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KB57s 2022 year list
Thanks - it's already looking better! You've got a hard act to follow after your impressive multi-species total last year though...- kb57
- Post #74
- Forum: Member's Lists 2022
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KB57s 2022 year list
So after hoping for an improvement, I finished 2022 on exactly the same total as 2021...which must qualify as my baseline list when I'm not getting out into nature nearly enough, and doing very little dedicated birding. Only three lifers - short-toed treecreeper, red-necked nightjar and pied...- kb57
- Post #72
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KB57s 2022 year list
Dec 17: Vila Real de Santo Antonio Took the morning train from my local station to the end of the line at Vila Real, where I'd planned a birding circuit with the help of Gonçalo Elias's 100 Best Birding Hotspots in the Algarve book. First stop was Esteiro da Carrasquiera, just north of the...- kb57
- Post #71
- Forum: Member's Lists 2022
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KB57s 2022 year list
Dec 10: Tavira Took a trip down the Gilão river to Tavira Island on a rare break from buying stuff for the apartment - very quiet here in winter, more turnstones than people hanging around the ferry landing at Quatro Águas...a single flyover Audouin's was the highlight of the ride downriver...- kb57
- Post #70
- Forum: Member's Lists 2022
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KB57s 2022 year list
Thanks Owene, really liking it here so far, hoping to do a proper birding day tomorrow if I can avoid waiting in for deliveries / people coming to fix stuff...adjusting to getting excited about seeing robin, song thrush and greenfinch outside the apartment - certainly hadn't seen the first two...- kb57
- Post #69
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KB57s 2022 year list
Dec 02: Tavira, Portugal Finally accomplished my (partial) move to Portugal - still going to be spending some time in Newcastle and coming back when I need to for work visits. Been here a week and haven't even seen the sea yet, but have racked up three visits to Ikea so far :rolleyes:. Urban...- kb57
- Post #67
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KB57s 2022 year list
Nov 07: Whitley Bay Have been really busy with other stuff lately, and must admit the bean goose episode knocked my confidence - my birding has been restricted to counting common gulls in the local park, and getting distracted from working by fieldfares on the hedge outside my partner's study...- kb57
- Post #66
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KB57s 2022 year list
Feeling a little sick and embarrassed at the moment as my bean goose record has been rejected and determined as a pink foot. Starting to doubt my own sanity just now, but I can see what he means - serves me right for looking first and taking photos later....- kb57
- Post #65
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KB57s 2022 year list
I'm not even sure we used to get that many migrant hawkers up here in the past; the inappropriately named southern was the default lowland hawker, with common more frequent in more upland acidic habitats, and golden-ringed in the uplands proper. I think people are even recording Emperor...- kb57
- Post #63
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KB57s 2022 year list
Sep 24: Druridge Bay, Northumberland Decided on a multi-site trip up Druridge Bay, starting at Cresswell Ponds. Birder reported a spotted redshank had been on the exposed mud near the hide - I persevered for a while and eventually picked it up on the far side of the pond, giving decent if...- kb57
- Post #61
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KB57s 2022 year list
Sep 18: St. Mary's Island, North Tyneside Had a spare afternoon so decided to head for the coast, walking from Old Hartley to the lighthouse car park and back, then inland to take in Holywell Dene and Pond. Much to my surprise, the Lapland bunting which had been reported on Twitter for the past...- kb57
- Post #60
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KB57s 2022 year list
Aug 06: North Newcastle on Tyne Remember to put water out in your garden in dry weather...you might get to add hedgehog to your mammal list... 15. Hedgehog A day off work on Aug 08 with my partner and a walk up at St. Abb's Head failed to add anything to my bird or mammal list, although...- kb57
- Post #58
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KB57s 2022 year list
