birderbf
Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
Welcome Dan! Is Northern Wheatear one of the more recent additions to your very nice ON list?
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Welcome Dan! Is Northern Wheatear one of the more recent additions to your very nice ON list?
Accipiter91
Well-known member
Hey Dan! Nice to meet ya!
On-Firecrest
Stuck in a Rutt
a transatlantic good morning to you dan.
weathers looking good for this weekend so after spending half term stuck inside while everyone else is getting good birds, its time for some payback time!
weathers looking good for this weekend so after spending half term stuck inside while everyone else is getting good birds, its time for some payback time!
On-Firecrest
Stuck in a Rutt
had an amazing day at the north norfolk coast yesterday, after tramping around a bog for an hour and seeing nothing, my dad and i were leaving when my dad spots the great grey shrike, my biggest bogey bird! as i am watching it my dad then turns around and sees an immature hen harrier flying past, i get on it and spend a minute watching it quater the bog before flying off, turn around and the shrike is still on its perch and hovering. Moving on to the wells/warham green area, two great white egrets give themselves up after a while on the saltmarsh. Theyre monstrous beasts!!! 2 lifers, three year ticks and there is no place like north norfolk on form!
Accipiter91
Well-known member
Awesome! Glad you had a good trip! Great Egrets are pretty cool aren't they?
On-Firecrest
Stuck in a Rutt
yep only downside was getting home and realising there was an olive backed pipit at wells wood, but never mind i have got the rest of my life to see one
NickPatel92
Well-known member
Sounds like a great day! I saw the Great white egret at Leighton moss a few weeks ago. I love to see Shrikes, and at Spurn a Month back, i got a quick view of my third species of Shrike - Great grey, and however short a view, it was incredible enough for me!
Storm-Petrel
registered dude
i only have one shrike... loggerhead... 8-P
birderbf
Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
but never mind i have got the rest of my life to see one
Excellent attitude! I realized that when I went for my first Connecticut Warbler. 45 mins of waiting, then having lunch while everyone else saw it, then returning to find it just gone was a little disheartening, but luckily it did reappear. If it hadn't, there might've been a CT warbler with a moustache in a cowboy hat in my avatar.
Me too. Watch for irruptives though, for the very first time in my serious birding career, a flock of Common redpolls as sighted at a nearby barrier beach! Pine Siskins in near-tripe-digits and Purple Finches too, and upstate the earlier Bohemian Waxwings on record were spotted this week. There's also the odd shrike, unfortunately none near here... yet....
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birderbf
Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
You said you made a small detour on the way back from somewhere! :C Tsk tsk tsk
Hey, I finally got a Northern Saw-whet Owl for the year yesterday. They are adorable!! It was also my first self-found, excluding the one that a group I was with found and it remained in the same bush a week later when I returned with another group....
The Falcon
Registered Birder
I've seen ton''s of Siskins at my feeder this year, Including a Red-breasted Nuthatch that stayed for five minutes and left haven't seen it since.
On-Firecrest
Stuck in a Rutt
GET IN!!! lesser yelllowlegs was my 197th bird of the year (targeting 200), Arent they elegant. You americans probably think im mad
teamsaint
Well-known member
GET IN!!! lesser yelllowlegs was my 197th bird of the year (targeting 200), Arent they elegant. You americans probably think im mad
lol this is getting abit annoying because ive seen 213 now but you have seen loads of rarities that i haven't. i guess living close to norfolk and minsmere has its advantages
. but you did once say that there are hardly any birds where you live, so you must have been trying to make us feel sorry
On-Firecrest
Stuck in a Rutt
lol this is getting abit annoying because ive seen 213 now but you have seen loads of rarities that i haven't. i guess living close to norfolk and minsmere has its advantages
you've seen black redstart and i shamefully have'nt.
I have never listed above 147 in a year and i am getting carried away.
Norfolk and minsmere are exruciatingly slow country drives when the caravan club are out and about. :C
west suffolk can be painfully quiet when all the proper coastal sites are flooding under rares. And if anyone is still reading my ramblings
u said hampshire was rubbish but your 15 up on me! and i think u mentioned u visited africa? damn jealous i get about as far as the lake district in a good year:eat:
devilbirder
Well-known member
back from ages of not visiting this thread, I have lost track of it so I may sound a bit behind.
I have had Black Redstart but even more embarressing is I haven't even manged Common! Steve you have a good few species more than me I expect and I know you have an awaful lot of my bogey birds.
I have had Black Redstart but even more embarressing is I haven't even manged Common! Steve you have a good few species more than me I expect and I know you have an awaful lot of my bogey birds.
you've seen black redstart and i shamefully have'nt.
I have never listed above 147 in a year and i am getting carried away.
Norfolk and minsmere are exruciatingly slow country drives when the caravan club are out and about. :C
west suffolk can be painfully quiet when all the proper coastal sites are flooding under rares. And if anyone is still reading my ramblings
:eat:
