Frenchy
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Rock Dove from Foula. Most of them look like this, but the odd obvious feral or racer turns up.
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2017 Western Palearctic Big Year (2 Viewers)
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Rock Dove from Foula. Most of them look like this, but the odd obvious feral or racer turns up.
Paul Chapman
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Jon Turner
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Wot still no Redpoll additions, must be some somewhere on the way up to Barra....
Stephen Dunstan
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Same on Skerries, vast majority are pure looking.
Andy Adcock
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So what of the Bempton birds?
They nest on the cliffs and forage in the fields?
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They nest on the cliffs and forage in the fields?
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Farnboro John
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Harder to find a good-looking one at Bempton these days though.
I run a general rule that in the Scottish islands and the very far North of the mainland one that looks right is OK and big flocks must be 95% or more - so only one duffer allowed in twenty birds.
From a year-listing point of view its utterly irrelevant, any scabby old town feral will do: its purely for aesthetic reasons.
John
John
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
They made it! American Redstart no.705.
Chapeau, as we say over here :t:
Chapeau, as we say over here :t:
Jon Turner
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Phew. If they saw it at 7.15p.m (per the blog) does that mean they could get the ferry off tonight and head off somewhere else now? (Ireland perhaps)
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
If they did want a 'genuine' Rock Dove, Barra would have been the obvious place to look :t:
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
Hence their visit. Stroke of luck that funny Redstart thing being there at the same time.
DanielDoer
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"Ganz großes Kino" (= something as huge cinema) as we say here. Big congrats on that species!! What do you think? Does it reach the top ten of their rarest WP species this year?
Paul Chapman
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Probably just outside on records:-
Pale Martin
African Grey Woodpecker
Grey-tailed Tattler
Black Heron
Pied Crow
Long-toed Stint
Bateleur
Pacific Diver
Snowy Egret
White-winged Scoter
Thayer's Gull
Elegant Tern
White-winged Scoter
American Redstart
Hopefully, it will slip further down in the Azores. I think that they should be thinking about Sooty Shearwater, American Golden Plover & Forster's Tern now?
All the best
dantheman
Bah humbug
But definitely top 10 in 'rarity value'? Beating the rare waterbird/gull/long-stayer types.
Elegant Tern is surely more common than American Redstart - at least five records this year alone, including breeding pair. In recent years, probably would also say Pied Crow has been an easier species to catch up with, even if technically less records.
Hasn't the Kuwaiti RC shelved the stint?
PS White-winged Scoter is on the list twice
Elegant Tern is surely more common than American Redstart - at least five records this year alone, including breeding pair. In recent years, probably would also say Pied Crow has been an easier species to catch up with, even if technically less records.
Hasn't the Kuwaiti RC shelved the stint?
PS White-winged Scoter is on the list twice
Also Thayer's Gull now down rated to subspecies of Iceland Gull so debatable that it should be on the list.
Based upon numbers of birders who have it on their WP list, I would guess Black-headed Penduline Tit could be a contender.
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Though I'd guess African Grey Woodpecker and some of their other Mauritanian birds are regular residents, just highly inaccessible for primarily political reasons.
And ditto to Thayer's Gull shouldn't be on any more!
Paul Chapman
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Thayer's Gull - yep subspecies so delete
White-winged Scoter - delete first
African Grey Woodpecker - only three individuals so far?
Pied Crow - about a dozen individuals?
Long-toed Stint - yes - rejected or not proven currently but still on their list so I included it.
Elegant Tern - aren't all this year's repeats so still less than 24 individuals for American Redstart?
Pale Martin
African Grey Woodpecker
Grey-tailed Tattler
Black Heron
Pied Crow
Long-toed Stint
Bateleur
Pacific Diver
Snowy Egret
Elegant Tern
White-winged Scoter
American Redstart
All the best
White-winged Scoter - delete first
African Grey Woodpecker - only three individuals so far?
Pied Crow - about a dozen individuals?
Long-toed Stint - yes - rejected or not proven currently but still on their list so I included it.
Elegant Tern - aren't all this year's repeats so still less than 24 individuals for American Redstart?
Pale Martin
African Grey Woodpecker
Grey-tailed Tattler
Black Heron
Pied Crow
Long-toed Stint
Bateleur
Pacific Diver
Snowy Egret
Elegant Tern
White-winged Scoter
American Redstart
All the best
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Yep, but that's presumably because only 3 birders have managed to get there; I'd think the AGW are likely permanent residents there?
Paul Chapman
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Presumably currently resident but as far as I am aware, there is an absence of historical records before this recent run and before the political instability so presumably a recent coloniser and maybe even a temporary one?
All the best
