Posts about birding
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OMG baby owl!
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First Odonata of the year
I’ve a long way to go with this butterfly identification business, and it wasn’t until I got home and looked at my photos that I was able to decide that the white butterflies along the Yellow Brick Road were Green-veined Whites - my photo looks exactly like the one in “Britain’s Butterflies” so that helps.
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Black Terns at Marshside
The thrills and spills at Marshside continued with the arrival of Black Terns on Monday afternoon. Read more… -
Today, I will mostly be looking for yellow birds
The day started with an alert that a Golden Oriole had been seen at Marshside, but by the time I got there it had disappeared with only one person having seen it. It was going to be a landmark day for Marshside, with a Broad-billed Sandpiper and the Glossy Ibis still on the scene, but we didn’t see any of that!
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Running out of titles for posts about Marshside
It’s hard sometimes to think of new titles for posts about Marshside, but on days like theses it’s not hard to enjoy going birdwatching there. In this post, I’m rolling together a few days of birding because it’s my blog and I can if I want.
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Ainsdale AM
No Ring Ouzel early this morning, and neither did I spot the Whinchat or Groppers that others later reported. But Willy Warblers, Reed Buntings and Linnet are all nice.
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Ouzel Pretty Boy Then?
The third time was the charm in the Great Ring Ouzel Hunt of 2016, as after two fruitless searches on Saturday, I finally caught up with one of the birds that had been haunting the sheep enclosure on Ainsdale Dunes. A wary little thing, it saw me shortly after I saw it and relocated to a nearby shrub in short order.
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Smew's a Pretty Boy Then?
There was a Smew at Lunt Meadows! A gorgeous little chap, but I’m afraid there have been a lot better photos of him taken over the weekend than I managed.
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Garden Tick - Redpoll
A fuzzy little ball in the birch tree made me wish I had refilled the feeders lately. So cute!
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Sunny Sunday
It was cold and sunny. We did the rounds a bit, but saw nothing unusual at either Mere Sands Wood or Marshside.
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