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Thursday, 31 October 2013

Aurora 30 to 31/10/13

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From behind our house tonight, excellent!!!
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Greenland Wheatear

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Louise phoned me at work and then mentioned she'd just seen a rather interesting looking wheatear down by our ponies. I asked her to nip...
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Sunday, 27 October 2013

October's last days

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My holiday has involved a fair bit of flogging the patches, initially for little return. A family holiday couple of days to North Ronaldsay ...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Woody Woodpecker x2

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An arival overnight found the garden still bouncing with thrushes, an increase in Brambling and at least 4 (if not more) Blackcaps. Much of ...
Saturday, 12 October 2013

Last weekend, now this....

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Well I meant to post, but the week has gone by in a bit of a blur, and somehow I never got around to it. I can't remember much about it ...
Sunday, 29 September 2013

Patch birding +

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The elusive Lesser Whitethroat in the garden, that slightly concerned me having got silhouette and flight views on Friday morning gave itsel...
Friday, 27 September 2013

Golden Eagle dip

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Whilst i was in work, just down the road, a South Ron birder trespassed on the patch and recorded Golden Eagle over the house. Tempted to be...
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Saturday, 21 September 2013

Autumnal day

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    Very autumn feel to the day today. Yesterday's Robins were still present in the garden but the Dunnocks had gone missing, only o...
Tuesday, 17 September 2013

More Blackwits

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There were 60 or more likely 80 on The Shunan this morning, depending whether I double counted a flock of 20. At the roost this evening thou...
Sunday, 15 September 2013

Blackwit fiesta

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The blackwit situation on The Shunan has been very interesting with large numbers coming and going all week, they are likely also feeding so...
Sunday, 8 September 2013

North Ronaldsay weekend

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Bit late this post (rescheduled....) Seawatching for eight hours on Saturday, walked nearly all the way up the island, got a lift for the ...
Sunday, 1 September 2013

Oh! What a lovely day

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It's peed it down all day. Seawatching from 7.30 at Pt Buckquoy (2 hours) and then at Yesnaby (1 hour) 2 hour seawatch from pt of Buc...
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