No more after this, I promise! I forgot to include: a satire of swifts, a gulp of swallows, an estate of house martins and a skirl of sandpipers Among those...
Slavonian Grebe still from Dudney hide ay 12.50 (Colin Addington). It is nice to have one linger - all the records in the last few years have been of...
In addition to the Slav, 1 1st winter Caspian Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls, 3 Goosander, 2 Little Egrets and an impressive flock of 14 Redshank (!) today at GW....
Dear All, to clarify. I have had fleeting glimpses of this bird for a few days and thought 'that looks like a meadow pipit'. On Thursday I got a good look,...
Robin, I think you are correct in one sense - your description doesn't sound like olive-backed pipit. Are any of the paler streaks on the mantle white rather...
I would agree, that if this bird was streaked on the back it probably wasn't a OBP. The streaking on the mantle/back of OBP is very faint. Would have been nice...
I'm sorry Doug, I can't honestly comment on the detail of the mantle. I really wasnt looking that hard. Needless to say I didnt see it today, but if it should...
For anyone fortunate enough to find something rare in the county during 2007, can they please try and have their desciptions to me as soon as possible. A...
On my blog (http://oldscroteshome.blogspot.com/, which I am sure you will not want to visit!), I just posted a piece about cagebird enthusiasts. I know of only...
First Peregrine of the winter this afternoon scaring the willies out of a small flock of Dunlin here this afternoon. It was an immature bird and I got...
There was an adult and a juvenile Peregrine on the fen between Wardy Hill and Straight Drove on Thursday. The adult spent a lot of time perched on the ground,...
Scaup, drk, still in Valley Creek this afternoon. Also, at least half a dozen Yellow-legged Gulls came into roost, but no white-wingers (despite good numbers...
Jake, I think most of us share your sentiments and would rather see birds in the wild than confined to cages. There are notable exceptions though; I...
Colin Kirtland
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Dec 3, 2007 3:09 pm
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Jake, I think most of us share your sentiments and would rather see birds in the wild than confined to cages. There are notable exceptions though; I...
Colin Kirtland
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Dec 3, 2007 3:09 pm
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Hi all, At North Bank Sewage Works this afternoon.... LITTLE EGRET, 2, flushed from ditch that runs alongside the north bank, just west of the Sewage Works....
jake i could not get on your blog mate. i like all birds. I keep parrotlets. I love to see them in the wild. when i am not birding i watch them. back to...
Thanks for you email. The reason you couldn't get on to my blog is because, for some reason, Yahoo puts spaces in the url. Remove the spaces and you should be...
During a couple of hours mid afternoon didnt see the previously mentioned falcon but had the following: Goosander - male Dunlin - c15 Redshank - 60+ ...
The immature Shag was again at the Dog in a Doublet today at c.13:00. It was sat on rocks just on the sluice side of the bridge. Tony Parker had a Blackcap in...
Is anyone going to the BTO conference next weekend and would be prepared to tolerate my jokes and anecdotes for a couple of hours in the car? Doug Radford...
At 9:30 am give or take: 3000+ golden plovers, 1200+ lapwings, 30+ corn buntings, 30+ chaffinches and a few goldfinches and a Cambs tick with a vocal twite...
... Funnily enough, I noticed a male Blackcap today at the office, it was feeding on Yew berries in the back garden. There were 2 similar sized birds within...
two hours in St. Neots yesterday located a lesser spotted woodpecker in priory park, a male goosander on the river, a pair of magpies ON their nest, two...
Bob, It has been around for sometime, being seen at Eynesbury Pocket Park an Paxton Pits in the spring, and Grafham Water in the summer - I was wondering where...
... business, my birding was confined to the local parks (King's Park in Perth and the Botanical Gardens in Sydney). Seeing parrots free and wild and in flocks...
I have just taken a phone call from a member of the public. He has described a bird he saw on Sunday November 30th from the A14 between Brampton and Leighton...
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