tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24824845348605062252024-03-14T02:29:09.729+00:00yorkslisterYorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-36816881854576885332014-02-25T22:47:00.000+00:002014-02-25T22:47:14.321+00:00BACK (for good?)!!!!It's been a bloody long time since I wrote anything on here, I've
been prompted to write something by John Grist and Dave Bowes among
others mentioning the lack of activity.<br />
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didn't have a lot to write about last spring and then I lost my Canon
S95 so couldn't do any digiscoping. I now have a new camera, and an
absolute peach it is too. I still have to sort out a lens for it to get
the best from it digiscoping cos at the moment I get lots of vignetting
but when sorted it should be brilliant.<br />
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Oh what is
it? its a Sony NEX7 I've got a Zeiss 24mm f1.8 and the kit 18-55 zoom
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landscape photography. Here's a couple of my first efforts with it<br />
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Pretty pleased with these HDR shots although the clouds are too diffuse as the wind was far too strong, story of 2014.<br />
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After
years of watching Holme on Spalding moor tip I finally scored a pukka
Caspo there today. I had a bird last year but now I think it was most
probably a hybrid, unfortunately a subject I know precious little
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When I got onto this bird it was standing tall
strutting around and looked simply massive and stunning, it started
preening and typically a Herring Gull landed right in front of it just
as I got the camera set up. From then on it was mostly obscured and I
only managed 3 in focus shots before the flock spooked, despite many of
them coming back down into the field part of the flock left I didn't see
it again. Also had an Adult Med Gull which is also a rarity at what
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I said in the last post I was sick of the crappy weather with cold winds blocking any migrants, it was a good job therefore that I had an escape route planned, namely just over 2 weeks in Hong Kong. The main aim was to see Spoon billed Sand, Nordmann's Greenshank and hopefully Aleutian Tern.</div>
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With these targets in mind I planned 4 days at Mai Po marshes and two day trips to Po Toi island, the rest of the time I'd grab a bit of birding here and there in between family duties.</div>
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We flew with Emirates from Manchester to Hong Kong via Dubai and flights cost £535 each, there is no need to hire a car in Hong Kong as public transport is exceptionally good. On arrival we caught the E34 bus to Tin Shue Wai (cost about £1.90) where we were staying in the Harbour Plaza resort hotel. The hotel had been recommended to me by the reserve officer at Mai Po as the best locally and it turned out to be excellent, very spacious room and good breakfasts. There was free wifi in the bar area.</div>
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The first morning I headed off to Mai Po in a Taxi which cost about £7 and bought my permit at HK$150 for the day which isn't cheap at about £13 plus a HK$200 deposit, I also had to hand it back in at 5pm and go through the same routine each day. Due to the high tide times being around midday this didn't hamper me too much but on a full on birding trip I would advise asking in advance if you could pay up front for all the days and keep the permit throughout, then you could bird early mornings and into the evening. I tried to do his at the visitor center but the woman on duty didn't seem to understand.</div>
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The reserve is made up of lots of shrimp ponds which have mostly been colonised by mangrove tree species and as such they seemed to have little interest, unless you wanted to see Koel and Masked Laughingthrush that is! I had other things on my mind so headed straight for the floating mudflat hide, it is a long wayfrom the visitor center and probably takes about an hours walk as you inevitably get distracted by the odd Flycatcher of Bunting. </div>
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Much of the walk is along boardwalk through the mangroves with the first part being on the most amazing floating boardwalk, a true feat of engineering, each section had 4 barrels that had a welded up cage to hold them in place, it must have taken months. I can't begin to imagine how hard it was to build this thing, I was soaking wet from just walking due to the humidity.</div>
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In the end I didn't see any Spoon billed Sands, there were at least 2 present over a few days the week before arrived and one was claimed on my 3rd day, I saw the bird and I'm absolutely certain it was a Red necked Stint with mud on the bill, like the pic below!</div>
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What I did see though more than made the trip worthwhile, in total I scored 38 species of wader in the 4 days including 2 lifers in the shape of Nordmann's Greenshank and Painted Snipe and I narrowly missed out on Oriental Plover, just as well they weren't males! Mai Po really is a dream for anyone who likes Waders, are you listening Gristi and Gav?<br />
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It is also a photographers paradise, in fact on one day I couldn't get in the main hide because it was totally rammed with masseeve lenses! As the tide pushes the birds they come to within feet of the hide giving incredible views. The only downside is that (when I was there at least) it was always completely overcast and often raining so the light wasn't great. Here's some of my best efforts.<br />
