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  1. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    We were spoilt by just how well it was showing that day. Fantastic bird to see and a lifer for me. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bitterbirder/26407929433/
  2. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Happy new year everyone. Nothing too shocking, tons of goosander around the causeways (mainly ldlh) Smew already mentioned I have been spending more time recently nearer home at stretches of road and track near bocking with some suprising results. A marsh tit, some 400 chaffinch in a never...
  3. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    This is my webs area and there has been no sightings of them at any point
  4. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    the main path leadind to the front, what bouy is that and which way do you walk, east or west to go up in numbers?
  5. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/bitterbirder/22259252951/ heybridge afforded great views saturday!
  6. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    great g shrike in braintree. the report suggests. anyone know who?
  7. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    I am planning to make the most of the easterlies, however light they may be and the clear weather to go early doors to the Naze on Saturday. Unlucky on the sea watch Stewart, but keep us posted on what you do find. The Dartford warbler would have been nice. Anyone venturing out anywhere else...
  8. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    How was the view, a sun facing dot etc?
  9. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    thats that then :-)
  10. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Nice blog. As for meds, I went 3 weeks ago and counted 6 at the end of the pier, including a stunning adult. Check the jetty ramp as sometimes a few things pop in among the turnstones. In other news... I may go south essex tomorrow and get a lifer or 2. Wryneck being the main focus.
  11. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Brookes wood, second large field, an ash pile by the big oak tree. The nest box is being used too
  12. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Yeah, I had one 2 years ago on aug 8th there
  13. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    4 would be mega for that patch, very happy to hear it, posted that there were two at some point last year, but to see they have bred would be amazing. Are they a family unit, as long as I have birded there, Only ever had two, great news.
  14. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Funny thing tom, its actually a trick of the camera. When people take themselves and their photography too seriously, they take a picture, with one of those rubbish grey lenses and the light can play tricks. I can safely say that "black tern" is actually a painted snipe. Better luck next time...
  15. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Shockingly poor red kite pics taken today near Braintree (White Notley) as I had a drive with the missus around, funnily enough hoping to see the buzzard. Over the last year, I have seen Pez, sprawk, buzzard, kestrel and now a red kite within a square mile here. There is also a bit of a rumour...
  16. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Never a massive fan of Bill Oddie, but having seen how he kept his cup of tea even when some tramp accosted him in the last picture, well, it really does make you realise how well he has done.
  17. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Butterflies Plenty of Brimstones at the moment steve and for my personal experience of the local area there are more common blue than ever before this year.
  18. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Can we all have a whip round for Martin Peers please, you can see the man works most days with absolute accuracy. He doesnt let politics or possible miss calls bother him, he just remains a pure value in the hobby. About 6 months ago, a report came in on Brookes of the Marsh Tit, so naturally...
  19. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    Golden Oriole at Friday woods?
  20. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    I am surprised, I thought the reporter (as stated) was a trustworthy source with good field skills unless we are getting lines crossed here viv
  21. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    You are quite right, males have become a dreary brown with a sad beak by this time. If you were to (dare I suggest) leave Essex, where would you be looking for a smart male Eider (to the nearest point, one expects to see them in a good number/reliably) Many thanks p.s Half term next week thank...
  22. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    When I go to Northumberland I see plenty of Eider, but never the colourful males, where is the nearest place to Essex that you can see a male, breeding plumage eider? Cheers
  23. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    #isawitatthehythe http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Frohawk_Dodo.png
  24. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    One bittern twice shy on the reports front, I think I will keep any reports of a rarity from the public domain if I ever happen to think I have found one, at least until I am 40. God knows I need that 12 years to improve, even then I will still cock it all up! Right, coursework moderation done...
  25. Steve_Halstead

    Essex Birding

    we just need stuart to post in here and then we have all the cynics together
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