tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76980233651894520142024-03-13T22:16:51.046+00:00Ben's Birding BlogA look at the Birds, Moths, Dragonflies, Orchids, Bugs
and anything else I manage to
see in NorfolkBen Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-60754005109061223762021-04-07T18:39:00.001+01:002021-04-07T18:39:41.897+01:00Green year list additions and fish on the path!This year I am trying a green year list for the first time. I'm not much of a yearlister, but given the lockdowns and staying local I thought I'd see how many species i can see without using fuel/burning carbon. Seeing as I rarely go too far away from the local area it makes sense to keep a green list. Being able to cycle to Buckenham and Cantley has certainly been very much appreciated in the recent lockdowns, adding a lot of species I dont see at home or Strumpshaw Fen.
Yesterday while opening the sluices at the fen (large flood!) I managed to catch up with a number of migrants for my greenlist- Garganey (at least 6), Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, house and Sand Martins too. This brings me up to 110 species, which is not bad considering I still have a few easy ones to add.
The fen has suffered after the strong Northerly winds have produced classic conditions for a North Sea surge tide. This is not great timing for all the marhs harriers who have been busy nest building or for the bitterns that have been booming well recently. Bitterns like a nice stable water level at this time of the year so that they can be happy that their nests wont flood out, so hopefully I can get the water levels down and bittern bums can go down. It is quite a shame that we flooded so badly as the path was just about getting into a decent condition after the worst winter for flooding in recent years made it pretty much impassable for Jan-Mar. While opening the sluices I managed to see Pike, Rudd, Roach and Gudgeon all happily swimming along the path as well as several pairs of mallard riding the path torrent!
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Its been a pretty awful year for many reasons, but I would like to focus on the positives so will spare the summary and just start from now.
As before I will try to focus on the wildlife I see while out and about, mostly in the Yare Valley. One difference is that my camera is now gone, so its just phone shots for the forseable future.
Yesterday I was on duty at Strumpshaw and despite the nice sunny day there were surprisingly few people about so I had time to look at the nectar garden, apart from seeing a large ammount of ground elder which has not been presnt before, I saw two shieldbugs. The shieldbugs turned out to be pied (a fairly common species associated woth white dead nettle) and also a bordered shieldbug, this tiny shieldbug measures just 3.5mm and is associated with bedstraws. Both of these shieldbugs are new to me and also proved to be the first records of each species for the reserve too. Just after I saw these I also managed to see my second Strumpshaw Fen orange underwing moth of the year.
With lots of migrant birds now arriving I hope that there will be much to write about in the coming weeks and months.
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Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-39038831986858535472018-10-26T20:39:00.002+01:002018-10-26T20:42:51.081+01:00Scilly 2018 Moths, dragonflies and birds!<br />
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Staying at the fantastic Watermill Cove area with my father 8th to 17th October, lots of very rare moths thanks to a strong southerly airflow from the Canary Isles. We were out dawn till dusk most days looking for birds as well as after dark looking for moths, so it was fairly full on and very enjoyable!<br />
The following is a quick photo record of my trip to the Scillies. (I did a fuller write up, but when I pushed publish it deleted the lot...so this is a slimmed down version)<br />
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Marvelous moths!!<br />
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Notable moth species (for me) recorded during my stay 8/10 to 17/10.</div>
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The moths were certainly pretty amazing, so it was great to continue the rare insect theme with dad and I finding a dragonfly hawking the strand line at Pelistry bay. The dragonfly was clearly a yellow colour all over with yellow tints to the wings and had an interesting flight pattern with lots of short glides, quite unlike a migrant hawker, then on a close flyby in binoculars I could clearly see an unmarked side of the thorax....VAGRANT EMPEROR! It soon disappeared over the bushes, but I soon relocated it perched and obscured in the middle of the field, it did confirm the long yellow pterastigmas to further the identification... a new odonate for me!</div>
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The birds were not quite as good as they could have been however I did manage a fairly respectable list during my stay.</div>
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Barred Warbler</div>
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Eastern Yellow Wagtail (probable) (partially self found- heard calling near accommodation and reported as possible EYW)</div>
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Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-52064748721545624722018-05-07T09:33:00.002+01:002018-05-07T09:33:52.961+01:00American Bittern<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
On 24th April I decided to go and have a second look at the American Bittern. I did see it in flight with a Great Bittern the day after it was identified, however a flight view was not quite sufficiant for me. </div>
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I started work at 5am so had the latter part of the afternoon off. It rained the whole way to Carlton Marshes until I parked! I arrived at the small crowd and learnt that the bittern had been seen in flight briefly a few times in the past 4 hrs but not very well. Things didnt sound great. I got to the ditch that the bird had been showing in the previous few days and set up my scope, lifted my binoculars and found the bittern staring back at me.. result! it then walked straight towards us fishing as it went, then swam accross the ditch and started walking away. In all I was watching it for about 25mins and it offered fantastic views. If it had of ben a great bittern showing this well I'd of been very happy, but the fact that this was an American Bittern was even better!</div>
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I got back to the car and it started raining again, it did so all the way home too! </div>
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So as twitches go it was pretty much perfect, great weather, zero waiting time, point blank views and some nice photos to show for it all.</div>
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In other news.... I found my third Savi's Warbler at Strumpshaw Fen on Saturday morning from Fen Hide, my first bit of birding on the reserve in ages without a group and I was very kindly rewarded!!</div>
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Christmas was spent in the Lake District with my parents sister, and of course Lizzie and Toby. After a very poor end to the year (for various reasons, but if bad things happen in threes, the week leading up to Christmas covered all very three well!)... a much needed escape was in order. We all had a great time and managed a few decent walks, one of which on the tops by Hawswater was particularly good in the snow. A walk around brothers water rewarded us with a nice great northern diver too.<br />
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Unfortunately we left a few things behind at the cottage so my father very kindly offered to meet me halfway (from Essex, thanks Dad!) so we opted for Hazelwood in Suffolk so we could catch up with the arctic redpoll... this showed very nicely!<br />
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Finally most of east anglia seems to be flooded at the moment so its no great surprise that the fen has been quite badly affected too. I took the picture of the young pike on the middle of the footpath! A waxwing was also briefly seen along Sandy Wall, which was very nice.<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-19540155169823424672017-10-01T11:41:00.000+01:002017-10-01T11:41:20.714+01:00Easterly wind, migrants, 2 good walks and a rare wood wasp A promising looking week with easterly airlflow made me book monday and wednesday off in the hope of finding some drift migrants. I was largely successful in finding the more frequently encountered migrants, but rarer species illuded me. I was surprised that there was nothing particularly rare found in norfolk over the week.<br />
