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Zim Girl's 5th Big Year 2022


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cetti's a very pretty bird but so tough to get a clear shot (as we discovered last year) so you did brilliantly!

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Now I had forgotten I did actually get another lifer earlier in the month but it wasn't as exciting as getting the Cetti's.

We were at a small wetland area very local to us where there had been recent sightings of a Jack Snipe.  We could see what looked like it might have been a Jack Snipe a very long way in the distance.  Luckily there were several members of the local bird club there with scopes to definitely identify it for us.

The pictures are cropped in as far as they will go with a front and a side view.

 

69.  Jack Snipe

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Newton Marsh  -  17/04/22

 

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To make up for that EBC, I have a duplicate of a Black-tailed Godwit in lovely summer plumage from the same place.

 

No count.  Black-tailed Godwit

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Newton Marsh  -  17/04/22

 

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So posting is a little bit haphazard at the moment as I seem to be building up more pictures for the 'might get better'  folder than for actual BY but here are a few to be going on with.

 

70.  Blackcap

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Stanley Park  -  14/04/22

 

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A trip through Bowland almost always produces this bird but usually at some distance.

 

71.  Red Grouse

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Forest of Bowland  -  15/04/22

 

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This pair of birds was a surprise in this area.  Only the 2nd time I have ever seen them and never the female before.  A long way off again.

 

72.  Red-breasted Merganser

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Langden Brook, Forest of Bowland  -  15/04/22

 

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I have only ever seen this Gull at Leighton Moss.  A pair breed here every year on the same little island in the middle of one of the lakes.  I have got them a bit earlier this year as they are just getting going!

 

73.  Great Black-backed Gull

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RSPB Leighton Moss  -  23/04/22

 

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74.  Common Pochard

Male

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Female

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RSPB Leighton Moss  -  23/04/22

 

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Only the second time I have seen this bird and this time a bit closer than last year.

 

75.  Mediterranean Gull

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RSPB Leighton Moss  -  30/04/22

 

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Finally, to finish this post off with some cute babies!

 

No count.  Goosander

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Lancaster Canal  -  16/04/22

 

 

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Absolutely adorable, mama Goosander and her babies!!

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Excellent additions to the list, and those babies are incredibly cute!

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Some lovely additions. Well done with the Jack Snipe and Merganser. Cute Goosander lings.

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Kitsafari

Awwww on the goosander babies.

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michael-ibk

Love the Goosanders! :)

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Lifer number three coming up for this year!

Even before getting into the BY we have wanted to see this duck.  There are several spots around our local coastline they can be seen but always such a long way out so we have never really bothered to try for them much.  However, a recent sighting with a very good, obviously close, picture came up on the local bird group twitter.  Early on BH Monday we thought we would go and have a look.  We did actually find them, unfortunately quite a way out but it is the first time we have ever seen them so we were still quite pleased.  One day I hope to see them close up.

 

76.  Common Eider

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Morecambe Bay  -  02/05/22

 

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We often try to drop by Leighton Moss when we drive up to Cumbria to see if there is anything we haven't got yet.

 

77.  Common Shelduck

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RSPB Leighton Moss  -  07/05/22

 

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Little Egrets are everywhere in our area but occasionally you can get a nice close one at the estuary hides at LM.

 

78.  Little Egret

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RSPB Leighton Moss  -  07/05/22

 

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A pair of LRP have been breeding at this local wetland for the past few years.  We have visited a number of times to try and find them, finally we got them.  Long way out though.

 

79.  Little Ringed Plover

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Newton Marsh  -  08/05/22

 

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Yesterday I went to the local nature reserve and had the time to apply the 'listen, wait and stand staring into the reeds' method as described by @TonyQon his BY.

I don't think I heard any Reed warblers but there were a number of Sedge.  They seem to follow a pattern of flying up above the reeds, dive down into them and then slowly climb up a reed while singing before flying up again.  So if you are lucky you can catch them as they get near the top.

 

80.  Sedge Warbler

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Marton Mere  -  09/05/22

 

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More babies!

While at LM we saw the first of the Avocet chicks.  Sadly, one was seen to be a predated by a BH gull shortly after we left and comments yesterday suggest the other two might be gone as well now.  Tricky to keep them alive when the nests are in the middle of a Black-headed Gull colony.

 

No count.

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Many lovely additons and even some lifers! +1 on the Goosander photo.

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Well done with the Eider.

A productive trip to Leighton Moss, and well done with the Sedge Warblers 

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