Thursday, 31 May 2012

WESTERN ORPHEAN WARBLER in Cleveland - 31 years since the last !

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A fabulous European Roller at Spurn (Martin Garner http://www.birdingfrontiers.co.uk/ White-collared Flycatcher at Tory ...

LGRE is back

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Finally back from my recent trips including the hugely successful Round Britain tour..... This May trip recorded 189 species, surprisingl...

WESTERN ORPHEAN WARBLER trapped and ringed in CLEVELAND

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Click here for video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9zFqsOrevdc The first ORPHEAN WARBLER to be recorded in ...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Join me in TURKEY from 20-26 June 2012

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I am visiting Turkey from 20-26 June this summer, mainly with the purpose of seeing the BROWN FISH OWLS near Side, but also visiting Akseki,...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Cold and wet spring proving disastrous for our resident and migrant breeding birds

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This family of COMMON TREECREEPERS were huddled up this weekend at Minsmere Reserve (Suffolk) in the hope of keeping warm (Sally Douglas). ...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Total reaches 350 species....

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As of today, the total number of species recorded in Britain and Ireland in 2012 has risen to 350...... With the majority of summer migra...
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...