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turkish van
Number 1 celebrity badger
It's nastily hard not to laugh....
Poor old Andrew!
Mind you, he is in Australia, so our sympathy for him should be severely limited anyway!
Poor old Andrew!
Mind you, he is in Australia, so our sympathy for him should be severely limited anyway!
dantheman
Bah humbug
Aw, didn't realise! Wouldn't have joined in the latest Desert Wheatear discussion with my comments . . does that mean we shouldn't discuss Desert Wheatears on this thread any more? . . .
turkish van
Number 1 celebrity badger
No no I wouldn't go that far. After all, it is a pretty darn nice bird and should really be admired with posts declaring appreciation of it's beauty and rarity as much as possible. Some more photos would be nice too, anyone?
Mark Lew1s
My real name is Mark Lewis
Happy to oblige.......follow the link below!
When will you get back Andrew.....I'll do my best to make sure it sticks around.
Mark
When will you get back Andrew.....I'll do my best to make sure it sticks around.
Mark
Moraybirdlover
Well-known member
:-O
I clicked on the link.Beatiful photo. But must confess I was a bit confused 122 Desert Wheatear!!!Andrew really is missing out!!!!!:-O:-O
Nice pics Mark. Glad you got to see the bird. If only they were all so confiding eh? I've updated my blog, http://www.thenatureofnescotland.com with photo, and tried to add some more photos to the bird photos page, but they haven't appeared yet.
Hmm, I see things have been busy while I've been away (and I'm still away, as it happens). Congratulations to Ken on joining the 'I've found a Desert Wheatear' club. It's a very exclusive club as it happens 
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A little bit disappointed Mark didn't manage to keep it there. It's only a couple of weeks till I'm back - how hard can it be to keep one small bird in a big place like Girdle Ness? I'll also fogive Laura her occasional geographical lapses.
.A little bit disappointed Mark didn't manage to keep it there. It's only a couple of weeks till I'm back - how hard can it be to keep one small bird in a big place like Girdle Ness? I'll also fogive Laura her occasional geographical lapses
.G Anderson
Registered User
Hmm, I see things have been busy while I've been away (and I'm still away, as it happens). Congratulations to Ken on joining the 'I've found a Desert Wheatear' club. It's a very exclusive club as it happens
A little bit disappointed Mark didn't manage to keep it there. It's only a couple of weeks till I'm back - how hard can it be to keep one small bird in a big place like Girdle Ness? I'll also fogive Laura her occasional geographical lapses
There he is!
Are you quite sure some of your 'bluethroat' sightings weren't this bird?
Anyway, I'm now going to scan your new locale for wren-like birds!
There he is!
Are you quite sure some of your 'bluethroat' sightings weren't this bird?
Anyway, I'm now going to scan your new locale for wren-like birds!
I'm pretty sure my 'Bluethroats' weren't Desert Wheatears. They might easily have been Robins though.
I've actually had some interesting encounters with wren-like birds lately, and this time even have pictures.
Mark Lew1s
My real name is Mark Lewis
Not much at the ness on Sunday, the wheatear was seen briefly around lunchtime (although not by me) and a Black guilemot was about the best I could come up with. The wheatear apparently spent most of Sunday feeding at Aberdeens legendary fun beach, and approaching folk down to a few feet. If it's survived the cold snap it could well still be around.
choughed2bits
kev thomson
Aberdeen Desert Wheatear goes rogue
At first the bird was confiding, if we're not careful before long it'll become over familiar.
Give it another week or so and it will have bulked up on steroids and hanging around outside Frankie & Benny's in a hoody and shell suit, intimidating infirm OAPs into handing over their pension money to feed it's ever growing crack habit.
kt
At first the bird was confiding, if we're not careful before long it'll become over familiar.
Give it another week or so and it will have bulked up on steroids and hanging around outside Frankie & Benny's in a hoody and shell suit, intimidating infirm OAPs into handing over their pension money to feed it's ever growing crack habit.
kt
Very little to report from The Ness today. Saw The Freak (the albino Oystercatcher) and a Sparrowhawk, loads of Rock Pipits in Walker Park, and....can't think of anything else really. Horrendous driving conditions in the snow going home, between Culter and Banchory.
Moraybirdlover
Well-known member
I am suffering from withdrawal symptoms!
Are there no birds on the Ness when Andrew is away? Just wondered as my son is due home from uni at the weekend and would love visit the Ness? What might he be able to see? Are the purple sand pipers still about?
Are there no birds on the Ness when Andrew is away? Just wondered as my son is due home from uni at the weekend and would love visit the Ness? What might he be able to see? Are the purple sand pipers still about?
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There are always birds at The Ness, especially when Andrew is away.
I haven't been there myself for a week or so, as I've been busy doing survey stuff for the BTO. The fact that nothing unusual has been reported there shouldn't put you off going, you never know what might turn up. The purple sandpipers will be there all winter, somewhere on the rocks or one of the piers. There will also be eiders (this time last year there was a king eider), red-throated divers should be around,in winter plumage of course, plus oysercatchers, turnstones and redshanks. Rock pipits too, inside the Walker Park especially if it's windy. That's the walled grassy place behind the lighthouse, always worth a look. Remember, the only certainty about birding is the uncertainty.
Moraybirdlover
Well-known member
Thank you Ken. Hope to visit the Ness next weekend!
Guess what I did today. That's right. I went birding at Girdle Ness.
Steps back in amazement and falls in the harbour, disturbing the roosting Purple Sandpipers in the process.
And it has to be said that there weren't a lot of what you might call 'decent birds' around. Despite the disturbance there were a few Purple Sandpipers but nothing of a Totaliser-threatening magnitude. There were fairly large numbers of Eiders off the coo but, unlike this time last year, none of them were of regal mien. A Red-throated Diver was on the sea, which isn't really that exciting but I thought I'd mention it anyway. And there were a pair of Stonechats on Greyhope Bay.
Earlier on I saw a couple of Bottlenose Dolphins at the harbour mouth. There were rather a lot on Thursday morning - probably 15 or more scattered along the coast.
Steps back in amazement and falls in the harbour, disturbing the roosting Purple Sandpipers in the process.
And it has to be said that there weren't a lot of what you might call 'decent birds' around. Despite the disturbance there were a few Purple Sandpipers but nothing of a Totaliser-threatening magnitude. There were fairly large numbers of Eiders off the coo but, unlike this time last year, none of them were of regal mien. A Red-throated Diver was on the sea, which isn't really that exciting but I thought I'd mention it anyway. And there were a pair of Stonechats on Greyhope Bay.
Earlier on I saw a couple of Bottlenose Dolphins at the harbour mouth. There were rather a lot on Thursday morning - probably 15 or more scattered along the coast.
Moraybirdlover
Well-known member
We didn't make the Ness after all,full of cold and now son back to uni!
