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  1. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    31st December: near Cramlington, Northumberland Back at work for the morning, hoping and failing to add grey partridge to my year list - first year it's been absent I think since I got back into birding... I did see both common and jack snipe, the latter one field away from the November...
  2. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    3rd December: Brogborough, Bedfordshire Work visit again providing my main opportunity to add to the year list- another widespread species I thought I might end up missing out on this year. 330. Redwing
  3. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    21st November, near Cramlington, Northumberland On private farmland for a work visit - good numbers of species like linnet, skylark and tree sparrow feeding on fallow areas, and above average rainfall leading to a lot of surface water. Can't believe it's taken this long to add goldcrest to my...
  4. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    17th November, Gosforth Park Nature Reserve Not had a chance to get out birding the past few weeks due to work commitments, but I did rejoin the Natural History Society a couple of months ago after a ca. 45 year absence. Great to spend some quiet time in the nature reserve again, when I had a...
  5. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    12th October: North Newcastle on Tyne Sometimes you need to travel to see good birds, occasionally they come to you...a sunflower heart feeder in my partner's garden, to be precise... 327. Willow Tit
  6. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    October 10th: Sagres Drove to Sagres for a Mar Ilimitado pelagic on the first day of the birdwatching festival. This was the first time we'd done the motor yacht rather than a RIB. The lower speed (meaning, presumably, why we didn't take in the Cory's shearwater rafts off Cape St. Vincent)...
  7. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    7th October: Santa Luzia Took the ferry along the channel to Terra Estreita beach. Often get good views of Audouin's gull close by the boat here, but none around today. My partner did ask 'what's that tern with a big red beak'? though... 323. Caspian Tern 8th October: Santa Luzia The...
  8. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    6th October: San Lourenco / Ludo saltpans Back to Faro again, parking on the road at the west end of the airport runway. Walked along the causeway by the saltmarsh, past the golf course lake at San Lourenco, then back across the saltpans. Always good for birds, we added significantly to the...
  9. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    5th October: Tavira, Portugal Spent much of the day in and around Tavira. Not much birding getting done, but we did take a drive down to both sides of the rivermouth past the saltpans to connect with larger flocks of flamingos than were currently around the Santa Luzia pans. Sat on the beach...
  10. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    4th October: Faro, Portugal My partner had arranged a boat tour from Faro port with Ocean Vibes, a relatively new company run by a couple of young marine biologists. There was just the 3 of us booked on the early afternoon tour, which took in part of the Ria Formosa we'd not visited before -...
  11. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    3rd October: Santa Luzia, Portugal A combined birding and beach holiday back at our usual haunts in the eastern Algarve. My partner had visited earlier in the year (adding species like bee-eater to her year list) but this was my first trip for two years. We had a non-birding (but interested in...
  12. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    21st September: Lindisfarne More of a walk than a dedicated birdwatch today, reflecting the fact I'm on a bit of a weight loss mission at the moment. The island was full of people, although population density declined dramatically away from the village and castle. Quite a few waders about on...
  13. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    31st August: Warkworth A walk along the River Coquet produced a great flight view of a species I normally catch up with a little earlier in the year than this.. 301. Common Kingfisher
  14. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    19th August, RSPB Frampton Marsh After a morning coffee and wander round the mediaeval centre of Lincoln, our first ever visit to this reserve. Wondered why the car park was so full on a Monday lunchtime, then realised there was a buff-breasted sandpiper twitch in full swing. We contrived to...
  15. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    18th August: RSPB Blacktoft Sands After not getting out birding for a while, we decided to book a Sunday night overnight stay in Lincoln, and combine a visit to this historic city with a couple of RSPB reserves. First up on the way down was a welcome return to Blacktoft Sands, which didn't...
  16. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    28th July: Newbiggin, Northumberland Given an easterly airflow, persuaded my partner that a bit of gentle seawatching from the rocks at Church Point might be a good way to spend an hour or so this afternoon. Lots of tern and gannet action, the former including a single little as well as Arctic...
  17. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    22nd July: Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB, Wirral A long weekend of family stuff in the NW, with enough time for a few hours at Burton Mere on a very hot (28C) afternoon. Nice to see black-tailed godwits at this time of year, when quite a few retain summer plumage. 287. Black-tailed Godwit 288...
  18. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    6th July, Cow Green Reservoir, Co. Durham Did a walk with a group of friends from Cow Green to High Cup Nick, along part of the Pennine Way. Not a birding trip, but carried my binoculars, and saw plenty of breeding waders - oystercatcher, lapwing, curlew, snipe, redshank - and a great view of...
  19. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    30th June: Coquet Island, Northumberland Didn't get round to doing this last year, so was keen to get back out on a boat trip I've always been a positive advocate for. Slightly disappointing today, trip only lasted just over 30 minutes, ostensibly due to westerly wind meaning we couldn't...
  20. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    26th June: Etangs de Boitsfort, Belgium After a few days in Brussels city centre, managed to get out for a couple of hours into some quite good looking habitat - forest and wetlands. As seems to happen quite often, after my first turtle dove in a very long time a couple of weeks ago, I added a...
  21. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    15th June, North Yorkshire Had a day free and decided I was long overdue some birding. Started off badly, dipping corn bunting at a site I'd seen them a few years ago, near Nosterfield...called into Nosterfield gravel pits, dipping little ringed plover (but seeing some avocet chicks), before...
  22. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    11th June: Allington, Kent Work visit down south, where green woodpeckers are common enough to be seen in the grounds of an industrial site (with plentiful ants in the surrounding grassy bunds, it has to be said) 275. European Green Woodpecker 12th June: Co. Durham Back from a long drive...
  23. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    4th June, Teesdale Haven't managed to get out birding for a while, but a work visit to the North Pennines added one rather obvious species to the list. 274. Willow Ptarmigan (ssp. scotica)
  24. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    23rd May: Warkworth beach / Coquet Estuary For once managed to finish work early enough to head up the coast for a relaxing evening walk on the beach. Came upon a large flock of ringed plovers with some dunlins and a few sanderlings...finally catching up with what is normally a New Years Day...
  25. kb57

    KB57's 2019 list

    16th May: somewhere in Co. Durham If I hadn't seen one in Lithuania last year, this would be a cause of even greater celebration - my first wood warblers in Britain for decades, plus I watched one of the pair take food into a nest on the ground not five metres from the path... Didn't linger in...
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