Alan Curry
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Mainly local patch birding in Northumberland and the occasional foray further afield.
Quality over quantity off SMI today in some decent seawatching conditions. An afternoon Leach’s Petrel proved the best of the bunch with Sooty Shearwater, Bonxie, GND and Little Gulls providing some canny back up.
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about 5 hours ago
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The SMI Casp fest continues with this 1stW out in the murk late pm
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2 days ago
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The Marden Quarry Cetti’s continued to offer more tantalising glimpses this morning. Fingers crossed it’s the beginning of a protracted stay!
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4 days ago
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Tyneside’s tiniest typha bed came up trumps today when it pulled in this patch first Cetti’s Wblr. A quite unexpected addition!
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5 days ago
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Ginormous crops of a distant 1st W Casp off the prom @ SMI this morning. The 10th of the season thus far here
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6 days ago
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The regular SMI foreshore Water Pipit gave itself up good and proper on the wetland mid morning.
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15 days ago
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The SMI Wetland Mudfest continued this morning making for a compelling couple of hours with the Water Pipit, Jack Snipe and several Water Rails being the obvious highlights. However a small group of Sanderling scuttling around on the mud was perhaps the most unexpected sighting!
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15 days ago
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Some fringe benefits of draining SMI Wetland!
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16 days ago
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Diggerland: with the best of intentions we’ve drained SMI Wetland and embarked on some badly needed silt and vegetation clearance!
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18 days ago
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Another 1st W Casp off the prom @ SMI this morning. Hopefully the CR details will offer some insight into this geezers past history.
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19 days ago
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The regular Water Pipit back along the prom @ SMI for its 5th consecutive winter
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22 days ago
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A late Willow Warbler that sat up nicely in Shetland last week.
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23 days ago
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Freshly arrived Shortie at SMI yesterday pm. The local Magpies were having none of it and soon drove it off inland!
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24 days ago
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Firecrest @ SMI Wetland yesterday, not as showy as the image suggests!
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25 days ago
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The incredibly elusive Haroldswick Blackpoll gave itself up briefly this pm. Got to love those orange feet!
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about 1 month ago
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Much calmer day today and we managed to encounter our first Unst YBW of the trip
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about 1 month ago
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Tree Pipit slinking through the long grass and looking really rare at Norwick this pm.
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about 1 month ago
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Bluethroat in classic Shetland fence post habitat
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about 1 month ago
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A canny first few days on the Shetland birding roller coaster. Despite some fierce winds we’ve still managed to connect with some great quality from all points of the compass!
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about 1 month ago
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With our Shetland jaunt currently on hold until after Storm Amy abates, a taste of what we could be missing. A beezer of a Sibe Thrush in recovery mode on a Beidaihe windowsill!
about 1 month ago
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A scruffy looking 1st W Casp off the prom @ SMI this morning. After a slow start that’s at least the 7th record since early Sept here.
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about 1 month ago
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A bit of a patch rarity in the ‘Bluetail Glade’ at SMI Wetland this morning. I think I’ve seen more Blyth’s Reeds than Treecreepers here!
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about 1 month ago
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A new 1st W Casp off the prom @ SMI yesterday, this one with quite an advanced bill pattern.
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about 1 month ago
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A slight south-easterly breeze yesterday afternoon promptly delivered 2 YBW’s to the patch, a significant moment in the autumn!
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about 2 months ago
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Incoming. My first Pinkfeet of the autumn arriving from the east yesterday pm.
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about 2 months ago
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This leucistic Herring Gull stole the show down @ SMI at lunchtime, a true seawatcher’s banana skin if ever there was one!
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2 months ago
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It’s not exactly been the most productive of Autumn’s thus far on the Mighty Blyth, so this juv Curlew Sand proved most welcome this pm.
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2 months ago
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The Casps keep coming down @ SMI at the moment. This new 1st W was at point blank range off the prom this morning.
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2 months ago
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This acro at the top end of SMI Wetland has been upstairs with VAR for the best part of the day. Whatever the eventual outcome it’s been instructional!
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2 months ago
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1st W Casp on SMI Wetland this morning. The 4th individual here this week and evidence of a canny influx!
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2 months ago
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Afternoon showers on the back of a blustery south-easterly produced the first patch flycatchers of the year yesterday. This Spotted sat up nicely down at the Wetland tho a Pied lurking in the high canopy of the nearby Cem proved a lot more camera shy.
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2 months ago
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Even fewer pixels of the Chev White-rumped Sand from earlier in the week!
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2 months ago
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Just like double-decker buses, a few pixels of the 2nd Casp of the season off the prom @ SMI this morning. Low tide and against the light made for pretty grim images!
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2 months ago
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A belated first Casp of the season off the prom @ SMI this evening. Not exactly a classic but good enough!
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2 months ago
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A productive day of strimming and scrub clearance on the wetland yesterday. The ‘Bluetail glade’ is now primed and ready…
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2 months ago
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Little Egret over SMI Wetland at the weekend, a belated first of the year here for this slacker.
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2 months ago
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Been trying to track this one down all week with no joy what so ever. Why are some ringing schemes so flipping cryptic!
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3 months ago
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Great Shearwater under a sunny Scilly sky
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3 months ago
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A few more of the brilliant Bonelli’s. Done the maths last night, a cool 39 years since twitching my first on Scilly, in Oct 1986 on Bryher!
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3 months ago
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The Garrison Western Bonelli’s proved a little more accommodating earlier this morning.
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3 months ago
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A few ropey record shots of yesterday’s fab Western Bonelli’s high in the pines up on the Garrison.
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3 months ago
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Common Dolphin incoming…
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3 months ago
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This ad LT Skua came up the wake and passed low overhead during last Friday’s Scilly pelagic, offering exceptional views in the process!
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3 months ago
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Wilson’s Petrel in classic glide mode, the star performer over an excellent weekend out with
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3 months ago
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You win some you lose some. Brief views of a juv harrier coming in-off over the Garrison this morning. ‘Nightjar’ jizz and very rufous below surely pointing towards a Monties / Pallid but it was all over in seconds! Hopefully it might get re-located later🤞
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3 months ago
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The SMI Curlew Sand sat up nicely this evening
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4 months ago
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A restless ad Curlew Sand off the prom @ SMI this morning. Nice to get an early one after drawing a blank here last year
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4 months ago
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The times they are a changing alright. A brief lunchtime jaunt into Marden Quarry gave up the celebrity Night Heron along with a couple of almost as rare here juv Little Egrets. A scene utterly unthinkable in my birding yoof!
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4 months ago
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add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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A big thumbs up to Martin Kerby for the initial discovery and slightly incredulous phone call. Top banana!
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4 months ago
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