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[birding maniac]

86 of my birds this year are Non-Passerines.

 

[birding maniac]

No new birds recently
but last friday, i dipped on iceland gull and caspian gull at stubbers green, i then moved to chasewater where i saw the stunning drake smew, but didnt get any decent roosting gulls.
today, i was hunting one of my regular places (not really a patch) of trimpley res. and eyemore wood. imagine my supprise when 2 waxwings were perched in a tree in the car park, in and area that is completly surrounded by trees, they dropped down to feed many times in the evening light ( had slready walked through the wood, along the river, checked the Res. then moved back to the car park when they appeared), they shown really nicely in a location i didnt think i would get one, also 56 Mandarin on the river and 13 goosander. quite nice evening tbh
MB

Sounds like a good day!
Shame about the gulls. Hopefully next weekend I'm going to ge tout and do some gull watching around the south of the county

 

[FoghornKinghorn]

113 - Iceland Gull - Seaton Common (tip) - adult very briefly in flight only. But stood out from the crowd nicely.
114 - Brambling - Cowpen Bewley WP, Teesside

 

[BirdingCristina]

Hi all,
I can't believe it, I didn't know that that many young birders even existed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My British List is 165, my yearlist is 142, and my lifelist is 270 (I've been to India). I keep a local patch list which is 75, latest goodies being Firecrest, Barn Owl and Grasshopper Warbler.
Hope to chat to you all soon.
Cheers, Jyothi
p.s. I'm 12 and have been birding for 5 years
:hi: :hi: :hi:
B

LOL I am 12 too!

New to Birdforum, been birding for...what...3 years?
Young birders are somewhat rare, but it is great they do exist.

 

[ginge_meister]

LOL I am 12 too!

New to Birdforum, been birding for...what...3 years?
Young birders are somewhat rare, but it is great they do exist.

That was a good few years ago now, Joe has somewhat aged since, and his British has certainly grown considerably with some bloody good stuff on there...he's quite the little twitcher now.

 

[birding maniac]

Latest:
Raven
Crossbill

Male Crossbill and a a pair of ravens, amzing birds.
134

 

[Birds 4ever]

88 for me, with pochard etc. Can you count egyptian goose, RC pochards and mandarins?

 

[Joseph N]

79 - Great-crested Grebe
80 - Great Grey Shrike - Red Moss of Netherely
81 - Brent Goose - Inverbervie

A great day's birding today, not with many year ticks, but with some quality birds. I managed to re-find a Great Grey Shrike today at Netherley near Aberdeen that was last reported two weeks ago. I was treated to great views of this bird. I was treated to similarly great views of two Pale-bellied Brents at Inverbervie - Brent Goose is an uncommon goose here in Aberdeenshire, so its always good to see one.

I have written a blog post on today and yesterday. It includes several photos I managed of the Great Grey Shrike, the story behind how I re-found it, and photos of the Brents. If you would like to give it a look click on the link to my blog below, any comments are welcome. Thank you :t:.

http://josephnicholsbirding.blogspot.com/

ATB,

Joseph

 

[birding maniac]

79 - Great-crested Grebe
80 - Great Grey Shrike - Red Moss of Netherely
81 - Brent Goose - Inverbervie

Joseph

Some good birds there!
I Saw my first Great Creasted Grebe yesterday (of the year... )

sadly didn't get too much time gull watching this weekend, but might try with some birds closer to home- maybe one night?
Hopefully heading out and looking for some Great Grey Shrikes repoted locally at somepoint in th next couple of weeks.

 

[simmojunior]

88 for me, with pochard etc. Can you count egyptian goose, RC pochards and mandarins?

Yes to all three.

 

[BirdingCristina]

That was a good few years ago now, Joe has somewhat aged since, and his British has certainly grown considerably with some bloody good stuff on there...he's quite the little twitcher now.

Oh, he he didn't notice the date. 2006.
This post has gotten incredibly popular.

