Thursday, 30 September 2010

NO BADGER CULL

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We must stop this government engaging in yet another damaging BADGER cull. The RSPCA are working flat out to oppose this operation - check o...

Exciting Weather System Approaching the UK

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The Shetland and Orkney islands look set to take a major landfall of both vagrant and more regular passage migrants, whilst the entire East ...

NUTCRACKERS and JAYS in Denmark on 29-30 September

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Rolf Skagen has kindly informed of a minor late September movement of NUTCRACKERS in Denmark (18 birds), along with a massive arrival of Ja...
Monday, 27 September 2010

410 and increasing daily......

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The total number of species now recorded in Britain and Ireland in 2010 has now increased to 410, with the following additions since my last...

Sound Recordings of Empidonax Flycatchers

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I have been looking at the discussion of the possible Alder Flycatcher in the U.K. I read that a few observers heard it call. Alder Flycatc...

A worn adult ALDER FLYCATCHER in Wisconsin

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For what it's worth, here are a few unedited images of a worn adult Alder Flycatcher I took on my property in far northern Wisconsin, US...

More excellent images of the Blakeney Point Empid on Penny Clarke's website

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Click here http://pennyshotbirdingandlife.blogspot.com/ and scroll down to view. Penny was busy taking photographs of me after I collapsed ...

More Continental MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKERS on the move

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Steven Wytema has informed of a MIDDLE SPOTTED WOODPECKER being seen this weekend at the wadden island of Ameland - the first for the Wadden...

Megas ongoing

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On Blakeney Point (North Norfolk), the North American empidonax flycatcher remains for its third day this morning, favouring the two short ...

Detail on the Empid wing.......

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Alan Lewis's close detail of the Blakeney Point empidonax wing formulae, carefully annotated by Brian Small

A nice take on the Blakeney Point twitch and another great selection of images - taken by Julian Bhalerao

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Click on David Norgate's personal blog http://ruralchill.blogspot.com/ and scroll down

Confusing EMPID....

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Another nice shot of the Blakeney Point empid - taken by Kevin DuRose
Sunday, 26 September 2010

EMPIDONAX FLYCATCHER species in North Norfolk

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Wow, this was some find by outstanding Norfolk birder James McCallum. In an attempt to locate a Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll on Blakeney P...
Thursday, 23 September 2010

A very endearing WRYNECK and a particularly special one being on my home turf.....

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Quite unexpectedly, the Bacomb Hill WRYNECK refused to take advantage of last night's calm weather and relatively clear skies and was s...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010

...And yet another ASIATIC BROWN FLYCATCHER...

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Following on from the SWAINSON'S THRUSH on Fair Isle of last week, today saw more mega's on Shetland today - in the form of the fir...
Monday, 20 September 2010

More Mega's roll in

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Quite unexpectedly, a local MEGA - a North American BOBOLINK - was discovered at Eglwys Nunnydd Reservoir (West Glamorgan) this afternoon, ...
Friday, 17 September 2010

County Cork INDIAN HOUSE CROW - LGRE's first new bird of 2010 and Garry Bagnell's 500th

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The Cobh HOUSE CROW feeding on bacon kind courtesy of Papa John's and roosting on its favoured section of guttering. Garry Bagnell (mid...
Thursday, 16 September 2010

Shame of new coalition government - another round of BADGER culling

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I was warned from certain quarters that this would happen if conservatives got back in power but today I am reeling from the news that the c...
Sunday, 12 September 2010

.......And some more video footage (Cobh HOUSE CROW)

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A second video clip provided by Jim Wilson http://www.youtube.com/user/limosawit which is of better quality than the first.

Cobh INDIAN HOUSE CROW

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The Cobh INDIAN HOUSE CROW photographed today by the finder Jim Wilson. In Holland, where House Crows have been present for over 10 years, t...