Friday, 30 September 2011

Record-breaking late September temperatures

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Temperatures in the south of Britain today reached a sweltering 82 degrees f - the hottest end of September temperatures since records began...
Thursday, 29 September 2011

Aberdeenshire SANDHILL CRANE is on the move southwards..........

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Adult Sandhill Crane, Strathbeg RSPB, Aberdeenshire, September 2011 (Ron Marshall) The adult SANDHILL CRANE that spent much of last week in...
Tuesday, 27 September 2011

And a LEAST SANDPIPER in close-up

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See http://www.nature-shetland.co.uk/naturelatest/pics11/Larry-Dalziel-IMG_5669-ss1.jpg This juvenile has now been present on Foula (Shetlan...

RED-EYED VIREO on Barra

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John Bell obtained this image at Breivig on Barra as the bird was trapped and ringed

LEAST SANDPIPER in KERRY - an interesting individual (by CIARAN CRONIN)

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I need to learn a bit more about these guys, and have no experience of either lLEAST SANDPIPER or LONG-TOED STINT. While I'm pretty happ...

Southerly winds set for the week.........

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This week is said to be dominated by warm southerly winds - in fact hinting at ''Indian Summer'' conditions, with temperatur...

BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS at Tacumshin - Killian makes it 26 !!

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Having spent a good part of yesterday birding at Tacumshin I was surprised by the apparent absence of Buff-breasts at any of the spots they ...
Sunday, 25 September 2011

BUFF-BREAST gathering breaks new record

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Although Tacumshane Lake in County Wexford, SE Ireland, is undoubtedly one of the best birding sites in Britain and Ireland, mainly because ...
Saturday, 24 September 2011

Digitalwildlife.co.uk - Superb images by RICHARD FORD

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The Burpham juvenile PALLID HARRIER - see much more of Richard Ford's excellent work at www.Digitalwildlife.co.uk

The Year of the PALLID HARRIER

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......And the most watched and photographed of them all - the juvenile in the Burpham area of West Sussex (Richard Ford) The juvenile that s...

Grafham Water's Double-Bill

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Mike Lawrence was able to savour the delights of both the adult SABINE'S GULL and first-winter GREY PHALAROPE as they fed literally just...

WEST CORNWALL did well too

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Penwith birder BRIAN FIELD managed these beautiful images of Drift Reservoir's recent juvenile SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER and LESSER YELLOWL...

The Star of the Scilly show - bah humbug !

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Ashley Powell captured the Lower Moors first-winter female BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER in bright sunlight.......shame it did such a premature d...

Scilly's Purple Patch

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Robin Mawer has been kept busy during the past week photographing rarity after rarity as it appeared on St Mary's - the Newford Duck Pon...

Pennington BAIRD'S SANDPIPER

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The recent juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER on the Fishtail Lagoon at Pennington Marshes in Hampshire (Simon Knight)

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This very confiding juvenile AMERICAN BLACK TERN was still present at Covenham Reservoir today - this species becoming virtually annual in ...

Nearctic beach plover lay undetected in West Ireland

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Dan Brown and other members of the so-called ''Punkbirder'' crew fully clinched the identification of a juvenile SEMIPALMATE...

AZOREAN ATLANTIC-TYPE GULL at Stewartby Lake

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Martin Palmer obtained these flight record images of the Stewartby Lake bird on Thursday evening. The bird did not appear in the roost this ...

AZOREAN ATLANTIC GULLS - a gallery of November adults

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Richard Bonser has very kindly emailed me these images taken of adult AZOREAN ATLANTIC GULLS in the Azorean archipelago in November. These ...