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Despite them being classed as very scarce I saw a total of 4 different Little Stints, I seem to have a knack of seeing these in the far east, I found 3 on the Wildwings trip to China in 2004 as well, wish I could do it in reverse and find a Red necked Stint back home!!!<br />
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It wasn't all Waders though I spent a fair bit of time looking at Eastern flava's and saw 2 stunning male Narcissus Flycatchers,, but sadly didn't get any photographs of them.<br />
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<br />Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-68650880662877220812013-03-30T19:47:00.002+00:002013-03-30T19:47:43.664+00:00The weather has been so shit I've had nothing at all to blog about but I figured I had to write something! I've hardly been out birding due to work and weather related apathy. A Ring necked Duck has been present in the area since the beginning of the year but has been very elusive, it's finally been found on a tiny fishing pond at Arram and just goes to show how many rare birds must get missed because this pond is certainly not checked regularly by birders.<br />
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I also got some nice shots of the stunning drake Long tailed Duck at Hornsea, most of them look like this!!!<br />
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Basically it wouldn't come close enough for the lumix, a problem I've had with a lot of stuff so I've got myself a proper Kowa digiscoping adapter, i'm just waiting for it arriving in the post from Hungary!!!!<br />
Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-5841539462787407202013-02-07T18:35:00.001+00:002013-02-07T18:35:11.202+00:00Sodding typical, I took part in the Foot It chllenge last month and although I was pleased to exceed my target of 75 by 2, I missed 3 species that should have been gettable and I could have gone all out for once last push on the last day of the month but really couldn't be arsed searching for Skylark, Tree Sparrow and Red legged Partridge. also conspicuous by their absence round these parts were Waxwing, but there seems to have been a mini influx over the last few days, including a small group of 13 I stumbled upon today only 100yds from the house, grrrrr.<br />
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I've been gulling quite bit recently checking the tip at Holme on Spalding Moor regularly, I'm struggling to find owt though, a single juv Glauc is the best I can manage. I was talking to a friend earlier about the Kumlien's at Barmston and the hybrid Gull seen recently in Kerry and it reminded me of a bird I saw at Killybegs about 6-7 years ago.<br />
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We'd gone over there hoping to see a Thayer's that had been around but dipped, from memory we saw a few white wingers but not much else. This bird stood out though initially it looked like a very dark Glauc but the primaries and tertials are clearly very dark and there are heavily patterned dark lower scaps present too. I sent the pics round a few knowledgeable people who all agreed with me that it looked like a good candidate for Nelson' Gull, or in normal speak a hybrid between Glauc and American Herring Gull. I'd have rather found a pukka Smith but it's still a clearly striking Gull.<br />
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Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-64618125804781972882013-01-28T12:04:00.003+00:002013-01-28T12:08:29.902+00:00More on Kumlien's/Iceland GullsA couple of people have got in touch to tell me there has been a definite Kumlien's in the county before, an adult bird at Broomhead reservoir a few years ago. It was photographed but not predictable in it's appearances so not widely twitched.<br />
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I've also received a few comments about the Whitby bird of I think 2000/01. The important difference between these birds is that the Barmston bird has an even dark shaded area adjacent to the shaft streak the whole length of the feather on both webs of every primary . The Whitby bird in contrast has a faint shaded area on the outer web of the inner primaries and a complex subterminal mark on each feather, but the dark decreases on the outer feathers. The Whitby bird appears to just be an unusually dark pigmented bird and the dark marking in the primaries are merely an extension of the dark marks on the secondaries and inner primaries.<br />
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a similar [although with pale not dark pigment] phenomenon is seen in 1st winter birds often claimed as Glauc x Herring hybrids that in reality are just argentatus Herring gulls at the pale end of the spectrum where the pattern on the inner primaries extends further on to the outers giving a paler appearance and inviting the conclusion that there is Glauc influence. This is illustrated in the pic below<br />
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I can remember a few claims of Kumlien's Gull in the county over the last 10-15 yers but as I recall none of them have turned out to be gen. The bird at Barmston therefore could well be the first documented record. That is of course that there aren't any pics of birds from way back when.<br />
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Doesn't look much at first glance does it? But that's because it's at the paler end of the sectrum.<br />
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I'm going to preach a bit now so most of you might want to click on one of the links to somebody else's blog. But as lots of people in Yorks don't know much about Gulls I'll bat on with a brief summary of the Kumlien's subject.<br />
