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  1. Pris Ris Scott

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    added two to my list this weekend - jack snipe at tring resrvoirs and grey phalarope at farmoor in oxon along with the lesser yellow legs in poole harbour last week its been a really good few days for me
  2. Pris Ris Scott

    Greenshank or Wood Sandpiper

    at otmoor on Saturday, I was watching a distant wader which I took to be a greenshank the supercillium was noticeably strong on this bird, which stuck out, and I wasn't really seeing an upturn to the bill, but as I say, this was a distant bird... and I maintained my belief it was a green shank...
  3. Pris Ris Scott

    North Europe location - no car

    thats great edward, i think im sold on this idea, thankyou :t:
  4. Pris Ris Scott

    North Europe location - no car

    one initial idea is im thinking is texel is reachable from amsterdam via train and ferry and then hire a bike on the island to get around for a day or two - anyone tried cycle-birding around texel before? is it realistic?
  5. Pris Ris Scott

    North Europe location - no car

    i have 50ish quids worth to use up with national express coaches i fancy turning this into a birding long weekend somewhere on the continent now by definition, becuase ill be on a coach, i wont have a car, so im restricted to birding sites that fall within public transport of a major coach...
  6. Pris Ris Scott

    funny duck

    yep! ive only been in this birding game for a few years, and ive never seen a ruddy duck!!!
  7. Pris Ris Scott

    strange call at RSPB Otmoor

    you got it!! i went back to otmoor yesterday and again i heard this bizzarre call - and again im stood on the main path finding it hard to pin the exact location of the sound and scanning through the long grasses and reeds in front of me with no luck... then a passing birder (with a lens the...
  8. Pris Ris Scott

    strange call at RSPB Otmoor

    sorry for the vaguest ID question you'll read all day, but here goes ;) I was at otmoor in oxfordshire on sunday morning (8.30am) and I heard a couple of times the strangest call coming from an unknown source - presumably hidden behind/in reeds in the flooded field before you get to the first...
  9. Pris Ris Scott

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    headed out early yesterday with the intention of seeing both a Cettis Warbler and a Lesser Whitethroat at Otmoor in Oxfordshire - and got both - love it when a day runs smoothly double tick :t::t:
  10. Pris Ris Scott

    Odd Little Egret and Pied Wagtail - South-east Ireland

    bit of gooooogling turned up these two bits, which I think nails it as being a Leucistic Wagtail 1) there' s this Irish twitter report from beginning of the month (don't know the location)- https://twitter.com/birdwatchie/status/704635717570437120 2) and then there is this from Spain which I...
  11. Pris Ris Scott

    Worst thing to happen to you when Birding?

    worst thing for me fortunalty doesn't involve personal injury, guns or anything life threatening... hopefully it'll stay that way last summer, my first visit to the camargue I had treated myself to an upgrade of lens for my scope, for the trip - a nice baader hyperion lens - may not be in the...
  12. Pris Ris Scott

    Ouse Fen - access question

    didnt go well unfortunately - I followed the path south from the parking, as brian said, and got onto the path running along overcote road - but you simply cannot see into the pools from the path - the path is set pretty far back from the pools edge and the pools are (obviously) dropped down, so...
  13. Pris Ris Scott

    Ouse Fen - access question

    Brian, you are a gent, this is so much more info than I expected, and is exactly what I was after Thank you so much :t:
  14. Pris Ris Scott

    Ouse Fen - access question

    Hey ill be visiting the camb fens this weekend, i would like to catch up with the smews in the Needingworth pits, which are part of Ouse Fen RSPB site. however i see that the hide over on that side of the reserve (east of the great ouse) is a 6 mile round trip form the parking (west of the...
  15. Pris Ris Scott

    New Zealand, the Subantarctic Islands & Manila

    really enjoying this, looking forward to more a close relative is now living permanently in NZ so having been there twice (only once since ive been into birding) means ill realistically be going there again and again in the future... so these place names and info is really useful cheeers
  16. Pris Ris Scott

    100000 Woodcock shot every year in the UK

    me too, they still evade me... and some people get to see 200 odd each season whilst they blow them to smitherines.... w@nkers.
  17. Pris Ris Scott

    Which bird have you wanted to claim but couldnt

    on my first visit to isle of sheppey in January earlier this year, I was watching a couple of marsh harriers doing their thing through my scope, when one (a female) took my interest because it had different markings, including a noticeable white rump. i enjoyed them for a while then headed back...
  18. Pris Ris Scott

    NZ bird

    :t: you're welcome - same goes for pies and beer 3:-) had a wonderful time in your neck of the woods last year, went birding all over, from waiheke island down to golden bay and lots around otago - have to say though its pretty funny in retrospect trying to catch a glimpse of some little...
  19. Pris Ris Scott

    Does anyone like me think twitching gives birdwatchers a bad reputation

    no i'm interested to know why you'd think its wrong at all? surely you realise that the crumbs of information that fall from the twitchers table provide us birders with loads of useful information for us to enjoy??? I only twitch locally, although I do go birding all over ... but I have an...
  20. Pris Ris Scott

    Juv. G.Scuap or Juv. Tufted

    :t: fantastic, thanks mate fingers crossed for staurday morning
  21. Pris Ris Scott

    Juv. G.Scuap or Juv. Tufted

    booo! tufted is not the answer I wanted :C but the confirmation is very much appreciated none the less :-O
  22. Pris Ris Scott

    Dippers in Peak District

    just thought I'd update my own question just spent a wonderfull weekend in the peak district - and I DID catch up with a pair of dippers which was a real highlight there is a wildlife trust managed stretch of the river wye near Monsal Head - specifically the stretch between Cressbrook and...
  23. Pris Ris Scott

    Juv. G.Scuap or Juv. Tufted

    seen yesterday at College Lake, near Tring in Buckinghamshire this bird was on its own, staying away from the other (including tufted) ducks... im having real trouble telling if this is a juv scaup or a juv tuftie, and after putting it up on twitter yesterday I received mixed answers from...
  24. Pris Ris Scott

    Countryside Alliance urges BBC to sack Chris Packham in conservation rrwo

    ive seen that video... astonishing isn't it....the incredible work that these people do in order to record and disrupt the illegal hunting and torturing of our wildlife is nothing short of heroic on their site (below) you can find out more about what they do and maybe donate to them (helps pay...
  25. Pris Ris Scott

    Countryside Alliance urges BBC to sack Chris Packham in conservation rrwo

    thanks for that, I just signed the Cuntryside Alliance really are a bunch of nasty self serving cavemen.
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