Jane Turner
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Wow...that's an amazing fall of sanitaryware!
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
It was certainly impressive. It'd be interesting to know if influxes of sanitaryware have been noted elsewhere on the east coast.
gus guthrie
gus guthrie
you must be flushed with success after a day like this Andrew.....
Mark Lew1s
My real name is Mark Lewis
Chiffchaff still at the sewage works this morning along with a very fine male bullfinch.
I failed to see any of the quality birds that Mark's been seeing around the sewage works - it was pretty quiet when I walked round there. The most interesting bird today was quite striking big and dark looking argentatus Herring Gull that lingered offshore. Probably a 4th winter, as it seemed to have dark band in the bill and slightly more extensive black in the wing tips.
Otherwise, five Common Scoter, a Red-breasted Merganser, eight Red-throated Divers and two Long-tailed Ducks.
The fall of sanitaryware remains and interestingly I located another Toilet on the south bank. This must be an almost unprecedented khazi influx.
Some high quality pictures:
1-3. The argentatus Herring Gull
4. Today's Toilet - just a record shot of this skulking individual
5. One of the new pools at St Fittick's. It'll be rivalling Titchwell before long.
Otherwise, five Common Scoter, a Red-breasted Merganser, eight Red-throated Divers and two Long-tailed Ducks.
The fall of sanitaryware remains and interestingly I located another Toilet on the south bank. This must be an almost unprecedented khazi influx.
Some high quality pictures:
1-3. The argentatus Herring Gull
4. Today's Toilet - just a record shot of this skulking individual
5. One of the new pools at St Fittick's. It'll be rivalling Titchwell before long.
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May just be a coincidence but these Items have managed to make an appearance,along with 30+ Caravans from the Travelling Community,just across the road from Nigg Bay.
A word of warning,please do not leave Camera/Binocular/Scope cases visible In the seats of empty cars In the area.Or any other things of value,come to think of It.
A word of warning,please do not leave Camera/Binocular/Scope cases visible In the seats of empty cars In the area.Or any other things of value,come to think of It.
Mark Lew1s
My real name is Mark Lewis
A whooper swan flew south over Nigg bay this afternoon and was not impressed by our new ponds...
I like to think it was impressed by your ability to see into the future though.
Mark Lew1s
My real name is Mark Lewis
ha! I get up so early these days mid morning feels like lunchtime....!
I had a slightly more concerted look around St Fittick's today. A couple of Goldcrests may well have been migrants. I heard the Pheasant. That was about it. Not too much else was around, although what appeared to be the same argentatus Herring Gull was again lurking off the Coo. Otherwise five Long-tailed Ducks and six Common Scoter on Nigg Bay.
It appears that someone has gone a bit too far in trying to secure a good car-based seawatching position.
It appears that someone has gone a bit too far in trying to secure a good car-based seawatching position.
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You see it all up there, don't you Andrew! Glad I wasn't in it LOL
Mark Lew1s
My real name is Mark Lewis
I had a goldcrest in the battery willows at lunchtime too - must have been a bit of a fall. Glad you got the pheasant too Andrew - should ease it's passage past the Torry Rarities committee...
That's actually a winter plumage Guillemot Jim - they do look a bit diver-like but are noticeably smaller. There have been quite a few around the harbour recently.
Hugh Addlesee
Well-known member
I'm afraid that one's a Razorbill Jim.
