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1978
On Hilbre where a seawatch produced a Fulmar, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers, a Great Crested Grebe, a Common Scoter and a Sanderling, again the wader roost was impressive.
Photo: Grey Plover & Turnstone.
1979
As we were already in Kent, we decided to visit Dungeness, where we did an hours seawatch from the beach, seeing 2 Red-throated Divers and another 17 divers too far out to identify, around 70 Common Scoter, 2 Shoveler, 18 Brent Geese, 5 Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Kittiwakes, a Golden Plover, 2 Shelducks and 14 Oystercatchers.
In the area near the observatory we saw 2 Black Redstarts, 5 Wheatears, 5+ Firecrests, 5 Chiffchaffs, 4 Snipe, 1 Redpoll and a Tree Sparrow. Then we went to several of the flooded gravel pits, seeing 3 Goosanders, 18 Goldeneyes, 7 Slavonian Grebes, a Red-necked Grebe and 3 Ruddy Ducks.
1991
In Belize, 17 new birds and 2 new reptiles seen today.
1993
Another sound recording trip to the New Forest, where the birds of note were 4 Woodlarks, Marsh Tit, Nuthatch, Stonechat, Curlew,
10 Hawfinches, Redpoll, Great Spotted and Green Woodpeckers, a Brambling, a Chiffchaff and 5 male and 2 female Mandarin Ducks.
2012
A visit to Chew Valley Lake, where on Herriott's Pool there were 30+ Canada Geese and a Richardson's Cackling Goose, 7 Barnacle Geese and an Egyptian Goose. On one of the islands a Spotted Sandpiper, seen preening and feeding, also a Green Sandpiper.
On the lakeside there were 4+ Chiffchaffs in the reed-bed and a Little Egret and a Black-tailed Godwit by the water, on the lake was a Long-tailed Duck.
Then news came of a Scandinavian Rock Pipit on the tower at the dam, rare in this area, it was close on the tower for a while, before flying down to the dam and walking alongside the water.
Video & photos of
Scandinavian Rock Pipit,
also see here.
2017
A visit to Northwick Village where the Little Owl was sat in a tree in the orchard.
2018
A brief afternoon visit to Aust Warth between 3-5pm, seeing my 1st 2 Wheatears of the year, a pair of Peregrines sat on the top of the mast by the 1st Severn Bridge, a female Kestrel and a Short-eared Owl.
Wheatear.
