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  1. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    Wheldrake Woods: lots of Crossbills, Coal Tits, LTT, a few Siskin. Looked for Willow Tits but none found. Big dog fox seen plus Roe Deer slots.
  2. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    The hides are fairburn are mainly used for sexual liaisons for teenagers. It seems unfair to get between them just to look out at a Slavonian Grebe! But I aint slipping you anything in a hide, mate! ;)
  3. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    I agree it wasn't as bad as it could have been (at least they didn't say those immortal words "Twitchers have been flocking..."!) but I really don't see, for example, how the Christmas day 'anecdote' fitted in to the falcon sighting. I think it was an aside on the lengths some people go to for...
  4. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    at a twitch, with the masses, in the rain? Wash your mouth out. I was colouring in more Hobbies with black and orange felt tips and releasing them for you to chase.
  5. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    I thought it was pretty good actually, and quite balanced - a good piece of rare lengthy publicity for Tophill reserve. Some of the bits were indeed pretty 'sad', such as the Xmas day thing and the wilful disturbance, but it was an accurate reflection of what some people are like around rare...
  6. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    How long before there's some kind of birding league with a cup final tournament?! Oh wait, uk400, bird races, I suppose it's already happened! By 2012 it could be in the Olympics. The 100 species dash around Lea Valley reserve....
  7. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    at a cost of £5.20 and rising though....
  8. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    not as easy as it sounds, mate. What if you're in East Park or on a reserve somewhere, you walk past a brider and they say "hey, there's a such and such from the next hide/round the corner", which is exactly where you were heading and couldn't have missed it. It would have been self found if...
  9. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    Most racers don't tend to be in flocks for most of their journey, as they're all going to different destinations. These fast flocks you mention are probably commuting feral birds going between cities and outlying stubbles etc. You see it a lot in E Yorks (going into/out of Hull and probably also...
  10. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    They do indeed move about and turn up in odd places at this time of year. While the buzzard size comparison is encouraging, the 'long yellow legs' sounds a bit of an alarm. Goshawks do not have noticeably long yellow legs (probably not longer than a buzzard, say), whereas sparrowhawks DO have...
  11. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    don't think it's too unfair, as they would have presumably all come ashore together. The buzzard spp inland now are going to be the same birds that were seen on the coast, unless commons and honeys parted company at Redcar or all the commons inland are locals? The honeys are being seen inland...
  12. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    If I understood that I may concede on semantics!
  13. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    A watchpoint in the E Midlands yesterday had 25 Common Buzzard and about half a dozen Honey, all moving through purposefully south.
  14. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    quite a few, judging by the recent Garden Warbler i.d. threads!
  15. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    Sounds like the county recorders/rarities committees for Yorks have a job on their hands this winter with these buzzards. I do recall the 2000 event when virtually everything was assumed to be a Honey in some areas, with people e.g. seeing a group of birds and claiming them all as Honey. But...
  16. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    Big fall of PG Tips then ;) seriously though, there's no real right and wrong in this. There have been a few rarities about this weekend, a passage of Honeys, and passage of passerines. If it's a range of species that matters, then e.g. Flamborough has been good. If you call 'a fall' a good...
  17. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    What's a "PG Tips", btw?
  18. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    Look at the calendar, it IS september mate! Not exactly unexpected at this time of year! Not a big fall by all acounts, but still autumn passage and a scattering of rarities. Still, depends on what you call 'a fall'. I'm glad a few things passed through for you though. You must have had your...
  19. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    I thought you were being sponsored by Pringles! http://www.no.pg.com/imagebank/new_logo_red_mr_Pringles.jpg
  20. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    Metcheck is good too. Usually better than Met Office/BBC.
  21. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    That's a hilarious avatar you've got there. Jog on. I think sat am is as good as it will get tbh. Weather goes downhill from late sat am for your sunday jaunt. Winds drop and veer southerly. But who knows, you may be lucky. It's mostly down to luck, these things. Well i wont be with the...
  22. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    I don't exist, I'm a java script put into BirdForum by the designers to string threads out a bit with a bit of controversy and strident debate, and made-up statements that sound plausible ;) I don't actually go 'birding' anymore, as I spend most of the week doing fieldwork. I get about a lot -...
  23. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    easterlies look a bit light for anything spectacular. Weather has been ok for migration all week, and while there is poor visibility in the North Sea and east coast this weekend, it's unlikely that there'll be a huge blob of birds all moving at once and there's nothing to push them onto the East...
  24. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    echo.... slapped wrists all round, us bad lads! ;)
  25. KnockerNorton

    Yorkshire Birding

    Pearson Park is usually better for that.
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