sore loser ?
yu wot ? ar didnt see it ,am not sayn its not a one !:C
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yu wot ? ar didnt see it ,am not sayn its not a one !:C
StevieEvans
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Sorry, It was aimed at Big [email protected]
Sadly, Negative reports only from RMs today re Wryneck............:-C
Jumpin 4 Joy
Well-known member
Once I saw the wryneck yesterday I sort of ambled back hoping to see any birders and tell them about it but all I saw was 2 charva's smoking cigarettes and drinking cider.
Shaggy2070
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My first North-East Marsh Harrier flying around between North Gare car park and Zinc Wrks Rd @ 1:30 this afternoon
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Jumpin 4 Joy
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That might be the one I saw the other day that I posted on here.
great bustard
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no mate
StevieEvans
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!
Stylish, i like the ambling bit
when i found a Wryneck a couple of years back i ran around like (as a) a lunatic... would / should......
PS.
That was GBustard & his m8 that you walked past man!
Next time your spotting down our way - give us the nod so we can hook up.
Regards
Steve
IanF
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Pretty quiet down Seaton Snook this morning. Got there around 8:45 am. SEO sat on the fence in the middle of the Common near the top end.
Goldfinch c.50 feeding on the thistles by the metal gate half way down. A few Curlew scattered around.
It was approaching low tide so I headed straight across to the waters edge. Around 100 LLB Gull on the beach and Common Tern c.20 and Sandwich Tern x6. A few Turnstone were the only waders along the beach plus a Ringed Plover and Oystercatcher x2 on Seaton Channel.
Skylark still in the corner where the dunes meet Seaton Channel. Wheatear x2, Goldfinch x8 and Meadow Pipit x8 on the power station field. Snipe x5 flew along the field and onto the mudflats of Seaton Channel.
Migrant bushes north side held Great Tit x2, Blue Tit x2 with Linnet x11 along the top of the fence. Also Migrant Hawker, Common Darter and Common Blue, Red Admiral, Small Copper, Wall Brown and Meadow Brown butterflies.
Nothing much else heading back up Zinc Works Road apart from Kestrel x2.
A revisit this evening for the Short-eared Owl. At least one around again 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm hunting over the Common from North Gare Road and one seen from Zinc Works Road but could be the same bird. Fox wandering along Zinc Works Road.
Heron x5 and Kestrel x3 along North Gare road plus Curlew 20+ one ringed. quite a few Teal and Mallard around plus what look to be two discarded pet rabbits sat by the gate on the right just before the car park. I'm sure if I'd opened the car door they'd have hopped in
Phoots: 1.&2. Snipe - 3.&4. Curlew - 5. Bunnies!
Goldfinch c.50 feeding on the thistles by the metal gate half way down. A few Curlew scattered around.
It was approaching low tide so I headed straight across to the waters edge. Around 100 LLB Gull on the beach and Common Tern c.20 and Sandwich Tern x6. A few Turnstone were the only waders along the beach plus a Ringed Plover and Oystercatcher x2 on Seaton Channel.
Skylark still in the corner where the dunes meet Seaton Channel. Wheatear x2, Goldfinch x8 and Meadow Pipit x8 on the power station field. Snipe x5 flew along the field and onto the mudflats of Seaton Channel.
Migrant bushes north side held Great Tit x2, Blue Tit x2 with Linnet x11 along the top of the fence. Also Migrant Hawker, Common Darter and Common Blue, Red Admiral, Small Copper, Wall Brown and Meadow Brown butterflies.
Nothing much else heading back up Zinc Works Road apart from Kestrel x2.
A revisit this evening for the Short-eared Owl. At least one around again 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm hunting over the Common from North Gare Road and one seen from Zinc Works Road but could be the same bird. Fox wandering along Zinc Works Road.
Heron x5 and Kestrel x3 along North Gare road plus Curlew 20+ one ringed. quite a few Teal and Mallard around plus what look to be two discarded pet rabbits sat by the gate on the right just before the car park. I'm sure if I'd opened the car door they'd have hopped in
Phoots: 1.&2. Snipe - 3.&4. Curlew - 5. Bunnies!
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I went down to Seaton Common this evening for the short-eared owls. I was there from 6.00 until about 7.15. I did see two owls together, hunting on the lefthand side as I drove from the North Gare car park towards the main road. This would have been at about 7.00, I think. Those two rabbits certainly did look bizarre!
Malcolm
Malcolm
Jumpin 4 Joy
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Well , thats the first charva birders I've ever seen.
I've been having you on actually. I did see a birder but I've seen him regularly there and he's miserable as sin so I didn't inform him of the wryneck. I won't describe him in case he reads this and that wouldn't be a nice thing to read.
IanF
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Lol! I bet that's got a few thinking - 'was it me' 8-P
Just for the record I wasn't at RM yesterday
StevieEvans
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Lol! I bet that's got a few thinking - 'was it me' 8-P
Just for the record I wasn't at RM yesterday
yeah, but what about the day before..... you know, when the Wryneck was there !
StevieEvans
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Youre avin a larf
Letting him know would of been a great way of cheering him up though........
Cider & cigarettes......B :smoke:.....
Houghton regulars carry a different kinda slab (dairy milk, not cans of ale)
(ps - you'll easily recognize me down there - i generally have a cheeky monkey on one shoulder & a chip on the other)
look forward to meeting you:t:
Letting him know would of been a great way of cheering him up though........
Cider & cigarettes......B
:smoke:.....Houghton regulars carry a different kinda slab
(dairy milk, not cans of ale)(ps - you'll easily recognize me down there - i generally have a cheeky monkey on one shoulder & a chip on the other)
look forward to meeting you:t:
StevieEvans
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You forgot the name tags you clumsy oaf
i'll try first.......
1 BHgull
2 imm Blackbird
3 Vanishing Chat
4 some sort of seegull
5 a chicken paddling on summer holiday ?
If you'd said which County they were taken, than we might be able to guess betterer
John Olley
Harrier Olley
Yes Neil i cannot access the DBC site.
John.
John.
Mark Newsome
Born to seawatch...
DBC website: there appears to be a problem with the host company's server. Please bear with it, it'll hopefully be back to normal shortly.
ColinSev
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Zinc Road & North Gare
Finished work hopeful of some fine weather to see the SEO on Seaton Common, what happened - it started raining of course!
Did manage to see the owls though - from the Zinc road when they were over on the North Gare road and vice-versa - I think IanFs car is a bird magnet. Managed a couple of very distant pics, one was sat on fence half way between the 2 roads while it rained.
Also Wheatear, Stonechat, Curlew, Heron, Canada Geese, Oystercatcher, 3 Kestrels
Finished work hopeful of some fine weather to see the SEO on Seaton Common, what happened - it started raining of course!
Did manage to see the owls though - from the Zinc road when they were over on the North Gare road and vice-versa - I think IanFs car is a bird magnet. Managed a couple of very distant pics, one was sat on fence half way between the 2 roads while it rained.
Also Wheatear, Stonechat, Curlew, Heron, Canada Geese, Oystercatcher, 3 Kestrels