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This is what most people think of as a Kumlien's Gull, lots of dark grey in the primaries but otherwise like an Iceland. The thing to understand is becuase it is widely believed to be or originate from a hybrid between Thayer's and Iceland any bird showing dark in the primaries, no matter how little has to be by definition a Kumlien's Gull. I remember Graham Catley photographing an adult bird in Lincs a few years ago which only had dark on the outer web of the outermost primary, the rest were classic Iceland Gull white. So if we accept that they are a hybrid and mega variable when adults then it stands to reason that juvs and imms will be just as variable.<br />
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I can't remember where I photographed this juv Iceland but note the lack of dark in the primaries. Actually this bird seems to show some dark on the second outermost primary, so it may not be the best example but I don't have any better ones and without a spread wing shot I can't tell if this is just shadow from the far wing folded over.<br />
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Compare the Barmston bird here and see how there is a dark shaded area either side of the shaft streak. On darker birds this will extend further toward the edges and show more dark with a thinner pale fringe.<br />
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Kumlien's also often shows a less rounded head shape but this is difficult to portray in pics as it changes so much with posture, overall though the bird appears less gentle and pigeon headed than the average Iceland<br />
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In this pic with the wings raised the extent of the dark shading becomes apparent. This pattern continues through all the primaries and onto the secondaries giving a hint of a secondary bar. Although my pics don't show it the tail is also similarly dark with a definite hint of a tail band. The next few shots further show the extent of dark in the wings.<br />
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Martin Garner has written about this bird on his excellent Birding frontiers blog and several prominent Gullers have commented. Perhaps the most enlightening is from Peter Kristensen who turns the argument round by asking the question if this was submitted as a nominate glaucoides Iceland would it be acceptable, and the answer to that is surely a great big NO.<br />
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OK Gull talk over sorry!!!Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-47018706956675381212013-01-05T17:32:00.001+00:002013-01-05T17:32:28.726+00:00Well back from Holland and it's mid September so that can only mean one thing........FOULA time.<br />
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Well actually this year it meant marriage time, that's right folks I went and got married, then went on Honeymoon a few days later with mssr's Thomas, Aspin, Brown and French. That's right I got married and left a couple of days later for Foula, I've found a good un!!!<br />
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As usual I traveled up by ferry and had a couple of days on Mainland Shetland before flying onto Foula. On the Thursday with not much around and time to kill I suggested we visit Eshaness in NW mainland as it's very underwatched and there had been a Baird's Sand on the previous Saturday.<br />
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As we arrived Bill and I walked less than 20m from the car and scanned the grassy slope below the car park, whappo! first bird I saw was a Buff breast. There had been one present earlier in the month but none of us could remember how long ago. I found out later there had been one the day before the Baird's and fter our sighting there were two birds. So the dilema is did we find a new bird? We'll never know I guess unless someone grills some pics. But with a gap of 6 days between our sighting and the previous one, plus a few birders looking for the baird's and 2 birds present later there's got to be a good chance ours was a new one. In his write up about this years Foula trip Paul French suggests Foula must be oe of the most regular places for Buff breast, I'd agree with that but Eshaness probably gives it a good run for it's money, in fact I'm sure some of the birds will be the same ones.<br />
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The next morning we flew onto Foula for my 4th straight autumn on here, Two weeks on the most remote inhabited island in Britain, it's rally hard work flogging all the iris beds and kicking wet grassland and ditches, in fact it can be a really soul destroying place but the expectation keeps you going. Especially when you land on the island to the forecast we did this year. We've had some success each year I've been on here but I really felt with the weather a crack team who now know how to bird the island including new secret weapon Golden Balls Brown tht we couldn't fail to score a monster. As it turned out that bastard place to the south east Fair Isle hammered us, but we put up a good fight.<br />
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Frenchy has done a smart write up of the trip plus his extra weeks so I'll just put up some pics and point you in the direction of http://nomadbirder.com/2012/10/<br />
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<i>He found a Blyth's Pipit, no justice!</i></div>
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<br />Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-88748070501619545262013-01-04T18:40:00.001+00:002013-01-04T18:41:33.605+00:00One of the highlights of the autumn was a few days in Holland for my mate Jim's wedding, I had a cracking long weekend and saw some old mates and a few good birds. I'm not sure if Jim and Remke are speaking to me though as they had to pick up my bar tab! <br />
