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| Author: | Chris Atkin [ Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Gib Point 29/08/12 |
Highlights from today at a wet and windy Gib: 4 Spoonbill (though 6 reported earlier) 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Little Stint 3 Spotted Redshank 11 Greenshank 3 Whimbrel 2 Little Ringed Plover 77 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Green Sandpiper 2 Common Sandpiper 2 Ruff 12 Avocet 2 Marsh Harrier 1 Merlin 250 Swift south 1 Wheatear 1 Pied Flycatcher 2 Lesser Whitethroat Also: 2 Common Buzzard near Walmsgate 1 Curlew Sandpiper on Cleethorpes foreshore regards Chris (with Tony Housman and Ian Shepherd) |
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| Author: | Chris Grimshaw [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
Visited Gib before Hurricane Isaac arrived about lunchtime hotfoot from America. Ed Mackrill had warned the weather was about to change for the worse and it did! Still before it did it had been a good morning Saw 3 spoonbill 1 marsh harrier 1 pectoral sandpiper 1 little stint 1 spotted sandpiper 1 ruff 78 black tailed godwit 12 avocet 1 dunlin 1 ringed plover 100+ curlew 5 greenshank 6 snipe 3 common sandpiper 3 green sandpiper plus 2 more at a very cold Fiskerton Fen on the way home 1 little egret plus 2 more at FF lots of swallow perhaps 200 didn't get down to the sea due to the horizontal rain whooper still at FF |
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| Author: | Freddy Johnson [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
Chris, Was that really a spotted sandpiper or really a spotted redshank ? Freddy |
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| Author: | Chris Grimshaw [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
spotted redshank - fingers sometimes are like my mouth - fail to work as the brain tells them to |
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| Author: | Richard Doan [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 30/08/12 |
30.08.12 Seawatch from 17:00 - 19:00 Manx Shearwater 2 (S) Kittiwake 21 (N) Gannet 17 (N) Great Skua 2 (S) Arctic Skua 21 (18 S) Guillemot 9 Other bits around the reserve Marsh Harrier 2 (Pair of adults from Wash Viewpoint at dawn) Golden Plover 50 Redstart 1 (Stonking adult male) Short-eared Owl 1 Wheatear 2 Swift 8 (S) Swallow 174 (S) Spoonbill 6+ early morning Yellow Wagtail 28 (S) Cheers, Richard |
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| Author: | Roy Harvey [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
Has anyone been able to get a picture of the Pectoral Sandpiper at Gib.? I should be grateful for any shot that shows what the bird is. Thanks Roy roy.harvey100@btinternet.com |
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| Author: | Edmund Mackrill [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
Hi Roy - What do you mean? {I should be grateful for any shot that shows what the bird is} |
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| Author: | James Siddle [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
Hi Roy I managed a few record shots when I found the bird and will include them with the description (which is already written). James |
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| Author: | Anthony Bentley [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
Is the Pec Sand still around today? Possibly going tomorrow. Also where is the best place to seawatch at Gib? |
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| Author: | Matthew Strahan [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
The Pec Sand is still there Anthony on the Tennysons Sands complex of lagoons, or it was when I left at 1920pm this evening. Dont know how well you know Gib, I dont know it well at all but here are a few directions:if you park at the South end of Beach Car Park, cross over the road, go through the access point in the hedge line, turn left and then the next right, that will lead you to the Hide from where i saw the bird this evening looking left towards Jacksons Marsh. Think its called the Fenella Hope hide...? Not sure. Anyway, the bird was favouring a drying up muddy depression, not in the main pools. Also seen: 6 x Spoonbills 22 x Greenshank 2 x Spotted Redshank 7 x Little Egret 2 x Dunlin 1 x Pintail 66 x Black Tailed Godwits 4 x Common Snipe. Cheers, Matthew. |
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| Author: | Roy Harvey [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gib Point 29/08/12 |
Thanks James, had not realised that you found the bird. As you know, a picture of a 'description species' always makes the task of the LBC Rarities Committee that much easier! Thanks also to Chris and Les for proving photo's. Regards Roy |
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