Posts about birding
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Record shots from 2018
A few photos that were kicking around.
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Another catchup post
I’ve been quiet on the blogging front, but I have seen a few interesting birds here and decided I should at least get them onto my list!
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Clubtail fail
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A bit of catch-up
A poor show indeed on the blogging front, but a few highlights for the lists are: Fieldfare in the garden, more Hawfinches, a nice female Smew at Newchurch Common and I’m finally putting a Red-throated diver on the list - the sleepy one on the Marine Lake is not the first I’ve seen but incomplete records are incomplete.
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A Song of Ice and Firecrests
The plan was to drive up to the entrance of the sewage works in Walton-le-Dale where a Firecrest has been hanging out for a week or so and sit in a nice warm car until it was glimpsed. However, Winery Lane was blocked by a puddle that I didn’t dare drive through, so we had to ditch the car and walk/slip/slide/skate the last part of the route as Winery Lane was very icy indeed.
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List update
I’ve not been keeping my blog up to date, but here’s an update on some recent sightings.
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Garden Birdwatch
It’s RSBP big garden birdwatch thingy day today, so they’ve all buggered off, but here’s what’s been around so far this year.
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Urban birding
This weekend all the good birding was in town. I started on a bright sunny morning at Marshside, where everything was pretty but nothing unusual. A fox was probably the most unusual sighting, with a Merlin on the saltmarsh and some very active Little Grebes the best birds.
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Mere Sands Wood
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Marshside in the fog
Combined sightings from two volunteer shifts.
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