Popped back to the plantation this afternoon with Bunty. It's a bleak, cold, dark place. If it had been Lord of the Rings, Orcs would live there. Its a god awful hole and as fitting for such a place there were no birds. Not even a call note. I might try when the sun is out or it is a bit calmer.
More descriptions written today for submission to the County Records Committee. On what seems to be a quiet year at Boulmer the best birds were 2 Balearic Shearwaters, 2 Sabine's Gulls, 1 Grey Phalarope and the White billed Diver plus other good patch birds such as 2 Yellow browed Warblers, 2 Glaucous Gulls, 1 Iceland Gull, 1 Lapland Bunting, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Long tailed Skuas, several Poms and 1 Storm Petrel. I'm pleased with that lot. I wonder what I've missed without Rob popping down all the time like last year?
The comment left on my first post today is a bit of a worry. Blyth Birder suggests that if visitors to Boulmer are increasing, then the fault could lie a bit closer to home than I would like! Surely blogging about an area can't increase its visitor profile too much? I might start writing about Cobalt Business Park ( no, I've no idea where it is )to see if I can chase my crowds elsewhere...
Seriously though, I may attract one or two birders to call in to see whats about (nowt) but most visiters are walkers, bait diggers, caravanners and the like. I see very few birdwatchers, though I did see a bloke this morning with bins. I wonder if he'd had anything?
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Bloody walkers! I would blame the wazack from the cooncil who put that coastal path through Boulmer and put those 'N's all over the place.......
Its always the same this time of year, the peace will return. I was down Rowlands Gill looking for Red Kites, not a single one spotted but lots of folk out.
Cracking Dipper photo.
I tried and failed to get on of our local Dipper last year but failed.
....will try again this year.
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