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UK400ClubRareBirdAlert (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Balearic Shearwater photographed off the Isle of Wight (Kris Gillam) The SeaWatch SW website has recently been updated, including all the news from August and September 2009. To view this month's news see: http://www.seawatch-sw.org News items are as follows: 1) Send us your Balearic Shearwater sightings now! Have you seen a Balearic Shearwater in the UK or Ireland this year? If so, we'd love to hear...
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Bird North East (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Cleveland/Durham Great White Egret & Cetti's Warbler at Long Drag (28th) Short-eared Owl, three at Seaton Pond (28th) Little Auk past Hartlepool Headland; also three Great Northern Diver, two Long-tailed Duck & three Great Skua (29th) Balearic Shearwater past Whitburn ; also Black Guillemot, Leach's Storm Petrel, European Storm Petrel, four Great Northern Diver, Black-throated Diver, 13 Great...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor, Friday, 27 November 2009 Concern is growing about the huge number of seabirds being killed by fisheries in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) said yesterday. Although conservationists' fears have so far focused on seabirds in the Southern Ocean, especially albatrosses, there is mounting alarm over...
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Dusty Bins (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It would appear that my title is perhaps exactly where we are at in relation to Corn Bunting Miliaria calandra in my home county. 2009 has seen a single bird reported which hung around north of Linden Hall and presumably the same bird at Bywell in August. Even that individual was in the middle of an identity crisis singing like a Yellowhammer at times. You look at species requiring a description and...
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Birds, Birding, and Me.... (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
This is what the sea has been looking like for a good five days now... Big waves! Even bigger today!!! Yesterday's highlight though was not a wind blown sea bird, but the wonderful Snow Bunting on Beer Head; photos of it can be found HERE and HERE . I only had abo ut one minute with it, but what a stunner! It's still there today, and according to various locals has been around for at least five days....
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Bird North East (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Cleveland/Durham Firecrest again at Putting Green, Hartlepool Headland Yellow-browed Warbler again at Seaton Carew Cemetery Common Crane again in fields near Kibblesworth Short-eared Owl at Hartlepool Headland Med Gull, 1st-winter at Scaling Dam Hen Harrier over Danby Beacon Two Lapland Bunting feeding at Marske Headland Great Northern Diver, Short-eared Owl, 11 Great Skua and three Arctic Skua past...
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Bird North East (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Northumberland Radde's Warbler again this morning at Druridge Pools; also Glossy Ibis still present. Four Yellow-browed Warbler at Low Newton Three Yellow-browed Warbler & single Firecrest at St Mary's Island Yellow-browed Warbler near Whitley Bay Cemetery Yellow-browed Warbler on Straight lonnen, Holy Islandat least one other present location unknown; also Firecrest at The Snook & Hobby over...
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Pembrokeshire Birds (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
10 Oct 09, 0750 to 1600 hrs Wind WNW to NW then backing SW force 2/3 Common Scoter : 69 drakes and 7 ducks Arctic Skua : 1, pale phase Little Tern : 1 Commic Tern : 1 Common Tern : 1 Balearic Shearwater: 1, very pale Bonxie : 3 Bar-Tailed Godwit : 3 Risso’s Dolphin : 6 As Graham suggested in his piece on Friday, a list such as this doesn’t tell the full story. You would look at it and think...
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Bird North East (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Northumberland Sabine's Gull juvenile south past Church Point, Newbiggin; also two Pomarine Skua, five Great Skua & two Arctic Skua. Three Redwing flew in off this evening. Leach's Storm Petrel past St Mary's Island Glossy Ibis again at Druridge Pools Bittern at Cresswell this morning flew west Six Snow Bunting at St Mary's Island; also Short-eared Owl Cleveland/Durham Common Crane remains mear...
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Pembrokeshire Birds (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Time: 0700 - 1530 Weather: Sunny spells Wind: NW (F4-2) Balearic Shearwater - 2 Leach's Petrel - 1 Long Tailed Skua - 2 (2 Juv ) Pomarine Skua - 1 (1P) Arctic Skua - 3 (1P, 2D) Great Skua - 7 Mediterranean Gull - 3 (2 1st W, 1 Ad) Little Gull - 1 (1st W) Pale Bellied Brent Goose - 1 Red Throated Diver - 1 Common Scoter - 49 (5F, 44M) Comic Tern - 2 Puffin - 4 Risso's Dolphin - 3 (moving west just beyond...
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Pembrokeshire Birds (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Time: 0700 - 1800 Weather: Cloudy, sunny spells, showers Wind: WSW (F7-8) am, WNW (F5) late pm Great Shearwater - 1 (@ 1230 close inshore) Sooty Shearwater - 24 (1 am, 23 pm) Balearic Shearwater - 1 Long Tailed Skua - 1 (Juv - first of the year @ 1710) Great Skua - 12 Sabine's Gull - 1 (Juv) Little Gull - 1 (1st W) Common Scoter - 41 (5F, 36M) Commic Tern - 4
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North Downs and beyond (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
As an antidote to the plethora of books that are now published proclaiming the 100 best this and the 50 best that, I thought I'd stick my two-penneth in and give you an alternative. 'The most boring bird ticks that I've had in Britain'. The first Mediterranean Shearwater that I saw (Portland Bill, 18 September 1977) flew past me giving the impression of a turd meandering along above the surface of...
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Pembrokeshire Birds (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Time: 0650 - 1300 Weather: Cloudy Wind: NNE (F0-1) Balearic Shearwater - 1 Arctic Skua - 1 (1D) Mediterranean Gull - 1 (1st W) Sandwich Tern - 5 Red Throated Diver - 1 Common Scoter - 155 (16F, 139M) Tufted Duck - 1 Wigeon - 1 Curlew - 1 Common Dolphin - c.50 (Including one adult with a missing dorsal fin - jagged edge along back where it should have been)
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Pembrokeshire Birds (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Time: 0645 - 1300 Weather: Sunny Wind: NNE (F3) Balearic Shearwater - 1 Arctic Skua - 1 (1D) Mediterranean Gull - 2 (2 1st W) Sandwich Tern - 10 Common Scoter - 150 (21F, 129M) Puffin - 2 Risso's Dolphin - 6 (Single going East along tide-race - large with lots of "scarring". Later a pod of 5 going East along tide-race: 2 large and pale, 1 medium/large and completely white and 2 small/medium...
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Pembrokeshire Birds (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Time: 0645 - 1300 Weather: Sunny spells. Wind: NW (F2) Balearic Shearwater - 3 Great Skua - 1 Mediterranean Gull - 1 (1st W) Sandwich Tern - 5 Common Scoter - 111 (18F, 93M) Teal - 2 Red Throated Diver - 2 Little Egret - 1 Wheatear - 1 Common Dolphin - c.50
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