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[Keith Dickinson]

2:30?

No just a scale and polish...

 

[vwxyzen]

Does anyone know if the eleven birds are still at Swilly? Just curious - biggest group I can recall in the county so far.

I think Fairburn had about five together a year or so back.

A new county breeder soon?

The birds flew onto Astley lake at 14.50 last Friday (1st Oct) stayed for a few minutes before flying down onto the main lake. They stayed here the rest of the day but were gone the following day. I just managed a shot as they flew off Astley.

Dave

 

[bitterntwisted]

Graham and I were talking to some local birders back in August, they said there were 40 odd on the mere that day.

Highest count reported to Birdguides was eight. I thought they said fourteen, not forty, of which we saw just the three. Mind you, wasn't that the day we talked about Michael Owen's cruise ship? I do remember wondering if the other eleven were males.

Graham

 

[Secret Twitcher]

AGP back on the flood at Great Heck this evening. Refound at 5.50pm and showed quite distantly until the light dropped.

 

[Dozey]

don't worry there are many like you, and each one seems to like to remind us twitchers/birders that their chasing habits are not to their personal liking.

Hi Wolfbirder. OK, perhaps we're not as silent as I thought! Like I said, it's not a question of liking and disliking - I wasn't criticising. Everybody has different likes and dislikes and different ways of showing a love of wildlife. And I guess amongst every kind there are the sensible and the stupid. My only point was, I think, to remember that my type exist and can be affected by how others operate and co-operate.
Oh - and strange you should mention robins - most memorable recent wildlife sight for me was a flock of a couple of hundred robins on Flamborough Head. I can't recall seeing above half a dozen together before (well, except a new family, that is)

 

[wolfbirder]

Hi Wolfbirder. OK, perhaps we're not as silent as I thought! Like I said, it's not a question of liking and disliking - I wasn't criticising. Everybody has different likes and dislikes and different ways of showing a love of wildlife. And I guess amongst every kind there are the sensible and the stupid. My only point was, I think, to remember that my type exist and can be affected by how others operate and co-operate.
Oh - and strange you should mention robins - most memorable recent wildlife sight for me was a flock of a couple of hundred robins on Flamborough Head. I can't recall seeing above half a dozen together before (well, except a new family, that is)

Hi Dozey
no probs mate,we are all different. I wasnt having a go, just expressing my counter view mate.

Happy birding, whichever way we choose do it :t:

 

[Ingsbirder]

Does anyone know if the eleven birds are still at Swilly? Just curious - biggest group I can recall in the county so far.

I think Fairburn had about five together a year or so back.

A new county breeder soon?

From Wilson & Slack (1996) - in 1983 a female was seen with 5 young at Welham Pond near Malton; the male was never seen and it is probable that this was a hybrid pairing. In 1993 a female on the Esk at Whitby produced hybrid young (none fledged) – it was assumed that it had paired with a Mallard. Over 50% of Yorks records had been in the period Sept-Nov.

 

[Hotspur]

13 RC Pochard at Hornsea today along with 4 Slavs & 1 BNG

 

[Hotspur]

Highest count reported to Birdguides was eight. I thought they said fourteen, not forty, of which we saw just the three. Mind you, wasn't that the day we talked about Michael Owen's cruise ship? I do remember wondering if the other eleven were males.

Graham

I saw two there when viewing the crane last month and they were both females

 

[bitterntwisted]

The yellow-browed warbler at Nant, Bardsey, per Birdguides, is presumably on Bardsey Island in Wales? And not Bardsey near Wetherby?

Graham

 

[vwxyzen]

The yellow-browed warbler at Nant, Bardsey, per Birdguides, is presumably on Bardsey Island in Wales? And not Bardsey near Wetherby?

Graham

unfortunately yes!

 

[northernloon]

I should think so. Nant is one of the few areas with trees on the island. Spent a very pleasant week there in 1979 watching chough and trying to turn a young blackbird into a rouzel.

 

[northernloon]

Onshore winds forecast from Thursday evening right through the weekend. Fingers crossed

 

[bitterntwisted]

unfortunately yes!

Thanks, Dave. Birdguides also confirmed and corrected.

Graham

 

[liverpool_bob]

Highest count reported to Birdguides was eight. I thought they said fourteen, not forty, of which we saw just the three.

Highest count reported to HVWG website for this summer is 14.

 

[schiffornis]

I managed to connect with the American Golden Plover at Great Heck yesterday morning before it was flushed by something/someone, picture and details on my blog.

Cheers, Andy

 

[Pete Mella]

A dirty's day twitching today... got the American Goldie at Great Heck this morning (just in time, by the look of things) and the Slav Grebe at Lakeside (first time I've seen one other than dots on the sea), but dipped the GGS at Stone Creek and YB Warbler at Kilnsea inbetween. You win a few, you lose a few!

Got a few bits and bobs at Spurn too, including Brambling, Lesser Redpoll, Redwing, Brent, Blackcap etc... Seemed like a very quiet day but still managed to tot up 74 species during the day in total.

 

[Bananafishbones]

Got a few bits and bobs at Spurn too, including Brambling, Lesser Redpoll, Redwing, Brent, Blackcap etc....

I would settle for any of those Pete.... all cracking birds mate :t:

 

[Ben M]

Had a dozen or so Redwings inland in Notts yesterday am, so they're on their way SW.

RCP are breeding and spreading all over Notts sites now, and I believe there's a large breeding group just S of Yorks. I assume they'll be all over Yorks sites in the next few years at this rate.

I only actively bird my local patch (it's convenient!). It has had some good birds over the years, but most were before my time. I probably only see an "interesting" species one in twenty visits, and it's usually only interesting from a site-specific perspective. I have a tendency to find interest in what others find mundane though. My birding ideals are about learning about all birds. For example, my highlight yesterday was seeing a BHG perched in a tree feeding on elder berries - just because I've never seen or heard of that before. I also make what I supposed could be classed as "ticks" out of:

• Max site counts, max monthly site counts;
• Earliest arrival and latest departure dates;
• Age/sex;
• Plumage type/phase;
• Albinistic/leucistic/malanistic-types;
• Witnessing display/courtship rituals (how many people have seen male Green Woodpeckers bill fencing?);
• Etc.

I guess that's what happens when you grow up with I-Spy books :-O

Does anyone else do this? I have heard that say a sum. plum. male Rock Thrush is more desirable than a female/juv. But if you've only seen a s.p.male, would you then be just as keen to go for a female if one turned up?

 

[bitterntwisted]

(how many people have seen male Green Woodpeckers bill fencing?)

Ooh! Ooh! Me!!! In the middle of the road, forcing cars to stop. It was remarkable.

Graham