Just returned from another extremely successful Scottish trip. Although pretty gruelling, with a total of 1,715 miles covered, species encountered included the fabulous drake HARLEQUIN DUCK on the Outer Hebrides, thousands of wintering geese including 2 SNOW GEESE and a single SMALL CANADA, lots of raptors including some spectacular WHITE-TAILED SEA EAGLES, GOLDEN EAGLES, MERLIN, Peregrine and Hen Harrier, 70 TWITE, Corn Buntings, a cracking juvenile GLAUCOUS GULL on a Seal carcass, numerous Common Ravens and some nice breeding-plumaged Black Guillemots.
Elsewhere, we enjoyed fabulous views of ermine PTARMIGAN, fed an adult RING-BILLED GULL, came face-to-face with CAPERCAILLIES, attracted Coal and CRESTED TITS to peanut butter and watched 6 cock BLACK GROUSE feeding in stubble.
Finished off with drake KING EIDER and record-staying DESERT WHEATEAR and Tree Sparrows
Fantastic and most memorable trip
Have added one more space to my forthcoming ROUND BRITAIN TOUR of 25 May to 2 June 2013 if anybody is interested - email me on LGREUK400@aol.com for details
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About Me
- Lee G R Evans
- Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
- 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 588 species in Britain and Ireland. I also have a fascination for the Birds of the Western Palearctic, where I have currently recorded 880 of the 1,064 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