Tuesday 6 November 2012

November dawns

Busy, busy, busy right now! Spare time I have had has been spent out and about or doing extra univeristy work; the joys of final year.

Some notable highlights since my last blog post, plenty of common stuff and a few goodies thrown in for good measure. I tried to go and see the Richardson's Canada Goose some weeks ago in Cumbria and failed, though I called in and saw a local Great White Egret which was nice to see. However all was not lost from that trip, a Todd's Canada Goose was picked out amongst the Barnacles, so can I add Todd's to cat A of my British list now? Who cares? Nice bird and the fact it was a vagrant made it semi-cool.

The Little Auk passage was good but didn't last all that long, always a delight to catch up with this species in the UK. However Saturday just gone was a fantastic day, the highlights being a cracking Little Bunting and a cracking Bee Eater, on Sunday I tried for the Lesser Kestrel but despite being there for early doors the species was nowhere to be seen. Apparently a reader of this blog was one of three individuals present and managed a photograph, as to whether or not Michael F will post his photo online remains to be seen. We would certainly like to see it, seems a bit strange that the photo should be held back as the other two observers sadly didn't have any equipment to take photographs with and so cannot supply any photographs.

Anyway here are some photographs and video of the weekends stars.

(Bee-Eater - © Andrew Kinghorn)

(Bee-Eater - © Andrew Kinghorn)

 (Little Bunting - © Mark Newsome)

(Little Bunting - © Mark Newsome)

Until next time, Foghorn out!

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