Saturday, 30 May 2009

STILT SANDPIPER drops in briefly

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This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert for Saturday 30 May 2009, issued at 2000 hours and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Page...

Valuable Pratincole comment from finder of first Sussex Oriental

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Hello I see on your blog you are asking for views on the Pagham bird I don't normally wade in on identification issues where I have not ...

ORIENTAL PRATINCOLE in WEST SUSSEX - an appraisal

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I believe Chris Batty has been spot-on with his appraisal of how we have looked into this occurrence. We have got so embroiled and concentra...

Tantalising Pratincole shots taken by Richard Ford

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Oriental or Collared Pratincole - showing well at Pagham North Wall Breach Pool on Thursday and Friday This bird could be a first-summer Or...

ORIENTAL PRATINCOLE !!

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Well, the plot is thickening. It has now become clear that first-summer ORIENTAL PRATINCOLE can possess a peripheral whitish trailing edge a...

Fabulous flight shots of the Pagham 'Pratincole'

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See http://www.digitalwildlife.co.uk/birds/CollPrat.htm for a superb set of images taken today of the Pagham Harbour 'pratincole' T...
Friday, 29 May 2009

WESTERN SANDPIPER in SOUTH DEVON

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Nonbreeding plumaged perhaps first-summer Western Sandpiper, Dawlish Warren NNR, South Devon, 28 May 2009 (James Packer) Following up my ear...

COLLARED PRATINCOLE in West Sussex

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Response to Ian Barnard As you know, I enjoyed excellent views of this bird last night, as it was flying back and forth in excellent light ...
Wednesday, 27 May 2009

PAINTED LADY IRRUPTION

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Painted Lady (Mike Duffy) Two weeks ago, Robert Fuge, Joan Thompson, Sue Bryan, Paul Jeffery and I recorded 'unbelievable' numbers o...

Twitchable EUROPEAN POLECATS in South Buckinghamshire

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If anyone is interested, five 'baby' EUROPEAN POLECATS survived from a den this spring and four of those (one sadly died) have been...
Tuesday, 26 May 2009

SQUACCO gets top billing

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Felixstowe's first-summer SQUACCO HERON relocated to Baker's Fen, Wicken (Cambs) on Sunday and was still showing intermittently tod...
Saturday, 23 May 2009

YORKSHIRE hits the big time

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What is presumably Norfolk's COLLARED PRATINCOLE relocating was present at New Swillington Ings' Astley Lake from 1917 hours this e...
Friday, 22 May 2009

Pratincoles rule ok !!

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RECENT IMAGES 1) COLLARED PRATINCOLE, Cley NWT, Norfolk, May 2009 (Mike Lawrence) 2-3) BLACK-WINGED PRATINCOLE, Stodmarsh NNR, Kent, May 200...
Thursday, 21 May 2009

BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD ON FAIR ISLE

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The second BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD for Britain arrived on Fair Isle (Shetland) during a dramatic fall of other Nearctic vagrants (including a S...
Wednesday, 20 May 2009

NEW LEADER AT THE TOP

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With 6 new birds up for grabs in the first 20 days of May 2009 (Pallid Swift, Eastern Bonelli's Warbler, Crested Lark, White-collared Fl...

Total of species has now risen to 350 species

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May 2009 has proved exciting and challenging as some ace quality vagrants have turned up. Since my last update, a further 33 species have oc...
Monday, 4 May 2009

UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert for Monday 4 May

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This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert for Monday 4 May 2009, issued at 2300 hours and published in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers ...

LEE VALLEY PARK SAVI'S WARBLER

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Ian Kendall discovered a reeling male SAVI'S WARBLER in the Lee Valley Park (Hertfordshire/Essex border) late evening on Thursday 30 Ap...

The Lack of respect in British Birding

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Following up on Derek's earlier email about behaviour at twitches and a few consequent responses, I must say that British birding for me...
Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Dungeness CRESTED LARK

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The CRESTED LARK was present until late evening tonight, although may have been disturbed by those still searching for it after it had flow...