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    Anthony Bentley Year List 2013

    My Year got off to a good start, getting Great Northern Diver, 8 raptors and Red-crested Pochard. Finished on new years day on 71. Trying to get to 100 as quick as possible but only in Lincs and not going over the top with mileage. My second full birding day out saw me getting Rough-legged...
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    Anthony Bentley Year list

    201 Purple Sandpiper, Covenham Reservoir
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    Places to visit around Scunthorpe

    Try some of these Messingham Sand quarry (Snipe, Whooper Swan, Otter, Marsh Harrier) Laughton Forest (Crossbill, Redpoll, Siskin) Alkborough Flats (Waders, Marsh Harrier, Bearded Tit, Merlin, Peregrine) Barton (Bearded Tit, Water Rail, Marsh Harrier) Crowle Moor Worlaby...
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    Anthony Bentley Year list

    It had to be. For the last 5 Years I have spent plenty of time at Far ings, Alkborough Flats and a few trips to Blacktoft Sands. 1 Bird has alaways eluded me, and it was my bogey bird. I even tried twitching them. At my last twitch of this species I thought it would be absolutly amazing if I saw...
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Bearded Tit Finally at Alkborough Flats 10 seen. I have dipped this bird for 5 years and WAS officially my bogey bird
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    British Bird of the Year

    Your forgetting the "beauty" that is the Thayer's gull in lincs ....
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    Top 10 Most Wanted in Britain

    1) Bee-eater 2) Hoopoe 3) Wyrneck 4) Bluethroat 5) Black-browed Albatross 6) Red-footed Falcon 7) White-winged Black Tern 8) Great Spotted Cuckoo 9) Snowy owl 10) Nutcracker
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    Anthony Bentley Year list

    199 Twite I have now seen the same amount of birds this year than I had previously in my whole life
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    Anthony Bentley Year list

    194 Pale-bellied Brent Goose 195 Dark-bellied Brent Goose 196 Brambling 197 Lapland Bunting (Lifer 225) 198 Black Redstart 2 away from my ultimate target :D
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    Anthony Bentley Year list

    193 Red-breasted Merganser (Also a Lifer on 224 now) Going North at Donna Nook
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    Anthony Bentley Year list

    191 Rock Pipit 192 Slavonion Grebe Both at Covenham Reservoir on Thursday
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    Last 3 ticks whats yours?

    Velvet Scooter Sooty Shearwater Long-tailed Skua Red-backed Shrike All at Spurn Point this weekend
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    Anthony Bentley Year list

    185 Yellow-Browed Warbler 186 Red-backed Shrike 187 Pied Flycatcher 188 Long-Tailed Skua 189 Sooty Shearwater 190 Velvet Scooter All at spurn This Weekend
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    Last 3 ticks whats yours?

    Great Skua 219 Red-necked Phalarope 218 Pectoral Sandpiper 217
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    Hello from Lincolnshire

    I am based close to Grimsby North Lincolnshire. 19 years old and I have been birding over 10 years. My first experience of birds was watching an Osprey catch and then eat a fish at Poole harbour, Dorset some years ago. My local patch is Covenham Reservoir which can be uninhabited at times! But...
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    Anthony Bentley Year list

    This is my first attempt at year listing. Only 19 and passed my driving test in July. This has helped no end! My UK life list was 199 before the start of this year and my target was to get 150 for this year but 175 would be awesome! I Do 90% of my birding in Lincolnhire, Were I recently got my...
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Great Skua , Spurn Point Was a bogey bird of mine
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    Gulls for ID. Portugal.

    Pic 3 and 4 Are Yellow-legged Gull. The other im not sure Juv Gulls aren't my strong point but I would probably say Yellow-legged gull again Anthony
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