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  1. Tanny

    Hoylake Bird Observatory

    Thanks Jane, I have just been on the internet checking out Knot's and have seen hundreds of pictures of the bird with yellow legs. I am now satisfied that my pictures are of a Knot and I feel embarrassed about my lack of knowledge. I am now considering getting rid of all my bird books because...
  2. Tanny

    Hoylake Bird Observatory

    I was referring to the Lesser Yellowlegs
  3. Tanny

    Hoylake Bird Observatory

    Would (KNOT) it be a rare sighting for this area, and the photo's are proof. The Knot in my RSPB Bird book,and my book on Wading Birds of the World mention the bird has short grey legs.
  4. Tanny

    Hoylake Bird Observatory

    Red Rocks 2nd Nov Hi Jane I was at Red Rocks on Friday at high tide, great flocks of Sanderling, Grey Plover and Dunlin drifted past where I was hiding along the wall out of the chilly wind. A smallish mixed flock landed about thirty yards from me and I clicked away taking pictures. When I got...
  5. Tanny

    Hoylake Bird Observatory

    I just had my first female Blackcap warbler in the garden for this winter, she's early this time. Also eight Fieldfares perched in the tallest tree near the house.
  6. Tanny

    Hoylake Bird Observatory

    Thanks for the info Jane. I was around the Leasow Lighthouse yesterday and photographed the Wheatear in the fields with the horses. A swallow was desperately seaking flies and actualy flew over my head as close as six inches to get at a couple of midgies that were pestering me. I still hav'nt...
  7. Tanny

    Hoylake Bird Observatory

    It will just be like you to see or hear the first Cuckoo in the area. Please send me an email if you do. Cuckoo starved Tanny.
  8. Tanny

    Hoylake Bird Observatory

    Lovely sunset Jane, was this taken from your window looking west. The other day I saw 12 Sedge warblers and 10 Whitethroat at Leasow, they must have passed through your garden to get there.
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