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Hey guys going away for a couple of days up to the North East. Staying in Durham going to be going to Whitburn and Shibdon Pond tomorrow and then Saltholme RSPB on monday. Several target species but the main 2 being Whiskered Tern and Spotted Crake. Good birding while I'm gone :t:
 
Jonny721 said:
Hey guys going away for a couple of days up to the North East. Staying in Durham going to be going to Whitburn and Shibdon Pond tomorrow and then Saltholme RSPB on monday. Several target species but the main 2 being Whiskered Tern and Spotted Crake. Good birding while I'm gone :t:
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Hope you have a great time and enjoy it up here. Good luck with both!
I am just wishing that the crake i still here when I get back!
I had a choices of going to that or the tern today. I missed the other whiskered tern there last year and Saltholme is practically my local patch...
 
1st) Canadagurl123 (Canada) - 283 species
2nd) Kinghorn the bird brain (Durham, GB) - 231 species
2nd) Birding Maniac (Durham, GB) - 231 species
4th) Joseph N (Aberdeenshire, GB) - 212 species
5th) Muddy Turnstone (Sweden) - 207 species
6th) Halcon (Spain) - 205 species
7th) Robert Williamson (Norfolk, GB) - 203 species
8th) Jonny721 (Lancashire, GB) -198 species
9th) Zac Hinchcliffe (Lancashire, GB) - 191 species
10th) Timmyjones (Midlands, GB) - 181 species
11th) Ash1456 (Cornwall, GB) -178 species
12th) AlexGuthrie (Angus, GB) - 173 species
13th) SimmoJunior (London, GB) - 170 species
14th) Gropperwinch (sussex, GB) - 168 species
15th) CreamColouredCourser (GB) -160 species
16th) Youngbirder35 (Manchester, GB) - 151 species
17th) Midlands Birder (Midlands, GB) - 144 species
18th) Adin92 (Malta) -131 species
18th) Geth (Glamorgan, GB) - 131 species
20th) Billsbirding (Surrey, GB) - 129 species
21st) Loufish (London, GB) - 128 species
22nd) ausmar (Malta) - 127 species
23rd) Robin jack (Italy) - 126 species
24th) Alexjh1 (Northants, GB) - 123 species
25th) Middy24 (Northumberland, GB) - 114 species
26th) Cnocell (GB) - 83 species
27th) Bill19 (Lincolnshire, GB) - 83 species
28th) tjbirdofprey (Spain) - 64 species
29th) nrg800 (Australia) - 42 species
30th) PeterFisher13 (Merseyside, GB) - 32 species
31st) Maltese Falcon (Malta) - 28 species
32nd) The Seagull (Aberdeenshire, GB) - 21 species
33rd) UtahnBirder (Utah, USA) - 9 species

Hey guys back now from the north east. Got 2 lifers (Spotted Crake and Whiskered Tern) and 5 extra yearticks (Great Northern Diver, Black Tern, Great Skua, Garganey and Little Stint) taking me up to 198. Also great to meet up with Andrew Kinghorn at Shibdon pond yesterday looking for the crake (or was it a young moorhen ;))
 
Plus one in the form of a little owl. It's also embarrassingly a lifer for me. For my counties bird, they have been remarkably unhelpful.
 
Kinghorn the bird brain. said:
I wouldn't say that was embrarrassing. I think it took me 4 years to see my first Long-eared Owl..........they breed right near my house.:-O
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Thats kind of the silly thing though - I'd seen the other 4 before with neither LEO or SEO living anywhere near me as far as I've ever heard, and this Little Owl turned up on a walk I do semiregularly from my house that I've lived in since I was 4. So yeah, not much excuse lol

Looks like it might potentially live there too - I'll have to keep an eye on that tree to see if I see it is there regularly.

