tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49722889272720871422011-07-08T03:06:06.797-07:00this isn't the wandering tattler, no afraid not, I'm still birding but my main focus is aircraft now hense the changeYouth....noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972288927272087142.post-45803444725659057572010-08-06T10:57:00.001-07:002010-08-06T10:57:45.752-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y-wYMewS9fg/TFxM33LzSlI/AAAAAAAAA1k/2-pAJM5E9H4/s1600/farn+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" bx="true" height="467" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y-wYMewS9fg/TFxM33LzSlI/AAAAAAAAA1k/2-pAJM5E9H4/s640/farn+001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>please feel free to check out my new blog at <a href="http://youthsaircraftpics.blogspot.com/">http://youthsaircraftpics.blogspot.com/</a> cheers!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4972288927272087142-4580344472565905757?l=theyorkshirewanderingtattler.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Youth....noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972288927272087142.post-91108000153596706472008-01-20T06:57:00.001-08:002009-10-07T07:24:49.144-07:00Recent Additions To My BOU UK List & (NONE BOU/UK 400 CLUB)<br /><br />RED FLANKED BLUETAIL 22/10/06 Suffolk<br /><br />WHITE STORK 28/10/06 N.Yorks<br /><br />ISABELLINE SHRIKE &amp; BONAPARTE'S GULL 29/10/06 Northumberland<br /><br />RED BREASTED GOOSE x2 04/11/06 Lincs<br /><br />(BLACK EARED KITE) 12/11/06 Linc's<br /><br />LTTLE AUK 12/11/06 Norfolk<br /><br />AMERICAN ROBIN 27/01/07 West York's<br /><br />PACIFIC DIVER 30/01/07 North Yorks<br /><br />GLOSSY IBIS 18/02/07 Lancs<br /><br />(MARBLED DUCK) 15/04/07 Gloustershire<br /><br />IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF 30/04/07 Norfolk<br /><br />BROAD BILLED SANDPIPER 28/05/07 Cleveland<br /><br />(EAGLE OWL) 02/06/07 Lancs<br /><br />WHITE TAILED LAPWING 17/06/07 Lancs<br /><br />DARK EYED JUNCO! 14/07/07 Norfolk<br /><br />BLACK KITE 22/07/07 Lincs<br /><br />BLACK STORK 04/08/07 North Wales<br /><br />SHARP TAILED SANDPIPER 11/08/07 Kent &amp; SQUACCO HERON 11/08/07 Cambs<br /><br />MELODIOUS WARBLER 25/-8/07 East York's<br /><br />BROWN FLYCATCHER 04/10/07 East Yorks<br /><br />BLYTH'S REED WARBLER 06/10/07 East Yorks<br /><br />(SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF) 27/11/07 South Wales<br /><br />SPOTTED SANDPIPER 27/11/07 South Wales<br /><br />SHORT TOED LARK 15/12/07 Northumberland<br /><br />WHITE CROWNED SPARROW 07/01/08 Norfolk<br /><br />(ROSS’S GOOSE) 12/01/08 Norfolk<br /><br />FRANKLIN'S GULL 21/03/08 Somerset<br /><br />ROSS'S GULL 19/04/08 Lancs<br /><br />KING EIDER! At last! 26/04/08 Yorkshire<br /><br />RED FOOTED FALCON 11/05/08 Yorkshire<br /><br />MARSH WARBLER 31/05/08 Yorkshire<br /><br />LITTLE SWIFT 02/06/08 Yorkshire<br /><br />BALEARIC SHEARWATER 08/09/08 Norfolk<br /><br />BROWN SHRIKE! 25/09/08 Yorkshire<br /><br />(AMUR FALCON) 11/10/08 (Not added to List yet pending additon to UK list)<br /><br />GREEN HERON 01//11/08 Kent<br /><br />STEEPE GREY SHRIKE 08/11/08 Lincs<br /><br />PIED WHEATEAR 09/11/08 Yorkshire<br /><br />ROUGH LEGGED BUZZARD 22/11/08 Yorkshire<br /><br />PENDULINE TIT 29/11/08 Notts<br /><br />(BLUE HEADED WAGTAIL) 11/04/09 Norfolk<br /><br />WHISKERED TERN 25/04/09 Derbyshire<br /><br />COLLARED FLYCATCHER 01/05/09 Dorset<br /><br /><br />PALLID SWIFT 09/05/09 Merseyside<br /><br />BLACK WINGED PRATINCOLE 07/06/09 Norfolk<br /><br />LITTLE BITTERN 13/06/09 Somerset<br /><br />PACIFIC DIVER,BROWN FLYCATCHER & GLAUCOUS WINGED GULL All added to CAT A British list July 2009, three very nice armchair ticks!<br /><br />PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER 01/08/09 Norfolk<br /><br /><br /><br />UK BOU List 348<br />UK 400 List 361<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4972288927272087142-9110800015359670647?l=theyorkshirewanderingtattler.