Gave Galley an hour this evening for the craic, and was duly rewarded with a sooty shearwater (102). The only other thing of any note was a bonxie. Hope this isn't the shape of things to come! Still, thats the first year tick in about 6 weeks so can't complain!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
garden tick
Desperate times with little happening on the bird front. However, a surprise garden tick was spotted at lunchtime - unusual enough at Galley, though evidently the population is expanding slowly.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
south west at last!
The first decent south-westerly blow for ages this morning so headed up to Galley early to see if there were any skuas moving. Not much to start with apart from manxies, but things eventually picked up with 10 puffins, 2 dunlin and an arctic tern for the year (101). Otherwise, could only manage a couple of bonxies and 16 fly-by great northern divers, 14 of which were in sparkling summer plumage. Shame none had white bills though!
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
all doved up
Twitched all the way to Shite Lane in the van this morning as I was too bunged up with a snot-tastic head cold to walk that far. Failed to see the 2 reported spotted flycatchers, however, my incompetence was rewarded when the flycatcher finders returned to the scene of their crime only to turn up a turtle dove, which flew into a sycamore. I pointed myself towards the very tree and as I approached, sneezing all the while, out flew the dove, straight onto the year list - result! Not quite annual at Galley, well they probably are, but my catching up with them isn't, so a good one (97).
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