Marcus Conway - ebirder
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Have I the most impressive dip list in Yorkshire - can anyone top these 16?
Storm Petrel
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Franklin's Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Pechora Pipit
Nightingale
Cetti’s Warbler
Savi’s Warbler
Arctic Warbler
Serin
Pine Grosbeak
White-throated Sparrow
Pine Bunting
Amur Falcon
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If I'd connected with these I'd be joint 17th on the YB rankings. Some really painful memories in that list. At least some of them will fall - hopefully soon, even if some never will.
That's an impressive list. Even I've seen a few of those . A Serin at Spurn in the early nineties was my first twitch.
Lesser Crested Tern was one I was thinking about the other day. I did manage to see Elsie once in the mid nineties - was she frequent in Yorkshire - I got her at Beacon Ponds if memory serves
I do know I have missed at least five Raddes Warblers. Heard a few though.