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Blakeney point Monday 25th September<br />
whinchat-10<br />
redstart-4<br />
spotfly-2<br />
brambling-1<br />
wheatear-1<br />
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A good walk from Waxham to winterton via sea palling<br />
YBW-2<br />
spotfly-2<br />
redstart-5<br />
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wheatear-15<br />
brambling-1<br />
redpoll-3<br />
hobby-3<br />
mipit-141South<br />
willow warbler-2,<br />
blackcap-3<br />
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Matt Stainthorpe and I had another visit to East Hills on 30th September, a very pleasant day, starting with a yellow browed warbler in the dell before making our crossing.<br />
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East Hills<br />
YBW-3<br />
ringtail hen harrer <br />
chiffchaff-6<br />
goldcrest-4<br />
wheatear-2<br />
pintail 1 over<br />
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The most interesting sighting of the day at East Hills was an insect, a wood wasp, sirex notilio. This is a rare insect not encountered frequently at all. It is unclear just how rare it is in Norfolk, or indeed if it haseven been recorded before in Norfolk! An amazing beast whatecver its status and a good spot by Matt, the insect is about an inch and a half in length!<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-87875619655415940772017-08-30T19:21:00.000+01:002017-08-30T19:21:35.847+01:00Southern migrant hawkerOn my way to Dungeness I nipped home as it was en route, I also had the chance to finally catch up with a new dragonfly...Southern migrant hawker.<br />
The habitat, wedged between a tidal creek and busy Canvey Island road, did not exactly shine as being overly interesting, but the rushy ditch was certainly very appealing for the SMH. I got there quite early as wanted to spend the majority of the day at Dunge, I managed to find at least ten SMH's in around half an hour, one of which I found before it saw me (they were quite flighty, especially when warmed up).<br />
As soon as I saw one in flight, I instantly knew I had got lucky, the amazing blue eyes, thorax side and very blue abdomen really stands out, far more even than the photos show. A truely stunning dragonfly, I hope they follow others and spread a little further North, would very much like to see these again.<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-75553266965584083212017-08-27T17:02:00.001+01:002017-08-27T17:02:40.394+01:00Caspian/yellow legged gull?On the evening of 13th August Dave Hawkins and I were watching the gull roost at Titchwell.<br />
We soon noticed the gull pictured below, which stood out as looking a little different. The features that made it stand out were- paralel sided pale horn coloured yellow bill (quite different to all other gulls in the area), upright stance with high chest and bulging feathers behind the legs, leg colour was a pastey pinkish colour and mantle colour looked paler than yellow legged, but slightly darker than herring (although light was harsh and mantle colours were changing as the gulls turned etc.) I am no expert at large gulls and with this gull in wing moult (two primaries missing?) I am not sure about the open wing formula.<br />
I must admit that in 'real life' it appeared a better fit for Caspian than the photos suggest, especially the high chested elegent upright appearence, I dont seem to have captured this at all well, however I guess the camera doesnt lie when it comes to the wing formula!<br />
Can anyone help with the identification?<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-1918983037171141052017-08-21T08:34:00.001+01:002017-08-21T19:54:08.087+01:00Sabbatical part 1-Dungeness RSPB (and bird obs)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I am in my seventh consecutive year with the RSPB (would have been 10, but had a year with Kent Wildlife trust in between) I am allowed to have a three week sabbatical. Me being me, I decided to contact reserves ecology to see if they wanted any particular moths to be surveyed/searched for.<br />
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Many suggestions were given, but due to time and budget constraints I could not do all of them! The chosen few are- scarce vapourer larval and adult search in the broads (2 days), white mantled wainscot, North Warren (1 night), Scarce chocolate tip, Dungeness (5 nights), Scarce pug larval searches, N Norfolk 2x 3 days, coleophora hydrolapathaella in Mid Yare (2 days?) + something else local if I have some spare days.<br />
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My first photo round up is from Dungeness, where I was rewarded with a few very scarce species, but was surprised by the very low catches on what is supposed to be one of the best areas for moths in the country, unfortunately this was due to cold wet and windy conditions throughout my stay. The final list was 167 species from 18MVs and 14 actinic traps.<br />
Dad came and joined me for two nights, which rewarded him with 17 new species, not bad at all when youve seen as many species in the uk as he has! The extra traps, knowledge and dissection skills increased the final species list!<br />
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I should say a massive thanks to the team at the rspb reserve for all of their help and for the guys at the obs for the info, retaining moths and generally being helpful!<br />
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As well as the moths featured below dad/we managed to confirm the following coleophora-C.lusciniaepenella, C.saturatella, C.galbulipennella (only found at Dungeness).<br />
Celypha cespitana confirmed (3 specimens) as well as Aroga velocella, Chionodes fumatella, Chionodes distinctella, Bryotropha senectella.<br />
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Day 1 24/07<br />
2 MV's and 1 actinic<br />
86 species<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sussex emerald- the only breeding site in UK, it is a protected species so is actually illegal to put in a pot! luckily this one allowed me to put it on a bramble and take its picture</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A shining marbled!! found in my first trap, 1st for Dungeness and 11th for UK! I was somewhat perplexed when this apparently quite distinctive moth was not in my field guide, luckily I did get to the bottom of it thanks to the uk moths app, a very nice start...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plumed fan-foot, the completion of the trio of amazing moths on the first morning, again a local very rare breeder</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">back at the obs they saved me a white-spot another new species for me</td></tr>
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Day 2 25/07<br />
3MV<br />
34 species<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cynaeda dentalis- a stunning little pyralid</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two juv peregrines having a preen on typical Dungeness habitat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Southern Oak bush cricket new orthopteran no.1</td></tr>
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Day 3 26/07<br />
5 heath traps, 5MV's <br />
102 species<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An example that despite putting all of these traps out, just 102 species came from it, amazing to think one MV in my garden can attract that many and I have had close to 200 species in 2 traps at Strumpshaw</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Prochoreutis myllerana and was trapped at the obs, another new species and one I have wanted to see for a while after checking hundreds of nettle-taps!</td></tr>
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Day 4 27/7<br />
5 heath traps 5 MV's<br />
84 species <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jersey tiger, brought into the obs... stunner!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...And finally on the penultimate day a scarce chocolate tip graced the trap. I was hoping to find out a bit more about the habitat preferences of this very rare species, however this was the only specimen I found, so hard to draw conclusions! Although it was in a trap under the only grey poplar I saw...</td></tr>
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Day 5 28/7<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-79225861506015833092017-05-03T22:53:00.000+01:002017-05-03T22:54:37.530+01:00White tailed eagle!!A fantastic end to the day thanks to a phone call from Justin informing me of an immature white tailed eagle sitting on a post at Buckenham!<br />
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I was thinking that Buckenham would score a rarity soon, but hadn't anticipated it being an eagle!</div>
