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An audience with the Chatterley Whitfield Worminator. | John Dempsey Birdblog
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Blogging for too long, birding even longer. Happy seawatch to you…. Sexy Beast →. An audience with the Chatterley Whitfield Worminator. When we got there, as is often the way with youngsters, the bird was in a petulant mood, skulking and preening in a hawthorn –. Look Mom No Head! Ahh, how I miss Lux and Ivy….). This was okay, as it gave us time to have a look at the young Black Redstart through the fence at the old colliery entrance, while the falcon sorted itself out. Then it shot back into the hawthor...
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March | 2015 | Birdblog Cuba
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March 1, 2015 /. Blog at WordPress.com. Blogging for too long, birding even longer.
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Los Senderos Y Aves | Birdblog Cuba
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February 22, 2015 /. Los Senderos Y Aves. If you’re staying at the Playa Costa Verde, just walk out and the track is on the left of the Centre Commercial in front of your hotel. Plenty of rubbish, horse poop and dumped garden vegetation, but don’t let that put you off – the trail runs for 400m before being blocked by a barbed wire fence. Absolute heaven, it’s been too long since I got to play with these stunners. Feral Helmeted Guineafowl that exploded from cover at first light made me jump everytime.
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Pelagic tamed. | John Dempsey Birdblog
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Blogging for too long, birding even longer. Always a worry when the rig disappears…. A weird week, and it’s only Monday →. Undeniably exciting to see a Sabine’s Gull so close and in such warm sunny conditions down at Pennington Flash this morning, but it didn’t feel. Tropical Thomason had picked me up with Bazzo in the back of his wheels already at about 1030, and once we’d established he didn’t need a SatNav we set off. I think we might be the last birders on the planet to have caught up with this one.
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A little bit of rain ain’t so bad… | John Dempsey Birdblog
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Blogging for too long, birding even longer. Sleepy time. →. A little bit of rain ain’t so bad…. A morning of prolonged rain seemed as good a time as any to pop over to Martin Mere to pick up a new ‘scope strap from In Focus. Today, although the south easterly wind direction suggested it mightn’t be a total loss. Wasn’t expecting a Bittern though! 8230;a fine soggy carpet bag for a fine soggy Sunday. The bird took some digging out, and I eventually got it in my ‘scope right at the back of the marsh ...
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Always a worry when the rig disappears… | John Dempsey Birdblog
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Blogging for too long, birding even longer. Pelagic tamed. →. Always a worry when the rig disappears…. A Grey Seal pup* hauling out onto a sandbank at Ainsdale first thing this morning was a sign things might be rough further out, while a fine dark phase Arctic Skua harassing terns close in mid-morning was all the extra encouragement I needed to try a lunchtime seawatch today. Numbers of scoters are really starting to build now. 1 dark phase Arctic Skua). Great Crested Grebe 1. Common Scoter 400 approx.
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El Recuento Completo | Birdblog Cuba
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March 1, 2015 /. Here’s a list of what I think I had in the area around the Blau Costa Verde from Feb 2nd-16th, 2015. Antillean Palm Swift was at Holguin and the Reddish Egret nearby, everything else was within walking distance of the bar. West Indian Whistling Duck. Black Crowned Night Heron. Yellow Crowned Night Heron. Great Lizard Cuckoo (pictured). La Sagra’s Flycatcher. Black and White Warbler. Black Throated Blue Warbler. Un Paseo a la Playa. Add yours →. March 4, 2015 — 12:45 pm. Blogging for too ...
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Sexy Beast | John Dempsey Birdblog
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Blogging for too long, birding even longer. An audience with the Chatterley Whitfield Worminator. A little bit of rain ain’t so bad… →. My first Speckled Bush Cricket – a superb find by Trevor Davenport in his garden at Freshfield this week (and an equally superb photograph too Trevor, thanks for letting me use it). Trevor kindly showed me this first for our part of the world yesterday…it brought back fond memories of the Oak Bush Cricket I found at Dempsey Towers back in 2010 (. Good numbers of Swifts f...
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Sleepy time. | John Dempsey Birdblog
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Blogging for too long, birding even longer. A little bit of rain ain’t so bad…. Always a worry when the rig disappears… →. After a deathly quiet week on the blog, a close, humid afternoon down at Haskayne Cutting was appropriately soporific today, with the rank vegetation bursting with Meadowsweet, Knapweeds, Thistles and Spearworts that drew in an army of bees and hoverflies, albeit fewer butterflies. 4 thoughts on “ Sleepy time. August 1, 2015 at 6:03 pm. 1 x Ringed Plover. 50 x Black Tailed Godwit.
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Un Paseo a la Playa | Birdblog Cuba
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February 24, 2015 /. Un Paseo a la Playa. Wandering off to the north east of the Blau Costa Verde a concrete path meanders past a dive school, then heads off into the vast area of scrub beyond – it looks tempting, but is quite tricky to work. Bad map on the “ Malos Mapas. American Redstart, Prairie Warbler and Northern Parulas were joined by Black and White Warblers and Oriente Warblers. Seabirds were virtually non-existent…even during a rare spell of stormy weather, the odd Royal Tern, like the on...
