Just been watching the most stupendous female SNOWY OWL and wow, what a fabulous bird !
Flying, perching on the ground and on fence posts, even made a stab at a cock Pheasant, but I think they decided on a mutual truce! Most likely the one seen by Nic of the Bu on 24 January around the Ouse area. This evening she was in fields near Parkhall about a kilometre east of Furrowend. She flew over my head to roost perhaps at 5.45pm in the direction of the Ouse
There was an AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL and a single Black tailed Godwit at Mill Dam too yesterday (Paul Hollinrake)
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- I have been birding since 1969 but became obsessed with 'twitching' in 1974 and haven't looked back since. Have driven over 1.3 million miles in pursuit of rare birds in the UK, where to date I have recorded 572 species in Britain and Ireland. I also have a fascination for the Birds of the Western Palearctic, where I have currently recorded 859 of the 1,034 species ever recorded. I am widely travelled in North America, as well as in Africa and Asia, and have written at least 29 books on my chosen subject, including best-sellers ''Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds' and 'Rare Birds in Britain 1800-1990'. Established the UK400 Club in 1981 to cater for the most obsessive of the British birding fraternity and now concentrate on online publishing, via the www.uk400clubonline.co.uk website. Record Birding achievements include recording 386 species in Britain & Ireland in 1996 and 627+ in the Western Palearctic in 2008
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