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Recent content by Steve Newland

  1. Steve Newland

    Wood Lark

    I phrased the query rather badly. My first meaning of recorded should have been logged. And then the recording I heard later was on eBird. So, my question really was whether the species has been noted in the area. The habitat in the upper combes and tops looks fine for the bird.
  2. Steve Newland

    Wood Lark

    Has this ever been recorded in the Quantocks? I was up Hodders Combe yesterday and heard a song unfamiliar to me and wondered then if it was wood lark. Playing a recording today makes me wonder it even more.
  3. Steve Newland

    Red Kite Moult

    The most amazing bird today with totally missing secondaries and a truncated tail, yet still gliding. It was large and raptor-shaped. The primaries were grey, what remained of the flight feathers very dark brown, as was the body. The head was greyish. The colour scheme suggested red kite and...
  4. Steve Newland

    Sea Mills

    An hour and a bit before high tide was too late for much mud here; two hours would have been better. However, a couple of lapwings hung around long enough to be rather unseasonable for the site, then repeated scanning found a sandpiper whizzing from one shore to the other. Views were distant and...
  5. Steve Newland

    Worcestershire- Ripple & Clifton

    The white-fronted goose at Cifton seemed a good target once the rain had eased this lunchtime, especially as it would be new for my county list. And it was. Pretty much the first bird I saw after breasting the dirt bank. That set the visit up nicely and two or three yellow wags and plenty of...
  6. Steve Newland

    Worcester

    Northwick again but a very dried-out site today that didn't promise much. How wrong could I be? One reed warbler gamely sang, as did a couple of reed buntings. Whitethroats were legion and one lesser also rattled somewhere off in the distance. (Both also occur in Chapter Meadows.) But the best...
  7. Steve Newland

    Upton Warren

    Spent a great deal of today looking for pure/cross Meds without any joy. Did notice a BHG with a pink wash on its breast and recalled similar from last year. Thought then that the bird might have been bleeding but now think it may be the same individual with some odd colour aberration, in my...
  8. Steve Newland

    Worcester

    I ventured over the river to Northwick (actually on my way back from Porter's Mill) to see if the pintail was still around. It wasn't. Nor was much else until I returned to the car and found a couple of little egrets south of the car park and therefore well within the city limits. Grey wagtail...
  9. Steve Newland

    Upton Warren

    For the first time this year the linnet/chaffinch flock (tending more towards chaffinches now, I thought) settled in the trees for me along the track to the Jacobs Hide. So, two or three bramblings were easy to spot - much more so than having them dancing away at the other side of the field...
  10. Steve Newland

    Herefordshire Birding

    I drove all around Wellington GPs yesterday and found nowhere to see the pits from. Is it now no longer possible?
  11. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    I always reckon to hear coal tits before seeing them, or even only to hear them, which makes the omission that much more surprising. I've not been to the Sling Pool much but in my world that's a different site (although once I used to count Grimley up beyond Holt Fleet!)
  12. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    One female goldeneye late this afternoon and the great crested grebes up to four. More amazement followed the discovery that a coal tit was my first record for the site. You'd think it'd come in earlier than #113.
  13. Steve Newland

    Worcester

    A good start to the month with a red kite over St John's campus this morning. It got better slightly outwith the city limits when I flushed a great egret from the (defunct?) fishing pools that drain into Laughern Brook to the west of the campus. Only a matter of time before that goes on to the...
  14. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    All three goldeneyes still present at CLP this morning, along with two great crested grebes. All the lapwings spooked at one stage and this time I could pick out a peregrine powering over. Amazing for that to be my first record for the site in over twenty years; even merlin beat it on to the...
  15. Steve Newland

    Worcester

    Yesterday the goosanders and linnets were still by Diglis Bridge while the meadows across from the cathedral provided seven stock doves and the usual kestrel. Redwings all along the Severn seem to be growing increasingly tame with one hopping to within ten feet of me.
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