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October 24, 2005

Fly me to the moon

On Friday evening we received news of a Red Breasted Flycatcher in strawtown (love that place) found by K.Cronin.Myself, Dara and Harry lashed down and watched the bird happily for 40 minutes as the bird gave itself up, even calling actively!.A truly class bird and another bogey eliminated from my list!OML YA BAS!!!

Saturday was quiet save for one of my Yellow Browed warblers still in strawtown and a few crossbills at castle freke.3 meds and a ring billed gull at roscarberry.

Sunday was a dire day.truly boring! with just 3 black reds for excitement at knockadoon.

No pallas's.....but soon...soon.

Pariah

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October 17, 2005

Return of the Jammy

Yes the force is strong with me again it seems.
After a poor saturday with just a redstart, Firecrest and 2 whinchats on mizen.And a poor view of a hawfinch which had to be confirmed by a kerryman in the end, Sunday it seemed was to be a day of destiny!

Col txtd me at 8.30ish to say the icterine warbler had turned up again!
I dashed down solo to galley and nailed the little bastard in the lashers garden.
2 black redstarts and a whinchat showed promise for a good day of autumn migration.
I went to strawtown, which was dripping with birds, only to hear of a Raddes warbler near baltimore in west cork!
Sped down and within an hour was gawping at the best bird of the year (yes even better than Fea's or little shearwater). The bird gave itself up giving full scope views a short distance away.

I returned to strawtown in the evening and was delighted to find 2 Yellowbrowed warblers, 12 black redstarts, 10 black caps, 1 lesser whitethroat, 1 firecrest and 40 or so chiffchaffs, and 30 song thrushes.

An amazing day with 2 irish ticks (one of which was a lifer) and a finders tick with yellow browed warbler.

Bring on the Pallas's next weekend!!!

Pariah

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Irish year list 2005

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October 14, 2005

Dip part 2

Yesterday i dipped on Common Rosefinch.
2 in a row!!!

Pariah

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October 13, 2005

Dip

Yesterday i dipped on icterine warbler.
That is all.

Pariah

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October 12, 2005

Green with envy?

At 2.45pm yesterday news broke of a possible green heron at schull in west cork....I sped to Ballinhassig where i transferred myself to DF's car and we made our way west.
When we arrived the bird had not been seen in 45 minutes but a chartered boat from cape clear was making its way into the cove where the bird wa last seen.
Suddenly a shout went up from DF and the bird floated by us at close range with a crab in its gob!
Immediately i thought it was an adult bird but was told off for believing such fallacy!;)
time will tell.
The bird flew back to the island later and gave stunning views on the deck.
Class!!
Poor carmo in nippon!
Gomen nasai carmo-san.Doitsu genpu chichi ka? ;)

Pariah

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October 10, 2005

A cheeky tick

After an unusual weekend where i did no birding i managed to slip out on sunday afternoon at the news of a grey cheeked thrush on the old head of kinsale!
when i arrived with my guest for the weekend at the plantation there were already a number of birders who had been there and seen the bird...and a number who had'nt...The wind was gettin up and rain was coming...it didnt look good...I walked into the plantation in the hopes of bumping into the bird...i found it hard to focus my eyes in the gloom and saw what i thought was a mouse scurrying through the undergrowth.
When i emerged from the plantation the hawfinch was showing well in a hawthorn..and i discussed the thrush with Phil D...who had seen it and claimed the bird looked like a mouse running on the ground....It suddenly hit me that it was the thrush i had seen...not a mouse.....i was about to go back in when suddenly the bird flew out of the plantation...right by my face..showing the underwing pattern...The bird eventually showed very well allowing itself to be scoped...Truly a class mini twitch!

Pariah

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October 07, 2005

Sniping

Saw Colins yellow browed in dirk bay on wednesday evening and the lesser yellowlegs and spotted redshank in whites.

On thursday went down to baltimore in an attempt to get onto cape for RB flycatcher...but the boat schedule was all over the place so we ended up on sherkin instead.which was good as the rb flys had fecked off cape.
A gorgeous island with really nice cover.
DF found a lesser whitethroat here and i found a firecrest and a whinchat.Couldnt find the yellow browed seen there that day.

On toe i found a lesser whitethroat and df found a firecrest both of which gave very good views!!

all in all a good day.

Pariah

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October 03, 2005

The last seawatch of the year?

Went to the bridges on saturday in a good strong northwesterly.
It was a very impressive skua seawatch with great numbers of bonxies, arctic and pomarine skuas.Unfortunately we left before the only 2 long tailed skuas of the day went by..but thems the breaks.
There were also great numbers of leaches petrels and grey phalaropes, and all species gave great views in very close.
Manx numbers were very poor with just 15 in the entire day.

We heard the following day that over 1700 great shearwaters went through in a south westerly...that would have been nice.

On sunday i went down to galley head with very little to show for the experience other than an impressive aerial dogfight betwen a merlin, sparrowhawk and a kestrel.

The lesser yellowlegs was still present in whites marsh along with the bright juv little stint.

A curlew sand was the best at roscarberry.

Pariah

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