Thursday 29 December 2011
Welney WWT - 29.12.11
Catch Up
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Xmas Comes Early - 13.12.11
Monday 5 December 2011
Cassiobury Park - 5.12.11
Rainham Marshes - 3.12.11
Thursday 1 December 2011
Cassiobury Park - 1.12.11
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Strike It Lucky - 30.11.11
Cassiobury Park - 29.11.11
Monday 28 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 28.11.11
Saturday 26 November 2011
Kent - 26.11.11
Cassiobury Park - 25.11.11
Thursday 24 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 24.11.11
And before I forget I must say a big hello to the Central London RSPB group who paid a visit today. The managed to add the Little Egret and a few Siskins to the days list. Hope to see you again soon?!
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Irony!
Cassiobury Park - 23.11.11
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 22.11.11
Monday 21 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 21.11.11
Quick Roundup
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 16.11.11
600th Post! - 15.11.11
Monday 14 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 14.11.11
Sunday 13 November 2011
Wilstone Reservoir - 13.11.11
Saturday 12 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 11.11.11
Thursday 10 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 10.11.11
Cassiobury Park - 9.11.11
Monday 7 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 7.11.11
The Weekend - 5-6.11.11
Sunday dawned while I was at work! 6.am start in Cassiobury Park tidying up after the fireworks display. Very few birding highlights in the 8 hours I was there with flyover Siskins and RN Parakeets. But on the plus side I did manage to find £10.17p that people had dropped in the dark!! That and being on double time too!
Friday 4 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 4.11.11
Cassiobury Park - 3.11.11
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Cassiobury Park - 2.11.11
Cassiobury Park - 1.11.11
Cassiobury Park - 31.10.11
Sunday 30 October 2011
Eastern Crowned Warbler - 30.10.11
Anyway, I recieved a call telling me that the ringers had trapped a Yellow-Browed Warbler which would have been the 5th for the county, but it's my weekend with my "birds are boring" 8 year old son and the in-laws had arrived from Kent so I had no chance to go straight away. Then just after noon the MEGA alert went off and to my amazement it read Mega - Herts - Eastern Crowned Warbler at Hilfield Res!! I eventually arrived on site at 3.30pm and wandered up the West side of the res. But the bird (as yet) wasn't seen again. All I noted in the hour I was there was 3 Goldcrest, Fieldfare and a single phyllosc warbler that flew past but wasn't seen again before dark. Fingers crossed it's still there tomorrow.
Autumnwatch - 28.10.11
Cassiobury Park - 28.10.11
Thursday 27 October 2011
Cassiobury Park - 27.10.11
Cassiobury Park - 26.10.11
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Cassiobury Park - 25.10.11
Monday 24 October 2011
Cassiobury Park - 24.10.11
Thursday 20 October 2011
Cassiobury Park - 20.10.11
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Cassiobury Park - 19.10.11
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Cassiobury Park - 18.10.11
Cassiobury Park - 17.10.11
Sunday 16 October 2011
Getting The Boot In - 16.10.11
Friday 14 October 2011
Back Garden Vismigging - 14.10.11
351 Redwing
7 Mistle Thrush
2 Siskin
2 Lesser Redpoll
32 Greenfinch
21 Goldfinch
2 Linnet
Coal Tit
Then I went back out at 9am to hang the washing out and in the time it took me to do that I noted-
1 Fieldfare
18 Redwing
1 Linnet
1 Lesser Redpoll
2 Skylark
So not too bad and I probably missed other stuff before I got outside.
Thursday 13 October 2011
Back To Reality - 13.10.11
Sunday 9 October 2011
Scillies + Cornwall - 8.10.11
Hopefully you won't fall asleep reading my weeks worth of sightings and it's probably best to scroll down to the 1st entry so you can read it in order! The only downers of the week were the news of the Sandhill Crane in Suffolk flying off 2 days before we left and the Upland Sandpiper being found when we were 1 hour from home!
Scillies 7.10.11
Scillies - 6.10.11
Scillies - 5.10.11
Scillies - 4.10.11
Scillies - 3.10.11
Scillies - 1+2.10.11
The Northern Waterthrush, Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, Black Kite (about a mile away!) amd my Pied Flycatcher.
