seggs
Alrite!
great bird for the patio/garden..:t:..
as nick said wheatear..
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as nick said wheatear..
Vipers
Brunswick Birder
Here's a few more you might see on here:
Blackwit = Black-Tailed Godwit
Barwit = Bar-Tailed Godwit
Spotshank = Spotted Redshank
Bonxie = Great Skua
Manxie = Manx Shearwater
Lesser Pecker = Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Sprawk = Sparrowhawk
I'm sure others will add to this list.
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yeah that was me
The Liverbirder
Well-known member
martin kitching
Obsessed seawatcher
mike coleman
BF Irregular
Arcot
Still warbler madness, except my 2008 bogey bird - Lesser Throat. Plenty of Common Throats, Groppers, Willow Warbs and Chiffchaffs, Sedgies, and a particularly lively, but not vocal Reed Warbler. As well as me there were a couple of dodgy looking characters (not that I'm not dodgy looking myself), without bins, scopes or cameras who seemed to be liaising with each other and shiftily moving about in the way eggers tend to, presuming that drug related crime would be conducted in more public places. When approached they seemed friendly enough, but something was a bit off. Other than the rancid, stagnant ground...
Still warbler madness, except my 2008 bogey bird - Lesser Throat. Plenty of Common Throats, Groppers, Willow Warbs and Chiffchaffs, Sedgies, and a particularly lively, but not vocal Reed Warbler. As well as me there were a couple of dodgy looking characters (not that I'm not dodgy looking myself), without bins, scopes or cameras who seemed to be liaising with each other and shiftily moving about in the way eggers tend to, presuming that drug related crime would be conducted in more public places. When approached they seemed friendly enough, but something was a bit off. Other than the rancid, stagnant ground...
Vipers
Brunswick Birder
Egg collecting is not the only thing that two men could be doing, in the bushes at Arcot. Did you notice any cars with single men in, driving back and forwards along the road? :eek!:
Alan G
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Its when they flash their lights on and off that you have to watch for.
My advice is to clench........then leg it.
mike coleman
BF Irregular
Only me, trying to find somewhere to pull over (he says choosing his words carefully!)
. Obviously the sun brings a lot of Cramlingtonians with such inclinations out for a lunchtime ride. So to speak. To say they didn't look the type is possibly not very PC is it? |8.|
craigthirlwell
Well-known member
Only me, trying to find somewhere to pull over (he says choosing his words carefully!)
Be careful that you haven't got your lens cloth hanging out your back pocket.. that can get you into trouble in certain parts of San Francis|>|co
Brian Bullough
DIGIDOPE
I was there on Tuesday getting the scope out the car , two guys drove up in seperate cars and headed down the track , with other cars slowing down and one pulled in then drove off, a very busy road that actually doesn't go anywhere, it's getting beyond a joke for me ,so I just left and went to Druridge etc:
Brian
mike coleman
BF Irregular
Well, today has certainly been an education into outer suburban Northumbrian life if nothing else! I shall return though, probably on a wet, cold, miserable early morning, making sure my lens cloth is firmly tucked in my pants...
mike coleman
BF Irregular
Splendid, I was up there all last week. Nowhere I wouldn't recommend going regarding human disturbance of birders! More a problem interfering with stalking activity and rampant stags than (in)discrete individuals. PM me if you want the lowdown on current birding in the strath, and enjoy it. Hopefully the sun'll stay out for you.
The Liverbirder
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Popped in to the tern colony hut this morning at Newton by the Sea. Beautiful weather, plenty of Arctic Terns (161) and a pair of Wheatear on the banks of Long Nanny (160).
Barn Owl hunting the fields around the car park at High Newton at 9:40 am. Needs to get some new watch batteries!
Barn Owl hunting the fields around the car park at High Newton at 9:40 am. Needs to get some new watch batteries!
Keith Bradley
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Out and about this evening
East Chevington tonight was very productive. Arrived at the hide overlooking the North pool and immediately spotted a Cuckoo on the east bank, which then promptly flew across past me en route to the South pool, where I located it along the fenceline. It flew around the pool perimeter and then there were two! - magic!
Also at East Chevington were the usual ducks and geese etc, including Sandwich Tern, and at least three Reed Warbler were singing in front of the hide (North pool), a Little Gull (juv) on the right hand island of the North pool and what might have been a SpotShank fly off, but I lost track of it!
A couple of Whimbrel were in the cattle field adjacent to the road.
Druridge Pools produced no Wood Sandpiper nor Garganey but a superb Barn Owl flying alongside the access road (and my car) as well as a gorgeous Ruff in near Summer plumage - the first time I've seen this species in this plumage.
Nothing noteworthy at Longhirst Flash and only a single Ringed Plover at Bothal (Coneygarth Pond), although two men in a boat probably put paid to anything remotely interesting sticking around (at least it wasn't two men in a car!! )
En route back to Ponteland to pick Mrs B up from her Mums produced a Little Owl alongside the road just East of Hepscott.
Quite an evening with two year ticks!
Keith
East Chevington tonight was very productive. Arrived at the hide overlooking the North pool and immediately spotted a Cuckoo on the east bank, which then promptly flew across past me en route to the South pool, where I located it along the fenceline. It flew around the pool perimeter and then there were two! - magic!
Also at East Chevington were the usual ducks and geese etc, including Sandwich Tern, and at least three Reed Warbler were singing in front of the hide (North pool), a Little Gull (juv) on the right hand island of the North pool and what might have been a SpotShank fly off, but I lost track of it!
A couple of Whimbrel were in the cattle field adjacent to the road.
Druridge Pools produced no Wood Sandpiper nor Garganey but a superb Barn Owl flying alongside the access road (and my car) as well as a gorgeous Ruff in near Summer plumage - the first time I've seen this species in this plumage.
Nothing noteworthy at Longhirst Flash and only a single Ringed Plover at Bothal (Coneygarth Pond), although two men in a boat probably put paid to anything remotely interesting sticking around (at least it wasn't two men in a car!! )
En route back to Ponteland to pick Mrs B up from her Mums produced a Little Owl alongside the road just East of Hepscott.
Quite an evening with two year ticks!
Keith
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The Liverbirder
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Three or more Reed Warblers still at East Chevington, and two Greylag pairs each with half a dozen little fluffy goslings having their first trip out on the water (aaaahhhhh!).
Druridge Pools, from the Budge Screen, a dozen or more Highlandus cowsii and pair of Anas querquedula (didn't he used to play for Boro?)
Druridge Pools, from the Budge Screen, a dozen or more Highlandus cowsii and pair of Anas querquedula (didn't he used to play for Boro?)