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  1. Mark Lew1s

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    The picture shows bottlenose dolphin I’m afraid - they can sometimes have what look like very visible blows, especially in bright and breezy conditions. The fact that they were big helps nail the ID - some of the largest males are over 3.5 metres long around here. Also, you can see what looks...
  2. Mark Lew1s

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    Wow - can we see the pics? Pilot whales are really uncommon around here.
  3. Mark Lew1s

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    Aaaghhhh! I forgot those sanderling!
  4. Mark Lew1s

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    If it's easier, there's plenty of parking on the hill down towards the new harbour (St Fittick's Road) and several places where you can get through the fence and down towards the ponds. Good luck, it can be a very birdy area.
  5. Mark Lew1s

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    To be honest, when you only counted 80 odd the other day I did wonder whether I'd overcounted, but now I'm happy I didn't. Just wondering if you're sure you didn't see the merganser though... ;)
  6. Mark Lew1s

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    104 :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
  7. Mark Lew1s

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    Sorry to hear that your feeders are going missing! I should take this opportunity to thank you for putting them up in the first place - they certainly helped the birds and helped me to enjoy them over the winter. So, Thanks!
  8. Mark Lew1s

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    There’s nothing wrong with my eyes. My thumbs, however...!
  9. Mark Lew1s

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    Or what might turn up on the rocks in Greyhope bay....
  10. Mark Lew1s

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    I can add a couple of snow bunting, and a little auk north. Well jel of the tristis...
  11. Mark Lew1s

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    2 sibe chiffchaffs in Nigg Bay this afternoon, including one that was giving the alternative ‘hweet-like’ call
  12. Mark Lew1s

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    Barred warbler last night (and again this lunchtime) at the west end of the north bank, around the area where the traffic cones have been creatively deployed. Also a black redstart (or maybe 2) here, and a sibe chiff yesterday. Not much anywhere else around the headland though...
  13. Mark Lew1s

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    Yep, I'd have got it on my list if I'd been looking out of the office window at the right time...
  14. Mark Lew1s

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    Still one YBW around - calling along Abbey road. Dead other than that though...
  15. Mark Lew1s

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    I'm still seeing the odd Sandwich and common tern - but I haven't seen an Arctic for a while. I have seen them here in mid October before.
  16. Mark Lew1s

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    Good day on patch. Seawatching in the morning produced an ad Mediterranean gull and a tystie, and a juv peregrine around the foghorn. At lunchtime, the red-backed shrike showed briefly, and a short-eared owl was roosting on the golf course. Another seawatch after work, the med gull was still...
  17. Mark Lew1s

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    3 different tysties off the foghorn this lunchtime, which must be some sort of record?
  18. Mark Lew1s

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    A few good bits and bobs yesterday... A 1cy Tystie offshore at the foghorn (it's been there on and off for a week or so), a juv little gull with the kittiwakes in greyhope bay, 3 black-tailed godwits south over the foghorn, and the usual skuas, couple of whimbrel, knot etc too. Some good...
  19. Mark Lew1s

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    Interesting that you had tree sparrows - I had some earlier in August and another the other day. Not the first time I've had them in august but not a 'classic' time for them. I had another cuckoo on friday.
  20. Mark Lew1s

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    Seawatching this morning was quite good! Cory's shearwater, 5 sooty, 36 manx, and small numbers of great and Arctic skua in 1 hour before work.
  21. Mark Lew1s

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    Cuckoo and Merlin here today, and a sooty shearwater north early doors.
  22. Mark Lew1s

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    There was a black-throated diver in Nigg bay earlier on but I didn't see it this afternoon. And I didn't see the tufty either...!
  23. Mark Lew1s

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    with a 500 mm lens! But yes, even though I was walking along a path a good 40 m from it it didn't hang around for long...
  24. Mark Lew1s

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    This happened today....most unexpected! Also, 2 Siberian chiffchaffs singing around Nigg bay, and my first willow warbler of the spring too.
  25. Mark Lew1s

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    Yep it's pretty unusual but not out of the question - I've had them coming in-off at different times of year. I bet you were disappointed when it turned out to be 'only a buzzard'!
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