HE2's 2007 Birding Forays (1 Viewer)

[Helenelizabeth2]

Go for it H2

It's Shrike city on the Norfolk coast at the mo!

Matt

The best one has moved on, though. Looks like I will have to please Dr W and stay local.

 

[cwpbirder]

Helen, missed you at Flamborough on Thurs, was there 10.30-11ish. Like you, several brief views through the bins, no photos this time. Also got the Isabelline Shrike up the road as well, fairly obliging. News of Red-backed Shrike at Flamborough came through when I was half way home...

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Helen, missed you at Flamborough on Thurs, was there 10.30-11ish. Like you, several brief views through the bins, no photos this time. Also got the Isabelline Shrike up the road as well, fairly obliging. News of Red-backed Shrike at Flamborough came through when I was half way home...

Must have passed you on the way in, Jon. I got there about 11.15, I think. I'm really you glad you got to see them all - long drive for you. Shame about the RBS but there will be another one of those, I bet.

 

[markgrubb]

You are so harsh. All the good local patches are taken. And the one I had adopted last year is too scary - full of dogwalking types from the rough side of town. And there is actually not much point in me reporting interesting things from a local patch because no-one believes me anyway.

However, I have already decided that I am not doing a year list next year so I am giving some thought to where to go locally. I will keep you posted.

Oh, and another thing. I have just realised that you, Dr G and Edenwatcher, who are the principal exponents of patchbirding all live by the sea! It's easy to be a patchbirder when you have access to the patches that you have.

Let's cut the lady some slack, Dr W-she has of course booked herself into a remedial masterclass on local patching in Aberdeen next month at the BF bash-even going up by train to atone for her carbon footprint. There may be hope

 

[Jos Stratford]

There may be hope

Harsh words all, number one is our Helen, a champion of the birding world, local and beyond. Not been bribed to say so either

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Harsh words all, number one is our Helen, a champion of the birding world, local and beyond. Not been bribed to say so either

Is that another fiver I have to cough up for your favourite local causes then?

 

[Jos Stratford]

Is that another fiver I have to cough up for your favourite local causes then?

thought you said it would be a tenner!

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Let's cut the lady some slack, Dr W-she has of course booked herself into a remedial masterclass on local patching in Aberdeen next month at the BF bash-even going up by train to atone for her carbon footprint. There may be hope

I think Dr W would point out that Aberdeen is far from local for me. But I am glad you raised my travel method. That is so virtuous of me, isn't it? I must remember to keep bringing it up at every opportunity.

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

thought you said it would be a tenner!

You weren't quite as generous as we agreed. You forgot to mention my astonishing beauty.

 

[Jos Stratford]

You weren't quite as generous as we agreed. You forgot to mention my astonishing beauty.

Are you the front one or the one to the rear?

 

[Keith Dickinson]

From there we decided to nip over to Spurn Point to see if we could catch up with the Siberian Stonechat. It didn't look very far on the map but, of course, turned out to take hours along a very slow road with lots of tractors and slow-moving queues.

Helen from Flamborough the quickest way to Spurn is to swim. Us tykes do that all the time...LOL. What time were you at Old Fall yesterday? I was there till just after 10am.

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Helen from Flamborough the quickest way to Spurn is to swim. Us tykes do that all the time...LOL. What time were you at Old Fall yesterday? I was there till just after 10am.

Didn't have my cossie with me, Keith. Otherwise I would have done obviously.

Damn, I missed you. I got there about 11.15 and didn't get a single BF tick out of over 200 people. :-C

 

[Keith Dickinson]

11.15 I was scoping the shrike
12.00 I was on the way home to score some brownie points with Mrs Keith.

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

A Little Local Tick

Just to prove I can look for birds in my own area. This afternoon, after I'd delivered Will's bday pressie and dropped off my payment for my Cornwall trip next weekend (yay! aren't the birds good in Cornwall at the moment! :-C), I stopped off at Maxey for a wee look.

A few Ruff amongst the Lapwings and a group of 4 Dunlin which were followed out from behind the hummock by one of my fave waders:

235. Little Stint

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Just to prove I can look for birds in my own area. This afternoon, after I'd delivered Will's bday pressie and dropped off my payment for my Cornwall trip next weekend (yay! aren't the birds good in Cornwall at the moment! :-C), I stopped off at Maxey for a wee look.

A few Ruff amongst the Lapwings and a group of 4 Dunlin which were followed out from behind the hummock by one of my fave waders:

235. Little Stint

This is more like it and shows the rewards of local birding. I'm sure it was much more satisfying than all those rarities. And I'm sure you spent a lot of time observing the Dunlin very closely.

 

[teamsaint]

235. Little Stint

Little Stint at 235! Simply not acceptable

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

This is more like it and shows the rewards of local birding. I'm sure it was much more satisfying than all those rarities. And I'm sure you spent a lot of time observing the Dunlin very closely.

Well, of course. And here is my detailed field sketch:

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Little Stint at 235! Simply not acceptable

What's up, Tom? Am I beating you in the numbers game?

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Well, of course. And here is my detailed field sketch:

Looks like you also managed to find the Western Palearctic's first Wrybill, albeit an oil-stained individual.

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Looks like you also managed to find the Western Palearctic's first Wrybill, albeit an oil-stained individual.

Do you want to phone RBA or shall I?