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FoghornKinghorn
Durham Recorder
260 - Red-flanked Bluetail - Whitburn Costal Park, Durham
261 - Glossy Ibis - Saltholme RSPB, Durham
262 - Snow Goose - 4 on Saltholme RSPB, Durham. I believe countable as they are a Category C bird, if they were Ross's Goose uncountable.
Saved the day after a painful dip in Norfolk; Rufous-tailed Robin. The Glossy Ibis is the first in Durham since 1992! I was 1 years old, most of ya' weren't even born!
261 - Glossy Ibis - Saltholme RSPB, Durham
262 - Snow Goose - 4 on Saltholme RSPB, Durham. I believe countable as they are a Category C bird, if they were Ross's Goose uncountable.
Saved the day after a painful dip in Norfolk; Rufous-tailed Robin. The Glossy Ibis is the first in Durham since 1992! I was 1 years old, most of ya' weren't even born!
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O.Reville1989
I started off with nothing and I've still got some
Saved the day after a painful dip in Norfolk; Rufous-tailed Robin. The Glossy Ibis is the first in Durham since 1992! I was 1 years old, most of ya' weren't even born!
Some of us were 3
Man I feel old!birding maniac
Michael M
260 - Red-flanked Bluetail - Whitburn Costal Park, Durham
261 - Glossy Ibis - Saltholme RSPB, Durham
262 - Snow Goose - 4 on Saltholme RSPB, Durham. I believe countable as they are a Category C bird, if they were Ross's Goose uncountable.
Saved the day after a painful dip in Norfolk; Rufous-tailed Robin. The Glossy Ibis is the first in Durham since 1992! I was 1 years old, most of ya' weren't even born!
Was a stunning bird (the ibis) when did you get it?
Just wondering, is there doubt about the I'd of the geese? They looked like
Snow when I saw
Then yesterday, but I'm not the best at snow /ross's... :t:
Mark Newsome
Born to seawatch...
260 - Red-flanked Bluetail - Whitburn Costal Park, Durham
261 - Glossy Ibis - Saltholme RSPB, Durham
262 - Snow Goose - 4 on Saltholme RSPB, Durham. I believe countable as they are a Category C bird, if they were Ross's Goose uncountable.
Saved the day after a painful dip in Norfolk; Rufous-tailed Robin. The Glossy Ibis is the first in Durham since 1992! I was 1 years old, most of ya' weren't even born!
Andrew,
Snow Geese is on BOU category "AC2". The C2 bit means "Naturalized established species - species with established populations resulting from introduction by Man, but which also occur in an apparently natural state, e.g. Greylag Goose Anser anser".
Explanation of categories at:
http://thebritishlist.blogspot.com/2009/01/species-categories.html
Full British list at:
http://www.bou.org.uk/recbrlst2dna.html
Ross's Goose is still on Category E (not included in the British list); not conclusively accepted as occurring in a wild state (even though many people believe this to be wrong for Ross's Goose), and no self-sustaining population breeding in the UK.
The birds at RSPB Saltholme are definitely Snow Geese.
Mark
O.Reville1989
I started off with nothing and I've still got some
Back down to 229- Had doubts over my sighting of the Radde's Warbler at Weybourne, doesn't meet my rules on how I tick birds!
Jonny721
Well-known member
Had an awesome 4 hours at Fairhaven Lake yesterday morning with literally thousands of birds streaming over, my first proper vis mig event and what a way to start! Not all numbers are accurate because I wasn't present for the first half an hour that they were being recorded, so my full list was:
1 Short Eared Owl
1 Corn Bunting
1 Yellowhammer
19 Tree Sparrow
c1000 Chaffinch
21 Brambling
2 Lesser Redpoll
40 Siskin
196 Greenfinch
c100 Goldfinch
40 Linnet
115 Skylark
60 Meadow Pipit
1 Rock Pipit
17 Swallow
10 Grey Wagtail
30 Alba Wagtail
33 Reed Bunting
1 Jay
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
c300 Fieldfare
c150 Redwing
3 Mistle Thrush
3 Song Thrush
5 Blackbird
1 Snipe
2 Golden Plover
2 Goldcrest
2 Coal Tit
4 Blue Tit
87 Woodpigeon
320 Starling
1 Short Eared Owl
1 Corn Bunting
1 Yellowhammer
19 Tree Sparrow
c1000 Chaffinch
21 Brambling
2 Lesser Redpoll
40 Siskin
196 Greenfinch
c100 Goldfinch
40 Linnet
115 Skylark
60 Meadow Pipit
1 Rock Pipit
17 Swallow
10 Grey Wagtail
30 Alba Wagtail
33 Reed Bunting
1 Jay
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
c300 Fieldfare
c150 Redwing
3 Mistle Thrush
3 Song Thrush
5 Blackbird
1 Snipe
2 Golden Plover
2 Goldcrest
2 Coal Tit
4 Blue Tit
87 Woodpigeon
320 Starling
ginge_meister
Well-known member
ginge_meister
Well-known member
Wise choice!! I wouldn't count an incredibly elusive bird that no one has seen since release, that I saw fly over the reeds to shrubs the other side on a 1 second view at range either....
timmyjones
Well-known member
Just been on the BOU website and the latest list on there (15th December 2010) and Snow Goose is down as just Cat A. Also weren't there 4 white morph Snow Geese kicking round Newbiggin and that area over the summer that were reported several times but known to be feral birds that had been present a while, surely aren't these those birds?