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Strumpshaw fen has been good recently too with plenty of summer migrants in, including 4-5 groppers, the first few common terns, lots of reed and sedge warblers, blackcaps and a garden warbler or two, 8+ pairs of marsh harrier, 2 booming bitterns, lots of kingfisher activity, 3 hobby and all other expects species, a bit of warmth would be nice next!</div>
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The water level at strumpshaw is a little lower than it should be at this time of the year, reflecting the dry conditions we have had recently. As most will appreciate we do not manage strumpshaw for breeding waders so don't manage the water levels specifically for waders, that would seem a little silly considering we have some of the most productive wader marshes in the area at Buckenham and cantley, which are thriving. The water levels at the fen are managed for reedbed species of bird, invertebrate and the lifeblood of the fen- the rare specialist fen vegetation, with a low water level at the fen, willow and alder scrub would soon colonise and we would no longer have the very special habitat that has been in existence for at least a thousand years.</div>
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Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-83173310681788015762017-01-31T21:26:00.000+00:002017-01-31T21:26:14.051+00:00White billed diverAfter seeing many amazing images of the white billed diver in Linconshire, I decided last Monday to go and have a look for myself.<br />
Unfortunately when I got to within 5 miles of the location thick fog had descended, it made driving quite dangerous, especially not knowing the roads, but I eventualy got to Kirkstead Bridge.<br />
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On arrival I could not even see to the other side of the riverbank (-25m), all of a sudden I had the feeling that the chances of seeing the diver, which has been roaming around 5 miles of river, seemed quite unlikely. The viewing was ridiculous and I couldnt help thinking that I had wasted by time and petrol getting there, however I was told that the bird had been seen 20 mins ago so there was still a chance. All of a sudden there was a sighting about 20m away from me, impossible to see the bird in the fog at that range, so decision time do I move to where the bird was or try to sus out the direction of travel and move in that direction? I did the latter and staring into the blank Linconshire fog standing on my own the beast of a diver popped up right in front of me...wow! I called some others over and it continued to dive and come up fairly close to us. After a few minutes it started heading west, it could dive and cover around 15-20m between breaths, I (and around 12 others) followed it along the river around a mile and a half, it was a case of staying with it or losing it in the thick fog, I had my fill and returned happy with absolutely stonking views of this world tick for me, what a bird!<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-84349060087827833172016-12-28T21:01:00.002+00:002016-12-28T21:01:16.356+00:00Another thrush, this time blue!Another offer of a space that was hard to refuse...<br />
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A blue rock thrush in Gloucestershire. Another pleasant twitch with the bird showing well on the roofs of a cul de sac for the majority of the time we were there, only 30-50 birders present scattered across a few streets, all well behaved, the locals were pleasant and interested. The cafe was nice for an all day breakfast too.<br />
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Location- slightly odd, but eastern black redstart not far away recently and dusky thrush not too far north either. The roof tops are not the sort of habitat you would expect to see a rock thrush on, but the roofs were covered with moss and quite rock like, the brickwork of the buildings were natural rather than red bricks. Clutching at straws maybe, but it wasn't a million miles from the correct cliff like mountainous habitat...<br />
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Behaviour- while we were there the bird was flying from rooftop to rooftop looking for food, it stuck to the rooftops apart from a brief flight to a conifer. At one point it saw a fly and did a rather good impression of a flycatcher, it also chased a few flies successfully, so was able to feed itself without any problems. It was not particularly scared of us, but at the same time it didn't come and beg for food, it kept its distance on the tops in its 'rocky habitat'.<br />
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Plumage/appearance- Essentially a long billed round headed blue 'blackbird'. Left wing drooping was not great. Apart from that the plumage looked good, white crescents and long bill are suggestive of eastern origin which is good considering the number of eastern birds this autumn. I couldn't see any abraided feathers or signs of it being a cage bird, I didn't get to inspect its feet.<br />
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I must admit I went there slightly sceptical and returned with the impression that this could well be a wild bird, behaviourally it was good, plumage good, location/habitat maybe not quite so much, but possibly not as bad as it sounds, it will be interesting to hear the thoughts of the bbrc.<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-19444474139965015482016-12-11T19:52:00.002+00:002016-12-11T19:52:43.340+00:00Up long before dawn to see a dusky!I had a very pleasant day twitching the Dusky Thrush in Beeley today. The offer of a seat in a car was too great to resist so four of us got up at an ungodly hour (at this time of the year!) and were in the Peak District watching a Dusky Thrush by 8am!<br />
We saw the bird as soon as we arrived which was lucky as it then went missing for an hour and a half, in which time we searched the small town of all likely spots, there were hundreds of redwings about, but we failed to re find the bird. On returning to the adventure playground where the thrush was best viewed from, a shout came from the neighbouring field, the bird showed well in the open for around five minutes, but was a little distant. It then flew straight towards and past us showing us its subtle differences in flight shape (longer tailed and slightly stockier than redwing). It flew into the orchid where it gave the best views of the day, there was a little bit of a scrum, but everyone got to see the bird feeding on the fallen apples at fairly close range, the light was pretty awful and many heads and bamboo canes got in the way regularly, but I managed a few poor grainy out of focus shots for the record. After this we walked back to the car park, seeing a dipper in the river on the way back for an extra bonus bird.<br />
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The twitch itself was one of the more bizarre- we arrived to signs directing us to the 'birders carpark' where we duly parked, a specially put on shuttle bus then took the birders from the car park 1km down the road to where the bird was showing, where we followed arrows labelled 'bird'! On passing the hot drinks stand, toilets and sausage/bacon bap stand we found the playground. The first proper amusement came when the birders had to cross a wooden see-saw bridge to get to the viewing platform/wall a scene which certainly put a smile on my face, even with a 4am start.<br />
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Great bird, great twitch and money raised for a good cause, my fourth UK tick of the year (BOU 411)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">The highlight bird of the week was a <b>great white egret</b></span><span style="font-size: small;">
that was seen early on Thursday morning, it did a circuit of the fen
and then went down near to reception, unfortunately it was not seen
again. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">The best bird experience however has to go to the </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">starlings</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">,
it is too early to say whether it will turn into an impressive
murmuration, but we did have at least 2700 starlings on Tuesday evening
in front of Reception Hide. I will keep an eye on numbers and locations
and report as required, often their numbers look like they are building
and then they all disappear for the rest of winter. </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Waxwings</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">
were once again seen on passage throughout the week with two today
flying over the work party, two on Wednesday in the ash tree near
reception and a single bird in the same ash tree on Monday morning.