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The whole thing didn't start too well as Alison was delayed and didn't get there til the sat morning so missed the wedding itself as they are traditionally held on Fri on Holland, but then at least she didn't get embarrassed by my dancing, although Jim dancing to the birdy song and tainted love has left me bit scarred! <br />
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I can't remember much about it but Jim got me hammered on the Sun night drinking Belgian and Dutch beers, probably the most drunk I've been in a long time, I proceeded to direct Alison the wrong way up a one way street in a bus lane on the way back to the digs, which went down well!<br />
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Whilst in Holland I went to the Dutch birdfair, having missed the Rutland one I wanted to check out the new Swaro scope and the newish 8x32ELs To say I was impressed would be an understatement. I've since bought pair of the ELs and although I only compared the scope to the outgoing 80hd I can't see me not buying one at some stage I just need to find time to check one out against the Kowa for an hour or so.<br />
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We didn't see any birds of note at the fair and had a day in the north at Lauwersmeer. Jim reckons this is one of the best place in Europe for waders, not when I was there it wasn't, it was shit. To be fair a Peregrine landed right in front of the hide and flushed what waders there were present but they weren't in very good numbers. Best bird I saw was a juv Caspian Gull.<br />
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On our last day we went to Amsterdam, a lifer for me, I got dragged round the Anne Frank museum, don't bother its just a crappy house where some bint played hide and seek! In return for my patience we went for a look round the whore houses, well the streets where they are anyway. To be honest with you it's bit shit too, I think they put the ropey ones out during the day and the better looking ones work at night, at least I hope they do! Whilst eating an ice cream and doing touristy shite (taking photo's of each other) I heard a Caspian Gull calling. It was sitting on a barge right next to us in the centre of the town. Holland is ace! The pics are taken with the phone held at arms length.<br />
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Next update will be Foula, with loads of pics of MEGAS<br />
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Following on from the last posts cracking tits I was hoping to put a pic up of some Beaver this time! but unfortunately this is as close as I got.<br />
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Yeah OK so it was a furry mammal I was after not more hot women, this blog is supposed to be about wildlife afterall.<br />
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We had a lot of poor weather whilst in Scotland recently so we had a couple of hours off one day and went to look at the reintroduction area at Loch Dubh, the sign above talks about how good the engineering is and all the materials used, they're not kidding!!!<br />
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We didn't see any Beavers and to be honest it's all a bit man made, it's plastic looking and suspicious. For instance the sign says they have dammed the area to flood it but the stone chip path that has been made partly with a machine is right alongside the site and the floating pontoons are right next to the dam, would all this work really have been carried out once they had settled down or was it made before they were released, surely the latter would be a risky strategy with the potential for them to bugger off and settle down elsewhere. Although we didn't stay long we saw a nice Gos. Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-198660410399247552012-08-23T11:10:00.002+01:002012-08-23T11:10:29.226+01:00Just got back from a week in Tenerife, it wasn't really a birding trip it was a relaxing holiday with the girlfriend, I spent a fair amount of time by the pool each day, can't think why can you?<br />
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Despite the obvious attractions of the poolside I managed 7 seawatches, a trip on the Tenerife to La Gomera ferry, a Whale and Dolphin boat trip and a day traveling round the island looking at endemics! not bad for a not a birding holiday!!!!<br />
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As you can see my main priority were the seabirds, I had four targets Bulwer's, Little Shear, Madeiran Petrel and White faced Stormie. I thought I'd get the first 2 easily and the other two would be tricky with the White faced a long shot. As it turned out they were all difficult and I was a little disappointed with the views of everything I saw, except the millions of Cory's. All the interesting birds were distant and having no previous experience of them I felt I was identifying things because you know they occur there. My totals for the week were 6 Bulwer's, 2 Little Shears, 2 Madeiran Petrels and I failed on the White faced. Actually 2 of the Bulwer's were close enough that if I'd found them in Britian I would have felt confident claiming them, and one of the Madeiran's was nearly so, but everything else would have been birds that got away, although I suppose we all have different standards, I can think of a few who would have claimed the lot!<br />
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My impression of the island was that birds are pretty thin on the ground my species list was about 30ish, Massive eh. OK so I saw some good birds in that and I didn't bother going to a lot of sites but even so it's low.<br />
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I didn't bother with the Pigeons because they are shit, I hate Pigeons, and in any case the forest fires have meant the track to the site nr Erjos is closed to the public and this is the only site I went near, well I think it is, I didn't actually read the book to find out if there were any other sites near anywhere I went. <br />