 

[nrg800]

You can take part, however you can only count species that you have seen in your own country on your yearlist as i'm guessing that you've been away since you said, "I'll do an exact count on the Flight back to Australia". Correct me if I'm wrong.

Oh Yes, I am currently in Thailand, so I shall give you another post when I've been in Aus long enough to get enough

Thanks!

 

[Adin 92]

Hi all

I submited a photo of a Cory`s Shearwater in the competition and as a young birder i would like some support from you by voting my photo if you would like to

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2039091#post2039091

Regards
Adin

 

[Jonny721]

1st) Birding Maniac (Durham, GB) - 134 species
2nd) Ash1456 (Cornwall, GB) - 121 species
3rd) FoghornKinghorn (Durham, GB) - 114 species
4th) Jonny721 (Lancashire, GB) - 106 species
5th) Midlands Birder (Midlands, GB) - 87 species
6th) Simmojunior (London, GB) - 88 (1) species
6th) Birds 4ever (Oxford, GB) - 88 species
8th) Joseph (Aberdeenshire, GB) - 81 species
9th) Halcon (Spain) - 74 species
10th) Borofan (Cleveland, GB) - 60 species
11th) Adin 92 (Malta) - 39 species
12th) Andrewj123 (Bedfordshire, GB) - 35 species
13th) WildlifeLove (Essex, GB) - 34 species
14th) Skylark25 (Malta) - 26 species
15th) Nature_Lover (Durham, GB) - 22 species
16th) Maltese Falcon (Malta) - 16 species

My parents have agreed, weather permitting, to take me birding all of saturday so I should be able to get plenty of year ticks. I may also try and get to Carnforth for a Shorelark that has been present the last few days as I still need that for life.

For anyone who doesn't yet know my new blog has been running since the 1st January and I am trying to do a post a day for the whole year. I;ve jsut uploaded my the 2nd of a 4 part post on the review of the year 2010. So if you want to take a look the link is below.

 

[FoghornKinghorn]

115 - Peregrine Falcon - Rainton Meadows DWT, Durham

 

[Creamcolouredcourser]

Nice to see you are doing this again! I might as well join if thats all right. Year hasn't gone totally to plan as I have just recovered from the swine flu so haven't done much Birding!
49 Birds so far anyway Brambling being the highlight of the year so far.

Will

 

[simmojunior]

I'm on 91. Mistle Thrush, Grey Wagtail and Siskin.

 

[Creamcolouredcourser]

50 - House Sparrow

 

[Jonny721]

1st) Birding Maniac (Durham, GB) - 134 species
2nd) Ash1456 (Cornwall, GB) - 121 species
3rd) FoghornKinghorn (Durham, GB) - 115 species
4th) Jonny721 (Lancashire, GB) - 106 species
5th) Simmojunior (London, GB) - 91 (1) species
6th) Birds 4ever (Oxford, GB) - 88 species
7th) Midlands Birder (Midlands, GB) - 87 species
8th) Joseph (Aberdeenshire, GB) - 81 species
9th) Halcon (Spain) - 74 species
10th) Borofan (Cleveland, GB) - 60 species
11th) CreamColouredCourser (Wales, GB) - 50 species
12th) Adin 92 (Malta) - 39 species
13th) Andrewj123 (Bedfordshire, GB) - 35 species
14th) WildlifeLove (Essex, GB) - 34 species
15th) Skylark25 (Malta) - 26 species
16th) Nature_Lover (Durham, GB) - 22 species
17th) Maltese Falcon (Malta) - 16 species

 

[FoghornKinghorn]

116 - Glaucous Gull - Seaton Common (tip), Teesside
117 - Merlin - Greatham Creek, Teesside - showed extremely well. Best views I have ever had of the species!
118 - Pintail - Saltholme RSPB, Teesside

119 - Pink-footed Goose - Rainton Meadows DWT (Friday the 21st), forgot to update!

As always a full day report with videos and images on my blog: http://andrewkinghorn.blogspot.com/2011/01/ok-so-i-do-like-gulls-after-all.html

Cheers,