{"id":4517,"date":"2012-12-02T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T22:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:24:38","slug":"a-surprise-county-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/a-surprise-county-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise County Tick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA Velvet Scoter in Derbyshire<\/span> – A fairly mediocre kind of day turned out rather good, with an unexpected County Tick. We had decided to visit Carsington Reservoir<\/span>, as there was a Slavonian Grebe and Great Northern Diver and there is always a chance of finding a good bird at this site. We eventually saw the Slavonian Grebe<\/span> from the Wildlife Hide, along with a couple of Willow Tit at the feeding station and a few Tree Sparrows – but the GND's (two of them) were from Millfields, so we decided to head-off there later. From Sheepwash Hide there were numerous common wildfowl, along with the ever-present adult Yellow-legged Gull.<\/span> Then we had a phone call around mid-morning advising us of a 1st winter drake Velvet Scoter that had been found at Steetley Quarry,<\/span> a rather sensitive site, in Derbyshire but right on the Derbys-Notts<\/span> border near Worksop. So, decision made, we decided to head-off there. \n<\/p>\n

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\n\tDunnock – Carsington Water, Derbyshire – Tony Davison©<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tWillow Tit – Carsington Water, Derbyshire – Tony Davison©<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tWillow Tit – Carsington Water, Derbyshire – This picture shows the pale wing panel particularly well – Tony Davison©<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tGreat Tit – Carsington Water, Derbyshire – Tony Davison©<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tTree Sparrow – male – Carsington Water, Derbyshire – Tony Davison©<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tAbout an hour later I was watching my first <\/span>Velvet Scoter<\/span> for Derbyshire, the last one was in 2002, so, thanks to Roy for finding it..  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t1st winter drake Velvet Scoter – heavily cropped record shots – Steetley Quarry, Derbyshire.  – Tony Davison©<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn the way home via Chilwell and at least 130 Waxwings<\/span> were zapping around but very flighty in the late afternoon sunshine. I managed a few record shots, but nothing special. We had missed the best part of the day for these birds.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tWaxwing – Chilwell, Nottinghamshire – Tony Davison©<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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A Velvet Scoter in Derbyshire – A fairly mediocre kind of day turned out rather good, with an unexpected County Tick. We had decided to visit Carsington Reservoir, as there was a Slavonian Grebe and Great Northern Diver and there is always a chance of finding a good bird at this site. We eventually saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,262],"tags":[272,592,593,595,270,594,102,275],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-birds","category-birdsof2012","tag-carsington-water","tag-dunnock","tag-great-tit","tag-steetley","tag-tree-sparrow","tag-velvet-scoter","tag-waxwing","tag-willow-tit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}