These sightings could relate to the same birds being seen over again, but
the way they are stopping for a brief period and then flying off again
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Reception Hide <b>kingfisher</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> has been putting on a good show throughout the week, but the </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jack</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">snipe</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">
appear to have moved to Fen Hide, this in part is due to flooding of
the river, which has raised the water level in the fen throughout the
week. </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Bitterns</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">
have been seen from various locations throughout the week. Although
bittern sightings are not quite daily, the sightings are increasing,
perhaps signifying an in migration from the continent.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Otters</b></span><span style="font-size: small;">
have been seen from Reception, Fen Hide and the sluice throughout the
week, from descriptions it sounds like it is still the large dog otter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">The reedbed has started to attract a few <b>water pipits</b></span><span style="font-size: small;">, these are always hard to see well at the fen, but we do get decent numbers, the trick is knowing the call. </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Bearded tits</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">
have been seen throughout the week all around the fen, including Sandy
Wall, Reception, Fen Hide and anywhere with a good view of the reedbed.
The </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">stonechats</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">
are still present, visible from Fen Hide, Tower Hide and anywhere along
the riverbank. It is hard to be sure but I think we may have three
pairs of stonechats in the fen this winter. They almost always stay in
pairs throughout the winter, so if you see one look around for its mate,
it won’t be far away. A female </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">hen harrier</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">
has once again been seen on and off throughout the week, last reported
on Tuesday, but often they appear late in the day, when Reception is
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">The photo above is of a new insect for the reserve; a <strong>western conifer seed bug</strong>.
This insect originally from America has been imported into northern
Europe and has colonized southern England too, this specimen was likely
to have come from the population in southern England, but has still
travelled far and wide to get here (31 October)</span></span>Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-59215931655370643352016-10-25T19:59:00.000+01:002016-10-25T20:25:39.511+01:00Scilly '161st to 12th October was spent on my favourite island archipelago, the Isles of Scilly. I was very lucky that my parents had a four bedroom cottage and with my sister already booked in there was still a spare room for me to use.<br />
On Friday 30th I spent a rather uncomfortable night on the 'night riviera' the sleeper train from Paddington to Penzance. I arrived around 45 mins late and just made the connection to the scillonian, but I did make it!<br />
The rather rocky boat trip yielded a couple of <b>puffins, bonxie, 3 storm petrel, 10 manx shearwaters </b>and best of all a <b>great shearwater.</b><br />
The first day on the Isles we located a rather odd looking wheatear amongst the obvious Northerns, it looked quite different to the others in colouration, posture and even size. As it was getting dark very soon we decided to put news out of an interesting looking wheatear sp, sure enough the locals soon turned up, but proclaimed that it was an oiled northern, oh well, at least people got to see it rather before it got dark...lesson learnt (I've done this before with a very wet wheatear! good job I went to BO dunes this weekend to see some rare wheatears). I have included the pics here as it was quite an odd looking bird, certainly stood out amongst the others!<br />
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one in the fading light, certainly did look different to us at the time, oh well, next time!</td></tr>
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Peacehaven cottage, located at Watermill cove gave us a great location for birding and mothing.<br />
I was out at dawn every day and back not long before dusk most days, giving around 10 hours of birding a day, so by the end of the trip I was pretty shattered! My pre breakfast circuit included Newford duck pond and watermill cove, sometimes further to Trenoweth and Helvier, a very nice and sometimes productive morning walk.<br />
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On one particular morning walk a very ferocious looking storm approached, the lower picture shows a distant cloud with three waterspouts appearing from it, they did look a lot more impressive in real life and kept on changing in number and length. None ever actually touched down so probably not technically waterspouts, but impressive formations. Then all of a sudden just in front of me the clouds started circling and dropping quickly, unfortunately it soon came over the land and dissipated, but was quite exciting to witness.<br />
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The highlights are as follows, it was a really great 12 days of birding, much like it used to be when I was younger (my last trip 5yrs ago yielded wryneck and rb fly as the best birds of the trip) this year was far better.<br />
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<b>Sora</b>- lifer<br />
<b>Red-eyed vireo</b>- lifer and a bit of a bogey bird, which I have managed to miss by a day or so on many occasions, one such trip 3 turned up within 3 hours of me leaving the Isles!<br />
<b>Blyths pipit</b> (thanks Will/spider for pinning it down the evening before)<br />
<b>Caspian tern</b><br />
<b>Subalpine warbler (sp) </b><br />
<b>American golden plover</b><br />
<b>Buff breasted sandpiper </b><br />
<b>Red-backed shrike</b><br />
<b>Grey Phalarope-</b><br />
<b>Whinchats</b>- many across the isles well over 40 <br />
<b>Short-toed lark</b><br />
<b>Firecrest-7</b><br />
<b>Jack snipe</b>-15+<br />
<b>Snow bunting</b><br />
<b>Lapland bunting </b>-6<br />
<b>Cattle egret-</b>2<br />
<b>Little bunting</b>-1<br />
<b>Red breasted flycatcher</b>- 2 self found<br />
<b>Wryneck</b>-5, I think 2 were self found, possibly 3.<br />
<b>Yellow-browed warbler</b>- 50+ these beauties were everywhere!<br />
<b>Redstarts</b><br />
<b>Black redstarts</b><br />
<b>pied flycatchers</b><br />
<b>spotted flycatchers</b><br />
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So while it doesn't quite match up to Shetlands 12 days of megas, it was quite enough to keep us occupied and the birds continued to arrive throughout the period giving us optimism!<br />
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The moths were also very good, my father Chris, brought an MV and a heath trap and had a very good range of species throughout the stay. It was amazing to see the trap with 90% migrants inside and figures were not at all bad either with around 25-35 species a night in the traps.<br />
The real moth trap is the flowering Ivy, this was new to me but it was obvious that in the first few hours of dark the Ivy was a hive of activity.<br />
The best night on the Ivy was 7th October, when dadad I walked from Watermill down rocky hill to the lower moors and back, the results of this fantastic walk are below.<br />
