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Monday, 29 October 2012

Over the weekend

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A much better weekend for vis with good numbers of Fieldfare 1487,Redwing 1941,Woodpigeon 974,Chaffinch 54,Greenfinch 20 and Starlings movi...
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Monday, 22 October 2012

Last week

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A poor week with no big arrivals of Thrush's and not many woodpigeons despite perfect conditions.On wednesday a very frustrating large  ...
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Monday, 15 October 2012

Over the weekend

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A great weekend for vis -mig started with a record count of 17 Jays south on sat morning.A brilliant skein of 650+ Pink feet with pure blue ...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Motorway Birding

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A quick trip to Scotland today produced some good motorway birding 800 Pink footed goose s/e 500  Pink footed goose... east 12 Whooper sw...
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Monday, 8 October 2012

Recent sightings

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The last of the swallows have just about gone and the first of the winter Thrush's have started to trickle in should be a big influx of ...
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Thursday, 20 September 2012

Same place,

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2 skylark,3 Swallow and 2  meadow Pipit what a difference a day makes
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Swallow Spectacular

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From first light Swallows poured through Northowram today ,large groups of 30+ and others skimmimg a foot above the ground,also meadow pipit...
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Sunday, 16 September 2012

This is great

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All hail the Newton Stringer......... http://literateherringthisway.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/gyr-crakes.html
Thursday, 13 September 2012

Thursday vis

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A good morning started with a steady flow of mips and swallows,the highlights being my first Raven for ages and a Great spotted Woodpecker f...
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Wednesday, 12 September 2012

A bit of spare time

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time to sort through the hoards of photos from this year,Snipe,Common Sandpiper and white fronted geese

Grim

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28 Swallows s/w 7 Meadow pipit s/w 1 LBBGull   east 8 Starling west 1 Linnet and 3Goldfinch
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Northowram

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A great morning started with 25 Golfinch feeding on ragwort(??),a couple of linnets flew over and a steady stream of Mipits and swallows sou...
Monday, 10 September 2012

Walsden

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Around Walsden village 87 mipits s/w 54 Swallows s/w 2 reed buntings s/w 1 Willow warbler blogging 2 raven south 3 Kestrels hunting on...
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Sunday, 9 September 2012

Weekend Vis

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2 Swift sat afternoon with 3 Swallows s/w 1 Tree Pipit fist light on sunday due south 6 Sand Martin west at 12ish on Sunday 25 Mipits s/w...
Thursday, 6 September 2012

Erringden suprise

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Thick fog first thing put visibility down  to 50 feet,but mipits and swallows were herd and seen coming out of the fog.5 House Martin...
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Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Withens Clough.and Northowram

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4 stonechat ( 2 adults and 2 Juvs) ,3 House martin,15 swallows,1 Shelduck ,1 wheatear(which I still havent sorted out)and a female redstart....
Sunday, 2 September 2012

Little Egret and busy a Sunday

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Up at 6.00 to empty the moth trapd a Campion and Yellow shell were good records for the time of year also the first migrant silver Y of the ...
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Friday, 31 August 2012

What a fall

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Should I go and see the marsh harrier at walshaw dean or go and find something else I thought when Id finished work today.Well I opted for t...
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Thursday, 30 August 2012

Blackshaw Head

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A real morning to be out after the initial downpour,the first birds were a large group of 56 Swallows heading n/e soon followed by smal...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Booth to Midgley

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Hundreds of swallows on the move this morning s/w and continued most of the day,at least 700+ , small groups of House martins also with a 2 ...
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Monday, 20 August 2012

ADULT MALE Common Scoter found dead at Batings

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Mallorca by JCC

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Mallorca JCC
Sunday, 19 August 2012

3 from mallorca

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All Taken by Damian Cockroft aged 9....
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Saturday, 18 August 2012

Good to be back (BLACK REDSTART)

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What a week after finding 5  icelandic Black tailed Godwits at Ringstone on the 25th July then 2 weeks in mallorca,I came back and found spo...
Monday, 13 August 2012

Mallorcan Vis S Albufera marsh

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Thee is an osprey in this pic somewhere............................ After a large storm on the 9th i decided to see if anything was o...
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Sunday, 12 August 2012

Mallorca

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2 weeks on the island of mallorca was brilliant,,info to follow......
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Blackmoorfoot reservoir and surrounds.

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1 female common Scoter was a nice suprise along with 1 GCGrebe,50+ Swifts,20 House martin ,11 swallows,175 Lapwing , 2 oycks,2 Curlew, 25 LB...
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Thursday, 12 July 2012

Yorkshire Specialities

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The best place in Yorkshire to see these two species is Hardcastle Craggs,Top pic Beautiful Snout and bottom pic Devon Carpet.They have...
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Hobby - tastic

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Watched an adult Hobby today in  wessenden valley,ive  seen a few locally but this was a jem ,classic adult (prob female due to large size?)...
Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Cupwith Res area/Marsden Moor early July

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These are max numbers seen over the last week / 10 days and vis also Twite   5 Ringed plover 4 n/w Grey Wag 1 blogging Reed Bunting 11...