Monday, 30 April 2012

ATLAS PIED FLYCATCHER trapped and ringed this evening

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A male ATLAS PIED FLY near Ifrane in Morocco late April (Peter Adriaens) and the Flamborough flycatcher in the hand (Andy Hood) T...

UK mega: apparent ATLAS PIED FLYCATCHER in East Yorkshire

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On 28 April, an apparent ATLAS PIED FLYCATCHER was photographed by Brett Richards at Flamborough Head (East Yorkshire) constituti...
Friday, 27 April 2012

More on IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFFS

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I have received a very long essay from my friend and expert Spanish birder Dani Velascuo Lopez. He knows Iberian Chiffchaffs very well and h...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Dutch ringed SNOW GOOSE on ORKNEY

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SNOW GOOSE details have come back for those of you who are interested in the origins of visitors to our shores (wild or feral)! The Snow Goo...
Monday, 23 April 2012

''Not so'' Iberian Chiffchaffs in West Sussex and Cambs

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Stuart Elsom obtained these excellent shots of the bird above and had already queried its identification locally. I took the troub...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Always smiling

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Alan Amery (pictured centre) with Ray Archer and others at Weir Wood Reservoir last August after twitching the Long-toed Stint there. Always...

Topsy-turvy weather conditions

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The male BLACK-WINGED STILT that was initially seen in Oxfordshire and then at Rutland Water (Leics) for one day has eventually settled in L...

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Lee, Many thanks for posting the very sad news. As you so rightly said, Alan was one of life's real gentleman. I remember on my first vi...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

ALAN AMERY - a true birding gent

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Christine phoned me with this devastating news last night. Alan & Christine joined me on a number of birdwatching tours all over the wor...

Incredulous devastating news - ALAN AMERY has died

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It is with great sadness that I have to report the really devastating news that ALAN AMERY of Derbyshire (and more latterly of East Yorkshir...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012

History of the Thayer's Gull

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http://www.ofo.ca/reportsandarticles/thayer.php
Tuesday, 10 April 2012

The North Lincolnshire ''Thayer's Gull''

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Graham Catley has done exceptionally well in obtaining a large selection of photographs of the juvenile High Arctic gull in his region, many...
Monday, 9 April 2012

A typical juvenile THAYER'S GULL

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With another Thayer's Gull lookalike recently in the UK (this time in North Lincolnshire), Steve Mlodinow has very kindly sent me a phot...

Stranded FULMARS

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Following some strong NE winds and a belt of heavy snow in the north of England and Scotland on Thursday 05 April, at least 5 NORTHERN FULMA...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Through the 300 barrier..........

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Before we have even got to the end of March, the record-breaking temperatures and light SE winds have ensured the total number of species re...
Tuesday, 27 March 2012

RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL in Ireland

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A RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL spent all day yesterday at Galley Head in County Cork - the first ever twitchable bird in Ireland. It was discovered ...
Monday, 26 March 2012

The first BAILLON'S CRAKE in Ireland since the 18th Century !

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Photographer Derek Charles was among just 30 lucky twitchers that savoured this charming tiny crake on Sunday, showing down to just a few ya...

'Higgo' finds a SCOPS OWL

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Bird finder extraodinaire John Higginson stumbled upon a SCOPS OWL at Porthellick, SCILLY, just as it was getting dark last night, after he ...
Saturday, 24 March 2012

BAILLON'S CRAKE in County Wexford, IRELAND

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Temperatures reached 72 degrees fahrenheit in southern England today, whilst a SE wind bathed most of the coastline. With exceptionally earl...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

HOODED MERGANSER identification and review of British/Irish records

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Have finally finished with the Hooded Merganser file and have updated this species' status in Britain and Ireland, detailing those recor...