Interesting debate anyway!
Spent Saturday wondering round the east coast of Yorkshire and added
241) Snow Bunting
Quick trip to Castle Howard where a nice ad drake Ferruginous Duck was on the lake there
242) Ferruginous Duck
Joseph N
Lothian Young Birder
210 - Woodchat Shrike (juv at Links Road, Lowestoft, seen both 10/10 + 14/10)
211 - Yellow-browed Warbler (one at Lowestoft 10/10, one at Holkham 16/10)
212 - Great White Egret (self found, at Titchwell 13/10)
213 - Isabelline Shrike (1st winter at Dunwich Heath 15/10)
Non-yeartick highlights: 2 Great Grey Shrikes , 4 Short-eared Owls (3 Titchwell, 1 Lowestoft), 3 Spoonbills, Merlin , vis mig of hundreds of Redwings + Skylarks .
With my mum now living in Norwich, I spent a week in Norfolk this week just past. Before it had been quiet but this week it just seemed to hot up! On my first day in the area (Monday) I twitched the Woodchat Shrike at Links Road in Lowestoft which showed very well in stunning weather (see pics below) , a fab bird and a lifer . Also at Links Road I very briefly saw one of two Yellow-browed Warblers, a useful year tick. It was then down to Minsmere where I dipped a Glossy Ibis, but curiously 4 Red-breasted Geese were present. I visited Strumpshaw Fen near Norwich on Tuesday, but it was very quiet here, lovely reserve though.
Thursday saw me out birding with Young Birder's very own Oliver Reville, and this is where the birding got really tasty. Things started quietly at Cley, and a search of Warham Greens for a YBW proved disappointing. However at Titchwell I was on the main path looking at great distance west to Thornham hall when I found a Great White Egret amongst a Spoonbill and a few Little Egrets, quickly confirmed by Oli. It proved elusive for half an hour when it was out of sight, but it eventually came much closer before heading southeast towards Choseley with many people connecting. Likely the same bird that has been touring the coast in the last couple of days. Really chuffed with this find! 3 Short-eared Owls were also seen here, 2 very distantly at sea which was some sight! The day ended ideally with a Great Grey Shrike showing well but briefly at Warham Greens.
On Friday I was out with Oliver again and his mate Kieran (Locostella on BF). The day can be summed up by - 3 species of shrike in one day!!! Firstly we returned to Lowestoft for a general mig check and all enjoyed seconds of the Woodchat Shrike and a SEO going out to sea. The nearby Ness Point produced a Purple Sand, unusual down there, and then it was all the way up to the Broads to see if we could find anything. We pulled up at Waxham to find people watching a Great Grey Shrike at distance, which was good to see but was seen better when walking south from Waxham. A painful hour was spent at Waxham standing right by a Radde's Warbler that wouldn't show, with no proper view to allow for a yeartick and not enough for the others for a lifer. We couldn't find anything in the Waxham area and were close to giving up when an Isabelline Shrike came in on the pager at Dunwich Heath. With this and only a couple of hours light to spare, we hurtled 45 miles down the coast for this bird and when we arrived we were rewarded with relatively decent views of the Isabelline Shrike (1st winter Daurian I think?) as it flew from gorse to gorse - what a belter of a bird and a mental day!! Thanks so much for the transport Oli, it was great to meet you and pleasure to bird with you :t: .
Finally I spent yesterday on the coast as well. It was pretty quiet overall, with the highlight being nice views of a Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham. 4 Spotshanks at Titchwell were the best of it otherwise, did not manage to go for the Radde's at Weybourne. A brilliant trip, so glad things improved when I was down, will be back in the winter. Pics below, including my Sandhill Crane photo in the Sunday Express...
Pic 1: Woodchat Shrike at Lowestoft
Pic 2: Great Grey Shrike at Waxham
Pic 3: Isabelline Shrike at Dunwich
Pic 4: Sandhill Crane article, Sunday Express (9/10/11)
Joseph
211 - Yellow-browed Warbler (one at Lowestoft 10/10, one at Holkham 16/10)
212 - Great White Egret (self found, at Titchwell 13/10)
213 - Isabelline Shrike (1st winter at Dunwich Heath 15/10)
Non-yeartick highlights: 2 Great Grey Shrikes , 4 Short-eared Owls (3 Titchwell, 1 Lowestoft), 3 Spoonbills, Merlin , vis mig of hundreds of Redwings + Skylarks .
With my mum now living in Norwich, I spent a week in Norfolk this week just past. Before it had been quiet but this week it just seemed to hot up! On my first day in the area (Monday) I twitched the Woodchat Shrike at Links Road in Lowestoft which showed very well in stunning weather (see pics below) , a fab bird and a lifer . Also at Links Road I very briefly saw one of two Yellow-browed Warblers, a useful year tick. It was then down to Minsmere where I dipped a Glossy Ibis, but curiously 4 Red-breasted Geese were present. I visited Strumpshaw Fen near Norwich on Tuesday, but it was very quiet here, lovely reserve though.