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<td style="width: 128pt;" width="170">Crocidosema plebejana</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 36pt;" width="48">1</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1395 Rusty Dot Pearl</td>
<td>Udea ferrugalis</td>
<td align="right">125</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1398 Rush Veneer</td>
<td>Nomophila noctuella</td>
<td align="right">704+</td>
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<td>Palpita vitrealis</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1524 Common plume</td>
<td>Emmelina monodactyla</td>
<td align="right">23</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Angle Shades</td>
<td>Phlogophora meticulosa</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Black Rustic</td>
<td>Aporophyla nigra</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Brick</td>
<td>Agrochola circellaris</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Common Marbled Carpet</td>
<td>Chloroclysta truncata</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Cypress Carpet</td>
<td>Thera cupressata</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Dark Sword-grass</td>
<td>Agrotis ipsilon</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Double-striped Pug</td>
<td>Gymnoscelis rufifasciata</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gem</td>
<td>Orthonama obstipata</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Herald</td>
<td>Scoliopteryx libatrix</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Large Yellow Underwing</td>
<td>Noctua pronuba</td>
<td align="right">10</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Lunar Underwing</td>
<td>Omphaloscelis lunosa</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pale Pinion</td>
<td>Lithophane hepatica</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pearly Underwing</td>
<td>Peridroma saucia</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Red Underwing</td>
<td>Catocala nupta</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Scarce Bordered Straw</td>
<td>Helicoverpa armigera</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Silver Y</td>
<td>Autographa gamma</td>
<td align="right">57</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Square-spot Rustic</td>
<td>Xestia xanthographa</td>
<td align="right">37</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Turnip Moth</td>
<td>Agrotis segetum</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">White-speck</td>
<td>Mythimna unipuncta</td>
<td align="right">27</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td>
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We did a longer route on 11th from the Garrison back to watermill and had 21 white speck, 12 silver y, 1 dark sward grass, 1 gem and a pearly underwing, amazing the difference in moths, not a single rush veneer after seeing at least 704 a few nights before...migration!<br />
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Some additions to the above list for the rest of the holiday are below. The Porters rustic, Clancys rustic and Deaths-heard hawkmoths were courtesy of Dave Grundy who was staying on St Agnes, the Golden twinspot was from a coupe of guys staying in Hugh Town, but I'm not sure of names (sorry!). The rest were all found by dad, Chris Lewis in the traps at Watermill, I was very pleased to hear that on my parents last day, in fact last hour on the islands they noticed a Deaths Head hawkmoth next to one of dads traps, so he can finally tick it as a moth he has caught.<br />
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><br /></td><td>Scrobipalpa costella</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><br /></td><td>Lobesia littoralis</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><br /></td><td>Pediasia contaminella</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><br /></td><td>Eudonia angustea</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Blair's Mocha</td><td>Cyclophora puppillaria</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Blair's Shoulder-knot</td><td>Lithophane leautieri</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clancy's Rustic</td><td>Platyperigea kadenii</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Convolvulus Hawk-moth</td><td>Agrius convolvuli</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Cypress Pug</td><td>Eupithecia phoeniceata</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Death's-head Hawk-moth</td><td>Acherontia atropos</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Delicate</td><td>Mythimna vitellina</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Dewick's Plusia</td><td>Macdunnoughia confusa</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Garden Carpet</td><td>Xanthorhoe fluctuata</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Golden Twin-spot</td><td>Chrysodeixis chalcites</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Humming-bird Hawk-moth</td><td>Macroglossum stellatarum</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">L-album Wainscot</td><td>Mythimna l-album</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Lesser Yellow Underwing</td><td>Noctua comes</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pale Mottled Willow</td><td>Paradrina clavipalpis</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pearly Underwing</td><td>Peridroma saucia</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Pinion-streaked Snout</td><td>Schrankia costaestrigalis</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Porter's Rustic</td><td>Proxenus hospes</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Radford's Flame Shoulder</td><td>Ochropleura leucogaster</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Scarce Bordered Straw</td><td>Helicoverpa armigera</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Setaceous Hebrew Character</td><td>Xestia c-nigrum</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Small Mottled Willow</td><td>Spodoptera exigua</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Vestal</td><td>Rhodometra sacraria</td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Willow Beauty</td><td>Peribatodes rhomboidaria</td></tr>
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I make it 20 moth ticks, which is impressive seeing as the traps at Strumpshaw and in my garden are currently producing around 4-5 species in total! A total of 52 species in October is very good indeed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White speck NFM</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Convovulous hawkmoth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scarce bordered straw NFM</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Radfords flame shoulder NFM</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Porters Rustic NFM, thanks to Dave Grundy +co</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deaths head NFM what a moth!!</td></tr>
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Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-41418605218444939912016-04-14T19:52:00.001+01:002016-04-14T19:52:22.100+01:00Penduline Tit + othersAbout time I wrote another post....<br />
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I got good views of the penduline tit last thursday, the best views I have ever had of this species as far as I can remember. Whilst walking past I saw a small bird fly into the nearby reeds and thought it could be the PT so waited a minute or so, I could hear it calling well and eventually it flew up into a sallow where it continued to call and even sing right in front of me, I had it all to myself for around 10 mins and then it flew off over the river.. very nice indeed!<br />
