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Essex Birding (9 Viewers)
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Sharp Shin
Stewart Belfield
Expected over Rayne at 10.00am! Ouch!
Steve_Halstead
Sparrow or Crow?
Handbags at dawn
johnbuchanan
Keepin' on searching...
Hi all. Just to point out that a lot of people in the past have seen White-tailed Eagle in Essex... it is mentioned as scavenging on the casualties of the Battle of Maldon! (along with Ravens)
Knowing this it has always been at the top of my Maldon patch most wanted list hence I was particularly galled to realise that while staggering around the Prom Park on Saturday morning, one was probably flying by within a mile or two of me!
Well that's birding for you.
Knowing this it has always been at the top of my Maldon patch most wanted list hence I was particularly galled to realise that while staggering around the Prom Park on Saturday morning, one was probably flying by within a mile or two of me!
Well that's birding for you.
Sharp Shin
Stewart Belfield
No, back up north it goes again:Benacre, then Breydon Water. What a wanderer! Obviously, nowhere looks appealing enough for it (not even Benacre, where a bird took up winter residence 15 years ago). Perhaps it wants a Norwegian fjord and won't be satisfied until it escapes across the North Sea.
Stewart
It's just giving us a long run-up and plenty of notice for the weekend's reappearance in Essex.
Anyway, on an entirely different note, does anyone have any reasonably reliable marsh tit sites that aren't Brookes Wood?
neil78
Well-known member
I don't suppose Lynford Arboretum was the answer you were looking for..?
If you do a search on the EBwS site you'll come up with a few more sites, but I'm not aware of anywhere more reliable than Brookes. I'm sure you'll need to be in North Essex, although that is an area I'm not overly familiar with.
Steve_Halstead
Sparrow or Crow?
I think one was seen at a location near Halstead, no, not brookes, but north of the town.
Whats wrong with a marshie at brookes, its simple to find, just stand by the bench and gate and wait.
Neil78 - yeah, I was hoping for Essex sites! And I'm ok with north.
BB - I reckon they're probably in every forest in that belt, from Marks Hall through Brookes and up to Shalford/Sible H. Nothing wrong with Brookes, I've just had no luck there and fancied somewhere different.
BB - I reckon they're probably in every forest in that belt, from Marks Hall through Brookes and up to Shalford/Sible H. Nothing wrong with Brookes, I've just had no luck there and fancied somewhere different.
Phil Carter
Well-known member
Or the time I was told I was looking at a really rare species in Northumberland and looked like a complete gimp
Mind you, the leather mask doesn't help.
Phil
Steve_Halstead
Sparrow or Crow?
Had a quick poke around this year's BBS square yesterday, somewhere between Twinstead and Lamarsh. Not a part of the county I know too well and it was pretty quiet all told, but we did kick a woodcock up from the footpath at Loshes Meadow and had a lesser spot not far beyond that. Also had two hares, two roe deer and muntjac.
Frinton BO
Paul Brayshaw
Ne essex currently on red alert eagle watch! We are well
Spread if it does continue southwards but nothing yet...
Spread if it does continue southwards but nothing yet...
Sharp Shin
Stewart Belfield
The story of this/these White-tailed Eagle(s) continues to throw up twists and surprises. This afternoon, we have one bird reported up in Norfolk at Potter Heigham, at exactly the same time as one leaves Sizewell and later passes south over Felixstowe. Bring back the two bird theory.
Anyway, good luck to Paul at Frinton and anyone in the right spot in Essex tomorrow.
Stewart
Anyway, good luck to Paul at Frinton and anyone in the right spot in Essex tomorrow.
Stewart
Essex Baker Boy
Well-known member
I'm still firmly in the camp of there being just one bird & I believe it is still in Norfolk.
Would love to be proved wrong though!
Would love to be proved wrong though!
neil78
Well-known member
The photo on Twitter which was linked to the Suffolk sighting, and which some people were referring to as 'proof' of the two bird theory, was of one taken in Bulgaria!
https://twitter.com/BirdlineEAnglia/status/578849692672475136/photo/1
I'm with Cap'n Jack on this one..:smoke:
https://twitter.com/BirdlineEAnglia/status/578849692672475136/photo/1
I'm with Cap'n Jack on this one..:smoke:
Sharp Shin
Stewart Belfield
Yes, that photo was placed (not helpfully) on Bird Line East Angiia for 'illustratory purposes'. It should not enter into any debate about this bird.
To be clear, the Felixstowe docks sighting was by the warden of Languard Bird Observatory, so it surely comes with a lot of credibility. It was made at the same time as the reported sighting in Potter Heigham. If the two bird theory is incorrect, then that latter sightings must be an error, for it cannot have travelled so far so quickly.
I remain wholly agnostic about 1 or 2 bird theories. And, even if it does prove to be 2 birds, I don't think that it necessarily adds credibility to the now infamous Rayne sighting.
Off now to scan - Stewart
To be clear, the Felixstowe docks sighting was by the warden of Languard Bird Observatory, so it surely comes with a lot of credibility. It was made at the same time as the reported sighting in Potter Heigham. If the two bird theory is incorrect, then that latter sightings must be an error, for it cannot have travelled so far so quickly.
I remain wholly agnostic about 1 or 2 bird theories. And, even if it does prove to be 2 birds, I don't think that it necessarily adds credibility to the now infamous Rayne sighting.
Off now to scan - Stewart
