Bucktonbirder: That Petrel Emotion

Saturday, September 26, 2009

That Petrel Emotion

Spent a sublime 30 seconds in the company of the above ocean waif on Stewartby Lake, Bedfordshire this morning thanks to the kind man on the rescue boat at the Stewartby sailing club. Leach's Petrel - a great find by Pete Smith.

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Interesting Buckton species (year)

AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER 22/10-7/11/95
Alpine Swift 29/6/12 to 4/7/12
Arctic Skua 05/07, 25/7/09
BLACK-THROATED THRUSH 25-27/3/07
BROWN FLYCATCHER 5/9/10
Bar-tailed Godwit 8/9/10 (12)
Barred Warbler 6/9/05, 19/8/06, 6/9/10
Bean Goose 7/11/08 (3)
Bewick's Swan 8/11/03 (37)
Bittern 7/4/13
Black Redstart 77, 87, 01, 30/10/11 (2), 18/5/13, 13/10/13
Black Tern 23/5/10
Black-bellied Dipper 1-3/4/77
Black-tailed Godwit (6) 26/8/13
Bluethroat 21/5/77, 15/5/85, 18/5/13
Caspian Tern
Coal Tit 27/9/10, 2/10/10 (4)
Coot 5/6/08
Crane 25/3/02 (5), 23/5/10, 22/6/10, 8/5/11, 7/4/13
Crossbill 3/9/02 (16), 30/9/07
Dotterel 20/08/06 (15), 7-8/9/10
Eastern Lesser Whitethroat 11-12/10/04, 15/10/10
Firecrest 75, 76, 02, Oct 03, Nov 04, 31/10/08-8/11/08, 23/10/09, 2-3/10/13, 14/10/13
Gadwall 9-11/5/09, 20/5/13
Garganey 75, 78, 79, 16-18/5/09, 8/5/13 (4)
Goldeneye 26/11/00
Goosander 1/1/09, 20/10/13 (7)
Goshawk 10/4/77, 4/10/92, Nov 04
Grasshopper Warbler 3/5/78, 21/9/01, May 08, August 08, 14/6/09, 01/0510 (2), 7/9/10
Great Grey Shrike 20-21/4/74, 15-18/10/03, 27/9/10
Greenish Warbler, June 1975
Greenshank 25/5/08, 25/8/08 (5)
Grey Phalarope 28/10/12
Hobby 74, 19/8/06, 29/5/08, 15/5/09, May 10
Honey Buzzard 14/9/08 (2)
Hooded Crow 79,85, 17/4/11 (2)
ISABELLINE SHRIKE 29/9 - 5/10/07
Icterine Warbler 29/8/77 (2), 27/5/08, 1/6/09
Jay Oct 2012
Little Auk (4) 28/10/12
Little Bunting 27/9/98, 28/9/10
Little Egret 28/7/05, 17/9/06, 25-26/7/10
Little Stint 1/9-6/9/74
Mandarin 30/8/09-mid Sept 09
Mediterranean Gull 21/10/07(2), 24/10/09 (1st w)
Montagu's Harrier 20/5/75, 8/5/11
Nightingale 77, 87, 27/9/98
Northern Bullfinch 17/10/04
Ortolan Bunting 25/8/13
Osprey 10/9/02, 11/10/09
Pallas's Warbler 11/11/00, 20/10/03, 15/10/13
Pochard 29/4/
Quail 02, 22/5/05, 06/09
RADDE'S WARBLER 13-14/10/13
Red Kite 7/4/13,
Red-backed Shrike 75, 77, 84, 04, 28/5/08,5/6/11, 6/6/13
Red-breasted Flycatcher 88, 21/09/01, 30/10/02, 11/10/04, 25/9/08, 14/10/13
Richard's Pipit 25/10/99, 10/10/10, 14/10/10 (2), 15-16/10/10
Rough-legged Buzzard 11/74- 3/75, 28/3/99, 17/10/10, 30/10/10
Ruff 15/8/03, 14/9/08
Shoveler 1/8/79, 14/9/08, 31/8/13
Siberian Chiffchaff 24/10/09, 10/10/10, 12/10/13
Snow Bunting 15/11/04 (50), 30/10/08 (6), 2/11/08 (2), 30/10/11
Spotted Redshank 81, 82, Aug 2011
Temminck's Stint 31/8-6/9/74
Twite 88, 30/1/11,
Water Rail 03/01/10
Waxwing 29/12/05, 31/10/08 (5), 2/11/08 (1), 7/11/08 (37)
White-fronted Goose 7/11/08 (6)
Whooper Swan 12/11/00 (5), 4/11/07 (6), 25/10/09 (4), 20/10/10 (8)
Willow Tit 21/9/01, 14/8/10- 2/9/10
Wood Sandpiper 21-24/8/77, 30/9/07, 27/4/13
Wood Warbler 30/9/07, 25/4/10
Woodlark 15/10/09
Wryneck 76, 77, 85, 98, 10/9/02, (2-3), 7/9/10, 24/8/13
Yellow-browed Warbler 75, 88, 98 (2), 01, 02, 03 (2), 05 (9), 06, 07, 08 (2), 09, 11 (4), 13 (3)