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Another good record for the fen was a firecrest, a single bird spent a weekend near the pond dipping platform, only my second on the reserve! This bird was most probably different to the one found the previous Tuesday, another two were reported along the pumphouse track, which would constitute quite a bumper crop of these sprites.<br />
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Other bits and bobs have included little gull, 2 med gulls, lots of common migrants including sedge, blackcap, willow, grasshopper and reed warblers all seen recently. As well as bittern booming, marsh harriers and Cetti's warblers performing fantastically. Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-8194883923416340852016-03-24T07:16:00.002+00:002016-03-24T07:16:44.147+00:00gentilis minorAfter at least four years without much joy of lesser spotted woodpeckers in the Brecks; Ive had flight views and heard it calling/drumming only in that period. Yesterday I went on my annual spring Brecks visit and connected with this cracking little woodpecker.<br />
As seems to be the way recently, I left a few people watching the location that it has been seen recently in the hope of finding it somewhere else.... as soon as I went to water the plants it flew into the tree I was next to! It was drumming well and called a few times too, I forgot how soft the drumming was, you cant hear it at distance like a great spot. I watched it for around 10 mins and managed to phone someone who was at the other location and got them on it too.<br />
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Other good bits from the day included the great grey shrike, fantastic views of firecrest (but poor shots), two male goshawks displaying at close quarters (one with a few missing secondaries), a crossbill calling and a few mandarin ducks. I had such a nice day I may be tempted to another visit in a few weeks to catch up on the bits I didnt get time to look for, hawfinch, golden pheasant, stone curlew and woodlark to name a few missing.<br />
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Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-31192457022247705162016-02-10T21:11:00.002+00:002016-02-10T21:39:03.921+00:00Snow goose revisitedI have just been made aware of this bird in Dumfries and Galloway, the link takes you to a photo by Brian Henderson, which appears to show the same bird as that which I had in December at Buckenham. Its taken a lot longer than I thought but it appears 'my' bird has reappeared...finally! <br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-8791265055440638372016-02-08T08:07:00.001+00:002016-02-08T08:07:40.639+00:00Early FebJanuary was a fairly decent month for birds on the patch, the Siberian Chiffchaff's reappearence being the highlight. I managed to finish the month on 98 species, however missed Crane, Hen harrier and Brent goose, the former two I would hope to catch up with at some point in the year, the Brent howver is far more tricky!<br />
The Marsh harriers are begining to look like they have changed their behaviour and are now setting up territories and the returning males are statring to display on calm clear mornings. The skylarks at Buckenham are belting out their song whatever the weather and the number of plants in flower is quite amazing for the beging of Feb, so spring cant be too far round the corner can it?<br />
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I have not done a round up of 2015.... yet, I may do a brief write up soon.<br />
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2016 for me will be year of the moth. I intend to do more trapping on (and off, but mostly on) the reserve this year and will be trying to go mobile with actininc more frequently too. Other resolutions for this year are to get to grips with caterpillars (if thats possible?) and to start looking at leaf mines and trying to identify those, probably not an easy task, but there is a good website for helping. A final resolution is to confirm the micros <i>I think </i>I'm seeing. Last year I got some goodies, however they needed to be confirmed by dissection so they have been left off of the Norfolk records database, a slightly frustrating occurance, but understandable in todays age of true science and recording.<br />
So that should keep me busy May-October and of course there will be birding in the daytime as per usual. As yet no autumn trips planned but a week on the edge of Arne in July should be nice!<br />
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I managed a photo of a water pipit on Friday, these have been seen very frequently all winter from the riverbank, but it was nice to finally get one on the deck for long enough to photograph (at distance and cropped hard!). Water pipits are fairly common winter birds at the fen, in some years we have as many as 8+ on site, this year it appears that the peak has been 4, but more recently just 2 birds have been seen regularly.<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-87276854309046102872016-01-31T14:06:00.002+00:002016-01-31T14:06:45.952+00:00Siberian Chiffchaff -Back AgainAn early start this morning secured three noteworthy birds, the first was a drake Pochard, this is the first I have seen at the fen this year. The second I did not clinch but sounded like an interesting bird I would like to see. The third was given away by the classic peep call; a Siberian Chiffchaff, I was tipped off about its presence yesterday (thanks!). It is the same individual that I found on 23rd December and funilly enough is in almost exactly the same spot too, so where has it been for a month?!<br />
The bird is far from a classic Sibe and shows far more of a yellow hue than I would expect, however current thinking is that the call is perhaps the one most important feature and this one certainly had the right call (thank god!). It was in company of a common chiffchaff too so it was good to compare the sounds. Unfortunately they were both calling from the same area when I was taking pictures so I'm pretty sure this is the right bird! The bird with the yellow vent/flanks is the bird that was peeping! As Justin also commented on- the front half looks good, the rear not so good! If it were not calling I'm not sure I would give it the time it deserves! There was no sign of it a few hours later, so has it gone for another month?<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-79617372920791429142016-01-29T21:54:00.000+00:002016-01-29T21:54:33.857+00:00Buzzard bugging me!I think I do know the answer to the question I pose below, but this bird is bugging me now and I keep looking at the pictures and telling myself its just a common.....but theres that niggle of doubt that I want to put to bed!<br />
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Is this a common buzzard or an adult male rough leg?<br />
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Bird seen relatively briefly in poor weather conditions. I was first alerted to it when i saw it hovering very well, it then landed briefly where I took the first picture (poor but shows pale features, as well as reed in the way!). The bird then headed west, got mobbed by crows and didnt come up again in the hour I waited in sleet and northerly wind brr!<br />
I do not know much about adult male rough legged buzzard plumage and cant find an awful lot in my books or on the internet hence asking here. To me there are a few pro RLB features and jizz was certainly very good for rlb, but I'm also well aware that I have seen everything from white buzzards right through to very dark individuals so they can throw up all sorts of odd plumages.<br />
