woodhornbirder
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Olive-backed Pipit in Northumberland
am guessing that was on the farnes??
am guessing that was on the farnes??
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The Liverbirder
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If it ain't The Farnes it's usually Saltholme!!!!!! :C The pipit was on the former at dusk yesterday, as per BirdGuides. Get your Speedos on! :t:
seggs
Alrite!
Woodhorn and Speedos........not a nice thought.:-O
woodhornbirder
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`Woodhorn and Speedos........not a nice thought`
would be like crossing gollum with a bean pole. Id scare the fish away for hundred miles!
would be like crossing gollum with a bean pole. Id scare the fish away for hundred miles!
Barred Wobbler
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A late swift over Holy Island today.
Also one Yellow-browed warbler on the Straight Lonnen and two on the Snook.
Also one Yellow-browed warbler on the Straight Lonnen and two on the Snook.
super-silly-um
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Sharpness Point, Tynemouth this afternoon:
Med gull, Grey Plover, Wheatear.
Richard.
Med gull, Grey Plover, Wheatear.
Richard.
East Chevington North Pool was full of birds today [11am to 1pm].
1000s of Geese [ 3 Bar-Headed still there]
200 Knot, 100 Lapwing, 50 Golden Plover, 30 Dunlin, 25 Ruff, 5 Snipe, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Black Tailed Godwit.
100s of Duck and other waterbirds. Very good. Also many Wheatears around, plus Chiffchaff. I also saw half a dozen Wheatears at Druridge Pools and 4 at Cresswell. One or more Stonechats at each site too.
The Liverbirder
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Y-b W
Several of these little beauties reported in/around The Haven/Prior's Park in the past few days. I have 90 minutes early doors tomorrow. Are they actually in the park, or the shrubs/sea buckthorn etc at the south end of the park ie west of The Haven car park?
Several of these little beauties reported in/around The Haven/Prior's Park in the past few days. I have 90 minutes early doors tomorrow. Are they actually in the park, or the shrubs/sea buckthorn etc at the south end of the park ie west of The Haven car park?
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Brian Bullough
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12:30 ish,Yellow Browed Warbler calling Ridley park Blyth near the tennis courts but I failed to locate it.
Brian
Brian
No Knot today, nor Curlew Sand, but 30 Barnacle Geese in with many others, including the 4 Snow and 3 Bar Headed. Didn't see any wheatears either.
Gill Osborne
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Are they genuine wild Snow Geese? Or are they Ross's Geese?
Just wondering because various blogs have had them as one or the other :smoke:
Just wondering because various blogs have had them as one or the other :smoke:
The Liverbirder
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Gill - the foursome at East Chev are Snowies. Their provenance is up for debate. The two at Monks House Pool are Ross's. Their povenance is similar, I believe.
woodhornbirder
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funny plover at castle island today. didnt quite fit anything really, but it had black arm pits, so i assumed it was grey, but the wings were more dusky/mottled, than straight black and white. Had black line through the eye. bacl legs, size wise, it was large like grey.
Nothing else of note.
1 sandwich tern at mouth of wansbeck !
Nothing else of note.
1 sandwich tern at mouth of wansbeck !
Adam W
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I saw 2 Ross's with a small bunch of Barnacles a couple of weeks ago at Lindisfarne I believe they come from a private collection around the cottages at Fenham-le-moor and I would pressume the same birds as those at Monkhouse pool,i've seen them a few times over the years.
Also i read the other day that the 4 Snows had been around with feral Canadas and Greylags for a while,before the wild migrant Geese started to arrive.
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Gill Osborne
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Thanks Gordon & Adam :t: Just wondered whether they were the genuine wild article - the Nature Notes in the Times a couple of weeks ago had a short piece about a few snow geese turning up around the UK and mentioned the Northumberland birds. The Ross's I wasn't as sure about....according to my Collins guide they bred in N. Canada so it seems a bit of a wrong turning to end up here.
So probably the two white geese are a no then. Not that I've seen them yet mind! Fell downstairs the other week and knocked my bins out of alignment and just got them back today so been grounded for past three weeks or so :C
Still a few young common terns present at Boulmer this afternoon as well as swallow & house martin around Boulmer RAF base.
So probably the two white geese are a no then. Not that I've seen them yet mind! Fell downstairs the other week and knocked my bins out of alignment and just got them back today so been grounded for past three weeks or so :C
Still a few young common terns present at Boulmer this afternoon as well as swallow & house martin around Boulmer RAF base.
Mark Newsome
Born to seawatch...
The Snow Geese have been around Northumberland since the back end of August, so didn't arrive with the masses of Pink-feet. There are a good few feral Snow Geese at large in the UK - breeding takes place in Argyll and Hampshire, at least. See page 4 of RBBP report at http://www.rbbp.org.uk/downloads/rbbp-nn-report-2003-04-05.pdf.
No-one knows 100% the origins of birds such as these and there have been occasional surprises in the past when ring numbers have been traced, but the evidence heavily points to them not being the real deal.
Same with the Red-breasted Goose at Scaling Dam at the moment - nice looking bird, but a waste of petrol money going to see it (in my opinion).
Mark
woodhornbirder
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`the Red-breasted Goose at Scaling Dam at the moment - nice looking bird, but a waste of petrol money going to see it (in my opinion).
just had that conversation with ian F. However if its still there during goth week, ill go and see it ! Not seen this species in the flesh, although weather there is any use in seeing a plastic one.....unlikely i will be quibbling about colour tint on a bird like this )
just had that conversation with ian F. However if its still there during goth week, ill go and see it ! Not seen this species in the flesh, although weather there is any use in seeing a plastic one.....unlikely i will be quibbling about colour tint on a bird like this )
Mark Newsome
Born to seawatch...
Fine if you can spare the money! Washington WWT is a bit closer though and you'll drive past there - nice views of RBGoose, along with a good selection of other rare wildfowl.
The Liverbirder
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American Tourist Bored
Sandhill Crane spends a week in Scotland and, so far, several days in Suffolk yet has its feet on our soil for less than an hour! :C
Today's Long-billed Dowitchers remained at East Chevington for less than an hour! :C
Looks like we need to be more inviting and the hospitality needs improving! :-O
Sandhill Crane spends a week in Scotland and, so far, several days in Suffolk yet has its feet on our soil for less than an hour! :C
Today's Long-billed Dowitchers remained at East Chevington for less than an hour! :C
Looks like we need to be more inviting and the hospitality needs improving! :-O