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Youth....noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972288927272087142.post-67322493169512207252008-01-20T06:11:00.000-08:002009-10-07T07:39:49.794-07:00Yorkshire BOU List 288 (UK400) list 292<br />Recent Additions<br /><br />Pacific Diver 03/01/07 (ADDED CAT A JULY 09)<br />Hobby 08/07/07<br />Ferruginous Duck &amp; Melodious Warbler 25/08/07<br />Garden Warbler 29/09/07<br />Isabelline Shrike 30/09/07<br />Brown Flycatcher 04/10/07 (ADDED CAT A JULY09)<br />Blyth's Reed Warbler 06/10/07<br />Red Breasted Merganser 12/10/07<br />Hooded Crow 27/10/07<br />Long Tailed Duckx4 17/11/07<br />Black Throated Diver 17/11/07<br />Desert Wheatear &amp; Water Pipit 01/12/07<br />Marsh Tit 22/12/07<br />Eurasian White-Fronted Goose 24/12/07<br />Goshawk &amp; Tundra Bean Goose &amp; Dipper (Black-Bellied Race) 24/03/08<br />King Eider &amp; Hoopoe &amp; Lesser Yellowlegs 26/04/08<br />Red Footed Falcon 11/05/08<br />Broad Billed Sandpiper &amp; Golden Oriole 26/05/08<br />Marsh Warbler &amp; Montagu's Harrier 31/05/08<br />Crossbill &; Woodlark 15/06/08<br />Little Swift 02/07/08<br />Glossy Ibis 17/08/08<br />Black Stork 26/08/08<br />Shorelark 20/09/08<br />Brown Shrike! 25/09/08<br />Amur Falcon 11/10/08 (Not counted on any totals pending addition to BOU/UK400 Lists)<br />Two Barred Crossbill 08/11/08<br />Pied Wheatear 09/11/08<br />Rough Legged Buzzard 22/11/08<br />Raven! 25/04/09<br />Collared Praticole 23/05/09<br />Whiskered Tern @ Woodchat Shrike 24/05/09 (What a weekend)<br />Short Toed Lark 19/09/09<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4972288927272087142-6732249316951220725?l=theyorkshirewanderingtattler.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Youth....noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972288927272087142.post-80920029335857240912008-01-13T05:49:00.000-08:002009-09-17T10:28:32.752-07:00Never been on any organised tours of the USA (Only the excellent organised walks run by Cape May Audubon Society) All birding has been done with my parents help, taking me to several excellent and memorable birding reserves/area's and its thanks to them, and that magical birding hotspot Cape May that I have, what I consider is an impressive birding list of 182 Species<br /><br />1 Common Loon<br />2 Northern Gannet<br />3 Double-Crested Cormorant<br />4 Black-Crowned Night Heron<br />5 Yellow-Crowned Night Heron<br />6 Tricolored Heron<br />7 Little Blue Heron<br />8 Green Heron<br />9 Snowy Egret<br />10 Great Egret<br />11 Great Blue Heron<br />12 Glossy Ibis<br />13 Mute Swan (Introduced Species)<br />14 Snow Goose<br />15 Canada Goose <br />16 Brant<br />17 Wood Duck<br />18 Mallard <br />19 American Black Duck<br />20 Gadwall<br />21 Green-Winged Teal<br />22 Blue-Winged Teal<br />23 Northern Pintail<br />24 Northern Shoveler<br />25 Canvasback<br />26 Redhead<br />27 Black Scoter<br />28 White-winged Scoter<br />29 Surf Scoter<br />30 Common Goldeneye<br />31 Bufflehead<br />32 Turkey Vulture<br />33 Black Vulture<br />34 Osprey<br />35 Northern Harrier<br />36 Bald Eagle<br />37 Sharp-shinned Hawk<br />38 Cooper's Hawk<br />39 Broad-winged Hawk<br />40 Red-shouldered Hawk<br />41 Red-tailed Hawk<br />42 American Kestrel<br />43 Ring-necked Pheasant<br />44 American Coot<br />45 Black-bellied Plover<br />46 Piping Plover<br />47 Semipamated Plover<br />48 Killdeer<br />49 American Oystercatcher<br />50 American Avocet<br />51 Black-necked Stilt<br />52 Willet<br />53 Greater Yellowlegs<br />54 Lesser Yellowlegs<br />55 Spotted Sandpiper<br />56 Whimbrel (American race.hudsonicus)<br />57 Hudsonian Godwit<br />58 Marbled Godwit<br />59 Ruddy Turnstone<br />60 Red Knot<br />61 Sanderling<br />62 Dunlin<br />63 Seminpalmated Sandpiper<br />64 Western Sandpiper<br />65 Least Sandpiper<br />66 Pectoral Sandpiper<br />67 Short-billed Sandpiper<br />68 Long-billed Sandpiper<br />69 Stilt Sandpiper<br />70 Wilson's Snipe<br />71 Laughing Gull<br />72 Black-headed Gull<br />73 Ring-billed Gull<br />74 Herring