What do you think? I'd really like to know!<br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-28426209887490081802015-12-22T18:28:00.002+00:002015-12-22T18:28:26.619+00:00Pre Christmas present - Siberian chiffchaffWhilst working at the broad dyke in a boat today with Matt I was very aware of a call which I thought sounded very good for Siberian chiffchaff. I managed to ignor it for 20 mins as I was working, but then had to give in and see if it really was a sibe chiff and not an over excited dunnock. After landing the boat I soon saw the bird making the call..... It was indeed a chiffchaff! I signalled to Matt to get his camera to get some record shots as I did not have my camera. The bird showed every now and then but was very flighty and sculky. I did get several good views of it, at first I thought it was not the usual grey tones I was expecting, it was quite bonellis like in some ways. It did have a very prominent supercillium though, far stronger than on a normal chiff. Subsequently I have seen on Martin garners website that some sibe chiffs can indeed show a slightly bonellis like colouration... But that call seals the deal! No shots achieved but I did make a couple of sound recordings, not easy in the wind! I'll try to get shots tomorrow morning, but the way it was moving about I'll be surprised if it is there in the morning, however it is the first time I have walked past the sluice area in a week so I have no idea how long it has been there, fingers crossed it will be seen again. Slightly disappointed that it's just 2 points on the patchwork challenge list, but this year they are 2 very useful points.... Poor year for many patches it would seem.<br />
To top it all off on the way back down the river two waxwings flew over the boat, giving me another year tick, my fourth of the month and most probably my last, I think that puts me on 148 species for the mid yare so far this year.Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-17015485318918244812015-12-13T17:19:00.001+00:002015-12-13T20:22:47.276+00:00Pre Birthday Present Snow gooseI took Friday off work as I worked the previous Saturday, as a birthday present to myself I had a full days birding, my first in ages!<br />
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I decided to stay local, partially as there was not a lot going on elsewhere in Norfolk and partially because I have not had a good look at the patch in a while.<br />
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Buckenham 07.30<br />
At dawn Buckenham held;<br />
2 peregrines<br />
1 Merlin- my first patch bird this year<br />
2 Shelduck<br />
1 water pipit<br />
1 grey wag<br />
800 wigeon<br />
850 pink footed goose<br />
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As I was watching towards Cantley I saw a large flock of pinks, within it I saw a pale goose very briefly (c.5 seconds) all I saw was the top side of the bird as it banked before landing (at Cantley). I noted a pink foot like back colour black wing tips and secondaries with a pale panel in the middle of the wing. I thought it looked interesting, but wasn't sure it wasn't just a funny looking pinky. I got back in my car and went to burnt house lane, where I failed to see the pale goose again.<br />
Burnt house lane<br />
1020 pink footed goose<br />
93 white fronts<br />
2 (different?) peregrines<br />
2 buzzard<br />
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On to the beet factory, first visit for at least 3 months.<br />
16 Shelduck<br />
3 pintail<br />
3 green sand<br />
780 wigeon<br />
2 goldeneye<br />
1 kingfisher<br />
1 grey wag<br />
15 curlew<br />
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I then went to Ormbsbry little broad, which was quiet apart from 3 goldeneye.<br />
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Back to Buckenham I saw the pale goose again, with around 900 pinks. Initially I thought wow its a snow goose, but it was an odd plumage so wasn't sure. A check of Collin's showed it was not a pale or blue phase so I took down some details (see below) and took some pictures, the sun had already gone down so pictures were very difficult, especially combined with distance. Whether it was because I'd not slept well the night before or had been in the field all day for some reason I had completely forgotten that snow geese also come in an intermediate phase!<br />
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Description<br />
White head, neck, breast and underparts.<br />
Dark smudge on forebreast.<br />
Mantle/back dark grey variegated pattern, slightly darker than pink foot. As the photos show the rear of the upperparts were paler the nape area which was a touch darker, the exact detail of greater coverts hard to judge due to light.<br />
Flanks dusky grey, uneven pattern all the way along flanks.<br />
Legs dull pink.<br />
Bill hard to be sure of colour but appeared pink with a slight orange hue, photos have exaggerated the orange compared to real life in my opinion. bill was a typical snow goose shape. Compared to the Ross's type which has been present at the site for years it was much larger in all proportions.<br />
Wings- dark/black primaries and secondaries pale grey on forewing with a silvery pannel between the grey forewing and dark trailing edge (seen on initial sighting at distance, quite different to the white phase snow goose that I know, which is why I partially dismissed the first sighting) ... learning curve!<br />
Tail was seen on this short flight view, it was paler than a pinky but I seem to recall some grey in the tail somewhere, but I cant be sure of the extent (brief view) the rump was white.<br />
Size- appeared slightly taller than the pinks it was with (or maybe longer necked)?<br />
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It was very alert, constantly looking up between feeding. I returned at dawn the following morning, when at 07.30 the first dog walker up the track scared a small flock containing this individual. They headed NW and I followed them until they went over the horizon, I'm surprised its not been seen elsewhere this weekend.<br />
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After some research on the net I'm fairly confident that it is an intermediate phase snow goose. It is a particularly pale individual but within range of genuine snow. It would be good for it to be found somewhere else in the country for confirmation/better photos but I will be submitting a description and photos (for what its worth!) to the county recorders.<br />
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Photos (as stated- sun had already gone down, cloudy and distant so poor shots but you get the impression)<br />
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First impressions of Shetland are 1) its absolutely huge! 2) there is not much cover 3) you have to completly change the way you look for birds to get rewarded.<br />
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Day 1<br />
Paul and I travelled up to Aberdeen by car leaving at 5.30am, we were there in plenty of time for the ferry and managed a little bit of seawatching from the comfort of our indoor chairs. We got some sleep on the floor of the ferry, but it wasnt the best nights sleep!<br />
1 Little Gull <br />
4 Sooty Shearwater <br />
3 Manx Shearwater <br />
4 Arctic Skua <br />
Black Guilimot- lots<br />
8+ Harbour Porpoise <br />
2 Minke Whale ( a new species for me, one of which showed very well not far from the boat at all!)<br />
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First day on Shetland, although it mainly consisted of getting to Fetlar. We managed to get to the island by lunch time so did a bit of a recci in the afternoon, seeing what was within walking distance from our croft.<br />
3 Chiffchaff <br />
1 Blackcap <br />
