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Recent content by Andrew Tongue

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    Yorkshire Birding

    Hull Valley 2010 Report I hope the moderators don't mind this quick plug: Hull Valley Wildlife Group’s Annual Report for 2010 is now available. It can be ordered from the group’s website and can also be purchased at Tophill and Spurn. There are sections covering Birds, Botany, Mammals...
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    English birder looking to lodge with a Scottish birder

    Dear All Please accept my sincere apologies if this seems an inappropriate place for such a request but I am struggling after receiving very few responses to adverts placed on the Gumtree website and in BB. I'm a responsible, quiet-living professional, with a wife and daughter in Yorkshire. I'm...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Request for photos Hull Valley Wildlife Group is looking for photographs of birds and other wildlife, rare or otherwise, taken in the area during 2010 for a forthcoming small annual report. Any pictures would be gratefully received. The HVWG recording area is shown here...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Three Redwings over north Hull this morning, first of the autumn for me.
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    Yorkshire Birding

    75 Pink-footed Geese South over north Hull at 1345 today
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    Yorkshire Birding

    One Redstart at Bransholme Sewage Works, Hull, this morning. Also a flock of 58 Goldfinch.
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Good question Andy - and not one I can answer with any certainty I'm afraid. We believe it is likely to be a server issue. The gentleman who HVWG pay to organise the web hosting has been (and may well still be) away in France following a death in his family. HVWG has been trying to make contact...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    No doubt most people in the area will be aware that the Hull Valley Wildlife Group website is temporarily offline, due to server problems. Hopefully it will be up and running again soon. Please continue to send in records to Derrick Venus: [email protected] Thanks.
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Thanks Garry.
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Fair comment Garry. Clumsily-worded perhaps but what I was trying to say that the bird looked like the typical small, long-winged very black classic Baltic Gull. Of course, birds ringed in fuscus breeding areas can grow up to look more like intermedius and vice-versa, and perceptions of colour...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Forgot to mention that I had one smallish, long-winged and very dark adult Lesser-Black backed Gull last night, resembling typical fuscus. I know Brett Richards has seen birds showing characteristics of intermedius at Patrington Haven recently. Pete Wragg and I saw two such birds at Spurn last...
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    Yorkshire Birding

    One adult Curlew Sandpiper on the Humber off Paull Holme Strays this evening. Black-tailed Godwits may have switched to the Lincs side of the Humber - there are hardly any birds at the moment compared to up to 900 around a fortnight ago. I saw only one bird in the Paull area tonight.
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Golden Plover numbers building up on the Humber off Paull Holme Strays - 3,500 yesterday evening. Also 44 Grey Plover and a juv Med Gull off Saltend.
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Should have mentioned that a Turtle Dove was singing near the car park at Pat Haven this morning. My second for Yorkshire for the year.
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    Yorkshire Birding

    Notes on Stint sp at Patrington Haven I was the second person on site this morning and Brett Richards and I watched the bird at relatively close range (c.30 m). Here is a very brief summary of my thoughts. If anyone would like further information please PM me. My first reaction on seeing the...
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