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Another look at The White-tailed Lapwing

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Nov 162021

Another look at The White-tailed Lapwing

On the 18th September I decide to pay another visit to the RSPB reserve at Blacktoft Sands to try my luck again with the White-tailed Lapwing. There was also a Bluethroat on site which was an added bonus. Unfortunately the White-tailed Lapwing spent most of its time distantly, on a small island viewable from Townend Hide. I managed a couple of flight shots, and one reasonable image of it resting. Other birds of note were a number of Shoveler, a single Spotted Redshank, 3 Little Egret, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, c30 Ruff, c 10 Green Sandpiper, several Snipe and a fly […]

Green is the Colour

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Sep 192021

On the 9th of September an adult Green Warbler was trapped and ringed at Buckton, Yorkshire. This bird represented the 9th record for Britain and the first twitchable one on the British mainland. We were driving back from our weeks holiday in Cornwall on the 10th and so the 11th would be my first opportunity to twitch it. I made arrangements with Alan Shaw to go on the Saturday morning on first news, working on the basis that it would remain there all day if still on site. Sure enough it was and we set off around 07:45 arriving at […]

An obliging “Horned Doucker”

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Sep 032021

Before the latter half of the eighteenth century, the Great Crested Grebe was fairly well distributed over Britain. However, by 1860, a total of 42 pairs were counted, the demise was due to its plumage becoming fashionable in the trimmings of clothes and hats. By 1867 only one pair of Great Crested Grebes was recorded at Tring reservoirs but by 1884 there were seventy-five pairs. Recolonisation began and was aided by the passing of the Bird Protection Act and a positive human reaction to its decline. Many of the women who wore the “grebe fur” fashioned clothing, became aware of […]

A Derbyshire `Tick’

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Sep 032021

Over the years I’ve missed numerous Spoonbills in Derbyshire. This spring I missed one at Ogston by minutes, so I was hopeful that I would catch up with one soon enough, especially as their numbers are increasing in the UK year on year. Sure enough, an immature bird was discovered during mid-morning at Willington Gravel Pits on the 25th August 2021, giving me my chance and fortunately the bird stayed long enough for me to see it. It showed well albeit a little distant on the gravel spit on the main lagoon. As is often the case at Willington, birds […]

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