Friday, 26 February 2010

First PIED-BILLED GREBE since 2002

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ICELAND and two different RING-BILLED GULLS in Cork today (Ronan MacLaughlin) This drake GARGANEY has wintered in County Cork (Ronan MacLaug...
Tuesday, 23 February 2010

HOOPOE - 251

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Considering the continuing winter weather, it was with great surprise to hear of the first EURASIAN HOOPOES this week, with perhaps two ind...
Monday, 22 February 2010

Shetland TAIGA BEAN GEESE

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Mariko Parslow, who spent many years studying Bean Geese in the Yare Valley and at staging posts along their return route in spring, kindly ...
Sunday, 21 February 2010

GYRFALCON captures IVORY GULL

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See Newfoundland blog - http://peregrineprints.com/ind__WhatsNew.htm
Saturday, 20 February 2010

Wexford BAIKAL TEAL - a new bird

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Killian Mullarney, the finder of this week's Tacumshin Baikal Teal, has kindly summarised a remarkable series of events at Tacumshin thi...
Friday, 19 February 2010

Recent Gallery

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County Galway has celebrated the wintering presence of this adult FORSTER'S TERN and adult RING-BILLED GULL for many years (Sean Nixon) ...

Drake BAIKAL TEAL in Ireland

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In SE IRELAND in County Wexford, the drake BAIKAL TEAL has reappeared, showing well for much of the day in 'Forgotten Corner' at T...

MIDDENDORFF'S-TYPE BEAN GEESE on Shetland

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On Saturday 13 February, Juan Brown obtained an excellent selection of shots of a party of 7 'Bean Geese' that were present at Sandw...

........And yet another GARGANEY

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In addition to the birds in Britain, and the male near Ennis, there was a drake GARGANEY at Carrigrennan, near Little Island, in Cork Harbo...
Wednesday, 17 February 2010

GARGANEY 'reinstated'

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Following my announcement relating to the Dorset drake GARGANEY (now considered to be most likely of captive origin), M.Chase, John McLoughl...
Monday, 15 February 2010

First DUSKY WARBLER of 2010 and first for London

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Local patchworker Lol Boldini located a DUSKY WARBLER in allotments opposite Lockwood Reservoir (London) on Sunday and the bird was still p...
Saturday, 13 February 2010

Winter Quail report

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A 'Quail' has been present at Portland Bill (Dorset) since early January 2010 (John Lucas et al) and after a concerted effort this p...

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This unseasonal drake GARGANEY was present on the River Stour at Shapwick (Dorset) on 10 February and photographed by Peter Coe. With the fi...
Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Week 6 - A review

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An outstanding series of shots taken of the Gigrin Farm BLACK KITE by Gary Thoburn The Kendal first-winter ROSE-COLOURED STARLING (Tristan R...

Derby Cathedral Peregrines night-hunting

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http://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/2010/01/world-first-for-derbys-falcons.html The link above includes a video sequence of a Peregrine catc...
Sunday, 7 February 2010

Another great birding legend bows out - JOHN FORTEY

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JOHN FORTEY was an outstanding birdwatcher and a man I knew over most of my birding career. Much of his life was spent in the Midlands, wher...
Friday, 5 February 2010

Report of SHORT-TOED TREECREEPER in East Kent

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'There was a SHORT-TOED TREECREEPER on Monday and Tuesday (1st & 2nd February) at a sensitive private site in the Dover area. Speci...
Thursday, 4 February 2010

The variability of NORTH AMERICAN THAYER'S GULLS

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Jeff Polken has established a gallery of Thayer's (Thayer's-type) Gulls he has photographed at the following link - http://www.pbase...

COMMON WHITETHROAT trapped in Devon

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For full details and in-hand photographs, browse http://www.devonbirds.org/node/418

Mystery surrounds the death of 13 DEMOISELLE CRANES

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The Forest Department of the Khandesh Nature Conservation Society in Jalgaon are reporting the sudden deaths of no less than 13 DEMOISELLE C...