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My first Willow Warbler of the year at Queen Mary today and also first Blackcap there, nudges the total up to 69. Very annoyingly there was a distant (1300...
As it's the 1st can I recommend a bird of the month. I'm sure I speak for many of us in suggesting the pheasant in Hyde park/Kensington Gardens. What a bird!...
No finer date Garry. Sad to say, the eventual fate of this bird is currently something of an imponderable. Since the aformentioned sighting I have scoured the...
Added three species over the weekend: 62. Blackcap; 1 on 30th March. 63. Common Buzzard; 1 over on 1st April. 64. Lapwing; 2 arrived from (and departed to)...
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April 02 2007. Thamesmead Area. Added one today: 82.Green Sandpiper > 1 at Crossness Sewage Works. Couldn't refind the Grey Phalarope though it may get found...
I was at the Wetland Centre for a meeting yesterday, and met Rupert Kaye as I was walking around afterwards. He said he hadn't seen it, but it had gone over...
3 additions at Crossness on Sunday, all in a single mixed group in the SE corner of the Southern Marsh: 69: Fieldfare 2 70: Redwing 1 71 Mistle Thrush: 1 The...
Thanks John, I notice it's now appeared on Wiki as a White. Cheers, Des. ... Kaye ... it ... so it ... Water ... Wetland ... privileged materials. ... ...
Got down to Kensington Gardens for the first time in ages this morning hoping to see the Tawny Owls again. Couldn't locate them unfortunately but did get...
There are very few Black-headed Gulls left on my Tower Bridge stretch of the Thames. Numbers have dropped steadily over the last week or two from hundreds to...
Hi Paul, Shame I missed you. The owls are showing in a stand of leafing chestnuts a little more toward the leaf-yard than on the day we met, 1 ad and 3 young...
Hi Des Was hoping to pop by and take a look for the owls tomorrow before work. Are they generally in the same area everyday and where is the leaf-yard? Thanks...
Hi Nick, The owls have been faithful to the same three chesnut trees for about a week now. The Leaf Yard is the fenced off area immediately behind the Peter...
Hi Des Thanks for the info. Your offer is very kind and whilst I was up early this morning (suffering from jetlag) I might be knackered by tomorrow and...
... gulls at all. For the first time patrolling this patch I saw zero Black-headed Gulls despite taking in all the main stretches of water, the grass expanses...
This is just a timely heads-up to all regarding the posting of messages regarding Sched 1. species. This morning I've had to remove a post regarding blatently...
... hoping to see the Tawny Owls again. Saw all 5 tawny owls this morning, mid way between the physical energy statue and Speke memorial, about 20 yards west...
Thanks for the tips on where to find the owls, Des and Noel. Found them within a couple of minutes. I saw one of the adults and the three owlets at about 6pm...
Hi Reuben, Glad you got to see the owls and you didn't have any difficulty in doing so. The second adult is likely to have been somewhere close by but, as...
April 08 2007. Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens. Added one this morning: 77.Bullfinch > a female flushed from the Magazine Shrubs at 08.05hrs flew off toward the...
April 09 2007. Thamesmead Area. Spent an enjoyable couple of hours at Crossness with John Archer today and gained three additions: 83.Swallow > 2 north over...
hi Des. is the Phalarope changing plumage yet? Tony Morris St Margaret's at Cliffe Kent http://stmargaretsphotodiary.blogspot.com/ ... From: "D.T.McKenzie"...
Thanks Des, hopefully it will get to the stage when we can call it (a name I must admit I prefer) Red Phalarope. cheers, Tony Morris St Margaret's at Cliffe ...
Hi, Got back on Sunday from New Zealand and visited Rainham and the Ingrebourne Valley today and picked up some migrants,everything seems a little late this...