Thursday saw me out birding with Young Birder's very own Oliver Reville, and this is where the birding got really tasty. Things started quietly at Cley, and a search of Warham Greens for a YBW proved disappointing. However at Titchwell I was on the main path looking at great distance west to Thornham hall when I found a Great White Egret amongst a Spoonbill and a few Little Egrets, quickly confirmed by Oli. It proved elusive for half an hour when it was out of sight, but it eventually came much closer before heading southeast towards Choseley with many people connecting. Likely the same bird that has been touring the coast in the last couple of days. Really chuffed with this find! 3 Short-eared Owls were also seen here, 2 very distantly at sea which was some sight! The day ended ideally with a Great Grey Shrike showing well but briefly at Warham Greens.
On Friday I was out with Oliver again and his mate Kieran (Locostella on BF). The day can be summed up by - 3 species of shrike in one day!!! Firstly we returned to Lowestoft for a general mig check and all enjoyed seconds of the Woodchat Shrike and a SEO going out to sea. The nearby Ness Point produced a Purple Sand, unusual down there, and then it was all the way up to the Broads to see if we could find anything. We pulled up at Waxham to find people watching a Great Grey Shrike at distance, which was good to see but was seen better when walking south from Waxham. A painful hour was spent at Waxham standing right by a Radde's Warbler that wouldn't show, with no proper view to allow for a yeartick and not enough for the others for a lifer. We couldn't find anything in the Waxham area and were close to giving up when an Isabelline Shrike came in on the pager at Dunwich Heath. With this and only a couple of hours light to spare, we hurtled 45 miles down the coast for this bird and when we arrived we were rewarded with relatively decent views of the Isabelline Shrike (1st winter Daurian I think?) as it flew from gorse to gorse - what a belter of a bird and a mental day!! Thanks so much for the transport Oli, it was great to meet you and pleasure to bird with you :t: .
Finally I spent yesterday on the coast as well. It was pretty quiet overall, with the highlight being nice views of a Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham. 4 Spotshanks at Titchwell were the best of it otherwise, did not manage to go for the Radde's at Weybourne. A brilliant trip, so glad things improved when I was down, will be back in the winter. Pics below, including my Sandhill Crane photo in the Sunday Express...
Pic 1: Woodchat Shrike at Lowestoft
Pic 2: Great Grey Shrike at Waxham
Pic 3: Isabelline Shrike at Dunwich
Pic 4: Sandhill Crane article, Sunday Express (9/10/11)
Joseph
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O.Reville1989
I started off with nothing and I've still got some
Great sum up of the weeks birding Joseph, likewise it was great to meet you and I definitely enjoyed the couple of days birding we did!
The drive to and from the Izzi Shrike was memorable! Tension on the way, relief but despair (you know why!) on the way back!
Let me know when you are back down in the winter!
The drive to and from the Izzi Shrike was memorable! Tension on the way, relief but despair (you know why!) on the way back!
Let me know when you are back down in the winter!
FoghornKinghorn
Durham Recorder
I am guessing Rufous-tailed Robin was reason for despair? Hey I was in Durham at Whitburn Costal Park watching a Red-flanked Bluetail and I started to despair!:-O
As you know I came down.....rest is history!
O.Reville1989
I started off with nothing and I've still got some
It was mate. Remember thinking "Just seen a fantastic Shrike (one of my favorite bird groups) and I'm hacked that a Rufous-Tailed Robin has turned up 8 minutes drive from my house!"
Such a shame but hey, win some, lose some
FoghornKinghorn
Durham Recorder
Not sure how many records there have been of Isabelline Shrike in Durham, there was a one a few years ago before I joined Durham Bird Club and knew about bird news information services etc. Could be a hard bird to get back for me.
I've had an amazing year but funnily enough in 2009 they had American Black Tern, Eastern Crowned Warbler, and Sandhill Crane in UK. All big birds and I missed all but 1; Eastern Crowned Warbler. This year I have seen American Black Tern and Sandhill Crane.......get your hopes up.
Though I imagine if there is another Eastern Crowned Warbler it will be on somewhere like Fair Isle or some extremley thick hedgerow in Norfolk, does that remind you or anything?:-O There might never be one again in our lifetime, who knows?O.Reville1989
I started off with nothing and I've still got some
230-Black-Throated Diver
231-Red-Breasted Merganser
231-Red-Breasted Merganser
simmojunior
Well-known member
I went to Saltholme today to see the Glossy Ibis and it showed well despite the wind. I have also seen plenty of Lesser Redpolls flying over Durham this week so my total for the year is now exactly 200. This is the first time that I have reached this figure.
O.Reville1989
I started off with nothing and I've still got some
Congrats! 200 is a great figure for a year imo!
Good to see Lesser Redpolls are being sighted, shows winter is well and truly on the way!