County Durham and Tyneside remain relative strongholds, they're still hanging on here - my partner on the northern edge of Newcastle gets them in her garden occasionally too, and I've heard and seen them in my local woods. In contrast marsh tits require a bit more effort, perhaps reflecting the...- kb57
- Post #56
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KB57s 2022 year list
Jul 25: NW Durham A rather bedraggled willow tit visiting my neighbour's feeders, alongside some equally soggy blue and coal tits - including quite a few young ones. 139. Willow Tit- kb57
- Post #54
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KB57s 2022 year list
Jul 10: Whitley Bay, North Tyneside A late afternoon trip to the refurbished Spanish City (as featured in Dire Straits' lyrics) for a coffee and cake in warm sunshine, followed by a walk along the promenade to St. Mary's Island in comparable temperatures to our recent Portugal trip. This takes...- kb57
- Post #53
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KB57s 2022 year list
Jul 03: Santa Luzia, Portugal Did a long beach walk today from the village via Barril, back along to the east end of Tavira island, catching the ferry back to town. Only one addition, a fairly distant but distinctive great egret viewed across the marsh from Pedras del Rey. Kept looking offshore...- kb57
- Post #52
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KB57s 2022 year list
Jul 02: Santa Luzia, Portugal Our only real birding of the trip - on the Santa Luzia salt pans - failed to add any new species to the year list, but was rewarding nonetheless. Excellent views of Zitting Cisticola, serin, Iberian magpie, Kentish plover, crested larks and black-winged stilts, with...- kb57
- Post #51
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KB57s 2022 year list
Jul 01: Tavira / Santa Luzia, Portugal Got the bus to Tavira, then took a ferry ride downriver to the beach and back - normally this is good for waders later in the year, but the most notable was a curlew on the return trip - although foraging little terns around the boat and flamingos on the...- kb57
- Post #50
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KB57s 2022 year list
June 30: Santa Luzia, Portugal Lots of birds, but only one addition to the year list today, at the start of the walk to Barril beach as part of our SL - Pedras del Rey - Barril - Terra Estreita walking circuit. 131. Sardinian Warbler- kb57
- Post #49
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KB57s 2022 year list
June 29: Santa Luzia, Portugal Amongst the large numbers of common swifts seen from our balcony yesterday, I'd been 80% convinced there were a few pallid swifts, both in terms of call and plumage, but hadn't got a convincing view. Saw a couple of definite pallid this morning though, separate...- kb57
- Post #48
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KB57s 2022 year list
June 28: Santa Luzia, Portugal Back to our usual haunts in the eastern Algarve - decided against hiring a car this year so we're limited to the Santa Luzia - Tavira area. Not really a birding trip either...more chilling out, doing a few beach walks, and attending to some business in Tavira...- kb57
- Post #47
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KB57s 2022 year list
June 18: Bellingham, Northumberland My partner left her fleece behind in the lodge we stayed at last weekend, so it was a good excuse to return and have a walk by the river - managed to finally see a Eurasian treecreeper in some riparian alder woodland, and connect with the small local...- kb57
- Post #46
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KB57s 2022 year list
June 16: Stockton on Tees A few additions to the mammal list with the help of a fancy Swiss detector I was using - mostly common pipistrelles, but it alerted me to a Myotis species and a noctule flying overhead. The former may yet get identified with sound analysis, although they are tricky to...- kb57
- Post #45
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KB57s 2022 year list
June 11: Hareshaw Linn, Northumberland Staying up near Bellingham for the weekend for my son and daughter-in-law's Covid-delayed wedding reception, rearranged for summer when they could finally invite all their friends. Great weekend - and I still managed to squeeze in a little birding...- kb57
- Post #44
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KB57s 2022 year list
03 June: NW Durham Can't believe it's taken me almost half the year to add jay to my year list - a reflection on the lower number of local walks I'm doing post-lockdown. This one gave up waiting for me to look for it, and perched on my garden fence while I was having my morning cup of tea. A new...- kb57
- Post #43
- Forum: Member's Lists 2022