8 Twite <br />
Bonxie (lots)<br />
Raven<br />
Shetland Wren<br />
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Day 3<br />
First full days birding on Fetlar. We got out and did our 'patch' circuit which took in some of the well known birding spots including Northdale/Southdale Burn, down to The Manse, along the road to Houbie, Feal Burn and back along the road via the upand to the croft. A decent walk of around 5 miles, it doesnt sound far but working wet iris beds takes its toll on you!<br />
3 Yellow Browed Warbler <br />
5 Chiffchaff<br />
1 Willow Warbler<br />
1 Blackcap<br />
15 Twite<br />
17 Faroe /Snipe<br />
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Day 4<br />
This was the day of the (one and only) fall, we were out pretty much dawn till dusk so made the most of it. The usual circuit was done followed by a trip to Everland with Andy, one of the local birders who showed us a few decent spots. We had our first difficult acro in the iris beds not long after we left the croft (it took us about 2 hrs to get 200m from the croft!). The acro was just flying between dense cover, never showing itself at all, I managed a couple of rubbish flight shots but it was left as an unidentified wabler, but most probably Marsh. This identification was partially made as we found a Marsh Warbler later on in the morning at Feal Burn. The day was exciting as there were birds everywhere, each small patch of nettles and thistles contained migrants of some sort. If coverage was more like that of Fair Isle I'm sure something else would have been found, but thats part of the beauty of birding an island like Fetlar, you have it almost to yourself!<br />
12 YBW<br />
10 Chiffchaff<br />
1 Marsh Warbler<br />
1 Unidentified acro, probable Marsh<br />
5 Goldcrest<br />
1 Robin (the ony one of the whole trip!)<br />
8 Blckcap<br />
1 Garden Warbler <br />
4 Pied Flycatcher <br />
1 Ring Ouzel<br />
11 Snipe<br />
5 Fieldfare<br />
1 Grey Wagtail<br />
1 Whinchat<br />
1 Wheatear<br />
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Day 5<br />
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YBW 5 <br />
2 Blackcap<br />
1 Garden Warbler<br />
1 Willow Warbler<br />
9 Chiffchaff<br />
4 Goldcrest<br />
1 Wheatear<br />
6 Redwing<br />
1 Merlin<br />
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Day 6<br />
The day of our best find a Blyths Reed Warbler. It was quite skulky and very difficult to see well, but thanks to the research of the Marsh Warbler Paul and I were genned up to ID these now! As soon as we saw it in the open (about 1 second) we both knew it was a Blyths! (Thanks Martin Garner for your excellent books!). I managed a few shots, yet again an acro in long grass, weeds, nettles and iris is never easy to see, let along photograph! It was a self found tick for both Paul and I.<br />
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1 Blyths Reed Warbler<br />
11 YBW<br />
7 Chiffchaff<br />
2 Goldcrest<br />
1 Lesser Whitethroat<br />
2 Blackcap<br />
1 Redstart<br />
2 Wheatear<br />
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Day7 25/9<br />
1 Blyths Reed Warbler <br />
2 YBW<br />
9 Chiffchaff<br />
3 Blackcap<br />
1 Lesserthroat<br />
2 Goldcrest <br />
1 Redstart<br />
6 Fieldfare<br />
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Day8 26/9<br />
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3 YBW<br />
1 Willow Warbler<br />
4 Chiffchaff<br />
1 Lesserthroat<br />
1 Goldcrest<br />
RB Merganser<br />
1 Minke Whale<br />
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Day 9 27/9<br />
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4 YBW<br />
5 Chiffchaff<br />
2 Blackcap<br />
1 Goldcrest<br />
7 Redwing<br />
2 Minke Whale<br />
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Day 10 28/9<br />
3 YBW<br />
1 SEO<br />
5 Tree Sparrow<br />
42 Snipe<br />
1 Wheatear<br />
3 Ruff<br />
15 Risso's Dolphin<br />
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Day 11 29/9<br />
5 YBW<br />
3 Chiffchaff<br />
1 Goldcrest<br />
43 Snipe<br />
3 Jack Snipe <br />
2 Redwing<br />
2 Merlin<br />
1 Peregrine <br />
50 Snow Bunting<br />
1 Wheatear<br />
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Day12 30/9<br />
Today we walked the Eastern cliffs of the island due to the constant westerly wind it seemed as though this may hold some shelter. It was a good walk with some amazing scenary and some good migration of Pinkies and a attractive flurry of Snow Buntings. (for some reason the pictures of this day are not on my computer now...odd!)<br />
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485 Pinks<br />
150 Snow Buntings<br />
3 YBW<br />
4 Wheatear<br />
1 SEO<br />
1 Merlin<br />
1 Woodcock<br />
3 Siskin<br />
2 Chiffchaff<br />
50 Skylark<br />
3 Ruff<br />
1 Water Rail<br />
2 RT Diver<br />
1 Redwing<br />
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Day 13 1/10<br />
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159 Snipe<br />
2 Jack Snipe <br />
2 Chiffchaff<br />
2 Blackcap<br />
1 Willow Warbler<br />
1 YBW<br />
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1 Wheatear<br />
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1 Tufted Duck<br />
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Day 14 2/10<br />
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7 YBW<br />
3 Chiffchaff <br />
1 Barred Warbler<br />
1 Tree Pipit<br />
1 Whinchat<br />
1 Wheatear<br />
190 Pinkies<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Skylark was flushed by paul, at first he expected it to be a redpoll as the call was not like skylark at all! We saw it several times and it covered a lot of ground, we could not turm it into anything else dispite that very odd call, another 2 images below</td></tr>
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Day 15 3/10<br />
A full day on Mainland (once we got there) Unfortunately the
Pechora pipit and Arctic Warbler that had been present for over a week
left the night before we got there. Quite annoyingly after a week of
strong westerlies the evening before we left was very calm and very
clear, so if I'm honest I'm not surprised they did a bunk, it was very
annoying though!! Why did we not go to see the pipit/warbler earlier if
they were ticks? Well it took us 4.5 hours to get to the pipit location
so it would have been a 9 hour round trip before we did any birding, or
anything else, we wouldnt have done that from Norfolk so we didnt do it
on Shetland! This goes with my earlier point ... Shetland is massive!
Paul and I did not overly enjoy our day on Mainland, there was too much
cover to know where to look and so many places that could potentially
hold birds, not to mention a lot of birders too; given the fact that all
the birds had gone they were not all particularly happy either! It made
us realise that 'our' island was a far easier place to bird even if it
was not amazingly productive. I guess there is always next year...
maybe!?<br />
1 Little Gull <br />
1 Red Grouse <br />
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<br />Ben Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03894959682837288555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698023365189452014.post-57346520069557230262015-10-29T16:35:00.002+00:002015-10-29T16:35:29.066+00:00Beautiful BitternWho doesn't love a Bittern? I certainly do and I'm in a privileged position to work around these great birds most of the time and best of all; the management of the fen that I help carry out directly aids their well being. So when a bittern comes out and says hello its always a special moment, if I am taking my lunch break and have a camera in my hand its a moment I can share with other too...<br />
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