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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Phil, Many thanks for replying here. If vismigging is a significant part of your birding, then I'd suggest that it is well worthwhile getting involved with Trektellen if you haven't already done so. See: http://www.trektellen.nl/?language=english&. There's lots of UK involvement and it is...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Phil, Did you ask why the record was not used and did you get a response? I'm guessing it was 2004, perhaps, but can't see anything that strikes me as sarcastic in the Bird Report for that year. It is unfortunate if this has caused you to withold records for the 13 years since. Nobody is...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Yep first reported locally on April 25 this spring. Does seem to have been later than usual. Nick
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Yeah that's about it basically. Turn off the A90 at sign for Blackdog (not the Blackdog Industrial Estate turn-off just to the north). Drive straight down the road/lane, past the village, and keep going until the road turns sharp left just before the tarmac runs out. Park at this corner (or a...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Ben Nevis, Might have more chance of success posting a lift request on the ABZ Rare Birds Yahoo group - the posts are probably seen by more active birders locally than see this thread. Cheers Nick
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    NE Scotland Bird Records 2012 Can I ask anyone with 2012 bird records from NE Scotland (Aberdeen City and Shire) to send them to me as soon as possible please? The records will be used for compiling the regional Bird Report and for other purposes as listed in the introductory sections of the...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi James, I've been to Harestone Moss a few times, mainly looking at insects. It is a wonderful and very seldom visited little spot. Well done for discovering it yourself too and well done with the Hen Harrier in particular. Happy New Year, Nick
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Stephen, Yes things good here - how can they not be with scoters close enough to scan? Must be frustrating with all those birds well offshore and lord only knows haw many rarities among them. I was in email contact last week with a guy who has been out on a boat looking at them but I wonder...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Rik, Still a couple of thousand scoter - mainly off Blackdog at the moment. At least one adult drake Surf still this evening and a female earlier in the week. Handful of Velvets too. Look out also for Daffy - the presumed Common x Surf hybrid as per the poor pic attached - certainly the most...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Lindsay, Yes 2009 is the most recent published so far. I really hope that 2010 wont be long now. I will email a fuller update to yourself and the other contributors in the next day or two. Cheers Nick
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Danny, There has been one singing regularly in recent weeks (including on Saturday) at Red Moss of Netherley (Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve). One or two sing in the same area each year and are fairly straightforward to hear but I've never really tried to see them here. To access, take B979...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Danny, Think I've heard of records from there before but I don't know how regular they are. We looked in yesterday afternoon but didn't have any such highlights. Please send the record to the North East Scotland Biological Records Centre (NESBReC), www.nesbrec.org.uk There are proposals...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi James, I've not checked offshore at Blackdog for the last week and a half (have just got back from overseas) but in recent weeks there have just been around 50 or so Commons and a single Velvet. Winter tends to see the smallest scoter numbers here but always worth a look, I guess, Good luck...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Phil, Well there has certainly been such a Herring Gull about. This bird below (apologies for poor quality image) was at Blackdog a couple of weeks ago. It flew past folks watching the White-winged Scoter and was called by some as an Iceland Gull. I gather it has also been seen at Donmouth...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    At the risk of being a pedant and going over old ground that has been done to death before, Joseph is, of course, right. Even if Stejneger's is split there have not yet been any claims in Britain. I'm sure this will not be the case for long though with records in at least three other European...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    An apology and update on the 2009 Report. The final production process has clashed with final production phase for the about-to-be-published breeding bird atlas. I still don't have a publication date but it definitely will appear at some stage. Hopefully we will be back on track with the 2010...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Joseph, well done on seeing the Shrike and great pics. For anyone interested, the bird was again present today in the same area as you described, Nick
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Joseph, I'm actually going to be out on the moss (on the central, SWT reserve part where the shrike was originally) on Tuesday morning. Will report back here whether I see the bird or not. Cheers Nick
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Joseph, I was there again (the original location in the centre of the moss) on 9th Jan and did not see it that day. Also had just a really quick look at the place it had been seen at NW corder of moss without success. On the dates I did see it the bird was ranging widely. I would not be...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi KT, Great find. Looks like a juvenile as there appears to be a hint of barring on the underparts and impression of a pale bill. Must admit when I first looked at the pic I wondered if you had eliminated Steppe Grey Shrike when you saw the bird. Exceedingly difficult to tell from this image...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Sounds much like mine from Blackdog. It was distant so difficult to see details but basically white with yellowish bill and HG structure. Well done on the junco- here's hoping you can repeat the event back at Girdle Ness! Nick
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Mark had a white Herring Gull too a couple of weeks ago at Girdle Ness I think and I had one at Backdog a week or two before that. It was distant offshore and I certainly thought it was an Iceland on first look but it had HG structure. Maybe same one hanging about the area.... Nick
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    ...and Parkhill Garden Centre is selling two different brands of Little Owl boxes. I hope the Jackdaws appreciate this deception being carried out on their behalf. Actually if I remember rightly a postcard produced by Aberdeen by-pass opposition featured a selection of photos of wildlife that...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Joseph, There was an Egyptian Goose on 12 April 2008 near New Deer which to my knowledge is the only other NE Scotland record - so it is potentially a very significant bird indeed. However "The Birds of Scotland (2007)" lists Egyptian Goose on the provisional Category E of the Scottish List...
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    Wild in Aberdeen - City and Shire

    Hi Mark, Almost all reports back to when it started in 1974 are available from Dave Gill but some only as photocopies. For the more recent reports Dave is charging £2 for 1998-2004 and £4 for 2005-2007 (+ postage).You can also get a digital scan of all the 1974-99 reports on a CD from Ian...
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