and made an evening stop near Kempsey to try to catch up with a family of owls that had been showy lately in the hope of an overdue lifer!What Owl species would this be?
ZooChat Big Year 2016
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30. Yellow-legged gull
31. Grey wagtail
32. Pied wagtail
33. Rook
34. Common moorhen
35. Common starling
36. Red kite
37. Redbreast
A trip out today to find the shrike I saw in December, which returned to Heybridge Basin after disappearing for a few weeks, allowed me to see six new birds:
74. Great grey shrike Lanius excubitor
75. Grey plover Pluvialis squatarola
76. Common greenshank Tringa nebularia
77. Bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica (Nt)
78. Northern shoveler Anas clypeata
79. Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
What Owl species would this be?
No. 80 on my list.
Four or five individuals at once have been seen at Kempsey recently - we only saw one but that was good enough!
No. 80 on my list.
Four or five individuals at once have been seen at Kempsey recently - we only saw one but that was good enough!
Was that really a Lifer for you?
Was that really a Lifer for you?
Yep. Never been in the right place at the right time!
23/1/2016
pelagic birdwatching trip today out of Kiama. Very rough conditions.
131. black browed albotross
132. flesh footed shearwater
133. fluttering shearwater
134. great winged petrel
135. hutton's shearwater
136. pomerine jaeger
137. short tailed shearwater
138. shy albatross
139. sooty shearwater
140. wedge tailed shearwater
141. grey tailed tattler ( back on land )
pelagic birdwatching trip today out of Kiama. Very rough conditions.
131. black browed albotross
132. flesh footed shearwater
133. fluttering shearwater
134. great winged petrel
135. hutton's shearwater
136. pomerine jaeger
137. short tailed shearwater
138. shy albatross
139. sooty shearwater
140. wedge tailed shearwater
141. grey tailed tattler ( back on land )
38. Black-headed gull
39. Great crested grebe
40. Jackdaw
41. European kestrel
42. Little grebe
43. Eurasian collared dove
44. European white stork
Not a regular on this thread but yesterday on an organised walk to Whitford , North Gower , we were treated to a close sighting of a lovely snow bunting . Apparently a few have been wintering here but are not easy to find . Also saw the resident flock of eider ducks ( both sexes , males in breeding plumage ) , some of the wintering brent geese and other regular species .
I was very envious when my sister , who lives at Olette in France in the foothils of the Pyrenees , not far from Perpignan , told me they had seen a wallcreeper feeding in their garden !!
I was very envious when my sister , who lives at Olette in France in the foothils of the Pyrenees , not far from Perpignan , told me they had seen a wallcreeper feeding in their garden !!
Went out Birding again today, this time to Kampinos National Park:
56) Green Woodpecker
57) Common Raven
58) European Crested Tit
59) Northern Goshawk
60) Crested Lark
61) Eurasian Treecreeper (two treecreepers in two days!)
8) Fallow Deer
9) Red Deer
Next major update will be from the Maasai Mara in three weeks
62) Common Kestrel
10) Brown Hare
Two more additions seen from a taxi:
2. European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
3. European Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus
An update, I'm still surprised that I haven't seen a few species (Pied Wagtail for example):
Birds
32. Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus 9.1.2016
33. Canada Goose Branta canadensis 17.1.2016
34. Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto 23.1.2016
35. Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis 24.1.2016
36. Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula 24.1.2016
37. Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus 26.1.2016
A trip to Abberton Reservoir this morning allowed me to add four new birds to the list:
80. Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus
81. Common goosander Mergus merganser
82. Smew Mergellus albellus
83. Eurasian skylark Alauda arvensis
And another walk in my local area featured a fifth new bird for the year:
84. Eurasian bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
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