After a long wander going past Lower Moors we stopped off at Porthloo beach where eventually we saw the Common Rosefinch but only as it flew off! While waiting in the hope it'd return someone shouted Wryneck! No sooner as i'd got on it it flew off to the far end of the beach but then showed well on the rocks and cliff face.
Even though it was stupidly hot for October we then walked all the way around the garrison! Pretty much nothing was found apart form my 4th Clouded Yellow of the day but as we approached the pine belt I noticed a bird behaving like a flycatcher. I got the scope on it and it was indeed a flycatcher but not spotted as i'd expected but my first Pied Flycatcher of the year! A 1st winter Mediterranean Gull flew past the Star Castle hotel at the end of the walk. We got back to the room and took off our boots and both sighed with relief!
Friday 30 September 2011
Cassiobuiry Park - 30.9.11
I'm off to the Isles of Scilly tomorrow for a week so unless I can get good internet connection down there there will be no update until I get home when hopefully i'll be telling you all about the MEGA birds that i've seen (unlikely tho!)
Thursday 29 September 2011
Cassiobury Park - 29.9.11
Cassiobury Park - 28.9.11
Saturday 24 September 2011
Back Garden - 24.9.11
Cassiobury Park - 23.9.11
Cassiobury Park - 22.9.11
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Cassiobury park - 21.9.11
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Cassiobury Park - 20.9.11
Monday 19 September 2011
Cassiobury Park - 19.9.11
Meanwhile i'm counting down the days until i'm on holiday and a week in the Isles of Scilly where currently there are 3 Yankee lifers! Will they still be there? Probably not :(
Sunday 18 September 2011
Armchair Tick - 18.9.11
Friday 16 September 2011
Vismigging - 16.9.11
Thursday 15 September 2011
Cassiobury Park - 15.9.11
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Osprey! - 14.9.11
Mmmmmm I can smell the lamb cooking!!
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Cassiobury Park - 13.9.11
Monday 12 September 2011
Cassiobury Park - 12.9.11
This evening I thought i'd try my luck at finding a wind blown strafe at Hilfield Reservoir but as expected there were no Grey Phalarope or Sabine's Gull. A Common Sandpiper, c.40 Yellowhammers and around 50 Sand Martins were as good as it got!
Friday 9 September 2011
Happy Birthday Dear Pager!! - 9.9.11
Birdwise today in Cassiobury Park saw 2 juv Pied Wagtails enjoying the paddling pools, 2 late House Martins and a Kingfisher was heard near the waterfall.
Wednesday 7 September 2011
22 Years - 7.9.11
Monday 5 September 2011
The Bumbling Bears
Back To Work - 5.9.11
Sunday 4 September 2011
Not A Lot - 3.9.11
Back To Norfolk - 2.9.11
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Hilfield Reservoir - 30.8.11
Monday 29 August 2011
The Journey Home - 29.8.11
UPDATE - As I was packing the car this morning back up in Hemsby I heard an unfamiliar call so unfamiliar that I couldn't even put it to species!! It was a dysillabic call similar to Pied Wagtail but deeper and harsher. I desperately looked for what was making the call when suddenly 2 terns flew NE over the caravan site. I know the calls of the usual terns that i'd expect to see/hear around there (Little, Common, Sandwich and even Arctic) but it wasn't a call i'd put to any of them. So just now i've been checking out tern calls on xeno-canto (a great online bird call library) and the only one I can find that matches the call I heard was that of Roseate Tern!! I certainly wasn't expecting that this morning!! Only my 2nd and 3rd in the UK.
Cley NWT - 28.8.11
Up To Norfolk - 27.8.11
Friday 26 August 2011
Oh My God-wit - 26.8.11
Thursday 25 August 2011
Cassiobury Park - 25.8.11
Cassiobury Park - 24.8.11
Monday 22 August 2011
Cassiobury Park - 22.8.11
Leavsden CP - 21.8.11
Saturday 20 August 2011
Stockers - 20.8 .11
Thursday 18 August 2011
Cassiobury Park - 18.8.11
Monday 15 August 2011
Cassiobury Park - 15.8.11
This evening I paid a visit to Tyttenhanger GP's as 2 Wood Sandpipers had been reported there. Unfortunately no sign of them nor the 2 juv Mediterranean Gulls but there were 2 Green Sandpipers present.