Monday, 30 January 2012

Finnish birdwatcher enjoys himself twitching in UK

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I was very pleased to share some birding time with visiting Finnish birder Matthias at the putative Parrot Crossbill twitch in West Sussex a...

EASTERN and PARROT CROSSBILLS

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David Cooper very kindly sent me this link to a juvenile Eastern Common Crossbill trapped and ringed on Fair Isle in June 2005 See here http...

Winter Weekend Trip to Scotland

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I am putting together a winter trip (long weekend) in early February to witness the spectacular invasion of white-winged gulls and to see th...
Sunday, 29 January 2012

Apparent female PARROT CROSSBILL present for at least 4th day in West Sussex

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David Cooper managed to obtain an interesting selection of shots of the female-type putative PARROT CROSSBILL at Black Down today and these ...

Walking from Land's End to John O'Groats for Butterfly Conservation

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Seth Gibson and I are walking from Land's End to John O' Groats for our honeymoon after our wedding in May this year. It is going to...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

KUMLIEN'S & THAYER'S GULLS

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Anticipating the usual flood of Kumlien's-like gulls in the west and Thayer's-like gulls in the east, I've put together a propos...

NORTH AMERICAN WOOD DUCK in COUNTY DONEGAL

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Just heard this, thought it may be of interest to the list.An injured male American Wood Duck has been seen near the RNLI Lifeboat Station, ...
Monday, 23 January 2012

Arctic gull is latest addition to Year List

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An adult winter-plumaged ROSS'S GULL in Ardglass Harbour, County Down, represents the 251st species to be recorded in Britain and Irela...

193 species in one week - Winter Birding in the UK

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A total of 193 species was recorded on my Round Britain tour of last week with a mouth-watering list of species recorded, a whopping 14 spec...

Springwatch MALTA 2012

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Birdlife Malta have released the dates for Spring Watch 2012 conservation camp in Malta and have a promotional video on YouTube at: http://...
Wednesday, 11 January 2012

SPANISH SPARROW on TV

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see link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-16515456

SPANISH SPARROWING

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A total of 82 birdwatchers gathered from dawn at Calshot this morning, gradually swelling to just 110 by mid-morning - a far smaller turnout...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Calshot SPANISH SPARROW directions

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Frustratingly, prior to full arrangements being made with the residents, the location of the Calshot SPANISH SPARROW has been released and b...

The Calshot SPANISH SPARROW

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See more images of this stowaway 'chirper' at - http://watcheroftheskies1.blogspot.com/2012/01/spanish-sparrow.html About 70 birders...
Monday, 9 January 2012

Those rares just keep on coming for 2011

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Well with 2011 now nine days hence, a plethora of mega-rares from Hampshire has seen that year's list total rise from 452 to 455...........
Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Exminster Marshes LONG-EARED OWL is unnecessarily harassed by photographers

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Sadly, news of a roosting LONG-EARED OWL was broadcast on an assortment of news services which in turn attracted an element of undesirables ...
Monday, 2 January 2012

A New Year.............

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Well with two days into 2012, a total of 235 species has been recorded in Britain and Ireland with numerous long-staying vagrants keeping Ne...

DARK-EYED JUNCO in the New Forest

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On Boxing Day 2011, non-birdwatchers noticed and photographed an odd 'chaffinch' feeding with other birds in the car parking area of...
Friday, 30 December 2011

Brian Unwin loses long battle against cancer - he sadly passed away last night

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Throughout the 1980's and 1990's, Brian Unwin was a keen writer for the Press Association and was always keen to get as many stories...
Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Rare Birds over the Festive Period

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There has been very little change in recent weeks with many birds now firmly established win winter territories........... We have two winte...