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I visited the pools at Erjos but they were nearly dry and unproductive. <br />
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The picnic site at Las Lajas was open despite some evidence of fires nearby, I found the best strategy here was to fill one of the troughs from the taps and sit nearby with the camera.<br />
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I had an abortive attempt at a seawatch from punta de teno in the north but there wasn't a breath of wind and it was impossibly hot and I just couldn't stand sitting there.<br />
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Even though I was close to it every day I didn't bother going to the Roquita del Fraile reservoir, simply because I wasn't desperate to add Greenshank or something similarly shit to my trip list I wanted to spend as much time as possible gazing out to sea.<br />
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With this in mind I tried to find a good seawatching point that didn't involve a lot of walking therefore I didn't abandon Alison for any longer than necessary, brownie points you see! The guide book suggests that the lighthouse at Punta de la Rasca is the best place in the south but it's a fair walk and I'm not convinced it's got that much going for it<br />
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As you can see the lighthouse is halfway along a fairly straight section of coast which I don't think makes it ideal, it has good height though, but I reckon either end of this flat area of coast will be as good if not better. With this in mind I usually just parked at Palm Mar and walked south to the obvious point. I also spent a few hours at the south end of the town at a sewage pump station (a round stone turret) that in all honesty seemed as good as anywhere and was right next to the car so perfect for a flying visit, in fact I saw 2 Bulwer's and both Madeiran's from here, it did stink of shit a bit though, but no worse than the seawatch hut at Spurn when it's full!<br />
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The ferry trip was OK but the only birds that came close were Cory's, I guess you just have to be lucky. I saw a European Stormie a Little Shear and 2 Bulwer's but views weren't good, I decided seawatching from land was gonna be just a s productive so didn't bother with the 39 Euro return trip cost again <br />
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I thought the Whale and Dolphin trip would be good for photography if nothing else ans the boat was small. I also hoped that being on a slow boat for a couple of hours would offer a good chance of the target species. In the end it was shite, 3 Cory's came close and were always into the light, I saw nothing else! They also made no attempt to look for Dolphins despite claiming we had a 75% chance of them, I'd seen them from land and we didn't go close to where they hung out. The simply took us to the Pilot Whales which are lazy and don't move much, therefore guaranteed , then killed time for an hour by going very slowly back to port but really close in to the cliffs. I still think these trips have potential but don't use the travelin' lady boat, the othe boatr went out to the Dolphin area and spent longer much further out to sea than we did so would be a better bet.<br />
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Here's a few pics of the things that kept me away from the poolside.<br />
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It's a few weeks ago now but what a win in the Tour for Bradley Wiggins, epic and truly an amazing achievement being the first British winner. Then he went and won another gold medal in that there London! I wonder if next year it'll be a case of same as the old boss? <br />
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With the exception of Mark Cavendish who couldn't manage to win the road race and Vic Pendleton who seems to have been on the receiving end of some pretty harsh decisions the whole of team GB cycling seems to be unstoppable, hang on is that something we really are world beaters at? Certainly looks like it Mark!<br />
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All this cycling on telly made me want to get out on my bike, I certainly need to get fitter and lose a few stone! Trouble is mountain bikes are shit on the road, they really are no fun. And around here the paths are all straight round the edges of fields with the only decent singletrack in woodland around the edges of the Wolds necessitating at least 10 miles on the road in order to get to anything worth riding. Also at this time of year they are terribly overgrown with nettles and in winter the mud is so sticky it;'s impossible to ride through as it clogs your wheels up to the point they won't turn. The other option is to stick the bike in the car and drive to somewhere like Dalby Forest or west Yorks but then you need at least half a day spare. The upshot of this is you don't end up riding very often, well I don't. So I've gone and done something I never thought I would, I've bought a road bike! It's rather smart actually and amazingly fast.<br />
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<br />Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-54941956777547780552012-07-31T18:52:00.001+01:002012-07-31T18:52:29.554+01:00I was honestly surprised to receive a message from the manager of Bass and Bligh within a few hours of sharing my last post on facebook, here it is:<br />
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<i>Hi Garry, <br /><br /> I am Justin from Bass & Bligh in Harrogate and have just read your blog.</i> <i><br /><br />
I would like to explain the mix up in understanding we appear to have
had. Regarding the Swarovski Binoculars, it was myself you spoke to
last week, i made an error in saying we have never recieved the "SV's".
