dan pointon
Can't Stop
Lesser Sand Plover
Izzy Shrike
The best i can muster, but at 14 i can't complain!
Izzy Shrike
The best i can muster, but at 14 i can't complain!
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What "blockers" have you got on your list? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Bluetail
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Edward woodwood
Member
dwayne950 said:
watcha Dwayne
not bad at all for 14 mate, my best by then was probably Wilson's Phal or Wryneck!
keep it up
you never know where in the world it will end......
Tim
CornishExile
rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn!
dwayne950 said:
Nice work fella. I'd have killed for either of those at 14 (I seem to remember I was getting het up about Hobby and Black Tern on my local patch at that stage...) The plover could easily be a blocker in years to come... it took long enough for the first acceptable one...
There must be some BF members who were amongst the lucky crowd of kids who saw the UK's one and only Lesser Short-toed Lark on Portland? Or have they all given up birding? Either way, that's a proper blocker - only one record, subtle as you like (ie a birder's bird), a fair few years ago, and only seen by a very small number of people during it's afternoon stay.
That or Allen's Gallinule fresh from the mouth of someone's dog. Only another 100 years until the next one!
Jon
screaming piha
Well-known member
[who saw the UK's one and only Lesser Short-toed Lark on Portland? ]
I think of blockers as being species that make people jealous – i.e. birds that are worth raising your bins for.
LSTL must be among the top contenders for the worst bird ever seen in Britain, anyone want to confess seeing anything duller?
My only bet would be Blyth's reed, but I dipped that the only time I was foolish enough to try and get out of bed for one.
I think of blockers as being species that make people jealous – i.e. birds that are worth raising your bins for.
LSTL must be among the top contenders for the worst bird ever seen in Britain, anyone want to confess seeing anything duller?
My only bet would be Blyth's reed, but I dipped that the only time I was foolish enough to try and get out of bed for one.
screaming piha
Well-known member
tomjenner said:
Nice to hear from El Salvador & Honduras' King of Blockers.
Indeed you were with me dipping on Blyth's reed. I recall we enjoyed the rather more entertaining sight of a bunch of little auks just off the beach at South Landing that day.
And to get back to the original thread, we also shared little curlew/whimbrel 'back in the day'. Top blocker.
StuartReeves
Local rarity
Bluetail said:
Ironically that is pretty close to where TWM lives. It's also been a pretty good spot for White-winged Black Tern in the past so given the influx into Denmark I wouldn't be surprised if one of those turned up as well over the next couple of days. Remember where you read it first.
Stuart
blgp_birder
Guest
most boring rarities:
Short-toed Treecreeper (because its basically a Treecreeper with a long bill)
Redhead/Canvasback (generally asleep and look like ugly Pochards)
female Lesser Scaups (zzzzzzz)
..actually come to think of it most female ducks.
1w Lesser White-fronted Goose - because its a brown goose.
juvenile Snow Geese - look like a poo with legs.
Blyth's Reed- its a rare version of a Reed Warbler - see one, dont bother ever again.
Black Kite - often tatty things
Pallas's Reed Bunting - 1st-winters are just awful.
blgp_birder
Short-toed Treecreeper (because its basically a Treecreeper with a long bill)
Redhead/Canvasback (generally asleep and look like ugly Pochards)
female Lesser Scaups (zzzzzzz)
..actually come to think of it most female ducks.
1w Lesser White-fronted Goose - because its a brown goose.
juvenile Snow Geese - look like a poo with legs.
Blyth's Reed- its a rare version of a Reed Warbler - see one, dont bother ever again.
Black Kite - often tatty things
Pallas's Reed Bunting - 1st-winters are just awful.
blgp_birder
Terry Smith
Walking Birder
Hows about These which are on my list from yonks ago?
Wallcreeper - Cheddar 1978
Hudsonian Godwit - Countess Wear 1981
Orphean Warbler - St Mary's 1981
and I also got these Oriental Prat (first one), Bridled Tern, Ancient Murrelet, Y t Vireo, G W Warbler, White-crowned Black Wheatear, Green Heron and Steller's Eider.
Wallcreeper - Cheddar 1978
Hudsonian Godwit - Countess Wear 1981
Orphean Warbler - St Mary's 1981
and I also got these Oriental Prat (first one), Bridled Tern, Ancient Murrelet, Y t Vireo, G W Warbler, White-crowned Black Wheatear, Green Heron and Steller's Eider.
