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Nov 2023
9:11pm, 14 Nov 2023
62,122 posts
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Derby Tup
I'd choughing forgot the chough earlier. I've only seen them in the Alps. I have seen hooded crows in NI a few times
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Nov 2023
9:40pm, 14 Nov 2023
18,214 posts
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KinkyS
Choughs are one of my favourite birds ever, I love their call ❤️
Pretty easy to find around the Gower and also North Wales coast - watching a group of seven playing in the wind around South Stack was a highlight of our last birding trip. We also found a pair hopping around under a picnic bench by a small village car park, behaving for all the world like tame jackdaws 😀
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Nov 2023
7:24am, 15 Nov 2023
2,323 posts
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Heinzster
I did type chough above, but autocorrect decided to make me look daft. It does that a lot, and I don't need the help.
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Nov 2023
7:37am, 15 Nov 2023
4,822 posts
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J2R
Choughs are one of those interesting category of birds which are locally abundant but extremely local. There is zero chance of seeing one in Norfolk but on Anglesey or the Gower peninsula, say, they're easily seen.
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Nov 2023
5:38pm, 15 Nov 2023
18,215 posts
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KinkyS
A chough turned up at Stanley Park in Blackpool a few years ago, presumed to have blown across from the Isle of Man population.
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Nov 2023
1:49pm, 17 Nov 2023
3,669 posts
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flyingfinn
A trip to the tip at Stokesley has just been greatly enhanced by stumbling across a flock of 40+ Waxwing. A first for me.
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Nov 2023
1:51pm, 17 Nov 2023
62,171 posts
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Derby Tup
Nice one ff
Turnstone, curlew, redshank and oyk this morning at Robin Hood's Bay. Looked for purple sand but couldn't find one
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Nov 2023
3:04pm, 17 Nov 2023
4,830 posts
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J2R
Wow, ff, nice waxwing find! I'm going to make a special effort to try to see some this winter, but am I right in thinking it's not likely to be a big irruption year because of abundant berries back home?
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Nov 2023
3:18pm, 17 Nov 2023
32,283 posts
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HellsBells
That was the theory
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Nov 2023
3:19pm, 17 Nov 2023
32,284 posts
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HellsBells
Sorry, hit return by mistake; the theory was that were too many berries back home, but there’s already more birds here than there has been for about 10 years, including a flock of 1000+ reported in Elgin
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