Gull<br />75 Lesser BB Gull<br />76 Great BB Gull<br />77 Royal Tern<br />78 Caspian Tern<br />79 Forster's Tern<br />80 Least Tern<br />81 Black Skimmer<br />82 Rock Dove<br />83 Mourning Dove<br />84 Yellow Billed Cuckoo<br />85 Barred Owl<br />86 Whip-poor-will<br />87 Chimney Swift<br />88 Ruby-throated Hummingbird<br />89 Belted Kingfisher<br />90 Red Headed Woodpcker<br />91 Red Bellied Woodpecker<br />92 Northern Flicker<br />93 Downy Woodpecker<br />94 Hairy Woodpecker<br />95 Pileated Woodpecker<br />96 Eastern Wood-Pewee<br />97 Alder Flycather<br />98 Eastern Phoebe<br />99 Great Creasted Flycatcher<br />100 Eastern Kingbrd<br />101 White Eyed Vireo<br />102 Red Eyed Vireo<br />103 Blue Jay<br />104 American Crow<br />105 Fish Crow<br />106 Horned Lark<br />107 Tree Swallow<br />108 Purple Martin<br />109 Bank Swallow<br />110 Northern Rough Winged Swallow<br />111 Barn Swallow<br />112 Cliff Swallow<br />113 Tufted Titmouse<br />114 Black-capped Chickadee<br />115 Carolina Chickadee<br />116 White-breasted Nuthatch<br />117 House Wren<br />118 Winter Wren<br />119 Carolina Wren<br />120 Golden-crowned Kinglet<br />121 Ruby-croned Kinglet<br />122 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher<br />123 Eastern Bluebird<br />124 Wood Thrush<br />125 Veery<br />126 Bicknell's Thrush<br />127 Swainson's Thrush<br />128 Hermit Thrush<br />129 American Robin (Just about every lawn has one!)<br />130 Gray Catbird<br />131 Northern Mockingbird<br />132 Brown Thrasher<br />133 European Starling (Introduched to New York 1890)<br />134 Buff Bellied Pipit (American Pipit)<br />135 Cedar Waxwing<br />136 Prothonotary Warbler (Wow what a bird we had cracking views of male and female <br /> bird entering nest hole at Cape May) <br />137 Blue-winged Warbler<br />138 Nasville Warbler<br />139 Northern Parula<br />140 Magnolia Warbler<br />141 Yellow-rumped Warbler<br />142 Black-and-white Warbler<br />143 Black-throated Blue Warbler (Had cracking male bird down to a few feet<br /> at Cape May 2007)<br /><br />144 Cerulean Warbler (Cape May only has on average five records in fall, less in <br /> spring so this stunning male male caused some interest!)<br /><br />145 Black-throated Green Warbler<br />146 Yellow-throated Warbler<br />147 Praririe Warbler<br />148 Blackpoll Warbler<br />149 Palm Warbler<br />150 Yellow Warbler<br />151 Ovenbird<br />152 Louisiana Waterthrush (Had cracking views of this bird at Cape May)<br />153 Northern Waterthrush (Only seen the one, which was self found)<br />154 Common Yellowthroat<br />155 Yellow-breasted Chat (Dispite its name this is member of Wood-Warbler family<br /> only seen two, both at Cape May,both in full song)<br /><br />156 American Redstart<br />157 Scarlet Tanager<br />158 Eastern Towhee<br />159 Chipping Sparrow<br />160 Field Sparrow<br />161 House Sparrow (Old World Sparrow introduched to USA)<br />162 Lincoln's Sparrow<br />163 Savannah Sparrow<br />164 Seaside Sparrow<br />165 Song Sparrow<br />166 White-crowned Sparrow<br />167 White-Throated Sparrow (Both tan-stripped & White-striped morph seen)<br />168 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate colored form)<br />169 Northern Cardinal<br />170 Blue Grosbeck<br />171 Indigo Bunting<br />172 Bobolink<br />173 Eastern Meadowlark (Found a cracking male on last visit)<br />174 Red-winged Blackbird<br />175 Common Grackle<br />176 Boat-tailed Grackle<br />177 Brown-headed Cowbird<br />178 Orchard Oriole<br />179 Baltimore Oriole (Nothing better than sat in the sun watching singing male <br /> Oriole's)<br />180 Purple Finch<br />181 House Finch<br />182 American Goldfinch<br />183 Peregrine<br />184 American Black Tern<br />185 Brown Pelican<br />186 White Ibis<br />187 Pine Warbler<br />188 Brown Headed Nuthatch<br />189 Mississippi Kite<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4972288927272087142-8092002933585724091?l=theyorkshirewanderingtattler.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Youth....noreply@blogger.com0