Wilstone variety

A visit to Wilstone presented some varied species - the not common grebe showing nicely along the bank being the highlight

The best views of pintail I have had at the ressies too

Rock pipit

Black tailed Godwit

Field fare

Slavonian Grebe

Thailand - Part 1

A fantastic 2weeks chilling in Thailand with AD also brought home quite a wide range of bird species -about 80 - haven't got round to a proper catalogue yet!
Some pics here, others to follow

Black winged stilt - loads in fact at Sam Roi Yot

Great show of a Wryneck just off the beach at SRY

Pied Kingfisher in action on the river at Pran Buri

Wilstone pics

After a fantastic 2 weeks in Thailand, a trot around the local ressies brought a few little nice sights- some distant, some close.

College Lake -Kingfisher
Wilstone - 10 Snipe, 1 Water Rail, 111 Golden Plover, 1 Kingfisher, and 2 Whooper Swan. Not sure if the juv are Whooper or not

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A shed load of Goldies at Wilstone on Saturday

Whooper Swan at Wilstone

Wilstone Goldies

Golden Plovet, Chiff Chaff and a Grey Wag at Wilstone this morning 

A lovely morning - and about 9 golden plovers to boot

Scilly Trip - Life ticks ahoy (6 in all)

A long weekend with my best mate Rob on the Isles of Scilly brought great weather and a cup full of ticks - on the Thursday mostly...

The weather was actually too good the rest of the weekend as the birds continued on their journey south.

A great mixture of sleeping semi rough (car and tent) lots of walking , a few beers and brill company.

A check of the RSPB reserve at Marazion for potential spotted crakes (missed by 10 mins we found out) - brought a few WHITE WAGTAILS - also seen at photographed on the beach.

The boat over reaped two ticks - a couple of STORM PETREL dashing across the ocean and a POMERINE SKUA sailing close to the boat across to the islands.

After setting up the tent we went off for a twitch and x marked the spot on the east coast of St Mary's - well x being a bloke with a huge camera lens. Under the microscope was a BUFF BELLIED PIPIT - a mega no less. It would have been a near on impossible task to find it amongst the meadow pipits on the grass.

Back into Hugh Town for a very tame (and slightly damaged eye) ORTOLAN BUNTING for life tick #253

A non productive couple of days with a visit to St Agnes produced some nice birds - such as a pied flycatcher .

Sunday on the way back up the coast we stopped at Davidstown airport (disused) for a BUFF BREASTED SANDPIPER tick - and #254 lifer.

We don't talk about the attempt at the lesser yellowlegs , do we Rob..... 

great first time trip to the Isles of Scilly. I shall return !!!

White Wagtail at Marazion

POMERINE SKUA

Buff Bellied Pipit