Friday 15 May 2015

Seawatching

My first seawatch for ages this morning. Up early and at Whitburn Obs for 05.30. Some excellent birds over a calm sea, Arctic Skua, Bonxie, Great Northern Diver and Avocet were the star birds. The Avocet was only the second ever past the Obs. A goods supporting cast with 60+ Manx Shearwater and loads of Sandwich Tern. The full selection on Paul's Blog.

All very quiet in Gateshead, but Dingy Skipper at Burdon Moor were new for the year.

4 comments:

  1. Could u listen to tree pipit calls I heard today to confirm it's a tree pipit?

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  2. It would be under" rambling walker in gateshead. "

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  3. Sounds pretty good, but must admit I have cloth ears. Could do with a longer clip. Your description of the bird sounds good for Tree Pipit.

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  4. I had the bird through binoculars too,and I'm not too sure a meadow pipit sounds like that? Plus where it was in a tree, sound very much like chaffinch with a different endings.yes true I could have recorded longer but it was a toss between recording or seeing it.lol.
    Think I'll go back tommorrow hopefully high number of insects will keep it around.
    Cheers rob

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