For some reason i had Zeiss on the brain and thought we were talking
about there new binocular, i always refer to the Swarovski's as "EL's"
not "SV's" This was a gunuine mistake made by myself, the annoying thing
is hat we had and still do have the new 8x32 EL/SV in stock.</i> <i><br /><br />
We are a small inderpendant business who really enjoy looking after our
customers, we never intentionally set to mislead or lie to anyone of
our potential/existing customers, it was very upsetting to read your
opinion of the customer service you recieved from myself. </i> <i><br /><br /> Justin </i> <i><br /> justin@bassandbligh.com</i><br />
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So in the absence of anything funny to write about I'll talk about optics. Regular reader(s) will remember last year I tested all the top scopes and at the time I thought the Kowa 883 with 30x was cracking but the Swaro 80 with the 25-50 zoom was the best zoom, and therefore offered more felexibility. I think I also posted to say I'd bought a the Kowa in the autumn. Well the reason for buying the Kowa was it was secondhand and therefore a bit cheaper and I didn't want to shell out full whack on a scope as I'd heard Swaro had a new one coming out this year. The beast has arrived, well it's been announced, in the usual Swaro style it won't arrive for a few months and when it does they'll be rarer in shops than rocking horse shit. I will almost certainly be buying one though, specifically a 95mm 30-70 zoom one. Check it out on t'internet it looks simply awesome, I can't wait to look through one.<br />
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Also while we're on the subject of optics I've bought some new bins, I should have bought two pairs by now but haven't found the time to go look through the new Swaro 8x32 EL swarovision, that really is a shit name innit, swarovision, who the fuck thought that one up! Think I'll stick with SV's. The other pair I bought we're solely for boat work. My 10x we're a bit difficult to hold steady particularly on the boats I'm working on at the moment which are a little less than smooth! So I got myself a pair of 8x, I didn't fancy using the new SV's (when I get them) and fucking them up with loads of salt spray and the odd drenching on rough days so I found a pair of Zeiss 8x40 victory's going for a relative song. Most people don't remember these because they got a few bad reviews due to the way they handled stray light, the strap design and the rubber smelling of tyres! I got a pair of MK11's and they sorted the light and strap issue on these but the rubber is the same, except after a few years it seems they don't stink anymore. This is what they look like.<br />
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This was taken hand held digiscoped with the S95, I'm pretty pleased with it. An Awesome beast.</div>
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You'll be aware that I got rid of my DSLR last year when the 50D body expired. Well I've been looking for another option for the last 6 months or so. A couple of days before leaving for Spain I took the plunge and bought a Panny Lumix FZ150. Here's a few shots with it, they are taken in RAW and straight out of the camera just saved for web in Photoshop with no processing done.</div>
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Some of these I'm fairly happy with, I have to keep telling myself it's not a DSLR but I'm sure a really good image from this camera with some clever photoshop work can rival the quality I was getting form the 50D. I tried some processing on a couple of these pics but the raptors against the sky don't seem to respond much to the tweaks I was trying and the Iberian flava although pleasant wasn't close enough to really resolve enough detail to bring the quality up afterwards.<br />
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That said though it's tiny and weighs nothing, it will come into it's own in the autumn on Shetland for grabbing record shots of anything I'm lucky enough to stumble upon!<br />
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The middle ground may prove to be the way I go eventually though, I was mighty impressed with the Panny GH2 it has the same super fast focus of the FZ150 but has interchangeable lenses and a better processor, with the 100-300 zoom it weighs a third of the weight of a 7d plus 100-400 and is about a quarter the size. The only problem with it is the viewfinder blacks out between shots, hopefully this will be sorted in the next version.<br />
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<br />Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-26417994031172023972012-06-21T19:08:00.001+01:002012-06-21T19:08:05.258+01:00Right it's been ages since I wrote any shite on here and a few mates have been giving me grief over it so I aim to make amends and write a load of bollocks about a few things over the next few weeks.<br />
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So what has happened since April, well in birding terms not fuckin much. I was away in Scotland at the end of May so I missed the Orphean Warbler at Hartlepool which was a bit if a wounder, but not as much as missing the Gull billed Tern at Hatfield/Thorne wherever it was. Several of the top Yorkshire boys connected with that one including reinstated top man Dave Hursthouse, he'd recently drawn level with the charlatan who was pretending to be at the head of the field when he gripped back Pallid Harrier, then with the Tern went back clear. It's coming to something when almost every lister in the county is happy for a Derbyshire man to be number one in God's country!!!<br />
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I went to Spain on my mate Jim's stag do in early May and met a few new Dutch friends, we had a great laugh, especially with Rene Pop who I shared a car with for the week, he had me in stitches and vice versa. I can't really tell you anything more about it cos it's the law of the stag! I suppose it's OK to say we saw lots of good birds and Iberian Lynx, I'll put some pics up shortly, I've tried to put some vid up but it's dicking about and won't have it! So here's a pic instead.<br />
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<br />Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-37201331623325821282012-04-08T19:11:00.000+01:002012-04-08T19:11:17.654+01:00Last years White Spotted Bluethroat at Spurn was the first since 1966, so it's amazing that not one but two have turned up today. The first bird was in the sheep field at chalk bank and showing well so I really couldn't resist going down for it because I've never seen a White spot in Britain before, they are pretty rare and unpredictable in their appearance.<br />
