Sunday 27 January 2013

Cattle egret twitch - holy island

Went to holy island today to twitch a cattle egret, although having seen 2 in Britain i thought its was a good enough reason to have a trip up to Northumberland for a days birding. wasn't long before i was off the mark with a bou tick, barn owl was hunting the fields at beal :) then the pager went ''Cattle egret still at crooked lonnen'' off i went, it only took a few minutes before i was onto the egret, cracking bird :). next i decided to have a nice easy drive down the coast ticking off a few birds on the way, not before stopping to give tilly a quick dip in the sea, rather her than me! ended the day on 69 species 27 of which were new for my bou year list, here's my day list, can't believe i didn't get blue or great tits! next day trip will be teeside sometime this week, target birds green winged teal-black throated diver-caspian gull.

birds in red are new for british year list
1 - bhgull
2 - carrion crow
3 - jackdaw
4 - buzzard
5 - wood pigeon
6 - feral pigeon
7 - magpie
8 - fieldfare
9 - barn owl 83
10-pink footed goose
11-mute swan
12-mallard
13-house sparrow
14-collard dove
15-starling
16-kestrel
17-teal
18-cattle egret 84
19-long eared owl 85
20-common gull
21-brent goose 86
22-gbbgull
23-herring gull
24-lapwing
25-wren
26-knot 87
27-eider 88
28-oystercatcher 89
29-bar tailed godwit 90
30-grey plover 91
31-curlew
32-turnstone 92
33-dunlin
34-shag 93
35-shelduck
36-slavonian grebe 94
37-song thrush
38-robin
39-fulmar 95
40-blackbird
41-wigeon
42-chaffinch
43-redwing
44-linnet 96
45-long tailed duck 97
46-great northern diver 98
47-common scoter 99
48-purple sandpiper 100
49-redshank
50-red breasted merganser 101
51-cormorant
52-twite 102
53-red throated diver 103
54-razorbill 104
55-ringed plover 105
56-coot
57-greylag goose
58-gadwall 106
59-tufted duck
60-rook
61-sanderling 107
62-pied wagtail
63-goldfinch
64-siskin
64-whooper swan 108
65-goldeneye
66-pochard
67-pheasant
68-mistle thrush
69-med gull 109








Photos - cattle egret-barn owl-leo-brent goose-purple sandpiper-knot-bar tailed godwit&sanderling-2w med gull.



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