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2013 Annual Summary
Summary 2013 We had several holidays or breaks where we had an opportunity to see birds we would not normally see or just to get our “year list” up to speed. These included our first guided birding during a visit to Norfolk and Cambridgeshire in March, a visit to Somerset and Dorset in May that
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Summary December 2013
Summary December 2013 Garden December started a little damp and temperatures were a bit up and down sometimes being quite mild and at other times cold. The garden birds are still finding food in the wild and the Blackbirds started the month still eating berries from the trees. The Robins and Tits are clearly still
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Buff-bellied Pipit and Siberian Chiffchaff, Burton Marsh 28th December 2013
Buff-bellied Pipit and Siberian Chiffchaff, Burton Marsh 28th December 2013 The reported presence of a Buff-bellied Pipit and a Siberian Chiffchaff at Burton Marsh was too much to resist and with just a few days of 2013 left I was determined to add another tick to my 2013 year list – indeed a it would
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The Pensarn Hoopoe : 22nd December 2013
The Pensarn Hoopoe : 22nd December 2013 I had been looking at the presence of this bird at Pensarn for quite some time on the bird alert services, Rare Bird Alert and Rare Bird Network, the latter of which I now access via Twitter. Both had been showing the bird for weeks after it had
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Search for Crossbills, Broomhead Reservoir 14th December 2013
Search for Crossbills, Broomhead Reservoir 14th December 2013 I had been looking for weeks at the sightings of Two-barred and Common Crossbills listed on the Birdguides “Bird News Anywhere” site but had not yet found the time to get over to Broomhead Reservoir which is nearly at Sheffield. On a Sunday and the weather looking
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Visit to Marshside RSPB 12th December 2013
Visit to Marshside RSPB 12th December 2013 I had been reading about a sighting of a Baikal Teal that had been seen at RSPB Marshside on Sutton’s Marsh, viewable from the path and just behind the sewage works so we decided to drive up thereto see if luck would shine on us. Of interest, also,
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Provisional Bird Group Venues for Winter Term
Provisional Bird Group Venues for Winter Term
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