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White Yellow White Red

Posted by on September 24, 2007 7:46 PM | 

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Thanks to Sigga Beta way up in the wilds of Iceland, who just e-mailed me back the details of sightings of the colour ringed Blackwit I watched at Nels Hide (Marshside) on Saturday.
The bird was ringed in north Iceland two years ago.
Sigga is part of the team that has been colour ringing Blackwits up there for a fair few years now (in between smoking fish, wrestling Gyrs and listening to the Sugacubes I dare say).
Perhaps not as adventurous as other colour ringed Icelandic Blackwits, "White Yellow/White Red" seems to prefer the north of England (and who can blame it?), but the wanderings of this bird around the north west and across the Pennines are nonetheless interesting:

13.07.05
Ytri Vik Road 82 south of Dalvik, near Hauganes, N Iceland.
14.04.06
Newton Marsh, Preston, Lancashire, NW England
16.04.06
Newton Marsh, Preston, Lancashire, NW England
13.05.06
Sandbach Flashes, Cheshire, NW England
21.05.06
Sandbach Flashes, Crewe, Cheshire, NW England
28.05.06
Inner Marsh Farm RSPB, Dee estuary, Cheshire, NW England
13.07.06
Inner Marsh Farm RSPB, Dee estuary, Cheshire, NW England
28.08.06
Connah´s Quay Reserve, Dee Estuary, Cheshire, NW England
07.09.06
Humber Rodney, East Killingholme Haven, Lincolnshire, E England
22.09.06
Connah´s Quay, Dee Estuary, Cheshire, NW England
22.09.06
Leighton Moss, Lancashire, NW England
11.10.06
Leighton Moss, Lancashire, NW England
21.10.06
Marshside, Southport, Lancashire, NW England
20.04.07
Leighton Moss, Lancashire, NW England
22.09.07
Marshside, Southport, Lancashire, NW England

Thanks again to Sigga for the speed of her response (I only e-mailed her about the bird yesterday!)
By the way, if this wind can hold up till the tides get big (from Wednesday onwards), seawatching could be pretty damn inspirational later this week.
I'll show me bum in Burton's window if a few Leach's aren't being blown into Liverpool Bay right now...
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...

Comments (5)

John Bannon wrote...

Thank god for today's Leach's offshore !
I think I speak for all bloggers when I say that the sight of your elbow in Burton's window, would be too shocking to even contemplate.

Posted by: John Bannon  | September 24, 2007 10:19 PM

bob wrote...

A very rash statement. Almost makes me want to 'string' a Leach's just to see you in Burtons.

Posted by: bob  | September 24, 2007 10:56 PM

john wrote...

So Burton's window is safe again...but I wouldn't mind betting a few more Leach's aren't about today, even with the wind dropping - Mersey mouth anyone?

Posted by: john  | September 25, 2007 6:19 AM

Bazzo wrote...

Wind drops quite a bit tonight and swings north, but tomorrow's early tide still worth a look.
From tomorrow night on winds turn NE then E, and slacken further, so that puts paid to seawatching for a while.
On the other hand, to coin a phrase, "Eyes to the Skies" for landbird migrants!

Posted by: Bazzo  | September 25, 2007 7:56 AM

ron jackson wrote...

Shouldn't it be "Man To Man" on Lord Street?
Where have all the geese gone by the way, apart from those at Martin Mere? No big flocks over Churchtown certainly since the air show.
Nowt on the Ribble NNR or Churchtown Moss or Marshside/Crossens inner yesterday,
Ron

Posted by: ron jackson  | September 25, 2007 8:50 AM

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