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Michael M
Agree, Damn Blue Tit's
(You'll understand this if you have rung one:-O)
Most definatly do
Agree, Damn Blue Tit's
(You'll understand this if you have rung one:-O)
And my trainer rung one years back, really jealous. He also had a dead one in his freezer til a couple of years back that got brought in with a ring on its leg. Would love to do coastal ringing during peak migration, hopefully one day soon...
Good day out it in the field today! Just one of those days when it feels like everything is flowing in the right direction - Serin, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Black Redstart, Common Kessy, Crested Lark, Sardinian Warbler, Sparrowhawk, Cattle Egret, Slender billed gull, Southern grey shrike, Ringed Plover, Black winged stilt, Redshank, Sanderling, Dunlin, Little Stint, Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Fan tailed warbler, Hoopoe, Chiffchaff, Water Pipit, Meadow Pipit, Shelduck, Cormorant, Grey Heron and Osprey to name all the ones I can remember...
Best views I have ever got of an Osprey as it was peched on a solar panel pretty close to the hide I was sitting in... but the best moment of the day was when I was scanning a dried up field full with passerines and to my utter suprise came upon an absolutely fantastic Stone curlew out in the open! A target bird for me! I have never heard of any records of them at this site :t:
Tj. Would you mind if i'd ask you two questions?
Are you in Spain now?
If you are, where?
Good day out it in the field today! Just one of those days when it feels like everything is flowing in the right direction - Serin, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Black Redstart, Common Kessy, Crested Lark, Sardinian Warbler, Sparrowhawk, Cattle Egret, Slender billed gull, Southern grey shrike, Ringed Plover, Black winged stilt, Redshank, Sanderling, Dunlin, Little Stint, Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Fan tailed warbler, Hoopoe, Chiffchaff, Water Pipit, Meadow Pipit, Shelduck, Cormorant, Grey Heron and Osprey to name all the ones I can remember...
Best views I have ever got of an Osprey as it was peched on a solar panel pretty close to the hide I was sitting in... but the best moment of the day was when I was scanning a dried up field full with passerines and to my utter suprise came upon an absolutely fantastic Stone curlew out in the open! A target bird for me! I have never heard of any records of them at this site :t:
Alright Guys,
Thought I'd post up on here just to let you know about my blog http://timsbirding.blogspot.com/ just done a post about the BBRC Work In Progress file, would be interested to get the views of some fellow young birders on some of the stuff I've put on there, Cheers
The Sooty Albatross is an interesting one, I have met the observer and he is a very good and experiences birdwatcher. He lives on the Isle of Mull and is called David Woodhouse. On this website in his diary he mentions the Sooty Albatross sighting a few times. I have no doubt he sees many hundreds of Gannets throughout the year of the coast of Mull and therefore knows what is a gannet and what is not.
Some might call be naive but I have no doubt this was a Sooty Albatross and not a Gannet. I have faith in people and there observations, he didn't get a picture which was a great shame but I think because of that reason the record won't get accepted even if David does give good notes on the bird.
As for the SBC...............I hope if it is rejected a good explanation of why will be supplied. Rather than "Well, some of us were a bit jealous we didn't see it. So........"