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Can you imagine that, I've just driven a round trip of about 70 miles to look at a bird I can't tick I must be fuckin mad! Oh no I'm not I'm a birder unlike all the twats on birdforum etc who wouldn't go for the Thayer's because they can't tick it, they really make my blood boil fuckin knob jockeys.<br />
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And another thing you also see is they're all asking can someone tell me which fields the gull has been seen in, or is there anywhere safe to park, or even worse do I need to bring wellies for this bird.....<br />
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No you fucking don't you don't actually need to go see it in the first fucking place cos it will mean absolutely fuck all to you! If you need to worry about parking you should just drive straight past the birders at Elsham and continue on to Barton where you will find a lovely car park and hides where you may see Marsh Harrier, you almost certainy won't see Bittern or Bearded Tit because they are skulking/small and require a certain amount of skill to see, which you don't possess beause you're clearly not a true birder. You will be able to buy a coffee though and you'll go home just as happy as you would if you'd seen the Thayer's Gull. Anyway looks like it's gone, if you didn't go until you'd spent two days gathering all the necessary information I'm glad you fuckin missed it.<br />
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<br />Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-68803812054478846072012-04-04T23:04:00.002+01:002012-04-04T23:21:30.626+01:00Thayer's the wrong side of the river!Well fuck me two ticks in a week, I'm now on 464, but then again
maybe I already was. What am I going on about? Thayer's Gull that's
what. I saw the bird at Poolsbrook a few years ago which many people
thought was the real deal or near enough anyway. I always thought it
looked a bit funny round the head, hard to put into words but it's jizz
was a bit wide of the mark for what I was expecting. Here's a couple of
pics of it see what you think. They're a bit shit cos it was
phonescoped but I think you can get the impression that the headshape is
a bit funny. And I suppose some might say it's too pale, I'm struggling to believe that pale Thayer's don't exist afterall if they were all the same they'd be practically the only Gull that didn't have massive individul variation<br />
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Looks pretty good doesn't it? Well it looks even better in Graham Catley's pics<br />
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It's surely the real deal, it's certainly better than any I've seen pics of in recent years, in fact the only thing I can see wrong with this bird is it's on the wrong side of the sodding river!<br />
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With the room now usable, a few things to finish off but at least I can
have a shit, shower and shave now, so I've spent the last ten days or so
catching up on work. Highlight was somebody who appeared to have
fallen/chucked themselves off a cliff. The coastguard was heard to say
'the casualty has sustined major injuries, there appears to be no
urgency', I guess that means they were brown bread. <br />
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Birds this month have been few and far between but I've seen my first migrants, a few Chiffs and 3 White Wags being the ones local. I also played it totally cool with the Yellerthroat and waited until Sat 31st March before going to see it, turns out it hasn't been seen since so it may have fucked off, how spawny. We got there and with only one other birder on site and reports some have had to try several times before connecting we were prepared for the worst, no worries Tim picked it up with in 5 minutes of getting there, back o the net! We watched it on and off for about an hour and a half before clearing off for a celebratory Morrisons breakfast.<br />
After this we went for a bit of Gos action at the New Fancy View watchpoint in the Forest of Dean. We only had about an hour here but what an hour... Loads of Crossbill were flying around and two sat pretty close in the trees around the viewpoint, A Willow Warbler was singing in some saplings nearby which may have been a March tick for both of us and a couple of Bramblings did the odd flypast, then Tim picked up a pair of displaying Gos, they weren't close but views were prolonged as a huge female was in the air for at least ten minutes. Shortly after I got onto a nice spotted juv bird as it did a flypast the viewpoint at a max of about 75m range, brief but very good views. Tim [who seemed to be on fire today] then picked up a migrant Osprey which lingered for a bit then one of the locals called out a Hawfinch as it bombed past us. We headed home via Newnham on the severn where the previous day there had been a 1st w Boney's and couple of Ring billed Gulls. We couldn't find anything in the birds present and didn't see another birder which seemed strange. It seemed even stranger when news cme on the Birdnet twitter feed about 3 hours later that the Boney's was there when we were! Why do people wait so long to put news out? Im not gonna rant, mainly cos I can't be arsed with cunts like that but they really need to sort it out, 3 hours for fucks sake, half an hour, maybe, a bit longer even and we would have still turned back, but 3 hours, we were at fuckin home!!!!!<br />
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So Yellerthroat a new British bird for me, I don't really keep a British list and never really know what I'm on so when Tim asked I resolved to count it up, I had a pretty good year last year with the Turtle Dove, Short toed Tree,White throated Robin, Sandhill Crane and Greater Legs and Izzy Wheatear plus an armchair tick in the form of Sibe Stonechat, so all told I'm now on 463, it may just make me twitch a bit more cos when I think of all the birds I couldn't be arsed going for I'd surely be on 500 now. If only I'd put the effort in then I too could have had a bright yellow t-shirt and a certificate!!!<br />
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The only downside to seeing the 'throat is it'll take the gloss off it when I find my own on Shetland so I'm gonna have to kick out one of these fellas instead<br />
