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Stewart J.
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First Swifts of year hawking over village here in the Pennines this afternoon, Garden Warblers singing since Saturday.
Stewart
Stewart
The Liverbirder
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Still there at 6.30 pm
Keith Reeder
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Wheatear, willow warbler, whitethroat and white wagtail all at St Mary's today too.
Apparently, birds with names beginning with "X" are due in tomorrow..!
Apparently, birds with names beginning with "X" are due in tomorrow..!
craigthirlwell
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Wheatear, willow warbler, whitethroat and white wagtail all at St Mary's today too.
Apparently, birds with names beginning with "X" are due in tomorrow..!
Beginning with "X"??
I'm confused :brains:
Keith Reeder
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Look at the first letter of every bird name I posted from today's visit, Craig...
Keith Bradley
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Wheatear, willow warbler, whitethroat and white wagtail all at St Mary's today too.
Apparently, birds with names beginning with "X" are due in tomorrow..!
Looking forward to Friday for my first Zitting Cisticola!
Keith
Keith Reeder
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Dammit, you beat me to it, Keith - I was going to suggest zitting cisticola and zebra finch!
Keith Bradley
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Dammit, you beat me to it, Keith - I was going to suggest zitting cisticola and zebra finch!
Sorry Keith!
I've already had Zebra Finch, in locked cages in the grounds of Culzean Castle
Green Sandpiper on Beehive Flash today, still present upto 18.15 at least.
Also Lesser Whitethroat singing in scrub by the Balliol Business Park on the A188/Benton Lane yesterday lunchtime!
Keith
The Liverbirder
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Arcot
Buzzin' tonight from 19.20 to 20.10. On/in the water - 12 Mute Swans, Mallards, Coots, Moorhens and Oystercatchers. Over it - Swallows, House and Sand Martins. Next to it - two Grasshopper Warblers (heard), at least 1 Sedge Warbler (heard), Willow Warblers (heard), Lesser Whitethroats (heard), Chiffchaff (heard), Blackbirds (seen), Mistle and Song Thrushes (seen) and Linnets (seen).
And for better birders than I, several birds in the hedgerows that it was too dim to see and I did not recognise the calls.
Buzzin' tonight from 19.20 to 20.10. On/in the water - 12 Mute Swans, Mallards, Coots, Moorhens and Oystercatchers. Over it - Swallows, House and Sand Martins. Next to it - two Grasshopper Warblers (heard), at least 1 Sedge Warbler (heard), Willow Warblers (heard), Lesser Whitethroats (heard), Chiffchaff (heard), Blackbirds (seen), Mistle and Song Thrushes (seen) and Linnets (seen).
And for better birders than I, several birds in the hedgerows that it was too dim to see and I did not recognise the calls.
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The Liverbirder
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Update
7 Common Terns and several Sedge Warblers at Big Waters. Two Little Owls seen around Dinnington. Pied Flycatchers in woods near Slaley.
7 Common Terns and several Sedge Warblers at Big Waters. Two Little Owls seen around Dinnington. Pied Flycatchers in woods near Slaley.
Few days up northumberland earlier in the week.
Had a look up the cheviots one morning and got off to a great start with 5 Buzzards soaring together. After a short climb 3 Ravens were seen a short way off giving great views , before flying straight past onto crags on the other side of the valley. A male Ring Ouzel sitting on a fence nearby with a noisy pair a short distance away. Last time in the cheviots i had to move an adder in the middle of the road,but this time i had to make do with a Slow worm. Other birds around included loads of Wheatears, Stonechats, and a few young Dippers.
A quick look to Fontburn reservoir the next day produced more Buzzards and a pair of Redstart , which is always a delight to see.
Had a look up the cheviots one morning and got off to a great start with 5 Buzzards soaring together. After a short climb 3 Ravens were seen a short way off giving great views , before flying straight past onto crags on the other side of the valley. A male Ring Ouzel sitting on a fence nearby with a noisy pair a short distance away. Last time in the cheviots i had to move an adder in the middle of the road,but this time i had to make do with a Slow worm. Other birds around included loads of Wheatears, Stonechats, and a few young Dippers.
A quick look to Fontburn reservoir the next day produced more Buzzards and a pair of Redstart , which is always a delight to see.
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The Liverbirder
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Cramlington Update
West Hartford - the usual suspects inc. 1 Greenshank and 1 Ringed Plover.
Arcot - highlights inc. crackin' views of Sedge Warbler in bullrushes near east shore, two Lesser Whitethroats in the hedgerow where the orange bread tray is and a reeling Grasshopper Warbler close by.
West Hartford - the usual suspects inc. 1 Greenshank and 1 Ringed Plover.
Arcot - highlights inc. crackin' views of Sedge Warbler in bullrushes near east shore, two Lesser Whitethroats in the hedgerow where the orange bread tray is and a reeling Grasshopper Warbler close by.
The Liverbirder
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Bit of a surprise
Arcot this evening, a RING OUZEL at the north end of the lake, in the hawthorns that run north and meet the golf course. And no, I have not been drinking, sniffing aerosols or smoking something I shouldn't!!
Arcot this evening, a RING OUZEL at the north end of the lake, in the hawthorns that run north and meet the golf course. And no, I have not been drinking, sniffing aerosols or smoking something I shouldn't!!
June Atkinson
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Ring Ouzel
I have mentioned this a while back, but we had a pair of Ring Ouzels which arrived in our back garden - an ordinary, middle - sized one here in Ponteland village.
One left after a couple of days, but the other stayed almost a week!!
I informed the Regional Bird Observer and the event was included in the next year Book.
But we went to Teesdale yesterday, and over Bollihope. No Ring Ouzels sadly, but we did have a lovely close sighting of a lapwing and her three tiny, fluffy chicks!:clap:
I have mentioned this a while back, but we had a pair of Ring Ouzels which arrived in our back garden - an ordinary, middle - sized one here in Ponteland village.
One left after a couple of days, but the other stayed almost a week!!
I informed the Regional Bird Observer and the event was included in the next year Book.
But we went to Teesdale yesterday, and over Bollihope. No Ring Ouzels sadly, but we did have a lovely close sighting of a lapwing and her three tiny, fluffy chicks!:clap:
The Liverbirder
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Bothal
1015 am today, two drake Garganey near north west shore, three Common Sandpipers south west shoreline, Wood Sandpiper up and down the north east shore and lots of other stuff on/by the water.
By comparison, very little at Longhirst Flash (water level low and loads of sheep/lambs in the surrounding fields).
1015 am today, two drake Garganey near north west shore, three Common Sandpipers south west shoreline, Wood Sandpiper up and down the north east shore and lots of other stuff on/by the water.
By comparison, very little at Longhirst Flash (water level low and loads of sheep/lambs in the surrounding fields).
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FATHER AND SON TEAM
1st of year
2 yellow wags m+f outside the hide at whittle dean res + common sand on north river tyne
2 yellow wags m+f outside the hide at whittle dean res + common sand on north river tyne
Alan G
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A couple of Common Sandpiper at Allenbanks this morning.
No sign of any of the woodland summer visitors though, apart from the odd Blackcap.
Highlight today was this young Tawny Owl perched in the open - wouldnt have seen it had the wife not mentioned the tree it was perched on.........yet she failed to spot the owl sitting on it.
No sign of any of the woodland summer visitors though, apart from the odd Blackcap.
Highlight today was this young Tawny Owl perched in the open - wouldnt have seen it had the wife not mentioned the tree it was perched on.........yet she failed to spot the owl sitting on it.
