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Neill's Inskip Pink Stink

Posted by on June 12, 2008 9:50 PM | 

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Thanks to Neill Hunt (link to Neill's website up on the right) for his shots of the adult Rose Coloured Starling at Inskip near Preston today.
A very tasty bird to have on your Lancs list, and I must admit an embarrassing "bogey-bird" for me for years before I finally connected with an adult in Skipton some years ago.

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"Went up to Inskip for the Pink Stink today, it was very very nice", Neill explains.
"A lovely lady invited me into her house and I was able to sit in her lounge and see the starling through the patio doors!
"It was no more than 20 feet away feeding around the bottom of her bird table, an excellent bird well worth the visit if you or your readers get the chance".

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Thanks for the shots buddy - just remember, you can never be too careful going into strangers' houses north of the River Douglas....whether it's for a Stinky Pink or not.
You know what I'm saying.

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More pix on Neill's website (of the bird that is, not scary Deliverance hillbillies).
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies....

Comments (2)

ron jackson wrote...

Duck Teal with three ducklings outside Sandgrounders this afternoon.
I'd seen the parent zipping past low on a couple of occasions, seemed anxious. Then flew into rushy water close by the hide on the west side, Avocets doing their thing of course.
Re- appeared out of rushes with three small ducklings in tow and swam off east, still v. anxious and getting mixed up a bit with Mallard ducklings and Shoveler adults.
Last seen moving away past the wooden Water Vole (I think) structure.
Dusky little ducklings. Managed to get some video.
Ron

Posted by: ron jackson  | June 13, 2008 5:36 PM

Jim Irvine wrote...

Hi John
Took my mum to Norfolk for a week's holiday and managed to get in a few days birding. I spent most of the time around Cley with a daylong visit to Titchwell.
Needless to say I arrived the day after the Stiffkey Hoopoe had disappeared.
I met lots of birders who all lamented on how quiet June was but I managed 84 species including Montagu's Harriers (a pair of) and an Egyptian Goose. I was excited about the latter until I was greeted by shrugs and - "Oh Yes. There's lots of them around here."
I saw Marsh Harriers (plural) every day. In fact I saw more harriers than House Sparrows.
For the first time ever I managed to see Common, Arctic, Sandwich and Little Terns all together at Blakeney and on the same day at Cley I saw 3 Spoonbill and a Little Egret within minutes of each other, with good views of Bittern shortly afterwards as it flew over the Black Swan in front of the hide (!).
Another trip is certainly in order, probably autumn or springtime this time.
And my mum is really annoyed. She went Bill Oddie-spotting at Pensthorpe and didn't see one!

Posted by: Jim Irvine  | June 13, 2008 11:53 PM

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