Dorset birding (5 Viewers)

[pooleparrot]

i'm far from being an expert, but it looks like a keeled skimmer

Thanks for that, looks good for a female Keeled Skimmer.

 

[scary-canary]

One Egyptian goose and greylag goose at longham lake tonight. Lots of swifts.
Chris

 

[DorsetDude]

Quiet in here lately. Is it because the summer lull has started, the crap weather or both?!

Anyone know if nightjars are still churring this time of year? Not been out to look for any yet this year.

 

[Wendy Morris]

Quiet in here lately. Is it because the summer lull has started, the crap weather or both?!

Both! I've not even been out looking for over a week, not that I very often see anything worth reporting anyway!

 

[MSA]

Anyone know if nightjars are still churring this time of year? Not been out to look for any yet this year.

Yes! Just back from hearing one on Hengistbury (the first time this "summer" that a still, dry evening has coincided with my being able to go out at dusk).

 

[pooleparrot]

Morden, yet again raining on the Bog, party of 13 Crossbill and a couple of Spot Fly at the Decoy Cottage.

 

[scary-canary]

Half an hour at Longham Lakes on Thursday night - calm as glass and no birds of note!
Chris

 

[JenHarrier]

Quiet in here lately. Is it because the summer lull has started, the crap weather or both?!

Anyone know if nightjars are still churring this time of year? Not been out to look for any yet this year.

Went on a Nightjar Walk on thursday to Holt Heath - nightjars all around and particularly thrilled to get a private display with wing clapping in the car park! Whitesheet Plantation is definitely worth a visit.

 

[scary-canary]

White winged black tern showing well, if a bit distantly this afternoon at Lodmoor. Chris

 

[pooleparrot]

5 Dartford Warblers, 3 Yellowhammer, 3 Crossbill, 1 Hobby and a Reed Warbler(Morden Park Lake) at Morden yesterday.

 

[pooleparrot]

Holes Bay

This evening 10+ Curlew , 30+ Blackwit, 100+ Redshank, 2 Whimbrel and 1 Spotted Redshank.

 

[mike davidson]

returning home to West Moors from Kenya next month . Hope the weather brightens a bit . Have been on the Heath many times with not much luck What kind of time in the evening did you see/hear the night jars /

Mike D in Nairobi

Went on a Nightjar Walk on thursday to Holt Heath - nightjars all around and particularly thrilled to get a private display with wing clapping in the car park! Whitesheet Plantation is definitely worth a visit.

 

[nairny]

odd crow

A strange young crow in my garden, it has white bands running through it's wings

 

[Flemingo]

A strange young crow in my garden, it has white bands running through it's wings

Your bird is a partial leucistic individual. This is due to abnormal melanin deposition in the feathers. It is not uncommon in crows and frequently appears as a pale or white stripe extending the length of the wing. They can look very startling.

 

[scary-canary]

Your bird is a partial leucistic individual. This is due to abnormal melanin deposition in the feathers. It is not uncommon in crows and frequently appears as a pale or white stripe extending the length of the wing. They can look very startling.

Flemingo, where have been for the last two years? longham has missed you.. Chris

 

[Flemingo]

Flemingo, where have been for the last two years? longham has missed you.. Chris

In the wilderness. Did I miss anything?

Little wander around the lakes at Longham. Only birds of note being a couple of common terns which I understand are uncommon at the site, common sandpiper and a nice view of a whitethroat. Bit quiet.

 

[nairny]

Your bird is a partial leucistic individual. This is due to abnormal melanin deposition in the feathers. It is not uncommon in crows and frequently appears as a pale or white stripe extending the length of the wing. They can look very startling.

Thanks David, thats exactly what it looks like, very striking, cheers

 

[pooleparrot]

Upton Heath, early Morning walk, 1 Hobby, 3 Dartford Warblers, 2 Raven, a party of Crossbill, a mixed party of Goldfinch and Siskin and parent Blackcaps feeding young.

 

[scary-canary]

Longham, wednesday

Two common tern and two common sandpiper.
Sadly no common scoter, common pratincoles, common nighthawks or even common gulls.
Chris

 

[Nobby2]

My first Firecrest ever sighted this evening in the back garden! Darting hither and thither around the pool, looking in, then up and away into the trees, back to the pool then up and away again. His golden crown looked almost luminous in the dusk. Very pronounced eye stripe. Never still.