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Or even better one of these bad boys, now that really would cause the shit to hit the fan, can you imagine them all trying to get to Foula, it would be carnage.<br />
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<br />Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-81194788853673845292012-03-02T10:51:00.002+00:002012-03-02T11:01:41.840+00:00Last year I bought myslef the Canon S95 and tried for the first time to do some landscape photography. My results of Garda stack on Foula were my good enough to make me think I could capture some decent shots, since then though I've realised just how difficult it is to get shots with anything approaching a WOW factor. Composition is the one I find hardest and I'm beginning to think I don't really have an eye for it. So with this in mind I've been reading a few tutorials on t'internet and in some old magazines a mate gave me in an attempt to improve. I'd come to the conclusion one of the most important things is an interesting sky, it seems a good sky can make up for a lot.<br />
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So I've been checking the weather forcast trying to predict which day this week would give me a decent sunrise to go play with some ideas on the beach at Hornsea. Wed saw me there waiting for the sky to get light only to find it was misty and the sea and sky were all the same colour, bollocks I could have stayed in bed. I reasoned that while I was there I may as well have a crack at it anyway so on went the wellies.<br />
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Lesson learned, the lack of a visible sky actually made it easier to see the composition for some reasonable shots. Plus when back at home photoshop works wonders when applying a bit of levels to the sky, seems the camaera could see the divide even if I couldn't make it out.<br />
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Another thing I've been reading about a little is hyperfocal distance for getting good depth of field, although I kind of understand it I had to make an educated guess at distances for focus points due to the not being able to measure into the sea!! I worked quite well though with most of the image in focus.<br />
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Anyway here's my four best shots from the morning.<br />
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There is one small problem with not being able to see the divide between sea and sky, I couldn't tell if my shots were perfectly level but I don't think a slightly sloping horizon detracts from these shots too much.<br />
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Anyway in an effort to see if it was worth carrying on with this blog I had a butchers at the stats to see how many people looked at it, I was a bit surprised it's managed over 20,000 pageviews, no idea how that compares to my friends blog stats but it gave me some encouragement, not least because two of them were from Russia! I can only assume they were really fit young hotties called Svetlana and Natalya looking for a husband, well they've come to the right place, oh no they haven't they fucked off without leaving a message, bollocks!<br />
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They did however look like this, I just know they did!<br />
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I got up there early and did a bit of birding in the general area with Jack and Tim. Here's the results<br />
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Here's one of the evil looking bastards <br />
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Anyway those of you who have been for the crippling northern Long tailed Tits nr Halifax have probably seen the same thing. Did you see the Tit? If you haven't been for these you have to, they are amazing stunning little things. I saw the ones at Spurn/Easington many times but couldn't resist going to see another. I didn't manage any pics so here's a few of the birds in Easington.<br />
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Considering these birds were around all winter and these were the best pics I could manage I have to say I think they are probably the hardest birds I've ever tried to photograph. OK so Swifts or Hirundines are impossible but you know you'll struggle with those. These are nice cuddly little Tits that just hang about round nut feeders giving pornstar views, did they bollocks, they never sat still and you couldn't get anywhere near them!Yorkslisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17611232646706143884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482484534860506225.post-57280837842268637362012-01-31T20:36:00.001+00:002012-01-31T20:40:42.827+00:00I spend more time than most looking at seagulls and therefore see my fair share of white wingers, which is why it's pissing me off that in the biggest Iceland Gull influx in my birding lifetime I can't find any whilst my mate Frenchy is swanning around in Scotland tripping over them and seeing a few Kumlien's in the process.<br />
I've been doing the tips and roosts when I can but drawn a blank, until today when driving down the A64 nr Scarborough tip I saw an obvious juv winger from the car but thought it looked a bit big. I pulled over and sure enough juv Glauc, fuckin ell what do I have to do to score an Iceland?<br />
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I've managed to blag myself access onto the tip at Scarborough which should ensure decent views as the birds are often very distant from the public rights of way so I was pretty fired about that until today when they informed me it's the last day of tipping it's now gonna be covered over and landscaped, BASTARD!!!!!<br />
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This is what I'd been looking forward to, it's pretty monster but can be a bit hard to see the wood for the trees as it were!<br />
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I meant to post this link ages ago but forgot all about it so have a look at this seems pretty topical as this post is all about dumps<br />
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I nearly pissed myself laughing at this and reckon all gullers have had that conversation a few times.<br />
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Anyway here's a Kumlien's I did find a few years ago, seems I'm gonna have to be satisfied with that one cos it's not looking good for this year they'll all be off back home in a few weeks<br />
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