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  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.
  16. Steve Newland

    Worcester

    Odd that there isn't a thread for the county town and yet it's not devoid of birds. Just today north of Worcester Bridge I added great spotted woodpecker, goldcrest and pied wagtail to the year list. It got better down by Diglis Weir with a kingfisher, a big flock of linnets and three goosanders.
  17. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    The Egyptian goose was in with a huge Canada flock in the field to the east of Camp Lane itself. A pair of stonechats then seemed quite oblivious to me on my way back to the village. I'd started the circuit from the end of Waggon Wheel down the Severn and near the canal had been two male and two...
  18. Steve Newland

    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    From the other side of the bank I saw one extra male goosander. Then I went in to the centre of Droitwich for a very surprising great crested grebe on the canal.
  19. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    Monkwood isn't really here but it's close and I didn't want to start another thread. Last month I defintiely had a couple of bramblings in with the siskin flock, just preening at the top of an alder (I think). That confused me because I take brambling to be a ground-dwelling bird but that...
  20. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    Plenty of wigeon at Camp Lane and the female goldeneye. Being late, the starlings started to murmur and I reckon about a thousand dropped into the reeds by the causeway. That seems a likely place to be disturbed, so I wonder if they settled.
  21. Steve Newland

    Upton Warren

    The barnacle goose had disappeared beyond the transmitters by the time I got to the Flashes and there was precious little else apart from one snipe. On the way in, six little egrets were unusual in trees at the northwest of the sailing pool. Again, the Moors was better and I finally found a...
  22. Steve Newland

    Upton Warren

    A very quiet Flashes couldn't even disclose the avocet this lunchtime. By contrast the Moors was dripping. A lone pintail was by a lone wigeon, both only visible from the Jacobs Hide. Eventually the shelduck hove into view. Many Cetti's called and one even showed, with its rufous tail. One water...
  23. Steve Newland

    Upton Warren

    The avocets were back down to one at the Flashes with no other changes. Someone keeps reporting green sandpipers there but I don't see them. However, one common sandpiper did fly across the sailing pool as I walked in.
  24. Steve Newland

    Upton Warren

    A quiet afternoon at the Flashes until an egret flew in from the north at 14:27. Obviously little but I just happened to be on the binoculars and then picked up its big yellow bill and the sheer size of the bird. The great white circled down, stayed for a minute, lost interest and flew off...
  25. Steve Newland

    Upton Warren

    Pintails appeared to have left the Moors this morning and nothing else in. Does this seem like the worst autumn migration ever? Across the whole site I have one garganey, one ruff, three blackwits, four or five dunlin, one ringed plover, one hobby, one redstart and the the usual green and common...
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