Always a bit distant but the GWE flew high above Hardcastle Crags over Blake Dean , Walsahaw Plantation , Widdop and then flew into Lancs....yay..............
Monday 26 September 2022
Great White Egret
Always a bit distant but the GWE flew high above Hardcastle Crags over Blake Dean , Walsahaw Plantation , Widdop and then flew into Lancs....yay..............
Sunday 25 September 2022
Moths.
An excellent week trapping at home with all the usual September moths , Lunar Underwing are the most common moth at the moment and still plenty LYU's about. I always think it getting into winter when you get your first Blairs Shoulder Knot and had a few this week...Frosted Orange , Brown Spot Pinion , Pink Barred and Barred Sallows , Autumn Green and Red Green Carpets and a few Snouts hanging on in there.....On the moors there is a massive number of Fox Moths, they seem to be on most patches of flowering heather.....a count of 107 on one large area was outstanding to see....
Wednesday 21 September 2022
American Gulls.....
2nd Winter Heemann's Gull
Juv Western
Tuesday 20 September 2022
New York and San Francisco
Not a birding trip but a great couple of days dedicated to birding , one in Central Park New York and 1 day in the San Francisco bay area ( the Botanical Gardens are fantastic). Heermann's Gull , Pygmy Nuthatch , Stellers Jay , Long billed Curlew and Black Turnstone were outstanding.....
Ladder Backed Woodpecker etc
San Francisco Birds
Pied Billed Grebe x 1...Botanical Gardens
American White Pelican x 4 ..Crissy fields
Brown Pelican x 2000 + common seen all the time flying over and around the bay
Double Crested Cormorant x 400 + common
Pelagic Cormorant x 10 +
Brandt's Cormorant x 200 + common around the bay
Great White Egret x 11 together at Crissy fields
Great Blue Heron x 20 + common
Black Crowned Night Heron x common
Yellow Crowned Night Heron x 1
Surf Scoter x 10
Red Tailed Hawk x common
Turkey Vulture x 8
American Coot x 1 Botanical Gardens
Killdeer x 10 together at Crissy fields and 2 flyovers
Black Oystercatcher x 2
Marbled Godwit x 8 Crissy fields
Long billed Curlew x 1 Crissy fields
Black Turnstone x 2
Western Gull x Common
Mew Gull x 1 Crissy Fields
Heermann's Gull x 6
California Gull x 25 Crissy fields
Ring Billed Gull x 4 Crissy fields
Elegant tern x 300 + common in the bay area
Caspian Tern x 10 +
Pigeon Guillemot x 20
Common Mure x 10
Mourning Dove x common
Anna's Hummingbird x common
Acorn Woodpecker x 2
Ladder Backed Woodpecker x 1 Botanical Gardens
Western Wood Pewee x 1
Black Phoebe x 8
Steller's jay x 2
Western Scrub Jay x 6
Common Raven x common
American Crow x common
Chestnut - backed Chickadee x 2 Botanical Gardens
Bushtit x 6 Botanical Gardens
Pygmy Nuthatch x 14 Botanical Gardens
House Wren x 1 Botanical GArdens
Winter wren x 4
Western Bluebird x 6
American Robin x 20
Orange Crowned Warbler x 2 Botanical gardens
Townsend's Warbler x 4 Botanical Gardens
California Towhee x 8
White Crowned Sparrow x common
Song Sparrow x common
Oregon Dark eyed Junco x common
Brown headed Cowbird x common
Tricolored Blackbird x 2
Brewer's Blackbird x common
House Finch x 10
Lesser Goldfinch x 10
Butterfly's
New York
American Painted Lady x 1
Monarch x 30
Question Mark x 1
LArge White x 10
San Francisco
West Coast Lady x 3
Painted Lady x 2
Common Buckeye x 1
Anise Swallowtail x 1
Western Tiger Swallowtail x 1
Fiery Skipper x 40 +
Monarch x 15 +
Umber Skipper x 10
Red Admiral x 3
Large White x 10
Sunday 18 September 2022
San Francisco 2
San Francisco
Great Blue Heron
Black Turnstone
Central Park , New York City
American Robin ...100 +
Common Yellowthroat ...40 +
Black and White Warbler....3
Ovenbird.....3
Northern Waterthrush ...2
American Redstart .....
4
Magnolia Warbler......1
Black throated blue Warbler....1
Ruby throated Hummingbird......2
Northern Flicker...2
Red bellied Woodpecker ...1
Downy Woodpecker....2
Veery.....6.
Wood Thrush..2
Swainsons Thrush...1
Cardinal...5
Yellow Warbler...2
Blue Jay...11
Common grackle.....22
Empid Flycatcher sp .....1
Yellow Throated Warbler ...1
Mockingbird...3
Ring billed Gull ...100 +
American Herring Gull 35 +
Laughing Gull ...2
Great Black Backed Gull.... 11
American Crow ....10
White Crowned Sparrow ..2
Double Crested Cormorant ..25+
Great White Egret .......1
Black crowned Night Heron ..1
Mallard....+
Black Duck ...5
Shoveler....6
Mourning Dove ...14
European Starling ...+
House Sparrow ...+
Grey Catbird..12
Peregrine Falcon ...1
American Kestrel ...2
Red tailed Hawk ...1
Canada Goose.....30 +
Monarch Butterfly...15 , Question Mark....1
, Large White ......10 + ....Large Moth to ID...1
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