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  1. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Dec 26: Gosforth Park, Newcastle on Tyne Symptomatic of how little I've managed to get out birding (or even walking) this year, GSW finally added whilst out with the partner's son's lurcher in Gosforth Park (the golf course end, not the nature reserve...), previously only heard-only. Heard...
  2. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Dec 05: Near Pentre Halkyn, North Wales Work site visit. Also added a pair of ravens to my European year list (if I kept a separate list...) 163. Eurasian Woodcock*
  3. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Dec 03: north Newcastle on Tyne Finally got siskin coming to my partner's snow-covered garden. 162. Eurasian Siskin
  4. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Dec 01: north Newcastle on Tyne Back in snowy NE England... Been distracted from work over the past couple of days by quite a few fieldfares flying around and feeding on hawthorn berries, visible from my partner's study window. Finally caught up with a few redwings amongst them just now, well...
  5. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Nov 21: Canal do Tavira Took the ferry from town down the river to Tavira Island for lunch and a paddle on the beach, making the most of a little time off work. Distant view of an osprey from the island, flying across the channel in the direction of Cabanas. 160. Western Osprey Wondering if...
  6. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Nov 19: Quinta do Ludo, Faro First time back on this site since January and had an unpleasant surprise to find access from the footpath alongside São Lourenço golf to the northern part of the saltpans has been blocked off, complete with security guard and CCTV cameras - had to backtrack past the...
  7. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    eBird shows that there are actually quite a few recent records in the Algarve, though a few spots seem to be more favoured than others, such as Quinta do Ludo near the airport - before mine, there hadn't been a record on this particular site since February, and it gets quite a few checklists...
  8. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Oct 14: Tavira saltpans, Portugal Had an enjoyable October Big Day around Tavira / Santa Luzia area. Got soaking wet with heavy rain in the saltpans in the morning, when I'd probably have been better checking the trees on Tavira island for migrant passerines - which were very quiet by the...
  9. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Sep 30: St. Mary's Island, North Tyneside Watching grey seals on the rocks on a spring low tide, and trying to dig out a guillemot amongst the group of offshore auks without the 'scope (concluding everything identifiable was a razorbill), when 2 or possibly 3 dolphins passed close by the rocks...
  10. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Sep 27: Bishop Auckland area, Co. Durham Back in UK for a work site visit - on an area of agricultural land when a skein of around 90 pink feet flew over quite low, heading more or less due south - from other reports there's clearly a lot of southward movement of this species at the moment, as...
  11. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Sep 14: Canal de Tavira, Portugal For the first two weeks in September I was self-isolating with Covid in my apartment, possibly after picking up the virus on my late August flight over to Faro (or maybe I should blame Hauxley nature reserve tea room, about the only other time I was out in...
  12. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Aug 28: Warkworth, Northumberland Managed an afternoon up at the coast for the first time during my month-long stay in Newcastle. A heavy shower on the way up helped us decide to do some birding from the Wildlife Trust's Hauxley visitor centre cafe - the lake was feral goose central, with a...
  13. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Aug 08: Gosforth, Newcastle on Tyne Can't believe I haven't already got this on my mammal list - 2 deer grazing on a local golf course. 9. Roe Deer
  14. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Aug 01: Tavira saltpans Although I live within walking distance of the left bank saltpans in Tavira, I've never properly visited them before. As I'm heading back to Newcastle for the rest of August tomorrow after being here since May, this was my last chance to rectify that for a while. Did a...
  15. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    July 24: Foia, Monchique I guess spending time in dense cloud at 14C will be good training for my return to England next month, but our early morning visit to the highest point in the Algarve wasn't great for birding...a couple of putative woodlarks disappearing into the mist, before a decent...
  16. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    July 23: Vila Foia, Monchique Escaping the heat of the lowlands for slightly less heat in a little retreat on the slopes of Foia, surrounded by cork oaks and Arbutus trees. Nuthatches very frequent and a first for us in Portugal...heard an unusual warbler call, which my partner's Merlin app IMO...
  17. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    July 05: Tavira Island Took time off work for a visit to the beach and added an overdue Med gull or three - no Audouin's from the boat to Terra Estreita though....another overdue species this year. 147. Mediterranean Gull
  18. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    Thanks - although moving to a new country always increases the chances, I didn't think there'd be much new I could see located on the edge of Tavira town centre with a little patch of undeveloped land between us and a rail line and road. I've been coming to this area for almost 10 years now...
  19. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    June 23: Tavira Lots of work to finish off so I've been head down over the computer for most of the week. Wandered out onto the balcony a short while ago while the kettle was boiling to somewhat myopically watch a hoopoe probing the lawn outside (I don't wear my contact lenses whilst doing close...
  20. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    June 15: Chirk, Wales Spent a few days in Wales on a work visit, which took in a great site in private woodland by the Dee, with a family of goosanders, common sandpiper and grey wagtails (but not any hoped-for dippers...) enriching my lunch stop. The final day before flying back from Liverpool...
  21. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    June 05: Tavira Island Non-birding friend visiting, but still managed to see quite a lot on a beach walk on Tavira Island from Barril to Terra Estreita, followed by a ferry to Santa Luzia and walk back to Tavira through the saltpans. Kentish plovers on the beach and in the saltpans - more...
  22. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    May 28: Mértola, Alentejo Had a hire car for a few days, so took advantage of the temporarily increased mobility to leave the Algarve for a day trip to Mertola, not much more than an hour away from us, but a very different landscape. Saved exploring sites further afield for another day and...
  23. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    May 26: Santa Luzia Took a walk at dusk between Santa Luzia and Pedras del Rei, along the road between the Ria Formosa salt marsh and agricultural land inland. Unfortunately the latter is being increasingly converted to citrus groves, with little pasture left and therefore no cattle egrets and...
  24. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    May 20: Tavira Waiting at Porta Nova station for a train, my partner noticed a hovering raptor, observing 'that doesn't look like a kestrel'...indeed it didn't - and we were then treated to a closer flypast for only my second ever view of this species. 136. Black-winged Kite*
  25. kb57

    KB57s 2023 year list

    May 18: Santa Luzia saltpans Took a walk back to Tavira along the track which skirts the northern edge of the saltpans. Although we're past the migration season, still quite a lot to see including Iberian magpie, Sardinian warblers, black-winged stilts, avocets, flamingos, redshank, Kentish...
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