Skua Cruise 2011, Sunday 4 September (1 Viewer)

[Pete Mella]

sorry i didn't reply to your text pete but my phone had died completely by the time you sent it i've had it on charge since i got back

No worries, I presumed that had happened. Good to meet you this weekend and hopefully catch up again sometime :t:

 

[DOC REED]

Sounds like i missed a corker! Anyone booked in for 10th ie this saturday?m If i get half of the stuff you all got would be chuffed!

 

[Keith Dickinson]

Here’s the species list as ever I’ll not have everything so let me know of any additional birds and I’ll be able to edit the list for the next 24 hours.
1. Red-throated diver
2. Little grebe
3. Fulmar
4. Sooty shearwater
5. Balearic shearwater
6. Manx shearwater
7. Gannet
8. Cormorant
9. Shag
10. Grey heron
11. Wigeon
12. Gadwall
13. Mallard
14. Teal
15. Pintail
16. Shoveler
17. Red-crested pochard
18. Common scoter
19. Marsh harrier
20. Sparrowhawk
21. Kestrel
22. Red-legged partridge
23. Grey partridge
24. Pheasant
25. Water rail
26. Moorhen
27. Coot
28. Oystercatcher
29. Lapwing
30. Curlew sandpiper
31. Purple sandpiper
32. Dunlin
33. Ruff
34. Black-tailed godwit
35. Curlew
36. Spotted redshank
37. Greenshank
38. Green sandpiper
39. Arctic skua
40. Great skua
41. Little gull
42. Sabine’s gull
43. Black-headed gull
44. Common gull
45. Great black-backed gull
46. Kittiwake
47. Sandwich tern
48. Common tern
49. Arctic tern
50. Black tern
51. Guillemot
52. Razorbill
53. Puffin
54. Woodpigeon
55. Collared dove
56. Great spotted woodpecker
57. Swallow
58. House martin
59. Meadow pipit
60. Pied wagtail
61. Dunnock
62. Robin
63. Whinchat
64. Stonechat
65. Wheatear
66. Blackbird
67. Blue tit
68. Magpie
69. Jackdaw
70. Carrion crow
71. House sparrow
72. Tree sparrow
73. Goldfinch
74. Linnet
75. Yellowhammer
76. Reed bunting

 

[andy hood]

im booked for the next cruise this sat, :t:

 

[northernloon]

77. Herring Gull
and probably LBB

 

[James Thomas]

Definitely LBB, Greenfinch as well. No warblers down there so add whitethroat and willow warbler.

 

[Trystan]

At a glance Keith, chaffinch and rook driving over, great crested grebe, tufted duck, pochard, mute swan, greylag goose, canada goose, wren, buzzard at hornsea, snipe and stock dove at blacktoft and you probably missed herring gull as a test?

Rob

 

[Pete Mella]

You missed off Herring Gull! And also Feral Pigeon (was this deliberate?).

I can also add...

Greylag Goose (seen from train on way home)
Redshank (Brid harbour when I got back)
Whitethroat (seen on way to Thornwick Pools)
Wren (ditto)
Rook (seen on walk down Brid coast later that afternoon)

Capncarot also said above he had a Red Grouse on way home.

 

[Trystan]

Redshank too, at brid and blacktoft and turnstone at brid

 

[Martin Standley]

enjoyed it so much i've booked again for this sat. With west or south westerlies forcast for all week there's not much chance of any significant rarities turning up on land

 

[Pete Mella]

Redshank too, at brid and blacktoft and turnstone at brid

Didn't notice he'd left turnstone off!

And finally got round to blogging the day's events - http://steelcitybirding.tumblr.com/post/9843466432/skua-cruise-2011

 

[Hotspur]

Redshank too, at brid and blacktoft and turnstone at brid

Plus Buzzard & Canada Goose at Hornsea.

 

[Keith Dickinson]

As I said I always miss something off the list...


1. Red-throated diver
2. Great crested grebe
3. Little grebe
4. Fulmar
5. Sooty shearwater
6. Balearic shearwater
7. Manx shearwater
8. Gannet
9. Cormorant
10. Shag
11. Grey heron
12. Mute Swan
13. Canada goose
14. Greylag goose
15. Wigeon
16. Gadwall
17. Mallard
18. Teal
19. Pintail
20. Shoveler
21. Red-crested pochard
22. Common scoter
23. Marsh harrier
24. Sparrowhawk
25. Buzzard
26. Kestrel
27. Red-legged partridge
28. Pochard
29. Tufted duck
30. Grey partridge
31. Pheasant
32. Water rail
33. Moorhen
34. Coot
35. Oystercatcher
36. Lapwing
37. Curlew sandpiper
38. Purple sandpiper
39. Dunlin
40. Ruff
41. Snipe
42. Black-tailed godwit
43. Curlew
44. Redshank
45. Spotted redshank
46. Greenshank
47. Green sandpiper
48. Arctic skua
49. Great skua
50. Little gull
51. Sabine’s gull
52. Black-headed gull
53. Common gull
54. Lesser black backed gull
55. Herring gull
56. Great black-backed gull
57. Kittiwake
58. Sandwich tern
59. Common tern
60. Arctic tern
61. Black tern
62. Guillemot
63. Razorbill
64. Puffin
65. Stock dove
66. Woodpigeon
67. Collared dove
68. Great spotted woodpecker
69. Swallow
70. House martin
71. Meadow pipit
72. Pied wagtail
73. Wren
74. Dunnock
75. Robin
76. Whinchat
77. Stonechat
78. Wheatear
79. Blackbird
80. Whitethroat
81. Willow warbler
82. Blue tit
83. Magpie
84. Jackdaw
85. Carrion crow
86. Rook
87. House sparrow
88. Tree sparrow
89. Chaffinch
90. Greenfinch
91. Goldfinch
92. Linnet
93. Yellowhammer
94. Reed bunting
95. Red grouse

Not a bad total for a pretty grim day weather wise.

 

[captaincarot]

As I said I always miss something off the list...

.

cant see my red grouse from over the woodhead there seen within the bounds of barnsley so definitely a yorkshire bird

 

[Trystan]

And the turnstone is still missing I think. If I'd known we were so close to 100 I'd have tried a bit harder at blacktoft. Nobody see a great tit?

 

[northernloon]

Heard a Great Tit when waiting to get picked up (and Keith always refuses to count street rats aka Feral Pigeon)

 

[Hotspur]

My slightly ropey and self-congratulating report on the blog. I deleted all my pics so I had to borrow some.

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Did you remember to check behind the sabs? Goodies can get missed, from Mull this Spring.

- nearly missed out on this one, thank goodness for dodgy autofocus!

 

[Pete Mella]

Did you remember to check behind the sabs? Goodies can get missed, from Mull this Spring.

- nearly missed out on this one, thank goodness for dodgy autofocus!

Now you're just showing off!

 

[WACCOE]

House Martin there was quite few at North Landing.