[James Thomas]

Myrtle Street

[CGJ]

Which area of Swillington Ings is the BT Diver on please?

[Ingsbirder]

Originally Posted by CGJ

Which area of Swillington Ings is the BT Diver on please?

St. Aidan's main lake - park at car park on Fleet Lane and walk south along river bank

[CGJ]

Thanks, will have a look tomorrow.

[Secret Twitcher]

Anyone know if there has been a concrete decision on the Spurn Collared Fly? Or even if there will be a concrete decision? I read the report suggesting that it was not a Pied Fly...

[Lawts]

[quote=Secret Twitcher;1985215]

Originally Posted by Lawts

There's no rush but make sure you formally submit the record to the VC recorder for that area with photographic evidence to make sure you get sole credit for finding it in BB.QUOTE]


Thanks for all the congratulations and compliments. It was just right place at right time I suppose really. I'm aware better birders than me have gone a lifetime without such a nice find so I'm really grateful the God's of birding shone on me on Friday! A bit gutted it didn't stick for more people to get a good look.

RE submitting the record, I have emailed Nick Addey (Scarborough Birding Recorder) who was the second birder to arrive. He has the photos and video and the date and times and stuff as he was present. He has said he will submit the record to the BBRC/YNU. Is this what you are referring to? In terms of getting sole credit, I am not too bothered about that really but what is "BB?"

Thanks again

BB is British Birds. Your record will be published in the annual rare bird report that adds or rejects official British records of birds. You deserve the credit. Don't be an "et al" if you found it.

[James Thomas]

That would mean revealing his true identity, my money is on Henry the mild mannered janitor.

[joespy]

Originally Posted by Keith Dickinson

The tail and presence of a dark band/s towards the end of the tail feathers is one of the key id features, along with feathering along the legs (hence rough legged) and longer wings than common buzzard. It also 'hovers' much more than a common buzzard would do.
I wouldn't rule it out as the birds will turn up anywhere where there is good hunting, but if you haven't got the tail features it'll be hard to make the id stick.

Thanks for that Keith...we'd sort of worked out that the tail was the key feature and wished we'd had the poss. idea of RL and would then have given it "a better coat of lookin at"...Joe

[bitterntwisted]

Originally Posted by James Thomas

That would mean revealing his true identity, my money is on Henry the mild mannered janitor.

Could be.

[Keith Dickinson]

Any one know if the gray phalarope is still at Cononley? Hoping to connect with it tomorrow.

[northernloon]

FWIW Keith, it has not been reported on Birdguides so far today. It could just be the case that no one has looked. Fingers crossed

[Keith Dickinson]

It's worth a punt Ken.
I know exactly where the bird will have been, during the summer t'wife and I walked along the very footpath.

[Secret Twitcher]

Originally Posted by James Thomas

That would mean revealing his true identity, my money is on Henry the mild mannered janitor.

Haha! Mild mannered maybe but I'm definately not a janitor!

[James Thomas]

Puddle here, just stuck some more snaps of it on BG

[James Thomas]

Originally Posted by Secret Twitcher

Haha! Mild mannered maybe but I'm definately not a janitor!

Rosemary the telephone operator?

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Originally Posted by James Thomas

Puddle here, just stuck some more snaps of it on BG

Fantastic.

Usual excuses; bad light, bird distant?

[DOC REED]

A few from today in York;28 waxwings on Danesmead Close..until this bugger spooked'em!!
Paul

[Keith Dickinson]

Ken and I dipped the grey phalarope. The pool was frozen solid.

[knocker7800]

Originally Posted by DOC REED

A few from today in York;28 waxwings on Danesmead Close..until this bugger spooked'em!!
Paul

I also dipped the waxwings after a good drive round fulford.

may have seen the sparrowhawks mate scoot by under the waxwing trees at knee height.

[pete seaman]

Originally Posted by knocker7800

I also dipped the waxwings after a good drive round fulford.

may have seen the sparrowhawks mate scoot by under the waxwing trees at knee height.

Glad we are not the only ones to dip on Waxwings.We seem to be surrounded by them,30 up the road last week and we spent last Sunday wandering roun Harrogate to all the reported sites but no look so far.

[James Thomas]

Originally Posted by pete seaman

Glad we are not the only ones to dip on Waxwings.We seem to be surrounded by them,30 up the road last week and we spent last Sunday wandering roun Harrogate to all the reported sites but no look so far.

You won't see any if you don't look!

[cheshirebirder]

Nipped over to see the black-throated diver at Swillington Ings yesterday (plus the long-tailed duck at Pugney's). Just like to say thanks to the local guys in the hide who were very friendly and even showed us round to where the bird was located. How it should be between birders,but unfortunately it isn't always !

[Chris-Leeds]

They are a good bunch there.

[Andrew Gibson]

I passed a dead eagle owl on to some one this week who is to organise testing the bird to try and establish its origins. The bird was collected as road kill from Hessle and had no rings or jessies.
Will keep you up dated

[northernloon]

This promises to be interesting. I've been doing stuff for pgdp.net for a few years working on ebooks and this book came up for post-processing (one of the latter stages before it gets posted on the interweb). Really quite astonishing what people thought was sport.