http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/ Sightings and photos from the IOM en-us 2005-05-15T21:49:23+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/002471.html Well what can I say. Ive been out every saturday and sunday since my last blog entry and what have i seen? Not alot! thats what. So I am feeling not best pleased at the minute. What makes it worse... peteh 2005-05-15T21:49:23+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/002211.html today I was running extremely late and was very late for my lunchbreak. I normally have my lunch around 12.30 but today it was 13.20 as I got out of the door. As I got to the bottom of the... peteh 2005-03-25T23:34:07+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/002210.html To cut a very long story short : I was called early on sunday morning to be told there was an Iceland Gull at Maughold. I quickly got up there as I havent seen one in a few years. When... peteh 2005-03-25T23:19:35+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/002172.html Ive been going down to my local patch every lunchtime this week in the hope of finding some migrants coming in. The best I came up with during the week were the Brent Geese flock had now increased to 22.... peteh 2005-03-18T19:22:23+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/002048.html Well a combination of rubbish weather and zero scarcites has put a dampner on the good start to this year. A fews weeks back though, I did manage a view of a Greenland White fronted Goose as it went towards... peteh 2005-02-20T11:58:35+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/001873.html 22nd January Saturday morning I had another visit up to the north of the Isle of Man. First stop was Ballaugh Cronk just in case another Little Gull was about :) It was just past high tide so there were... peteh 2005-01-26T01:12:00+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/001835.html I had a quick check of my local area this morning but wasnt confident of finding anything especially with the tide out. I started at Strandhall and there was nothing in the Gull roost there then I went round to... peteh 2005-01-16T19:47:41+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/001829.html I couldn’t decide whether to go out on Saturday as the weather forecast was looking bleak. But when I woke up I saw that it was only overcast and not raining as predicted. So I decided that a trip up... peteh 2005-01-15T23:26:37+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/001795.html Last week I noticed someone had recorded Goosanders at Tromode. So with these being very scarce on the IOM I decided that my Saturday morning would be spent going for these. Now last year there were 2 Goosanders wintering at... peteh 2005-01-08T20:58:44+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/001769.html I decided to stay in today to relax for work tomorrow. At about 4pm I got a call from my friend up north telling me he had a 1st winter Glaucous Gull in Ramsey and he had been trying to... peteh 2005-01-03T19:39:54+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/001764.html The day before, my friend from the north of the Isle of Man had told me of a 1st winter male Scaup which was in a boating lake in Ramsey. He said it was showing well but I didnt realise... peteh 2005-01-03T19:28:42+00:00 http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/peteh/archives/001762.html My local patch is at Langness & Derbyhaven on the Isle of Man. Due to the recent strong winds I went to check Derbyhaven bay to see if any Divers or Grebes had been sheltering there. The only birds in... peteh 2005-01-03T18:57:43+00:00