Grainthorpe Haven

Dave Bradbeer · **Posted:** Sat Oct 01, 2011 3:13 pm

2 Lapland Bunting
35 Little Egret
Spotted Redshank
8 Greenshank
2 Merlin
Marsh Harrier
Peregrine
4 Pintail
@300 Brent Goose
6 Rock Pipit
5 Tree Sparrow
Small number of Brambling in off. with Neil Kurz & Rob Hardy.

Robert Hardy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:59 pm

And we had 6 starlings giveing good views for some 25 seconds flying in a south easterly direction, Neil noted one was a good 10ft behind the others at one point, although i could not confirm this, as i looked back they had reformed there grouping .
Now this is most likely owing to a speed up of the trailing bird or a slowing down of the 5 Im drawn to conclude the trailing bird did indeed speed up but unless further infomation comes forward i carnt be sure .

I wonder if anyone at pie's Hall saw them and has a view on this ? iv yet to see if there were any further sightings but im sure if there was reports would have been given.
All in all a day day out

Rob.

John Clarkson · **Posted:** Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:37 pm

I'm pretty confident that lots of people saw lots of starlings today. Certainly there were some around Louth!

John

Graham Catley · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:20 pm **Posts:** 1667

Are we missing something?

Robert Hardy · **Posted:** Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:37 am

Graham Catley wrote:

Are we missing something?

Just a sence of humour Graham :wink:

David Morison · **Posted:** Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:59 am

Robert Hardy wrote:

Graham Catley wrote:

Are we missing something?

Just a sence of humour Graham :wink:

Something we need plenty of here and in life generally!

David

John Clarkson · **Posted:** Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:45 pm

Certainly with a thread like this!

John

Freddy Johnson · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:00 am

Rob,

Sorry, but when I saw your post re Starlings the first thing I did was to check the time-line. I was genuinely surprised to see " 6.59pm " rather than an hour in the very early morning, which is when someone usually starts a meandering and totally irrelevant thread.

Further, I would suggest that the sense of humour displayed in the entry as posted on a birding website might well rate as 'rare' or even 'mega' in its obliqueness; so, I certainly don't consider any other contributor to this thread (which began with a standard bird report) is lacking or missing out on a personal genuine sense of humour. On the other hand, was there a hidden agenda target in your post, but directed at what ?

As it's migration time, I think this thread, quite rightly, should now migrate at the speed of a CERN neutrino to " Bird Chat " where it belongs - despite the initial pertinent and interesting bird report as contributed by Dave.

Freddy

Robert Hardy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:56 am

As noted by Dave i was with him

He simply did not mention the Starlings although i can confirm at one point he was faceing due south west at or around the time of the said Starlings aproch this could be why he missed them off the report as they were not vocal at this time.

Im sure Dave had they been vocal would have picked them well before me even though he was faceing the other way .

Starlings - who cares there all over the place No need to report them, my post is just a little humours Starling post ( they were there though )

Rob.

Freddy Johnson · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:17 am

Rob,

Thanks for that......at least your original post was well intentioned after all.

Freddy

Dave Bradbeer · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:50 pm

Leave me out of this

Colin Smale · **Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:41 am

http://www.securityprousa.com/minave.html

Terence Whalin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:42 am

like that colin, we never have any probs at grainthorpe and a good few laughs as well, :lol:

smile folks, you only live once, have a laugh and think how lucky you are to be here. all this hounding out of the club type thing is beyond me, you are a long time dead, lighten up,

terry whalin

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