Great to see #PWC2023 make its way over here. And big congrats to my neighbour, David Roche, on neighbouring Papa Westray for doing so well on this fab fun competition- top of the islands league and third over all 👏🏼 And a terrific poem too! Defo worth the watch. And take part in #PWC2024!
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Managed a cracking full day #WestrayBirding 😀 ahead of a week of storms ☹️ 10 Glaucs and an Ice Gull, Common Scoter, couple of Merlins, Snow Buntings, Woodcock and a Grey Plover. Latter a useful add for my 10km @PatchBirding. Prob the same bird that snook in at end of #PWC2023.
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Will the #PWC2024 scoring spreadsheet be the same as #PWC2023 or do I need to download a new version?
Nice walk after lunch today with the family meant I completed my 90th complete #PaullHolmeStrays @btobirds.bsky.social Birdtrack list of the year, and my 100th overall for the site.
Hen Harrier, Merlin and GWE all just 2nd records of the year for me.
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Serin perched
Still some Serins at airfield Bremgarten at the end of the year. Curious to see how long they will stay. #PWC2023 #lowcarbonbirding #birds
After 2 days of being unable to get out of bed due to an awful lurgy, I finally managed a walk at lunch.
Rewarded with a brief view of a Peregrine as it put up thousands of plover, a close view of a Marsh Harrier, and a nfy Barnacle Goose flew in with some PFG. #PaullHolmeStrays #UKBirding #PWC2023
Under the weather, but decided a quick walk might help clear my head. Went to Saltend, a neglected part of my patch.
Beautiful walk, with a Peregrine flying overhead for a good 5 minutes. Definitely helped with the cold!
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Very cold lunch break on #PaullHolmeStrays. Just a little walk from the car park. A very showy Cetti's Warbler was jumping around the reeds.
Biggest surprise though was a couple of Canada Geese amongst the Greylags and Pink-foots. Surprisingly a reserve tick for me.
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Bit cold today, but still managed a little walk on the patch with Ada.
Goldcrest giving good views, and a noisy Great Spotted Woodpecker. Too foggy to see much else!
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Juvenile Pallid Swift, Noup Head, Westray, Orkney, 3 November 2023
Boom! 🙅🏻♂️ that’ll do! Pallid Swift on my #WestrayBirding Noup Head patch late afternoon and @PatchBirding #PWC2023 #PatchGold. Second for Orkney and first for the isle. Makes up for the distant swift I couldn’t nail during last autumns Pallid influx x.com/stevedudley_...
Lovely Whinchats 😊 Two at Longstanton Lagoons today bringing my #PWC2023 total up to 💯! Picked out by @Laziobirder yesterday, with one/another bird found by @Pyrethrum53 on Saturday @CambsBirdClub
Very unexpected flock of 12 Common Sandpiper at Longstanton Lagoons this lunchtime, managing to find a bit of edge. Need the water to drop a bit more! Sadly & typically they departed after being flushed by a group of dogs. A high count for the patch though #PWC2023 @CambsBirdClub
Self-found, first-for-site lifer on the patch!! Doesn't get much better than that! 😁 Apart from actually seeing the bird and getting a photo 🤣 but I'm happy. Singing Quail at Longstanton Lagoons #PWC2023 @CambsBirdClub @PatchBirding
I do love a Wheatear, and even more so on the patch! 😍 Smokin' hot male at Longstanton Lagoons today #PWC2023 @PatchBirding @CambsBirdClub
LRPs have arrived in Cambourne! Hopefully this heralds the start of a stream of varied waders #PWC2023 #daretodream @CambsBirdClub
Unexpected DOUBLE tick on my other #PWC2023 patch (Cambourne) this lunchtime: 2 Redpolls picking up fallen seeds from Redgrave Water, and a Cetti's calling from the reeds! 😀 #patchtick @PatchBirding @CambsBirdClub
Slow and steady on my first @PatchBirding challenge: 54 sp. 58pts at Longstanton Lagoons so far, but a nice Oystercatcher patch tick this lunchtime made me smile 😊 Slow and steady wins the race right...? #PWC2023 @CambsBirdClub
First real excitement of the year on the patch Glaucous gull at Kilmory #PWC2023 @PatchBirding @SkyeBirdsBob @CasualBirderPod
Blustery, gloomy and very mild on a quick visit to the Aston's Eyot patch this morning. Daily coverage helped by daily dog-walks at this site! Canada Goose and a quick visit from a hunting adult male Kestrel were new for the year, now 44 spp #PWC2023
A short visit to Aston's Eyot & the Kidneys today in heavy rain produced just one addition for #PWC2023 when a hunting Sparrowhawk (#42) flashed across the Cherwell. No photos of that, but one of the 2 Pied Wagtails wintering on the football pitch allowed a rare close approach.
Relaxed start to #PWC2023 so far; 2nd amble around Aston's Eyot & the Kidneys in central Oxford this morning yielded Chiffchaff, Treecreeper & LBB Gull new for the year & the highlight a flock of 9 Fieldfare over - a relatively scarce bird in this part of the city - now on 41 spp
