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unclebirdys moffs and stuff unclebirdys moffs and stuff saturday 12 march 2011 super saturday a realy nice way to start the day with a day off and lindsay working i decided to try and track down some bewicks swans in south yorkshire and with a bit of a drive round in the area suggested i located th mixed flock of swans which contained 44 whooper 14 mute and 7 bewicks a good result photogenic whoopers what happened next was one of those events some people would put down to destiny but for some unexplained reason i decided to head back using a different route and what a decision as feeding totally oblivious to the world at large were thes two beauties a pair of cranes a single crane short eared owl with the rest of the day ahead i struck out for the humber estuary and sunk island and was rewarded with this supurb shortie quartering the salt marsh posted by unclebirdy at 20 16 no comments friday 25 february 2011 just like buses a bad picture of a redhead smew well you wait all winter for a smew and then you see two in a day typical started off with a cracking male on flask lake nosterfield and then called at fairburn and guess what first bird i clapped eyes on was another this time a redhead but still a lovely bird also scored with water rail and cettis warbler here as well thats 131 in yorkshire now for the year come on norway in the words of one of your sports commentators your taking a hell of a beating posted by unclebirdy at 18 59 no comments sunday 13 february 2011 saturday sunshine sunday misery well for once the weather forecasters got it right sunshine all day saturday gave way to a miserable wet and depressing day on sunday nice log fire rugby on the tv and a nap been the order of the day taking full advantage of the weather i had a trip round over the moors and called in at nosterfield gp and the ings at bishop monkton on saturday the action on the moors was restricted totally to a few red grouse no passerines at all red grouse after a break at the cale household for a coffee and a biscuit it was onto nosterfield gp to hopefully catch up with the ring necked duck this however did not show but on show was a fantastic selection of waterfowl including 119 pochard and a flock of at least 2000 lapwings which included 37 curlew pochard tufted duck the ings were very wet following on from the recent floods and i put in a lot of leg work before finally finding where the snipe had bunkered down in the end 17 snipe and a jack snipe were seen in total five new year ticks bringing me upto 127 and just a hint of spring with the first lesser black backed gull of the year posted by unclebirdy at 16 15 no comments sunday 6 february 2011 weekend update with the ticker enrolling the help of no other than the trondelag tick master himself tore reinsborg it his quest to take the anglo norsk year list trophy back to trondelag i need to remain ahead of the game and pick up as many winter species as i can in this first winter period whoopers near yedingham with this in mind i set off to try for the wykeham gg shrike and dipped again typically it had shown well all week and disappeared at the weekend my only consolation was that no one saw it i did manage three new species with whooper swan mandarin duck and grey partridge taking me upto 121 for year with the combined force of the trondelag tick twins scoring a nice brucie bonus with ring billed gull the mirfield bird having eluded me for three visits had to be seen a very welcome text saying it was showing well on the island had lindsay and the dog bundled in the van and a quick sprint down the m1 followed by a nervous few minutes before our goal revealed its self result and now upto 122 posted by unclebirdy at 14 07 no comments monday 24 january 2011 walk on the beach brings up the ton with early morning mizzle putting an end to the planned ringing session it was off to the coast for the three of us and a walk on south gare beach the rain followed us so we sat out the squall in the van and enjoyed a brew and watched the ships it soon cleard and despite the brisk and chilly north west wind we headed out and were soon enjoying the company of a party of sanderling sanderling one of 23 all along the beach there were small groups of the usual waders curlew redshank knot and ringed plover with the odd dunlin typically as we neared the car on our return a nice group of 17 snow buntings put in an appearance and treat us to a fine show as they foraged along the tide rack snow bunting one of 17 and the ton up for the year in yorkshire nice male with his hareem it was nice to bring up the ton after dipping twice already this year missing ring billed gull and ring necked duck with me handicapped to only yorkshire species this year by ticker i need to score as often as possible or its curtains for me i hate loosing its going to be an interesting year ticker is already on 50 so the odd rare here and there is going to help might have to send marit some chocolates to get him to do more diy about the house on a weekend posted by unclebirdy at 19 42 no comments sunday 16 january 2011 big dip then harrier flypast on a day that always looked like rain lins and me set off regardless to look for the ring billed gull at mirfield on arrival a quick chat with the lone birder gave us the news all birders dread showing well five mins ago it transpired that just before our arrival all the gulls had gone up in a big dread and a lot had left and scattered to the four winds we stayed for about an hour and got soaked in a torrential downpour net result wet clothes and optics no year tick we decided to blast down to blacktoft and watch the harrier roost as we sat in the hide we were treat to a flypast by a nice ring tail hen harrier and two cream crown marsh harriers before the rain caught up with us again and the rest of the afternoon was spent discussing the virtues of eating pike and wether the slaty backed gull would make it to yorkshire with the other hardy folk who had hope for the weather to clear up it never did posted by unclebirdy at 20 03 no comments wednesday 5 january 2011 every good harbour has an iceland a very pleasurable trip out to scarborough on monday with some nice sunshine and a gentle east wind main attraction was a fine iceland gull which was spotted right out in the middle of the harbour and far to far off for a picture for once lady luck was on my side and a delinquent juv cormorant flew into the harbour and nearly landed on it which caused the bird to take wing i held my breath as it flew up and headed out into south bay where it promptly turned tail and flew back into the harbour and landed right in front of me kes and lindsay wow what a view and some half decent pictures the bird was much appreciated by the assembled birders and members of the public whos interest was aroused by the aray of optical gear pointing towards a sea gull delinquent cormorant many thanks nothing much else to report on other than a recommendation the chip butties are fantastic from the cafe in the northern corner of the harbour plenty of home made chips a rarity to rank alongside whites thrush and a decent sized bun coffee also rated good nice and strong and hot much appreciated by all three of us posted by unclebirdy at 19 34 no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom total pageviews blog archive 2011 9 march 1 super saturday february 3 january 5 2010 52 december 4 november 5 october 6 september 3 august 5 july 6 may 9 april 6 march 8 about me unclebirdy a dedicated birder and moffer who has just discovered the 21st centuary i enjoy reading other peoples blogs and thought i would share my world with other interested people view my complete profile followers ethereal theme powered by blogger