The Great Outdoors - Wallcreeper (1 Viewer)

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Lawts

Supa Silly Un

• Jul 21, 2010

• #1

Chanced upon a programme tonight looking at old footage of camping, hiking etc. in Britain, and it touched on birding.

It showed a couple of clips re birding, and then appeared to show what might have been an early Wallcreeper twitch.

Black and white footage with a ruin on a beach.

Just curious if anyone else saw it and knew which record it was.

 

scary-canary

Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some

• Jul 21, 2010

• #2

Lawts said:

Chanced upon a programme tonight looking at old footage of camping, hiking etc. in Britain, and it touched on birding.

It showed a couple of clips re birding, and then appeared to show what might have been an early Wallcreeper twitch.

Black and white footage with a ruin on a beach.

Just curious if anyone else saw it and knew which record it was.

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I think it was Winspit in Dorset and I reckon it was 1968 (the year I was born!).

 

scary-canary

Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some

• Jul 21, 2010

• #3

Actually November 1969 to April 1970. The cliff and ruined building were definitely Winspit, so i assume the bird was the actual bird too.

 

scary-canary

Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some

• Jul 21, 2010

• #4

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scary-canary

Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some

• Jul 22, 2010

• #5

Anybody out there actually see this bird? I've been to winspit often - must have been a fabulous bird to see?

 

dantheman

Bah humbug

• Jul 22, 2010

• #6

I seem to recall BF's John Cantelo saying he'd seen Wallcreeper in 1970 on another thread ... I'm sure others have too.

Incidentally, the programme is in the same series as the BBC Twitching Documentary to be shown this autumn (?) in this thread; http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=148517

Fantastic bird, on my most wanted self-found list (although I think that's just a dream lol )

 

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Merlin

Well-known member

• Jul 22, 2010

• #7

scary-canary said:

Anybody out there actually see this bird? I've been to winspit often - must have been a fabulous bird to see?

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I saw the Winspit bird and the Cheddar bird

regards
Merlin