Monday, 1 October 2012
OOC
Half decent birds seen in Shetland on Sat & Sun and Fair Isle today: Isabeline Shrike, Olive-backed, Richards, Buff-bellied and Pechora Pipits, Blyth's Reed, Paddyfield and plenty of Yellow-browed Warblers, Sibe' Stonechat, Bluethroat, Common Rosefinch, Little Bunting, Spotted Sand' and Surf Scoter. Amazing views of everything too. It makes me homesick....
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And a brilliant chance of a spectacular aurora tonight too you lucky Bs!
Sounds like a list of birds straight from Volume I of The Birds of Rhmney Great Dwarf (2012).
Don't fret Rich, the equally impressive but as yet undescribed 'Aurora wharfalis' is clearly visible on clear nights from certain coastal localities east of Cardiff! Photographic evidence lacking of this mythical sight still required to allay the sceptics. Can you help?
And in addition to the previous post I can now add Lanceolated and Arctic Warblers. Where's the chuffing PG Tips though....
And in addition to the previous post I can now add Lanceolated and Arctic Warblers. Where's the chuffing PG Tips though....
And in addition to the previous post I can now add Lanceolated and Arctic Warblers. Where's the chuffing PG Tips though....
Ah, P G Tips, the best bird I ever saw!!!
I have a similar feeling about Gyr Falcon....tell me, did you see that one?
Patience is a virtue Seymour, chin up, the goodie may just be whaft of an easterly away!
Don`t twitch escapes! saw a lovely Barn Owl in a shed this morning!
Don`t need Gyr anyway!
Seen Gyrs thanks Randy but would love to see more, specially on the 'Great Wharf, if that can be arranged. Ps. Dave thinks you're a "Self-righteous, bigoted, alcoholic, sexually confused (at best) silly little boy. Fightin' talk I'd say - I'll pay for your flight up to watch that battle of the queens!
I know 'Runner - I'll be wading them ditches tomorrow for sure!
PG Tips trapped and ringed on Fair Isle today ! Will the local one be in Glamorgan or Gwent ?
on offer in Iceland today plus 50 % free - hurry, may go anytime soon !! (get the kettle on)
So there we go; I take the group up to the northern end of the island and some bugger goes and finds the PG Tips in the garden of the house I'm staying in (in the south) an hour after I kicked through it! Lucked out though as the Obs bus was passing as we arrived back on the road so grabbed a lift. Scope filling views in the field before they trapped it. My group have seen all this in 4 days - it only took me 26 years!!
Nice one ! They all come to those who wait!
There you are Seymour, all that sulking yesterday, and finally things turn out okay. Everything from now is a bonus. Perhaps you might want to think about looking to the west for the next biggy, things are hotting up in the Atlantic...could be the Yanks are coming! Good luck, mate.
Hope springs eternal 'Runner!
Hope its not another sapsucker !
you're in a very small minority Maurice.One on the Wharfe or maybe on private land never to be seen,witnessed or photographed by anyone else.
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