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1st) Canadagurl123 (Canada) - 283 species
2nd) Kinghorn the bird brain (Durham, GB) - 232 species
3rd) Birding Maniac (Durham, GB) - 231 species
4th) Joseph N (Aberdeenshire, GB) - 212 species
5th) Muddy Turnstone (Sweden) - 207 species
6th) Halcon (Spain) - 205 species
7th) Robert Williamson (Norfolk, GB) - 203 species
8th) Jonny721 (Lancashire, GB) -198 species
9th) Zac Hinchcliffe (Lancashire, GB) - 191 species
10th) Timmyjones (Midlands, GB) - 181 species
11th) Ash1456 (Cornwall, GB) -178 species
12th) AlexGuthrie (Angus, GB) - 173 species
13th) SimmoJunior (London, GB) - 170 species
14th) Gropperwinch (sussex, GB) - 168 species
15th) CreamColouredCourser (GB) -160 species
16th) Youngbirder35 (Manchester, GB) - 151 species
17th) Midlands Birder (Midlands, GB) - 144 species
18th) Adin92 (Malta) -131 species
18th) Geth (Glamorgan, GB) - 131 species
20th) Billsbirding (Surrey, GB) - 129 species
21st) Loufish (London, GB) - 128 species
22nd) ausmar (Malta) - 127 species
23rd) Robin jack (Italy) - 126 species
24th) Alexjh1 (Northants, GB) - 124 species
25th) Middy24 (Northumberland, GB) - 114 species
26th) Cnocell (GB) - 83 species
27th) Bill19 (Lincolnshire, GB) - 83 species
28th) tjbirdofprey (Spain) - 64 species
29th) nrg800 (Australia) - 42 species
30th) PeterFisher13 (Merseyside, GB) - 32 species
31st) Maltese Falcon (Malta) - 28 species
32nd) The Seagull (Aberdeenshire, GB) - 21 species
33rd) UtahnBirder (Utah, USA) - 9 species
 
213 - Surf Scoter B :) .

In the last couple of years, I have been trying to see this species amongst the scoter flock off Blackdog time and time again and have consistently failed. Today was a legendary day in that, after so many occasions of me ending up leaving the place frustrated having not seen them and knowing they were definitely there somewhere, I finally managed to set my eyes on one! And not only did I see one, but three drake birds in all. This was a fantastic experience, with conditions being ideal for viewing and the scoter flock being much closer in than normal. So I'm basically feeling really glad right now to have finally seen a big bogey bird for me and to have obtained good views. The rest of my day out was fairly bog-standard, with two Ospreys, 8 Ruff, 5 Greenshank and 2 Peregrines being the best of it.

Joseph :t:
 
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1st) Canadagurl123 (Canada) - 283 species
2nd) Kinghorn the bird brain (Durham, GB) - 232 species
3rd) Birding Maniac (Durham, GB) - 231 species
4th) Joseph N (Aberdeenshire, GB) - 213 species
5th) Muddy Turnstone (Sweden) - 207 species
6th) Halcon (Spain) - 205 species
7th) Robert Williamson (Norfolk, GB) - 203 species
8th) Jonny721 (Lancashire, GB) -199 species
9th) Zac Hinchcliffe (Lancashire, GB) - 191 species
10th) Timmyjones (Midlands, GB) - 181 species
11th) Ash1456 (Cornwall, GB) -178 species
12th) AlexGuthrie (Angus, GB) - 173 species
13th) SimmoJunior (London, GB) - 170 species
14th) Gropperwinch (sussex, GB) - 168 species
15th) CreamColouredCourser (GB) -160 species
16th) Youngbirder35 (Manchester, GB) - 151 species
17th) Midlands Birder (Midlands, GB) - 144 species
18th) Adin92 (Malta) -132 species
19th) Geth (Glamorgan, GB) - 131 species
20th) Billsbirding (Surrey, GB) - 129 species
21st) Loufish (London, GB) - 128 species
22nd) ausmar (Malta) - 127 species
23rd) Robin jack (Italy) - 126 species
24th) Alexjh1 (Northants, GB) - 124 species
25th) Middy24 (Northumberland, GB) - 114 species
26th) Cnocell (GB) - 83 species
27th) Bill19 (Lincolnshire, GB) - 83 species
28th) tjbirdofprey (Spain) - 64 species
29th) nrg800 (Australia) - 42 species
30th) PeterFisher13 (Merseyside, GB) - 32 species
31st) Maltese Falcon (Malta) - 28 species
32nd) The Seagull (Aberdeenshire, GB) - 21 species
33rd) UtahnBirder (Utah, USA) - 9 species

Little gull today brings me up to 199!
 
233 - Semipalmated Sandpiper - Barns Ness, Lothian
234 - Red-necked Grebe - Longnidry, Lothian

Semi-p wasn't a lifer but I think they are smashing little birds and I had some good views and spent some time trying to photograph the bird with my new digiscoping kit. Images have turned out alright thankfully.
 
Three more for me at Rutland today:

Common Sandpiper (thought I'd already counted them this year but its not on my list...)
Ruff
Hobby (a lifer for me)
 
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