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  1. Bewick

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    Yes, your list was so similar to mine that I thought it couldn’t just be coincidence.
  2. Bewick

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    Frampton marsh?
  3. Bewick

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    Got two lifers on Thursday, managed to finally connect with a little gull which was a nemesis of mine. Red-breasted goose was fantastic as well, too distant for decent photos but great views from the scope. Also saw a bunch of harder to see waders and waterfowl + saw flocks of hundreds of...
  4. Bewick

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    Lesser scaup, finally managed to visit the abberton group.
  5. Bewick

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    Long-billed dowitcher, finally caught up with the species after dipping the Norfolk dowitcher last January.
  6. Bewick

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    Waterthrush and snow buntings. After hearing the news yesterday, we all got to sleep early and left early on- showed pretty fantastically. Also finished the day off with six snow buntings at mersea.
  7. Bewick

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    + Velvet scoter and canvasback- day after.
  8. Bewick

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    Manx shearwater- re-added to my list. It was originally removed as we believed that we misidentified a shearwater after checking through photographs. I recently went through the images again, and it turns out we didn’t check the correct album originally and we did in fact correctly identify the...
  9. Bewick

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    It also floated by boat...
  10. Bewick

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    Semipalmated sandpiper, white rumped sandpiper, lesser yellowlegs and a buff breasted sandpiper seen at Frampton marsh- the semi-p turned up while I walking to the reserve and the buff breasted was located about 70 meters from were a group us were waiting- giving amazing views to the gradually...
  11. Bewick

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    I had the same experience- the farm yards were eerily empty- I stayed in paphos. This was when I had only been birding for a couple of years so I was not as experienced but I only came back with a couple of birds. A blue rock thrush, crested lark, chukar, black kite and apparently a “bonellis...
  12. Bewick

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    Pallid harrier- 14th lifer in the last two months, 12 in France (not including the three in may) and two English twitches.
  13. Bewick

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    A Hawfinch, Melodious warblers and Honey buzzards seen on a four day trip to my grandparents house in France. Also I also had the pleasure of watching a bunch of nesting birds such as a pair of common redstarts that nested in the roof.
  14. Bewick

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    Black crowned night heron in watermead, after three unsuccessful trips in the hopes of getting the one in Brent- I managed to get three in a single lake in watermead. I’ve now seen almost all European heron species in the UK… which I’ve sadly not been very lucky with, with my trips to France...
  15. Bewick

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    Saw a pair of ring ouzels only 5 miles from my area, also went for a short visit to KGV reservoir where the red necked grebe showed well. Which was pleasant as I had only managed to get distant views of my lifer RNG in staines last year. Only been twice and have managed great views of a male...
  16. Bewick

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    Got a pair of crossbills while tagging along on a Welsh fishing trip. Also had lots of dippers and a nuthatch, both bird of which I haven’t seen in years. Also had great looks at a great crested newt at rainham, after my dad pointed it out. Not a bird but it’s still the first time I’ve ever...
  17. Bewick

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    Just had an amazing day, began with three peregrines (not lifers but first of the years, and first time I’ve had them in almost two years) at Lincoln cathedral on my way to the station… then got the two alpine swift’s at chapel point which where showing spectacularly. Here’s terrible phone pics-...
  18. Bewick

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    Already posted on this thread but this was too good of a day to not post about. Started with the purpose to get slightly better views of the Pallas warbler in Attenborough nature park- sadly I made it too late and missed the bird as I went to try and get the ring necked duck instead of going...
  19. Bewick

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    It’s really hard to get any lifers- I’ve had most of Britain’s birds through travelling throughout the UK… the only birds I really haven’t seen are the rarer sea birds and some of the diving ducks. However it quite difficult to get the scaup when you aren’t near any large reservoirs that are...
  20. Bewick

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    Gonna completely disagree with it being prettier then mandarin- truly believe the mandarin is the prettiest of the tree ducks- with the Smew being the second.
  21. Bewick

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    Also saw a smew the same day… in fact I thought it was a drake Smew when we passed over the bridge as I only got a glimpse… stopped the car ran out and realised it was a wood duck.
  22. Bewick

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    Yep about when I saw it- it seems to have disappeared though.
  23. Bewick

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    True but the new ones have been introduced- I saw an escaped wood duck at Lee valley
  24. Bewick

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    Stork? Is that what you meant by the species you want to see?
  25. Bewick

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    Long-eared owl
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