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Bill Aspin's Birding Blog 2: January 2011

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Monday, 31 January 2011. Local birding: Common Redpolls and Iceland Gull - 31st Jan 2011. Quality local birds began firstly with a call from Dave Bickerton who kindly invited me over to his garden at Petre Crescent, Rishton, where He and Mark Breaks had caught two Common (Mealy) Redpoll during a ringing session in DB's back garden (referred to hereafter as Rishton Bird Obs - RBO). Above: 2x 1stw male Common Redpoll - Rishton Bird Observatory, 31st Jan 2011. Monday, January 31, 2011. Friday, 21 January 20...

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Bill Aspin's Birding Blog 2: Bearded Seal: Finstown, Orkney - 28th May 2011.

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Monday, 30 May 2011. Bearded Seal: Finstown, Orkney - 28th May 2011. Monday, May 30, 2011. Bill Aspins Birding Blog - My old blog spanning the period May 15th 2005 - August 9th 2008. Birding North West magazine. Brockholes Nature Reserve (Lancs) Bird and Wildlife Sightings Facebook Page. Chorley and District NHS Sightings. Dave Bickerton's Birding Blog. East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club. Fylde Bird Club Sightings. Gary Waddington's Birding Blog. Heysham Bird Observatory Blog. The Breaks Family Website.

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Bill Aspin's Birding Blog 2: Local birding: Wood Sandpiper, Brockholes Nature Reserve LWT - 15th May 2011.

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Sunday, 15 May 2011. Local birding: Wood Sandpiper, Brockholes Nature Reserve LWT - 15th May 2011. The f4 westerlies with cloud and rain produced some nice birds on the local patch today with the first Turnstone of the spring (2 birds) seen in the morning and a splendid Wood Sandpiper (above) early evening in foul weather which eventually resulted in 'rained-up' optics. Also, a Flava Wagtail was seen very briefly in the evening was thought most likely to be Blue-headed, but not confirmed.

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Bill Aspin's Birding Blog 2: Local birding: Brockholes Nature Reserve LWT, Lancs - 16th May 2011.

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Monday, 16 May 2011. Local birding: Brockholes Nature Reserve LWT, Lancs - 16th May 2011. 115hrs of effort on the local patch in an f4 westerly and virtually constant heavy drizzle throughout with steadier rainfall thrown in for good measure yielded some good results. The Osprey stopped just short of the entrance and began to fish briefly before heading back upstream, allowing me time to get the record shot. Time of sighting was 07:10-07:19. What a great start to the session. At 09:20, a gargantuan flock...

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Bill Aspin's Birding Blog 2: Local birding, Lancs : Brockholes NR LWT - 17th-22nd May 2011.

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Sunday, 22 May 2011. Local birding, Lancs : Brockholes NR LWT - 17th-22nd May 2011. I have put c50hrs of effort in at the local patch during the past week in much anticipated weather conditions of fresh westerly sector winds, with cloud and some rain, resulting in some some excellent wader passage recorded through the site as well as some other nice bonus birds. Turnstone: 19 recorded through the site 16th-22nd, inc a record flock of 15. Knot: 3, grey first-summer type birds. Whimbrel: Several records to...

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Bill Aspin's Birding Blog 2: February 2011

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Monday, 28 February 2011. Local birding, Lancs: Iceland Gull, Med Gulls and FDxPO hybrid - 28th Feb 2011. Nine hours pottering about locally started with an hour at Pleasington Old Hall Wood to see if Hawfinch still exist? No pain, no gain! Mass disturbance by multiple dog walkers saw the Gull flock disperse. Above: 3 Med Gull. Above: Iceland Gull (arrowed! Roe Deer - Above: Brockholes. Below: Pleasington Crematorium. Above and below: I have lazily relied on automatic DSLR settings for far too long and h...

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Bill Aspin's Birding Blog 2: March 2011

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Thursday, 31 March 2011. Lancs: Iceland Gull and Kittiwake - 31st March 2011. Above: 2cy Iceland Gull. Preston Docks, Lancs - 31st March 2011. 15hrs at Brockholes NR LWT mid-late morning provided me with a yeartick in the form of 2 Swallow and also my first 2 White Wagtail of 2011. At least 50 Sand Martin were in the area, 5 LRP and 3 Ringed Plover, 14 Curlew, 2 Redshank and a Snipe, but nothing obviously brought in by the strong SW wind during my visit. Thursday, March 31, 2011. Wednesday, 30 March 2011.

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Bill Aspin's Birding Blog 2: May 2010

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Thursday, 27 May 2010. Seaforth NR - 27th May 2010. Earth shattering news broke early afternoon with the stunning discovery of a White tailed Lapwing at Seaforth! I was away when the May 2007 Dumfries and Galloway bird was refound in Lancashire at Leighton Moss, and naturally concluded it would be a once-in-a-lifetime county bird missed. Who would have thought another chance would arise? Almost as rare was the arrival of Doug McAdam, a blast from the past during my manic twitching days in the 1980's.