Yikes – that's torn it. I should have put a `reply off-group' thing in. As with Dominic it was Friday afternoon and (in my case) my brain was elsewhere. ...
Hi to all, Added a 1st winter Med Gull and a Lesser Redpoll to my West Thurrock list,new total 104. Did not see any Terns on the river but did have my first...
Although unable to read the numbers (distance plus heat haze) a noticed a few of the Pink feet in Norfolk are sporting white neck rings. I understand the...
I'll be with you in spirit. Have already had a couple of bashes in the garden but I think the weather has been too settled, now it has broken I am sure the...
Added one species to my Crossness PatchList on Sunday while leading an LNHS walk to the area (my first visit since May): 104: Arctic Tern > a single juvenile...
Hi Des Glad you finally got back to Crossness, and glad you got an Arctic Tern there. The outflow off the Golf Centre has been operating most of the summer,...
Morning Going on a family holiday to the Cherbourg peninsula quite soon, and am hoping to be able to sneak away every now and again and get some birding in....
Thanks John, was good to get back there though it looks as though my chances of connecting with Hobby and Sand Martin for the year have collapsed. Still, I'm...
One of the best coastal sites in France is between Les Moulins and Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes, north of the D514 about 12km NW of Bayeux. It's an LPO reserve. ...
Jonathan, I am from Normandy, unfortunately not from that part (slightly east of there in Calvados) but I have dug up some info for you. ... Will you be there...
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Hi everyone, i have managed to add four new species in the last six days to my patchlist, 106. Dunlin, 107. Siskin, 108. Lesser Redpoll and 109.Female Pintail....
Hello all. From the photo of the buzzard i`ve posted in the "Photos" section (Steve Blake). Will someone help me correctly identify this Buzzard? Im pretty...
Hi, Steve - Agreed, I think it looks like a Common Buzzard in the photo. The dark flank patches especially look typical of a Common Buzzard. ... Hey, why not,...
Hello all A few questions about our East London winter regulars: Checked for Glen the RB Gull this lunchtime on the Isle of Dogs on the falling tide to no...
Thanks Rob. The only reason I was dithering was because someone on the Bucks group had posted a pic of a Buzzard with identical markings, calling it a HONEY...
Fancy a day by the sea with the chance of Brown Fly thrown in? (or the other way around). Leaving Stoke Newington, Hackney at 06.30 Friday. Share petrol. Email...
Dave Darrell-Lambert asked me to put the word out that he had the unidentified acrocephalus warbler at Rainham RSPB again this morning. The bird was in the...
It's Friday, so it must be time for me to send another private message to the group! Apologies for sharing details of failed twitch arrangements, family colds...
Hi all, I have added my own attempt at a photo of the "Rufus looking" Teal to the Misc photo folder. The second photo has been tweaked, i.e. zoomed in and a...
cheers Paul! So, yesterday morning was really entertaining, with a wide variety of species moving and some high site counts of several species, including Grey...
.....whereas I can't even be arsed to 'go private', so Dom, apologies for the delay in photos, hope the Stone Curlew ones were useful, and I'll send a bunch...
Mark, I am certainly recording Grey and Pied Wags each morning but struggle to decide if they are local or migrating, the Greys usually just fly over but...
Very lucky to decide against going for the Brown Fly this morning as others wanted to go on Saturday. Tried a little viz-mig at Stoke Newington reservoirs from...
This morning I appeared at Rainham Marshes at first light. At 06:40 hrs an acro appeared in the last bush on the left on the boardwalk down to Aveley Pools, I...
Hi everyone, i had a Cetti's Warbler calling at Dagenham Chase today by Hooks Hall pond. It is the 2nd record for the site after David Callahan's record of a...