29 Pochard 24 Swift 300 Lapwing 650 Curlew 21 Barn Owl 1 |
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Monday 30th June 2008, 08:49
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where is the beehive flash?
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Tuesday 1st July 2008, 21:47
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This evening.....
Holywell Pond Gadwall 1 Common Tern 1 St Mary's Island Gadwall 1 |
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Thursday 3rd July 2008, 21:05
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This evening.....
St Mary's Island Mediterranean Gull 2 (ad & 1st-sum) Holywell Pond Grey Heron 4 Common Sandpiper 2 |
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Tuesday 8th July 2008, 15:36
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Lunchtime...
St Mary's Island Whinchat 1 male Holywell Pond Grey Heron 7 Sand Martin 20 Last edited by Ross Ahmed : Tuesday 8th July 2008 at 21:21. |
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Sunday 13th July 2008, 21:42
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This evening....
Swallow Pond Shoveler 15 Ruddy Duck 3 Holywell Pond Tufted Duck 9 Pochard 10 Teal 6 Garganey 1 fem/ecl drake Chiffchaff presumed juv giving very high pitched call |
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