Saturday, 31 July 2010

GREY-HEADED SWAMPHEN in Clwyd

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The Ballycastle LAUGHING GULL (Derek Charles) What a delightful bird - a very fresh juvenile WHISKERED TERN on Teesmouth (Mark Newsome) A pr...
Thursday, 29 July 2010

PALLAS'S SANDGROUSE in EASTERN FINLAND

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Pallas's Sandgrouse in Eastern Finland on 28 July 2010 (Pekka Komi) Following irruptive numbers in Kazakhstan and further west in June, ...

Edinburgh House Crow - most likely odd variant corvid

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More images have come to light of Saturday's Edinburgh City corvid and it now appears to be some weird juvenile variant rather than a Ho...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Breeding GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS in SPAIN

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A range extension of GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL that I was unaware of in Galicia Region.......... It's Cosme Damián Romai, from Galicia (NW...

Apparent HOUSE CROW in Edinburgh

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What appears to be an INDIAN HOUSE CROW was photographed in an Edinburgh (Lothian) garden this past weekend (see attached photo). The locati...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Young KING EIDER now reaches Norfolk coast

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The immature drake KING EIDER that was first seen by Brett Richards flying past Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire, and later relocated with m...
Monday, 26 July 2010

COOK'S PETRELS galore and this autumn's pelagic trip itinerary from CALIFORNIA

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Howdy, Seabirders, Stop the presses! Astounding offshore reports from Peter Pyle and Abe Borker who have been surveying seabirds at the Dav...
Friday, 23 July 2010

Petrel bonus in fresh NNW winds off North Norfolk coast

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The adult summer FRANKLIN'S GULL remained at Chasewater (Staffs) for just under a week (top image, photographed by Steve Nuttall) but di...
Tuesday, 20 July 2010

GREAT BLACK-BACKED and KELP (CAPE) GULLS at Kniffiss Lagoon, Southern Morocco

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See Discussion here - http://surfbirds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7147 Josh Jones has proven beyond doubt that both GREAT BLACK-BACKED and K...
Monday, 19 July 2010

EAGLE OWL success in Tyneside

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After the sad demise of one of the Lancashire pairs of EURASIAN EAGLE OWLS , it is encouraging to report that another pair which nested on t...

Seawatch Southwest - YELKOUAN SHEARWATERS

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Once again, Seawatch Southwest are partaking in daily seawatches from Gwennap Head, Porthgwarra, West Cornwall, for the fourth year in succe...

Mega July seawatch for SW IRELAND - MADEIRAN PETREL

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On Sunday 18 July, weather conditions were just right to cash in on a bonanza seawatch from headlands in the southwest of IRELAND and Galley...
Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Tally for year increases to 373 species

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The total number of species now recorded in Britain and Ireland in 2010 has now climbed to 373 species, thanks to four new additions in the ...

Midsummer Review

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The first twitchable LAUGHING GULL of the year, captured brilliantly on film by Derek Charles, and the bird of the summer - WHITE-TAILED PLO...

The Lundy 'LITTLE SHEARWATER' - Sound Recording summary

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http://gwentbirding.blogspot.com/2010/07/full-text.html

Reprieve for Welsh BADGERS for now

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Pembrokeshire badger cull halted after appeal - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/wales_politics/10612240.stm A controversial cull of aro...

Rare plover has a taste for rare Medicinal Leeches

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The WHITE-TAILED PLOVER remains at Dungeness ARC Pit this morning, where it continues to feed on the endangered Medicinal Leech. Andrew Law...
Monday, 12 July 2010

WHITE-TAILED PLOVER now in EAST KENT

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The wide-ranging WHITE-TAILED PLOVER is now present in East Kent. It arrived there from its last haunt at Slimbridge WWT (Gloucs) during ye...
Saturday, 10 July 2010

LITTLE BITTERNS breeding in Somerset

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On Tuesday 6 July 2010, I visited Ham Wall RSPB (Somerset) early morning. David Bradnum and Jonathan Lethbridge had very kindly provided me ...
Friday, 9 July 2010

WHITE-TAILED PLOVER reappears

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Today's Images: WHITE-TAILED PLOVER at Rainham RSPB (Matthew Deans), the male LITTLE BITTERN at Walton Heath (Jonathan Lethbridge) and L...