Sep 7, 2011
aurora alert
things are looking good for between the 8th and the 12th!!! There is a link on the facebook page.
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BIRDING..STARS..STONES..SHORE
I hope you enjoy reading my blog. These are just every day tales of birding and related Orkney stuff. With a bit of luck I hope to give a bit of a glimpse into life in the northern isles, I am not what you might call an expert birder. I am quite keen though and am lucky enough to live in a great place that is stuffed full of outstanding history and brimming with natural history. With it’s abundant and diverse flora and fauna on land and sea and great birds that go on year round these islands are a treasure trove of delights. So if you can manage to drag your self’s past my poor grammar hopefully I might give you a small taste of the feast that is living in Orkney..
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My new from the house n garden list
- Barnacle goose
- Black Headed Gull
- Blackbird
- Blackcap
- Bonxie
- Carrion Crow
- Collared dove
- Common Gull
- Cormarant
- Corncrake
- Curlew
- Dunnock
- Goldcrest
- Golden plover
- Goldeneye
- Greater Blackbacked Gull
- Greenfinch
- Greylag Goose
- Hen harrier
- Heron
- Herring Gull
- Hoodie
- House martin
- Lesser Blacked Gull
- Linnet
- Long tailed skua
- Meadow pipit
- Oystercatcher
- Pied Wagtail
- Pinkfooted Goose
- Raven
- Reed bunting
- Shellduck
- Short Eared Owl
- Siskin
- Skylark
- Slavonian Greeb
- Snipe
- Song Thrush
- Sparrowhawk
- Starling
- Swallow
- Tuffted Duck
- Twite
- Waxwing
- Wheatear
- Whimbrel
- Widgeon
- Willow warbler
Isn't the Aurora a great phenomenon. We used always to look out for it up in northern Sweden, where we lived. We generally only had it when very cold (minus 15 or thereabouts) but it was a regular thing up there, flashing, and zipping around overhead, over the rooftop etc. The birdlife was similar with huge flocks of mostly Canada Geese gathering in the fields around us ready for the treck South, together with Common Cranes and vast flocks of Golden Plover and Waxwings stripping any remaing Rown Berries and Blackcurrants etc., and mixed Finch flocks - Chaffs, Greens and Bramblings. The pretty Bullfinches somehow or other stayed the winter stripping our feeders a few times daily in the coldest snaps, competing with the odd Tit and numerous Woodpecker species!
ReplyDeleteWe had a nice display a few nights ago yeractual. Things are looking good for more over the next few days, hopefully there will be more avian arrivals from thursday on as the wind flow moves to the north...fingers crossed!!
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