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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    Wick
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    Default A good day out

    I got up early and left the house at 7.00am to have a run about on the east side of Thurso for a change. This year all I seem to have gone out to search for is Geese so I fancied a change.


    Castlehill

    22 Wigeon
    2 Great Northern Diver
    Great Black Backed Gulls
    Herring Gulls
    Black Headed Gulls
    Redshank
    Oystercatcher
    Starling
    Wagtail
    Jackdaw
    Crow
    Rook
    Rock Pippit
    6 Goldeneye
    6 Curlew
    4 Cormorant
    Farm Piegeon
    Sanderling
    Purple Sandpiper
    Turnstone

    St Johns Pool

    Chaffinch
    Stonechat
    Redwing
    Great Tit
    Whooper Swan (main Loch)
    Black Headed Gull
    Great Black Backed Gull
    Lapwing
    Mute Swan
    Little Grebe
    Teal
    Oystercatcher
    Snipe - first this year
    Mallard
    Pippit
    Blackbird

    Brough Harbour

    Seals
    Fulmar
    Redshank
    Rock Pippit
    Oystercatcher
    Cormorant
    Shag
    Gulliemot

    Harrow

    Grey Heron
    80+ Curlew (never seen so many at once)
    Oystercatcher
    40 Shags
    50 Redshank
    Mallard
    Pochard
    Teal
    Wigeon
    Rock Pippit
    Cormorant
    20 Eider

    Ham

    Goldeneye
    Little Grebe
    Tufted Duck
    Mallard
    Mute Swan
    Shelduck
    Teal
    Wigeon

    West Mey Farm

    350 White Fronted Geese

    Inkstack, Barrock

    100 Lapwing on shores on Loch Heilan
    2 buzzrds on dung heap

    Reiss

    22 Whooper Swans
    Thanks
    Catherine

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Location
    Canada
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    Thumbs up good list of birds

    Thanks, Catherine for the bird update.
    A very interesting mix of birds.

    May one offer a list of winter birds at the sunflower feeders in the front yard. (surrounded on 3 sides by forest) in the Boreal Forest of Canada.

    Blue Jay, Black-capped Chickadee, Evening Grosbeak, Pine Grosbeak, Nuthatch, Red-headed Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, and Raven.
    To Strive, To Seek, and Never to Yield - Tennyson - Searching for Mackay, Sinclair, Munro, Montgomery, Anderson, Gordon, Highland ancestors before 1830

  3. #3
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    Not sure I could beat your list for a garden feeder, nowt more exotic than a house sparrow and blackbird here most mornings.

    Thanks for sharing though.
    Thanks
    Catherine

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