How birds and brains become mutually exclusive
How birds and brains become mutually exclusive
Wednesday 23 July 2008
How to Ring a bird
Monday 21 July 2008
Mott the Hoopoe
Yesterday I also did some birdwatchering, dipping the RC Pochards at North Cave but finally finding the Little Owl tree and getting distant views. Another North Cave tick in the form of Corn Bunting, singing away was cool. Other birds of note were a kettle of 4 Buzzards of the hills and a juv. Common Tern being fed small Roach at the bottom of the hide I was sat in was quite cool. Less notable were the numpties flushing everything off of reedbed lake by blundering off track past fishing pegs and right in to the middle of the reserve. Nobs.
Off to Egypt (Sharm-el-Sheikh) on Sunday but ringing tomorrow plus gonna try and gets some photos of the Hoopoe in the PM so maybe another post before I go away. We shall see!
Here is some Mott the Hoopoe for your delectation:
Saturday 19 July 2008
Miserable shits
p.s. made a winning debut for Nafferton CC last night and we kncked off 64 for the loss of 3 wickets and I finished on a princely 4*. Lets hope it goes nicely tomorrow!
Tuesday 15 July 2008
Start me up
Monday 14 July 2008
Further Bogeys
- 1 Cetti's Warbler
- 2 Red-crested Pochard
- 3 Twite
- 4 Ring-necked Parakeet
- 5 Hawfinch
- 6 Bean Goose
- =7 Temminck's Stint
- =7 Shore Lark
- 9 Stone Curlew
- =10 Ferruginous Duck
- =10 Cirl Bunting
- =10 Short-toed Lark
- 13 Ring-necked Duck
- =14 Whiskered Tern
- =14 Spannish Sparrow
- =14 Squacco Heron
- =14 Wryneck
- 18 Short-toed Treecreeper
- =19 Black-eared Wheatear
- =19 Short-toed Eagle
- =19 Pomarine Skua
- =19 Collared Pratincole
Well at least I dont have to leave the country for my next WP blocker. Im crap!
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Bogey birds
Nationally
- Cetti's Warbler
- Dartford Warbler
- Red-crested Pochard
- Firecrest
- Hawfinch
- Twite
- Bean Goose
- Ring-necked Parakeet
- Chough
- Black-winged Stilt
- Temminck's Stint
- Great White Egret
- Green-winged Teal
- Ring-necked Duck
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Hoopoe
- Wryneck
- Pomarine Skua
- Spotted Crake
- Ring-billed Gull
This seems to show a few of things, 1) where I live (oop north away from all the 'local' stuff) and 2) that i've only been birding a few years as there are a few fairly basic birds in there, finally 3) I'm lazy and can't be arsed to twitch crap thats too far like the stilts and Great White Egrets that i have seen abroad.
Yorkshire
- 1) Ring-necked Duck
- 2) Icterine Warbler
- 3)=Common Rosefinch
- 3)=Spotted Crake
- 3)=Little Tern
- 6)=Hoopoe
- 6)=Firecrest
- 6)=Pomarine Skua
- 6)=Red-crested Pochard
- 10)=Asian Desert Warbler (What!!!!)
- 10)=Temminck's Stint
- 10)=Shore Lark
- 10)=Dotterel
- 10)=Bean Goose
- 10)=Marsh Warbler
- 16)=Booted Warbler (A bit surprising)
- 16)=Glossy Ibis
- 16)=Richard's Pipit
- 16)=Pallas's Warbler
- 16)=Hume's Warbler
- 16)=Quail
- 16)=Long-tailed Skua
- 16)=Laughing Gull
- 16)=Bluethroat
- 16)=Great White Egret
Most of the weirdness is due to low numbers putting in Yorks lists on Bubo perhaps BUT its worth noting that a lot of the easy national stuff doesn't get anywhere near the top 20 Yorkshire bogeys. And Asian Desert Warbler does which is frankly mental.
Saturday 5 July 2008
Another Shag in Benidorm
Friday 4 July 2008
Honey, i bigged the buzzards!
Wednesday 2 July 2008
The Tops
Here is some reciprocal linkage to the Limestone Birders of Italy and Slovenia with a cracking little website: http://www.freewebs.com/limestonebirding